The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-04-22
ACCUSES HER HUSBAND.
New York Woman Says He Caused the
Death of His Father

New York April 20.-Nirtually chars
ing that her husband put his aged faith
er to death by means of hypnotism and
other occult arts, Mrs. Herber, l..
Whitney has set a coroner's inVestiga-
tion afoot. She has left her husbund,
sent her children TO some hiding place
and declares that she fears to live vita
Whitney again.
Mrs Whitney, who is living now with
her mother Mrs. Nj. c. Burgert. nj
Reid avenue and Monroe street, Brook
lyn. told her story to Coronel's Ply
sician Wuest. She is Al years old and
has been married for twenty-five Nears.
My husband" said She, lis clerk
in the money order division in the New
York postofiice. For fifteen years he
has dabbled in spiritualism. black
occult studies. He used TO be IA strict
Methodist, but Robert Ingersoll's books
led his mind astray
Father Under Control.
Saturday, April >, he brought his
father who was "a years old, To our
fiat. The old man had been sexton OF
a Methodist church on Thiri y-fift!
street Manhattan. until he was taken
i'll some weeks ago. When he arrived
ut our house he seemed to be in Il sort
of stupor. My husband went o0t and
the old man frightened up and showed
interest in supper, which was about
ready My husband came in anc said;
Its too bad, father, that you can't
eat anything. And, sure enough, tflc
old mans appetite was gone AT once.
After supper he led the old man 10 an
armchair and told him to sit thc"e and
not get up. His father obeyed him and
never left that chair. day OF night, un-
til the next Wednesday.
-. off 1,il
father said my husband on Monday,
and settle down for Il deep sleep. The
old man slept heavily almost lnmeGi-
ately. once he reused himself and SAID
TO me: There is something suspicious
about this heavy sleei, and the awful
dreams | nave DO you think ilc:-
bert's influence can have anything TO
do With it,?
"on the following Wednesday, he
reused himself and seemed Ia cc1ie
out of the strange spell. lle wanted
something to eat. ] made some nliik
toast and he relished it. II Was tae
first thing he had eaten since he c2nia
to our house.
Believes Old Man Was Hypnotizod.
When Herbert came home last 7igAt
and learned this he said to his idth5f;
You ought not to have eaten THAI. 1t
will stay on your stomach. In . few
1t was due TO kypnotis,n. ! believe.
THE next day the old man sa,sk II
a heap III his Chair. DR.. MoGinni9 W9s
called in and we put him to bed. lie
lay groaning and sinking until he Giea
Sunday afternoon.
"I believe that my husband. BY tAe
use of hypnotism. prevented him from
eating and starved him to death.
My husband treats everybody as Il
subject for experiment Our daughter,
who is 2S years old is in state of
nervous exhaustion. One son II years
old was until four years ago one Of the
brightest boys in school. Now he has
become heavy and listless and inattent-
i've to study.
Herbert has often boasted OF his
power to draw vital magnetism from
others to refresh himself. When he
feels ill. instead of calling a doctor, be
goes to some gathering of young peo-
pie and comes home looking like
new man. He has told mo that b. thn
use of this power he means to live fcr-
ever"