Arizona republican., 1904-03-18

| hypnotist whom he charged with main taining a nuisance in keeping a girl sleeping in a show window and per forming gyrations which seemed to the dlsinterested onlooker to indicate pain and uneasiness, with filling up the sidewalk, and melting the populace to rubbering. MT. Brown also alleged a violation of the statute forbidding the Euse of an infant for exhibition pur- poses
 Svengali Warnack had been going about town all of Wednesday afternoon ! trying to find a hypnotic subject for himself. He had suggested to various persons that a case could be made out against Professor Fait but he could succeed in bringing nobody under his influence until he brought himself in contact with MT. Brown, a most un- likely subject, a gentleman who had never butted in before in his life and in q normal state of mind could not have made a start. Svengali Warnack suggested to him that the show in the window made him sick; he also sug- gested that Miss Minnie Foster, the suffering girl of twenty. was a teethins infant and MT. Brown, under this ma lign influence, went before Justice
 
 things he thought he had seen. Sven gali Warnack must have suggested something to the court for he issued without the customary judicial hesita- ton, warrants for the arrest of Pro- lessor Fait. The first officer to whom the warrants were offered for service had not been brought under the in fuence of Svengali and he refused to
 
 But they were finally served and yesterday morning the case came up for trial. The matter of the infancy of the subject was brought up first. Miss Foster was so palpably not a babe in arms that the court dismissed that charge and entered one for the costs against MT. Brown. The costs aggre- ! gated S10.
 The next case was then entered up- on and Professor Fait took the stand to explain things about hypnotism nor commonly understood. He said there were different kinds of frances in which the identity of subjects could be concealed. One of the most common was the anaesthetic stage, in which the subject is as one dead. Then there is the stage in which the subject mere l ly makes a monkey of himself. There Is the still more difficult one in which | the subject sleeps but dreams dreams l suggested by the hynotist. It takes an artist to land a subject in that stage. But that is where Miss Foster had | spent the previous afternoon. Sh5, ! imagined that she was being pursued by large and unfriendly animals and
 her efforts to escape from them re- l suited in those contortions which had
 made the complaining witness think i he was being given a nausea. The pro- ! lessor further said that the hypnotic i subject not only suffered no mental
 uneasiness but was apt to be better | physically for the experience. Miss ] Foster had been with him since early i in the. year and had gained many pounds notwithstanding she had miss | ed many meals.
 Upon this showing the court ceased | to regard the professor as malefactor | but as a benefactor and dismissed this
 case also. He resisted his first im- pulse to add the costs to those already | imposed upon MT. Brown. It occurred 1 tos the court, that but for MT. Brown | this interesting exposition of hypnot |. | ism would not have been made. The ! costs were therefore assessed against