Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-13

MOLINE

"Crazy George" Unconscious
Cray George" Coates was found uu-
conscious in the road in front of Louis
Tyler's residence in East Moline
Thursday afternoon, and conflicting
stories are told as to the manner an
which he came to be in this condition.
Drastic punishment should be meted
out to some East Moline schoolboy
hoodlums if one version is true. The
story is to the effect that a gang of
boys pelted Coates with rocks and
bricks. Clifford Sandridge and Her
bert Beatty were arrested Thursday
evening ON the suspicion that they had
participated in an attack on the help
less, harmless man, but both boys
have since been released. Sandridge
admitted, it is understood, that a num-
Der of boys had thrown mud at
Coates, but declared that no rocks
had been thrown. Another version IS
that Coates urged his dog on the boys
who were teasing him, and that the
dog, in springing forward, tripped his
owner with the chain attached to his
collar. Coates In the fall struck his
head, according to this version. Still
a third version is that Coates was I'M
injured, and that he feigned uncon-
seriousness to arouse sentiment against
the boys who had pelted him with
mud.
Not in cataIeptic state, Flint Says.
q am certain Robert Simpson was
not in a cataleptic state when he
died. said DR.. Herbert Flint, the hyp-
notist who is appearing this week ut
The Moline, in discussing the unex-
pected death of the Newark man after
he had been hypnotized on the stage
of the Somerville, N. j., theater last
Monday night by Arthur Everton,
professional. DR.. Flint expresses his
conviction that Simpson, the subject,
had been drinking hard. He protests
in no uncertain terms against allow
ing men addicted to the use of liquor
to place themselves in the hands of
hypnotists. I'm calling for subjects
at my performances 1 always request
that drinking men do not come TO-
ward" Flint explains. "My opinion
is that no one who is not a physician
should be allowed to place men in a
cataleptic state. 81 may be charged
with a selfish motive, because 1 am
the only hypnOtist now practicing
who has been admitted to the practice
of medicine. Yet 1t is not a selfish
motive. AS a doctor 1 am able to and
do, watch the heart action of every
patient" Everton says he studied
hypnotism under DR.. Flint and Pro
fessor P. H. McElwan in the Roches-
ter School of Science.
More Attractive Stamps.-The tuber-
culosis committee OF the Kings Daugh-
ters' union held a meeting yesterday
and the making of definite plans for
the sale of Christmas stamps fur
nished the most important feature Of
the meeting. Mrs. c. P. Skinner pre-
sided The plan is to have more at |
tractive stamps this year, adhering to
the plan of last year insofar as using |
special stamp for Moline. The |
stamp will be oval and brighter this |
year, with much red and the custom
airy Christmas design with the words |
Moline, ILL.,
Obituary Records. John Johnson |
of 1922 Fourth avenue died Thursday |
at the city hospital He was SO years |
of age and was born in Sweden. He |
had lived in this state 80 years. He |
has no relatives in this country The /
funeral will be at O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon from Roses chapel.