The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-09
Mental Specialists
Discuss Judge Crater
New York Jurist Disappeared in l95O-Scientists
Agree That He May Have Been Victim OF
Alleged Daytime SOnnambulism''
mad personally studied.

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Judge Crater, who vanished mys.
teriously after dining ct Billy Mas
restaurant In Manhattan on the
night Of August 9, 1880, viii DO de-
ciared legally dead next year unless
he Is found In the interim. In an
interview conducted IN French, DR.,
Janet advanced three hypothesis In
the Crater case. 1.-THE first hypo-
thesis, and most probable" said the
dynamic n year old French savant,
as causes with normal emotional
| origin. Second hypothesis, and
somewhat less probable, mental ILL
nesses such as the persecution or
fear completes. Third hypothesis Is
the possibility that this case In
wolves O homeopathic state analo.
gous TO sonInambulisni and to dual
personality"
Cited Similar Case
DR.. Janet emphasized that as q
scientist he would not commit him
self TO this third hypothesis without
intimate study Of the case In ques-
ton, but he cited case OF psyche
pathic somnambulisrn for purposes
Of comparison with the Crater dis
appearance. A French youth con-
ceived O consuming urge to 60 to the
South Sea Islands. Every 80 often
he would 60 into an intensified day
dream In which he would walk
through the streets Of Paris, believ-
ing himself on the way to the isles
Of his dreams. Finally he obtained
@ Job on boat, bound for the
south seas. One day o member Of
the crew happened to say to the
youth "Well. this Is st. Marys day."
A strange look came over the youth.
"Why that's my mothers name
dayl Where is she? Where am l?
How did ] get on this boat2" The
youth, Janet said, temporarily had
become another personality under
the stress Of his desire to go away.
Janet pointed out that most often
case Of waking sonnambulism
and dual personality was shocked
out of his dream state and his Sec
ond personality by some trivial ex-
perience or a few words Of no ap-
parent import.
DIR. lungs Opinion
Jung, hailed by many as the lib
eralizer of Freudian theory, said:
Barring the possibility of some
criminal aspect, the Crater case
looks like what we call 'automatisme
ambulatoire' (ambulatory automat-
ism). The person in such cases
makes very complete plans, for go
ing away. He Is 'impelled by a
process which may sometimes be
traced to q sub-conscious seizure
Of religious conversions desire to
escape from some feared personal
disaster and make a fresh start"
This wanderlust impulse, Jung
saidw, continuously seethes within q
person though he is unaware of it.
Suddenly 1t bursts out with q vio-
lence which actually splits the mans
identity into O second personality
Cites Another Case
II know Of q case Of disappear
ance which was solved in my own
city Of Zurich" said Jung. "A
Swiss citizen experiencing q seizure
Of ambulatory automatism fed to
Australia where he lived under an
assumed name for sometime. A tre-
mendous subconsciCus urge finally
affected him there. Really he was
homesick but he didn't know II. He
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paper one day IN . cafe he saw the
name Of O man who had disap-
peared from AustBalia. The name
somehow seemed familiar. Sudden
" he cried cut That's my nameI
am the man who disappeared from
Australia" A. IN the case cited by
Janet, , trivial event had resolved
g case u dual personality into his
nor aDl identity.