STORY OF HYPNOTISM.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9642, 14 January 1899, Page 3

STORY OF HYPNOTISM.

A Wife's Strange Theft.

An occasional correspondent of the Daily Mail, in Paris, reports a curious case of nomnasabulism which has just occurred at Alfortville. Recently, M Antoine Cliehy, a gentleman living oh his means, and possessed of considerable property.fouod that a package containing £ 2(400 worth of bonds had been stolen from his bedroom. He informed the police, who, to their own and M Clichy's great astonishment, were unable to find any trace of tbe entrance of the thief or thieves. Three days laler M Cliehy wns oblige ' !0 take his wife, who had for &ome time past been suffering from nervous prostration, to tbe Salpetrire Hospital, and the doctor there, in view of the Btate iof abnormal agitation and excitement in which Mdrrie Cliehy was, asked her husband whether anything bad occurred during the last few | days to account for her coDdition. M Cliehy told the doctor of his loss, adding that his wife bad taken the matter even more to heart than he himself bad done. The doctor, a firm believer in hypnotism, immediately hypnotised Mdme Ulichy, and drew from her the extraordinary confession that she herself had stolen the bonds, which she had buried uadsr a cherry tree in their own garden. This had been done earlylin the morning, whils her husband was at the hairdresser's. M Clicby immediately