The Washington times., 1920-08-25
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!. HER SVENGA[I
Modern Trilby Declares Palmist
She Wed Controls Even
Her Dreams.
NJ GENE FOWLER

NEW YORK, Aug. 2o.-Here ID
woman who possesses a complaint
4 that faris within the confines OF no
man-made Law. Hence, no court has
authorization to pass upon it, The
stole her soul
Mrs. Laura Brooks Ellwanger Ken
Nffworth,. former wife of "Zozo," who
for years enjoyed extensive patron
ago ss a society seer among the sets
of Manhattan, Newport and Auantic
Cfty, made this amazing charge, she
Anc1nrod Walter Winston Kenilworrh
C-Zozo~), the stargazer and reader
Of wealthy palms, committed thas
thaft of q Nife's soul and in return
peotected part" of his own person
afity on the wife's spiritual being.
She has spent a large personal for
tune, she declared yesterday. In dis
penstng foes to world-famous mental
analysts, psychologists and neurolo-
kists tn q fruitless campaign in quest
of her "stoIen" soul. Only few
months ago she submitted to hypnotic
treatment at the hands OF noted
meomerist, endeavoring to respond TO
tho suggestions that her soul had
been returned.
Characterizing herself as broken N
health and spirit. she narrated her
psychic history in an interview at an
uptown hotel where she maintains a
suite The womans story rivals In
its aspects the fictional mental proc
esses attributed to the dual PERSONAL
fty character in Stevenson's "Dr.
Jekyil and Mr.. Hyde" and compares
in its incongruities to the psychic
control exercised by Svengali over
TrfIby.
She said:
my former husband, Zozo,' sailed
= few weeks ago for France, where
he has a luxurious villa Ny soul
went with him. Again and again 1
have pleaded with him to return that
which he stole-my astral 'spirit. He
even stole my dreams and SO contols
my actions that I never dream unless
at his command, and then only to
see a vision of him commanding me
to do his weird dictates.
Il am forty-two years old. kentl-
worth is forty-five, large and hand
some. I was married to him Noverh-
Der 21, 1918. We were husband and
wife for a year and eight months.
Immediately after the ceremony he
announced, his intention Of dominat-
ing mo completely, he Would slt
every day at stated time and con-
centrGte on this unusual thing. IT
took him seven months to accomplish
soul had been stolen, so I took other
Z until now life has held nothing In
store TOR me. -
SOUL SCARS MEANTIME.
II procured a divorce on the ground
Of cruelty, for what is more cruel
than the theft of woman's soul.
OF course it would have appeared
ridiculous to court to say that my
suol had been stolen, so ! took other
examples of his mental cruelty for
my action. Kenilworth was known
in private life as Walter X. Martin.
He had an establishment at Atlantic
City, and others at Newport in New
York city and in Paris.
He is a man of dominant will
power and has a magnetic person
ality that causes people to fall at
his feet when he so wills IT. He
held the palms of rich old ladies
e. nd read from them, apparently, for
the rich old ladies wouldn't under
stand Kenilworth IL he told them he
was peering. into their astral spirits.
thus humoring them. his income was
and Is not less than 500 a day, and
many Of the rich old ladies have been