HYPNOTIC CONTROL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6319, 23 February 1922, Page 3

HYPNOTIC CONTROL.

AIRS. AI c WHIRTER’S WEIRD STORY.

Mrs Geraldine AlcWhirter, who lias been suing Dr. Reginald 8. Fetter, of .Los Angeles, for 50,OOOcffil. damages, failed to convince a jury in the Supreme Court that she had been damaged, as she claimed, by hypnotic spoils and drugs designed to win her from her husband. Mrs AlcWhirter testified that she was made a physical wreck by these agencies, and that for days as .t time she seemed to be living apart from her body. “It seemed as though my soul stood off and looked at my body,” she said. “There seemed to be a cord that held us together, and 1 knew if that cord snapped I would drift into space. There was always ringing in my ears the voice of the doctor. It seemed to come from afar off. It always said, “Geraldine, dearest, you are the most wonderful woman in the world. Come, come, come to me.”

“And I could not help but obey. ,! seemed to be drawn to his office. And, once there, he would give me a little white pill, and I would drift off into the most wonderful dreams.” Her story reached its climax when she told the jury of a trip she had made to the mountains < with the doctor. They were in a'* cabin in Big Bear Valley. There the doctor bad given her, she sad. some of the little white pills. “It seemed,” she said, “that 1 walked through a beautiful forest that was lined with soft, thick moss. The moss seemed to ripple like the surface of a pond. 1 glided along, it seemed. There were beautiful flowers there and great trees of roses and big tulips. Jn the bowls of tlie tulips were fairies, who would laugh and wave their hands at me. Ovcr all there seemed to pervade the odour of lavender the doctor alwavs had lavender in his office.

“I seemed to wander through this wonderful place, and it seemed 'the doctor was always following me. I could hear him say, “Geraldine, dear, what do you see?” Then I would tell him. It seemed to me just like heaven must be.

“It seemed we came to a lake, and as I listened to the lake I saw a skeleton. I screamed and then I recovered consciousness. The doctor was shaking me. Then he looked frightened. He almost screamed at me, then said, “Geraldine, sweetheart, you must never go near that lake again. You were .about to die, but I pulled you back in time.’ “And then he told me that he had sent me off into Spirit Land, and it had been an experiment to see if lie could do it, and that he knew that he had complete control over me. “Often after that ho would give me the little white pill, and always I would seem to wander off into that wonderful forest so that I might tell him all I saw. I don’t know why he took me there, but when I saw an open grave I screamed and ran away.”