DEATH IN A TRANCE
NEW YORK, November 10. A hypnotist named Everston, who was giving an exhibition in the music hall ; at Somerville, New Jersey, threw a man named Simpson into a cataleptic trance. { The audience i-oared with laughter at Evcrston's failures to bring Simpson round, until a doctor ran on the stage and declared the man to be dead. E version lias been arrested on a charge , of manslaughter. < November 12. J Everston, tfie hypnotist, frantically * . assured the doctors -who xna.de the post ' j mortem of Simpson, tliat the latter was " etill in a cataleptic trance. He was per- « mitted to go to the mortuary with a i number of hypnotists, and continued his \ experiments for several • hours. - Finally I j the doctor ordered the hypnotists away. 3 The post mortem showed a rupture of the , aorta, due to Everston jumping on Simp- i son's chest during the public perform- j anec - t j
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Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 23
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