The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-09-27
BEAL "lEKYLLS
! AND HYDES. "
pine Recent Remarkable Cases
OF Multiple Personality.

/ OF Multiple Personality.
From TIT bits.
"For twelve years have been liv-
Ing the life Of a Jekyll and trying to
subdue my Hyde. Fearing my evil
genius, l have at last decided TO end
the struggle by killing myself"
such was the strange and tragic
message left behindhim a short time
ago by DR.. Steger, a well known doc
tor, who was found dead In a New
York hotel.
The problem suggested by this
farewell message is one which is a
sore puzzle to the cleverest men OF
our time. -Is Il possible for a human
body to be tenanted by two differ
emit spirits antagonistic to each 9th
or and which dominate the body In
turns? On this point some most In.
teresting evidence is available which
seems to confirm the theory that il
is possible.
DR.. Morton Prince tells a remark.
able story Of q girl patient, a Miss
Oh ristine l.. Beauchsmp Of Boston,
who at different times completely
changed her personality. Normally
she Is q diligent college student, a
great lover Of books, and Of q very
retiring disposition. This was the
Miss Beauchamp who first consulted
DR.. Prince In the spring OF 1898.
Later her character completely
changed and she became animated
by an impish spirit which, calling
Itself Sally" played sad havoc with
N iss Beauchsmp's normal habits Of
lie. The demure student, we are
bid, would awake to herself, dusty
ith a long country walk-Sally
wed walking-and having a lighted
garette in her hsnd-Sally loved
gsrettes. Her purse would be
ppty, for Sally hadlunched royalty
her expense.
sally would write letters to Miss
eauchamp, taunting her for her
udious habits, abusing her as a
chump" and a "sneak" and gener-
ply showing the greatest contempt
pr her; and these missives Miss
esuchamp would find In her posses
lon when she came to her natural
WI. Sally moreover, was an igno-
Minus, spelled badly, was shaky in
ber grammar, knew no foreign Ian.
usge, and found her chief pleasurein
playing foolish pranks and squan.
IA ering her money. No wonder Miss
IBeauchamp wrote to D.. Prince.
i''No one has the slightest control
o yer this spirit that possesses me
save you. You won't leave me to
Its mercy?"
In 1899 Miss Beauchamp developed
still another personality-"that oil
an average woman OF good health,
90 fish and seliconcentrated, ambi
tious and ill-tempered, and sworn
enemy to Sally, each being aware Of
the others existence and struggling
for supremacy" Thus for some
years the poor girl has been the vic
tim Of these three separate spirits,
zach dominating her in turn and
each trying to Dust the Others, until
In her distress and despair she wrote
to the doctor, II do really thinl
that, like those poor people of old,
must be possessed Of Devils"
Dr.. Furbes Winslow tells q stor,
OF q clergyman who underwent q re
m arksble change Of personality II
which he forgot everything which b
had ever learnt, and industriousl.
began to learn the lessons OF child
hood. One day, after he had mad
20 me progress, he placed his hand Il
his head and said, Il feel pecuha
sensation, and now II appears to m
shat ! knew al this BEFORE" ant
y ithin Q short time bis faculties wer
CO implicitly restored TO him. And II
give but one more example out Q
many, . young lady, Miss B. in he
natural condition was q clever In
guiss and musiciaD; In abnorms
60 nditions sho could neither rea,