HYPNOTISM EXTRAORDINARY

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 15 November 1906, Page 4

HYPNOTISM EXTRAORDINARY

There has been a professional mesmeriser in town during the past few days, and some of his feats, which have a local significance are interesting, to say the least of it (says the North Otago Times). For instance, he performed at one of the south-end boarding houses on a lad who is a recent arrival, and has absolutely i ht) knowledge of the surrounding, country. He has never been in or near Papakaio where the schoolmaster was murdered, in his life. The boy proved |a ready subject. The operator asked him to go in his trance to the scene of the Papakaio murder and describe what he saw. There was a large number of credible witnesses present at the seance. The lad described the house, though he had never cast eyes on it, and then told what, in his mesmeric,vision, took piace at the time of the murder. First, a man who was fair and tall, entered the room with a gun. Suddenly, while shaking violently all the time, the medium said, ‘ He is shot.’ He went on to tell how the murderer was taking something from the foot of the bed, and afterwards ransacking the chest of drawers, and tearing leaves out of a book (cheque book) ? In a little while the man left the house by the side door, and made for a shed at the back, where he took a bicycle and wheeled it to the main road. Then he mounted, and turned to the left, keeping on till the first turning to the right. The subject said the assassin rode down the road till he came to a very big bridge, over the Waitaki river, into which he cast the bicycle and a watch. Nothing was said about a gun. The boy accurately described the house and situation in detail, and was terribly agitated when describing the actual murder.