WANDERING COUPLE
WERE THEY HYPNOTISED?
(Per Press Association. —Copyright.) AUCKLAND, This Day,
A man and his wife who stated that they had been hypnotised were found wandering aimlessly on the platform of the Auckland railway station early this morning. After being taken in charge by the police they were examined by two doctors, who ordered their committal to the Auckland Mental Hospital. The man and woman came under the observation of a police official, who noticed that they were in a dazed and apparently bewildered condition. The man said that he and his wife were residents of Waihi. He had been a miner of Waihi for many years. They had come under the influence of a hypnotist a few weeks ago.
From that point the man’s 'memory was by no means clear, but he remembered boarding a train in company with his wife to come to Auckland.
The man added that prior to their departure from Waihi he iiad told a friend that he had been hypnotised by a certain man and that they were going away on a holiday to recuperate. They believed (their house was also under the influence, .and they felt a strong urge to get away from the place. They were firmly convinced that their furniture and domestic belongings were also affected by a strange and malign influence.
The man and woman have two child rea, whom they left in care of a friend,
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Northern Advocate, 15 November 1929, Page 6
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