The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-06
MIND RESTORED BY
HYPNOTIC INFLUENCE
Mind Had Been Blank Since
Jersey City Explosion
IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT
Big Triumph in Scientific Application
of Hypnotism-Memory Returns
Excepting Time Between Elk
plosion and Awakening
IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT

Poughkeepsie, N Y, February 5.-(Spe-
cial Miss Nina Karn of 81 East Eighty
ninth street, New York, a telephone OPP
orator, whose mind has been blank since
the explosion of dynamite in Jersey City
last Wednesday, was today restored TO
her normal mental condition by means
OF hypnotic suggestion. The girl, an
amnesia victim, was restored by Dr.
Charles w. Pilgrim, superintendent of
Hudson River State hospital, and his as
sistant Frederick w. Parsons.
For three hours the experts, assisted
by DR.. John A. Card, another expert on
insanity, worked over the girl
Shortly after o'clock Miss karn was
able to tell all about herself. with the
exception of the time between the ex-
plosion and today noon. She was picked
up by a policeman on Washington street,
this city, at midnight, last night. She
says that she was employed in the Spring
street telephone exchange in New York,
but two weeks ago was taken Ill.
Wednesday she went to the office of the
company to collect IS which was due her
After drawing the money she walked TO
the Battery to board Third avenue
car to her home.
AS she was about to step upon the car
the explosion occurred, and she, with
many other persons, was thrown TO the
ground. She says she has a slight re-
membrance of a woman buying a ticket
for her at the One Hundred and Twenty
fifth street station of the New York Cen
trail. and telling her to get off at the
first station Her money was gone when
she reached Poughkeepsie, and much OF
her clothing was missing. Her outer
garments were fastened over a night robe.
She is unable to account for her odd at
tire.
Miss Karn gave the doctors and police
her address in New York, which they
verified. and which further convincen
them of the girls full mental restoration.
An aunt, Mrs Anna Turner, lives at No.
45 East One Hundred and Forty sixth
street, New York.
Miss Karn will be taken home tomor-
row. The doctors recalled the girls MEM
ory to her by means Of repeating letters
of the alphabet. Until they had finished
their work Miss Karn was unable to tell
her name or give any information about
herself or her relatives. The result of
the doctors work is regarded by the med
ical profession here as big triumph in
the scientific application of hypnotism.
One of the doctors stroked the girl $
forehead, another her eyes, while third,
holding a watch to the girls ear, read
from a book Miss Karn was instructed
to try to hear nothing Dut the licking
of the watch and to pay no attention to
the reading of the book. Then softly and
slowly DIR. Parsons spoke of New York,
the subways, the surface lines, and other
things, and finally spoke of the Battery.
My God!" cried the girl, there was
an explosion"
The doctor urged her to keep her mind
on the explosion and try to connect her.
self with It, Slowly she told the story of
the shock
Then by degrees the doctors brought
the girl out of hypnotic state. Then fol-
lowed her story of her family.