The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-08-29
Instances Which 0utshine Or.
Jekyll and MIR. Hyde.
Account of One Woman Who Had as
Many as Ten PersonaIities-Ena-
lish Doctors Theory-Many
Strange Hallucinations.

London.-Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
must look to their laurels. British
scientists have uncovered instances
OF human beings who possessed as
many as ten different personalities.
One in particular could change her
mood every hour in the day.
A remarkable example is that of
William Sharp. who shook off his
male mental characteristics and be-
came a woman in heart and mind.
Sharp when a youth ran away End
Joined a band of gypsies- When he
returned to society he took UP litera-
ture and decided he wanted to become
a poet. He found he could not por-
tray his ideals while plain William
Sharp.
He would sit down, take upon him
self a feminine tons and write books
as Fiona Macleod.
He used TO say he could write cut
of his heart in a way he could rot
do as William Sharp. Fiona always
was spoken Of as a separate person.
and he even wrote letters to her.
There was a real difference in fhe
literary style, and even in the hand
writing.
Another case was that of a Miss
Beauchamp. who had what is deserib-
ed as a multiple personality. 1t uas
recorded of her that she could charge
her personality hour by hour. In ene
OF her characters she was described
as a saint. very prim and rigidly con-
.scientious, quite incapable of dishpn-
esty. In another character she re-
Taxed somewhat, and in the third Per
sonality she was known as Sally.
chiefly because of her mischievous.
troublesome and nasty behavior.
Miss Be%auchamp. like most women,
disliked spiders intensely, but it was
astonishing to find that her third PEE
sonaiity, Sally. loved them and col
lected them in her trinket box. Often
very spider she had SO carefully
placed in the trinket box herself.
Sally would write letters to people
to whom Miss Beauchamp would not
speak. In this way she found herself
In for appointments with persons she
would not think Of meeting as Miss
Beauchamp.
1t was easy to see which character
was in possession by the way she
walked, by the clothes she wore and
by the manner in which she shook
hands.
Again there was the case of the
Rev. Ansel Baughan. who awoke one
day to find himself living under the
name OF Brown a long way from his
home. He had wandered there and
had been living there for two months.
keeping a shop.
These extraordinary cases of dual
personality are eclipsed by this case:
This woman evidenced the possession
Of no fewer thar ten different person
a%lities. one of which was, OF course.
her normal self. Her abnormal
states we're:
/. A childish mood, in which she
referred to herself as a thing, or a
good thing, even signing letters in
this fashion.
2. A passionate mood. in which she
became intensely irate, and even went
SO far as to bite her clothes. This
personality was very much better edu-
Gated than that OF the thing. and the
letters written by her while under
It's influence were in a vastly different
handwriting. During this mood she
referred to herself as Old Nick.
3. Every now and again the pa
tient became deaf and dumb. During
Ghese stages she would communicate
with her fellows only by talking on
her fingers. the method Of which Ian
unaGa she understood slightly in her