CURIOUS HYPNOTIC INCIDENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2401, 16 January 1909, Page 9 (Supplement)

CURIOUS HYPNOTIC INCIDENT.

Considerable excitement was caused at Gilgandra (N.S.W.) _ the othei week, when Theodore Button, a son of the late Dr. Burton of that town, was put to sleep by another youth tvho is said to have hypnotic powers, but who could not rouse tlio subject again. Burton was then overtaken with fits, and acted like a poison in delirium, and to tlio consternation of everyone the amateur me- - could do nothing to alleviate his condition Burton mrcinrnd to the Dubbo Hospital. Iho latest reports are that, ho is on his way to recovery from an attack of / hysteria. While Burton was m a state of delirium, he kept calling on the young companion, to whom ne had ’submitted Vrtsolf to awake., him, and alternately appealed to the persons in attendance to arresv the mesmirist. He recounted yith nil nute■accuracy the leadm*, his life, and a most parnM scene was enacted when he repeated a dem onstration oi grief, to winch h - g*_ way at his father s deathbeL three Years ago. Ho seemed to hvo tbiougb the Sle sorrowful experience again, even to the shock J.e received on being acquainted of his f.uhe-t death, which was sudden.