The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-01
IN QUEER TRANCE.
MAN STOOD RIGID AND SPEECH.
LESS ON BOX IN NEW YORK
STABLE.
Acted Like Automafon--Puzzled PLY.
sicians-Eyes Closed and Could
Not Move--Posed
2 Like Statue.

New York, April 30,-4Like a human
statue, Louis Frank, "a years Old was
found BY fellow workmen standing
upon feed box in a livery stable at
424 East Forty-eighth street, where he
had been mployed for several months
Ills eyes were closed his arms extent
ed and not a muscle moved. Think.
ing that the stableman had been hyp-
|notitd, Mrs Theresa Lack, owner Of
the stable, telephoned to the police.
Il don't know what is the matter
with him." declared Mrs. Lack. "Ha
Just stands still like a wooden man
Any way you put him he stays that
way. His eyes are shut and he does not
answer when you speak to him. He
poses like statue, and | don't know
what to do with him"
Policeman Mccoy hurried to the
stable and found little group of PEG
pie standing about Frank They Were
all strangely subdued. None of them
understood the matter, but they al
seemed to feel that there was some
remarkable manifestation of nature
that called forth their most super
stitious respect
Nightstick Futile.
| Mccoy thought the man shamming
land, pol'cemanlike, poked him with
|, his nightstick. He did not move. Nc
Coy grasped his arm and shook 1t. II
stuck out in the air, half raised as
| Mccoy left 1t. The policeman shout
ed in the mans ear, but he did no;
seem to hear II his arm were raised
Iabove his head it remained in thai
nesition until it was put down again
Y I.is eyes were closed, but he stool
: s.olidly on his feet with APPARENT!
no power to open his eyes, to speak
or to exercise any control over an.
muscles.
H Mccoy called the Flower Hospita
ambulance, and after an examination
by DR.. Botsford, who came with TN
ambulance, the physician decided
was d case for Bellevue.
THE man is either suffering from
epilepsy or satalpsy," said DIR. Bots
ford, "and it is most peculiar mani
festa,ion."
AT Bellevue they have been work
ing over him ever since his arrival
but there has been little response t
their efforts as yet. When the mal
| arrived at the hospital he was In
state Of coma.
/ Battle For Control.
Although there is at times a battl
| apparently going on to get control 9
his benumber faculties, the eifof
lseems a failure. Occasionally, whel
spoken to loudly and sharply, IN
eyelids futter a little. They slowl
lopen and the man stares out, uncor
Isciously and unseeingIy. for secon'
or two. Then the lids drift slowl
.Ishut again and he becomes once NOR
Ia living corpse.
4 If his arm Is raised 1t remain
| sticking straight up in the air for Sc
Ieral minutes. Finally 1t slowly begin
Ito sink back to the body again. Their
lis no rigidity about It, Neither doe
| 1t fall quickly 1t simply sinks dow
las II the owner was tired Of carryil
sIit No in the air so long, or as IL
hand sunk of It's own weight-bu
very slowly
Frank exhibits no sense OF feelin
and there Is no indication that h
knows anything that is going on abou
him, The pupils of the eyes seer
natural. According to DR.. j. s. Kenn
there is no organic disease, no appeal
lance OF mental disturbance and tn
BODY gives every indication OF hayin
been we'll nourshed.
i No Sign Of Dissipation. "
| Neither does he show any signs Q
dissiption, but in evry respect seem
Ito be a perfectly normal man.
Nothing Is known of Frank at tn
stable where he was employed. He wa
! just stable hand, and had bee
there several months.
1 DR.. Kenny declared his case to b
most remarkable In his experienc
he had never met with a similar oa'
DR.. Botsford said that catalpsy Is
rare disease, and that the number
cases treated In New York hospitals
very small The disease, according
medical authorities, is a condition
morbid sleep associated with the los
of voluntary motion and peculia
n plastic rightly Of the muscles
reason of which the person Athlete
, will take any position In which b
may no nlaced and preserye IL for a