A GRAND GUIGNOL EXPOSURE

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 134, 2 March 1922, Page 5

A GRAND GUIGNOL EXPOSURE

FAKE HYPNOTIST’S UNDOING. It was a raw, grey moyning, Two warders stood “grousing” in the corridor of fhe prison. It was a bit thick, they said. An ordinary hanging,, well, there was nothing in that; but this was , . . qiiGPT* Ancl they sliud-dcrod. Enter the governor, the doctor, a long-haired man with wild eyes, and a white-faced woman. They halt near the warders. The governor points to a chair. The woman demurs. Cannot she be in the presence. .. . Ao says the governor, and turns abruptly from her to the doctor. The woman shrugs her shoulders and seats herself. Her companion looks fixedly at her and slowly raises his hands. Her gaze be comes frozen; her eyes close. Her companion bows to I the governor. “Madam ees ready. . The governor blows a whistle. Heavy steps Approach. Enter two warders, carrying a figure in a chair. The whole head is covered in a black hood. “Uah! somebody mutters The governor looks sharply round. But the faces of the waiting warders arc expressionless. The sinister figures pass ° ll There S ’m a moment of intense silence. •Then tho governor nods to the hy - n the latter whispers, his %So| n “l No!” voice - •‘Not that! Let me die. awa yB The Wt vo?ce t ' whimpered,' and then 1 1 . “Take him away. I can S him near me Ide’s touching me. 4/vLI Ti’s round inc throat! . A And then crlecUwith a winning sob: do they take so lone- • • • ft, ~ ■n’-nViteT -><«» dcred. A sound came from her il'U‘ ; Then silence. Then a voice, that Jemed to float in the- air “Is that dangling body 1- Am 1. And the governor '’jerked an order over his shoulder to the hypnotist. “That’s enough! Wake her! “Weil?” he asked tho doctor m a hoarse voice. *' are , y 0 j O c“Alore than content. said the a tor, quietly: r W Uiope they haven t for. “Yon saw it pass. “But the . . . the condemned man! stuttered tho hypnotist- (( “There was no condemned man, saw the doctor. And the governor began, fiercely: “Do yon think T'd have been narty to . . But the doctor stopped iiim- “I promised you an experiment.” he said, “and the experiment has been wonderfully successful. I think T know all I need to know about your little business.” “.Tolmnv.” said the medium, getting up. “we’d better be gving.” r And the hypnotist said: “Well. I ll bo . - -I” , As monsieur and madam have retired into thri greengrocery business T suppress their names. —AV. R. Titterton. in the London “D.-n'lv News.”