The Cairo bulletin., 1907-01-15
WOMAN IS UNDER
PROMOTERS SPELL
THIS TRILBY DECLARES SHE WAS
HYPNOTlzED BY PHONE AND
LOST HER STOCK.
0BEYS EVERY COMMAND
Until She Realized That She Was a
Dupe and Then Mrs. Pierson
Caused the Arrest For
SwindIng Mer.

SWlnoiing Mer.
New York, Jan. 14.-Back of the ar
rest of Boliyer c. Weppler, 20 West
Forty-sixth street, charged with
sWindling George NJ. Emo, general
manager of the Delaware Barycs &
Chemical company and Mrs. e. De L.
Pierson, pa West One Hundred and
Fourth street, lies story of hypnotic
influence as strange as that told by
Du Maurier in "Trilby."
Mrs. Pierson, although business
woman of proved ability and peculiar
| ly strong personality, declares that
Weppler gained so great an influence
over her mind that he was able to hyp,
| notize her over the telephone.
Weppler, who was arrested on Sat
urday, ha@ been released upder 81 900
bail Mrs Persons own story Of the
strange spell cast over her is append
ed
BY Mrs. E, De L. Pierson.
was a practcing physician for
quite a number of years. / have fol
lowed my profession in three states
and am thoroughly acquainted with
hypnOti! m from scientific stand
point. 1t is all the more marvellous
then. | think. that | should have so
far fallen under the mental control of
a certainly not intellectual man as to
enable him to control my mind over
the telephone.
To be hyp9otised over a wire! L
must, anyhow, seem ridiculous, but
Bolivar c. Weppler had just that
power
For some time have represented
number of Nevada mine owners in
New York. Last November a very
valuable tract of mineral land was
placed in my hands. saw an adver-
tisement of the man who afterwards
became my Svengali in which he pro-
fessed 10 make business of forming
and Incorporating companies and plac.
ing their stocks and bonds.
Under Spell of Voice.
When | entered his office ! was in.
vited 10 a seat where the light fell
on my face. He was about three feet
away, his anxieties seeming to burn
their way into my brain. All strength |
left me- all my years of contact with |
the world went for nothing
A culver swept ever me, a thrill as |
Of an electric shock. There was \ |
strange throbbing at my temples His |
velvety voice droned along and along |
but | scarcely seemed to hear him.
Try as ! would | could not keep my
eyes from his. When / left that room
he had all the ready money | had and
had -igned papers, the effect of which
do not even now know.
Come here on Wednesday at 10"
be would say. ! would be there.
And SO it went on. Day after day
and week after week he held me in
his meshes. He ordered me to sur
render my office TO him did it.
Go ont and sell this stock" he
would say. Perhaps | would demur.
or had never before sought Gus.
omcr. They all had to come to me.
lut he had driven them away.
81 wish IT," he would insist, fixing
lig pale grey eyes on mine. And rs
,bediently as a child I would seek my
I'D Gus omers.
was in a trance. My friends tell
ne my eyes protruded and that their
liked stare was uncanny.
Hypnotized BY Phone.
Sometimes he would. write com.
handing me to come to him. I would
augh at his orders Then he would
all me on the phone.
But The phone, which more than
nee enchanted me anew. was finally
ny deliverance. ! had fallen IN: the
train was too great had not seen |,
lin for several days when. one day.
here came a call on the telephone in
ny apartment. ! was not thinking Of !
i'm and the weird influence he held
ver me seemed on the wanc.
I raised the receiver. His com.
land. sharper and more ms slant than ,
sual smote my ear like an electric
hook My head seemed about to
ursi: my brain was on FIRE In the
winkling of ao eve tainted. ,
when ! came to myself the chain I
'as broken. I consulted a lawyer and
omplained 10 the police. and he vas ,
IRE ted on the Joint complaint # nv ,
Elf and George VI. Emo. OF Newport
Vel.
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