The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-01-18
UNDER HYPNOTIC
SPELL MANS PAST
REVEALED TO HIM
Mind a Blank After an Acct
dent, He Could Not Even
Tell His Name.
THOUGHT NEW YORKER
In New Haven Hospital He
Tells He Lived on West
Forty-Second Street.
THOUGHT NEW YORKER

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Jan. 49,
Through hypnotsm Or. Allen r. DIE
fenodorf, the insanity specialist Of New
York. accomplished what local physl-
clans regard as wonderful achieve
nlent here. yesterday. when. by mes
merle control he caused a man whose
mind had become a complete blank, to
recall things which will undoubtedly
serve to establish the Identity and the
past history Of the patient.
On the night Of Dec 10 a middleaged
man was picked up on Meadow street.
near the Union station. and sent to
Grace Hospital, He appeared to be suf-
fering from an injury on his head.
There were unmlstakable signs that at
some time his skull had been trepIned.
He could tell nothing about himself.
He could not make an intelllbigle an
swer TO any question, The surgeons at
the hospital. suspecting a blood slot on
the brain. performed second operation.
They removed a small splinter of bone
from the under side of the skull
Feeble Flicker Of Memory.
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INJURED Minnie and the baby" but he
could not tell his own name, although
he seemed to be trying desperately to
,orca h,s mt,d n worL ITO showea n
dacided nrsfar.,cs FOR Geruo, coolki,p
and once when pressed he mentioned the
names OF sevral German towns and
rivers disconnectedly
DR.. "eifendorf, who testified in the
Ihaw ais, and who Is well known as
an alenist. heard about the case. He
came here. asking TO be allowed TO
make some experiments IN 'he nope VI
alousihs tte dormant Suo-conse'ousress
Oh the unhho"h' pa''s vi 'oVa' p.a
uc'ohers "it"cSse' tue u, '' 'e'N VIM u
TOOK pace ses'e.uaS "'', "Vo' III "''
operating room Vi 'he hosp'a'' ,.
Inc s.I""s', ',''O,'" , 80.
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hands upo" n's io'e"ea' "'" '">'
az once INTO pu'et ''sr
Think over the scenes OF the past
they are coming back to you" said DR..
D,otondorf into the ear OF the sleeper.
-. n.
lhey are co'i''s o''" w 'o"' '''"
you see the place where you were born.
Where was it?"
No.. T., p.ri;,u
eorn W oer''n'
: The mans lips moved and hisc eye
M, .,,,a,o,
AUS AN.
Berlin he muttered Slowly II was
Berlin
"yy,or ala vou corn, 70 this coun.
trv," asked the physician.
"when was twen,y-tour years CID"
"where aid Won Gomez
mere o'u you .o"'v
ITO New YORK CITY.
"Now remember. what did you dol"
"I went IN San Francisco"
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Step by step, question by question 'he
allenist caused the sleeping man to
''See "'' NV ,'.,' 80 -, ch,.
spent IN san Francisco t"e"te " I'M
cago, where he had also lived two
wears. and finally to New York.
80. ,,.,,a, ,s yn,,r r,r,ao" no then
Now "''"' 10 'o''
asked.
Charles Osten,' came the reply
After YOU returned to New YORK CITY
what did you do?"
II worked for John Klein
what did you dor
mace laHe 'ur,a,na' ,,,,o =. h,,.,
pessy'
''On Grand street, near CArystie."
Where do YOU live?"
"OniFortv-secord street"
what was the NUMBER"
Osten could MOI recall. Again and
again he struggled to say, but his an
swsr was a Rumble.
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Lived on for1y-sesonu otree1'
"wbsre did Won live on Forty-second
.,reatS'
aSea, EIGHTH avenue"
"Waa II hatween seventh and Eighth
ar EIebti, and ninth avcnuesc"
at u.ns ba,hween SEVENTH and Eighth
Osten forced ms supSohse'ousness 20