The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-19

Centreville. Perhaps you have read the
newspaper stories regarding it,
Yes"
Then L have little to add to them,
except that the woman is entirely guilt
| less, and the two neDhews, for whom
they are searching, as well. But the
police in that little last century town
are hopeless imbeciles, and as some
body must be caught, and they've
caught somebody. they will listen to
no other view of the matter"
Are these nephews the young tOughs
they are described as being?"
The visitor smiled deprecatingiy.
Nobody could be further from il.
Their reputation was given them by
their aunt OF course he continued,
with another movement of depreciation,
zone doesn't like TO make charges in
such a case. But the truth is their
father left all his money to her in trust
for his twin sons-she was quite a diff
ferent woman in her younger days
and one night, when they VISITED her
with the smell of wine on their breath,
coming straight from their class sup
per, she was horrified-or pretended 70
be. She never sent them a dollar afS-
erward, and gave dissipation as The
reason. They didn't know this az the
! time, for Susan, this woman they have
arrested, kept up the remittancas in The
aunt's name-kept them up until all she
had was gone. all she had saved and
ali she had inherited Then they found
out, for their college course was not
completed, and after writing ana VI it
ing for money in vain, one of them
went home and soon learned the true
state of affairs" choke came into
the speakers voice and he paused.
Then. with flushed face. he went on en-
ergetically: I'll save that blessed
woman if ii is in the power Of man TO
do it. Why, she was only second cousin
to them, and she gave them her all.
And it left her a pauDer. See the life
she was obliged to live with those skin
flints on account oe it, And there
never was a word Of complaint from
her, not anything but gladness for do
ing if"
They never took the case to court ?''
mo. sir: they have not done so get"
Have you seen the house-the rooms
where the crime was committed"
Yes, Doctor
rs it true what is said about that
passageway between the bed and the
wall? Is it so narrow"
All" cried the young man, shaking
his head. There's where the r1b
comes She stoutly maintains tha5 her
story is true She fled past the muir
derer, and ne, in order to give her exit,
bent over on the bed. 1t seems inpOs-
sible But she doesn't know how to lie.
and if she is in her right mind and
didn't imagine that part, L mus be-
lieve her"
How do you account for the fact
that so many valuables were left un-
touched, only the will was taken and
then burned up
The visitor threw out his hands.
'It is the mystery of mysteriesr' he
almost groaned. ''I don't pretend to eX-
plain it in the least. One thing only
am sure of, and it is that the deed was
never done by any Of those who would
benefit under the law by destroying the
will"
Dr. Furnivan removed his spectacles
and looked the young man in the eye.
Mr.. Sewell," said he, tell me why
you do not believe in hypnotism."
. The youth started and flushed.
why, doctor, IL" he stammered,
'why-that is why 1 am here" His
eyes, which had shone with some ex-
element, took on a calmer expression,
and gradually assumed a look of in
tentness, as If he were deeply studying
something within rather than outside
of them, though they were fixed on the
doctors.
IF you had believed in it you would
not come to me in just the way you
have. You do not believe in hypnotism
in the least. do your?
mo, sir" The answer this time was
calm, matter of fact, perfectly assured.
Tell me why"
Because / have studied the matter
from both sides, at times as the hyp-
notist and at other times as the sub
ject, and it is only a delusion. When ]
was at college and in need of money
hired out to a number of different hyp-
notists at 81 an evening. There were
eight of us who did that frequently.
Some of the professors were honestly
in pursuit of science, and these we
used to fool. Two dollars an evening
was a good deal to us. Never did any
one of US feel the slightest influence of
hynotism, though we pretended to be