Mesmeric Infiuences.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3103, 14 January 1889, Page 2

Mesmeric Infiuences.

- The French newspapers havo given currency to an allegation that a youug givl in Paris, .whose loyev had become - tired; mesmerised by him [ > ' arid sent'2s replay by train, lindi ? ." then, influenced byKhis 'previously''" ]M comniunicated;siiggestio'n, induced'to' i commit saicide^withfa,pißtol". \ '/These' 1 \ l '™ I .seem to "indicate'MPstfch ann'rjei. "" "' dent is not altogether,an impassible one.: A recent-writer gives' instances . of his own experiences as an operator in making people do sots which, under

■ ordinary circumstances, :Would ; ' bo criminal. Tims ho had a notary PjJflio administering oaths to some of v ™ladies and gmtletnen, whom ho mesmerised, and they committed perjury without hesitation. Others assaulted imaginary persons and set fire to., imaginary dwelling. Orio young man in l<ew York, who was ' an expert penman, wlieu ut cheque for 100,000 dollars had been drawn on the Lincoln Bank of that city, copied the signature of Cornelius Vauderbilt at the foot of the cheque while in a mesmeric fraudulent mesmerist, jt woulu appear, might make use of an innocent accessory in perpetrating a forgery. ' Another " patient" was made to commit a burglary. Arrangement having been previously effected whereby a pocket book was deposited in a neighbor's ■ bouse, the porson under the influence was made to believe himself a famous robber, and the position of the pocket b6ok being accurately described, he jrat and seemed it. The experiwt was witnessed by many porsons and is declared to have been *oroughly genuine.; The labors, of the-police have been sufficiently onerous in the past, but a fresh do- . monfcof difficulty is introduced; if they are henceforth called upon to look after' not merely the actual perpetrator of a crime but some possible potent mesmerist in the background.