The Washington times., 1922-09-10

w Michigan, disappeared from his
home in Detroit at the same time
that Mrs. Catherine Capler also disap-
peared from her home in Detroit John A.
Capler, the husband of Catherine, more
than darkly suspected that there was
some connection between the joint depar-
ture of MS wife and his friend. In fact,
John Capler strongly suspected, after he
had had a little time to think it over, that
his wife and his friend had gone off to-
gether.
When, five months later, Mrs. Capler
returned to the home of her husband and
confessed that she had been away in the
company of Swaide, John CaIler at last
congratulated himself upon his acumen.
He also took an emphatic decision.
Capler did not go out after Swaide
with a double-barrelled gun and a dog
when his wife came back. He did not
pursue Swaide with husbandly fist all
doubled up to land an eficacious blow
plump in the eye of the man who had run
off with Mrs. Capler. Capler did not even
have Swaide arrested for abduction o. on
any other more unpleasant charge.
Instead" Capler with ingenuity origi-
nality and calm insistence went to the
court of Judge Adolph F. Marshner, of
Wayne County, Michigan, and applied for
a writ of injunction.
"And what" asked His Honor, edo you
want this writ of injunction for? And
against whom?"
81 want this injunction against John
Swaide, yho used to be my friend.
want it to enjoin him from using his
wicked, persuasive, cruel, resistless, hyp-
motto eyes upon my wife, Catherine"
His Honor, Judge Marschner, took off
his glasses.
"What do you mean-Swaide's hyp-
motto eyes?" y
Gust what say, Your Honor" replied
Capler. "This Swaide shows up at my
house He has deep, quiet, tensely gaz-
ing, concentrated, oily, dark eyes. He
looks at my wife; at my good wife; at my
faithful wife; at my beloved wife. He
looks, and he looks, and he looks at her
with his hypnotizing eyes.
"She looks back-the poor girl-she
cannot help it-she looks back, and she
KGeDS LOOKING. one ICoi nCl So1S
away. And-at length-he speaks-this
,Swaide, whom l brought to my house,
thinking he was my friend. He speaks.
Come along with me- says he to my wife,
always when am not present. And she
goes, the poor woman. She cannot do
anything else. For Swaide has hypno-
tized her. She has to go. So this is why,
Your Honor, that | want writ OF IN juno
ton to prevent that love thief, Swaide,
from using his hypnotizing eyes upon my
wife"
His Honor, Justice Marschner, consid-
cred. Then he spoke, after due thought.
al think" said His Honor, "that you
are entitled to an injunction. | shall,
therefore, issue one against Swaide, en-
Joining him from using his arts upon your
wife. In issuing this injunction believe
I will be executing the first document Of
it's kind in a case of alleged love hypnosis
ever executed in the State of Michigan.
In fact, am not sure but what it will be
the first of its kind in the country, II not
in the world"
Accordingly the writ of Injunction was
issued. Whereat John Swaide's hypnotic
ewes" or, at least, the exercise of them
in Wayne County, Michigan, upon Cath
crime Capler, became strictly "agin" the
law.
Now, the spell of the hypnotic eye, urg-
ing to evil, is by no means connned 10
Wayne County, though, perhaps, the in
junction again their exercise may be.
For, within recent years, in the cases
of two other women, hypnotic eyes" in
volving them in crime and evil, have been
mentioned as the cause of various un-
pleasantnesses.
When Mile. Angelo Laval, of Tulle,
France, was arrested, charged with being
the author of over three hundred poison
pen" letters, signed Tiger Eyes" it was
said by the people Of Tulle, who received
the letters, that the 'Tiger Eyes" Of
mademoiselle had caused them infinite
anguish in their domestic circles. Several
deaths and a suicide were said to have
been helped on by the "Tiger Eyes" of
the girl who was charged with writing the
scandalous letters. These eyes, so said
her fellow townsmen, were hynotic, spur
ring, driving mad.
Another case Of hypnotic eyes attained
great prominence when Mrs. Charlotte A.
Ruckholdt, wife Of q well-known New
Haven, Connecticut, physician, was sr.
rested for various thefts Of gowns and