Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-07-25
WONDERFUL CASE
OF CATALEPT|C
TRANCE NEAR HERE

educated and beautiful daughter Of
@. 7. Stewart, a welltodo farmer
living near weIlsvflle. has been snf-
fering with a form of Hysterda or cat
aleptac trance that is interesting the
entire medhcaa world. DR.. T. H. Wi
mans. Of this city. who waited upon
Miss Stewart. viii shortly have an
article in the Medical Century, al
medical journal, OF New York, detail
ing the facts In the case
The facts IN the case are most as
tonishing and would be hard to be-
lieve If it were not true that every
statement can be verified by re-
sponsibile witness. Miss Stewart Isl
a graduate of a Missouri Normal
school. a young lady of learning and
refinement and quito pretty. She Is
% years Old and shortly before her
attack was teaching school in Texas.
She has a number OF different person
alltdes when In this trance and what
is more marve1ous can read books or
papers she has never seen before in
the dark or with her eyes closed.
likewise she has told of deaths
that occurred in distant citles be-
fore the telegram announcing the
fact arrived in wellsville. AIT times
she lives over her youth. She has
been known to repeat poetry that
she heard recited months before
and had W seen in print or
heard but that one time. There ar
but few similar cases in medical
annals and this one has been given
unusual attention by medical authori-
ties an over the country.
The following data concerning the
case has been taken from a rec
ord kept by DR.. Winans duTtng his
attendance upon Miss Stewart. The
first news he had of Miss Stewart
was August Z, Of 1911, when her faith.
er came to him and told Of her reed
ing with her eyes shut; also OF play
ing upon the piano very difficult mu-
steal selections as Well as dancing
and seeing people pass their homo
without opening her eyes.
At times Miss Stewart impersorF
ates a man. She will take long
strides when she walks; hight a pipe
and smoke IL as true TO life rs any
man could and in her conversation
uses expressions ~peculiarto masculine
v~ocabulanies. Then again. she will
be a girl, dancing, posing and recit
ing with the utmost grace and fin
ish.
AT one time she wrote a letter dat
ing 1t from Albanpis, Africa, and tell
ing how she was held captive by
monkeys and likening them to the
characters i'm Jack Londonis Before
ADAM Again. she would write a
letter to a gentleman friend and then
reply to the same epistle as the
man. She would draw pictures and
write humorous lines underneath
them.
DIR. Winans had her describe a nlI
Der Of kodak pictures with the light
turned so low you could not see
your hand before you, and she told
what each picture depicted PERFECTLY
Her brother lost some stamps and
she tod him, while confined to her
bed, that they were in his trunk in
/ an envelope. He found them there.
She likewise told the conversation
OF guests down stairs whom she
had not seen enter the house and
told their names though not a sound
. Of what they were saying was heard
in her apartment. AT times she
is perfectly normal and then agair
she will enter into the trance fol
hours and astontsh the neighbors.
4 In these frances YOU cannot at
tract or make her see anything helt
before her face. She will tell VIVA
, people are doing miles away and thai
, she is correct has been verified b,
the family when they investigated
The a for this peculiar conditiol
Is thought to have been the result
. of overwork.
"At times, she was oblivious O
everybody and everything, and nt
n one could say or do anything thal
$ would make her pay the least heed
la dog suddenly barking o.
y any noise or crash
falling tin pans apparently was no
heard. Her eyes we're open, but on
could not make her see anything no
answer any questions o talk abou
y anything whatever except what hal
pemed to be on her mind.
el "She told that a woman living /
h miles away was out taking care 0
her chickens. She described the dres
she wore, little round circles in It'll
d next day this neighbor called and WI
asked what she was doing yesterda.
s at such an hour and what dress sh
had on. Everything tailed.
,f "The girl was on the bed upstadri
She said AN old woman has cone !
v to the house. 1t is (naming her). sh
has not had any supper They an
taking her into the dining o Sh
a is eating. They are talking abot
H. me- One went down to see if
1t We're true, and found it all true an
ut told them to stop talking about Be
M sic, that she knew everything the
,e said.
rs 1.-THE girl wept aloud. She sale
Id Mr. -7ls dead. 1t was true as the
r. learned next day. They knew
was sick, but not that he Ia
Is died. Two men came home wi
IN her parents from the funeral. 81
m was ND in her room, named the