The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-01-19
0S7EN RECALLS
MORE Ct PAST IN
HYPNOTIC SLEEP
Recalls ForgottenWife'S Father
Was Hoboken Contractor
Named Oelrich.
STORY PARTLY PROVED,
Mysterious New Haven Hos
pital Patient Lived Here
/ With Wife and Child,
STORY PARTLY PROVED.

Piece By piece PHYSICIANS am a.'anists
at Grace Hospital in New Haven, hy
hypnotic suggestion are drawing from
their mysterious patient. charles olsen
called THE Man without a Past" the
story Of his life Parts II the dtscon-
: nected narrative which Osten has al
! ready told while mesmerized regarding
himself before he was found in New
! Haven on Dec. 10 last, da2ed and IN
coherent. have already been confirmed
b. Evening World reporters. who found
I out, for example, that lie did live at one
time, six months back, At No 20 West
Forty-second street with his wife MIN
ME and his little son Jack, whose names
no mentioned Tor the first time after Dr.
Allan Dletendort. the New York hypno-
list, put him asleep and dulckened ms
sub-consclousness by hypnotism.
Over the long distance telephone an
! Evening World reporter talked with
the head surgeon OF the New Haven
Hospital regarding the hypnotic sleep
into which Osten was thrown to-day.
Mind Slowly Clearing.
THE poor fellows mind seems to he
slowly clearing up said the physi-
clan, but hts memory still comes to
him only in broken fragments. For
example he talked more nationally this
morning before going under hypnotic
control than lie had done at any time
when not actually responding to the
mental suggestions Of anoiher's VIII.
For example he said that he lad
dreamed last night about SCENES III ms
childhood In Berlin and later IN New
York. He KEEP. trying to connect some
address that evidently began with ~
with Forty-second street, Then he
tween Seventh and Eighth avenues, and
was quite positive that he now lived
there, or that his family lived there.
"After We put him to sleep he re-
.membered for the first time how he
came to New Haven. Replying to cues
Itions. he told us In a dreamy sort nj
way that he took a train from New
York, but didn't know why When he
got off at New Haven, which he thinks
was about o'clock at night, he said
the noises around the Union Depot hurt
his head and he started for the ocean
evidently meaning by that the Sound
I'm the belief that the rolling OF the
waves would soothe him. He had with
him SIS.
Then "Lost Himself"
HE remembered, he said, that two
men >brushed against him, and after
that he didn't know anything. This In
n measure at least helps to confirm US
In the theory that he was held up and
robbed. for when he was found lying In
a doorway he had only few cents In
his pockets. although his clothing was
of excellent quality,
HE also made 1t plain that he was
wrong yesterday when he told us he
was at one time patient in Bellevue
n result OF an accident. He said TO-
siay that when he received an injury
10y falling down the elevator at Klein S
mace curtain establishment, which he
ltill insists was at the corner OF Grand
and Chrystie streets, he was taken to
his home on Forty.second street. a
surgical operation was performed on
his skull by a physician on Sixth ave-
hue, whose exact address he could not
-. ~ a q lIS hpal failed tC
recover, he went TO Bellevue Hospital
as an outdoor patient. He SAYS that
he attended the nerve clinic foT hv,
weeks. He also recalled that Minnie
his wife. was the only daughter Of
l'Old Man Oelrich, vino lived In IIo
boken and was a building contractor
Ills father.in-law. lie said. had b Ell
dead some years"
Getting His Story.
The following is part VI tn,
dialogue OF this morning between tn,
lhypnotized man and the surgeon whC
had hypnotized him taken verbatim:
How do you sleep. Charles"
Pretty good. | went 10 bed early.
was so tired. slept all night. | wa.
90 tired
"What did you dream about"
II dreamed lot, but forgot It,"
''where were you In your drcams?"
II was In New YORK City and wa!
in the old couttry."
Were you In Switzerland In YOU
dreams last nisht2