HYPTONISED IN A TRAIN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8234, 11 September 1906, Page 3

HYPTONISED IN A TRAIN

WOMAN ROBBED B A "MAtf WITH SHINING iii'Es." A new danger threatens the travelsling pulbio. Recently, when the train arrived at Lausanne from ■ Pontarlier and everybody had departed, the guard, the Daily Mail's Geneva correspondent writes, found .a woman sitting in a rigid position, with her arms and legs beld out before her and her eyes fixed in •an expressionless stare. He failed to arouse her, and, thinking she waa in a fit, called a doctor, whoatoace stated that the womun had been hypnotised. The dootor made the regulation passes, and the woman recovered slightly, but was unatle to speak. > On searching her some valuable shares were found, but sbe had neither purse, money, nor jewels, ller name, according to ths papers dis* • covered in her possession, is Melanie Verne. She was conducted to the hospital and placed under tue eare of Dr. Houdart, who also confirmed the fact that she-had been hypnotised .in the train and probably robbed. The woman, who is.of middle age, has not yet recovered her senses . comrletely, and talks vaguely about "a man with shining eyes."