HYPNOTISM AND MURDER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2572, 5 January 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

HYPNOTISM AND MURDER.

(rR«n OCR On.N conuKsi'oxpKNT.) Paris, November 3. 'fir re Assizes of Coustautinc, in Algeria, is trying a most romantic erime. flmiri ChiiHil'igu, holding; an important scoial position, is accused of the murder of Madams Clrillce, the you wife of the head engineer of the East Algerian r>,'\\w;iy. The family of Ghiimbigo .ia established in Constantiue since 30 ye, "n they OPenpy a politie.il mansion at Siu«;* On the 'ifith .January last, at five.in thS , afternoon, four shots were heard, comiug, from the mansion, the doors that had been barred, were broken open with hatchets, in the drawing room. Chainbigo \v:m rodiiiintr on a so!':i, bleeding from the mouth, into which he had sent two bullets, and beside him was a bottle of rum. On an opposite sofa, reposed a pretty woman, with her hair let down, and bouquets of violets and roses at lior side ; a bournouso was across her limb.", and ns calm as an infant in its happiest sleep. A little stream of blood trickled down the pillow. Madamo (Jrillco was dend, her temples being pierced by two bullets. The room was not in disorder ; the lady'd cloth was carefully hanging up, or carefully spread out in some chairs. She was in chemise, but no impropriety had taUen place. _\lad.ime (ir.llee was the model of virtue, irreproachable .as a wife, devoted as a innthur, and her Protestantism was of the puritan type. Society was constorned. It became more so when the surgeons, raising the eyelids, declared the lady's eyes displayed the greatest serenity of mind, ami none of that horror which i-.huiweturisius suicides. Everything pointed to the young lady having boen magnetised or hypnotised, and in that sensible-inscusihle ouditiou, was subjugated by Chambige's will, to follow him home, to undress, end to hold herself, when told, the pistols to her temples. Chambige was not mortally wounded, and is now cured ; but when being led from the Chamber of Crime, he implored the police to finish him, gave him the roup do grace, but in her presence, so that he might be able to join her imuinibulation. Chainhige is a disciple of Sehopenhuner, of Herbert ripencer and Renan ; he is mystical and Buddhist, so were his parents and his family, all of whom seemed to melt away from life. His moral character is irreproachable ; he was a fair scholar, and saturated with all tha philosophies. But he was tired of life, yearned for the unknown of nothingness, practised all the mesmerisms and magnetisms, and could subjugate the majority of persons b; encountered, by his intense nervousness, to his will. He wrote for several magazines and philosophic reviews, and published a volume. "The IntinitessioiKil Dispension of the Heart." ft is alleged that following his orders, Midame Uuila placed the revolver to her temple, and pulled the trigger when told, a 9 her linger ring attests from slight bruises ou the other lingers by the ring.