Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — SEVEN DAYS ENTRANCED. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN DAYS ENTRANCED.

A Wonderful Manifestation of Hypnotic Power. A most remarkable manifestation of the power of hypnotism was completed last week at Lake Brady, Ohio, when Harmon Leonard was raised from a hypnotic trance, into which he had been thrown seven days before. During the intervening week he had had no food or nourishment of any kind and his physical nature had remained utterly dormant. June 30 a hypnotist named Santonelli, having obtained the consent of the parents of Leonard to employ him as a subject for his tests, commanded Leonard to go to a certain tent which had been erected for the purpose and to fall asleep. The subject instantly obeyed. The tent in which he lay was open to visitors during the next seven days. At night the sleeper was guarded by a young companion. When he fell asleep his pulse was 84. This Santonelli reduced by hypnotism to 64, and on the following day to 54, and then to 44. It afterward rose to about 50 and remained at about that point until just before he was awakened. During this time young Leonard did not have his clothing changed and did not leave his couch except as he was ordered to “stiffen out” so that he could be photographed on one occasion. His guards are willing to make oath to the fact that he remained without, food or other stimulants and that his physical functions were dormant all this time. Leonard was taken out of the trance by Santonelli in the presence of a large crowd of people Sunday afternoon. His pulse bad risen to 120, but subsided to about 90 soon after. He expressed ignorance of the fact that he had been asleep. Physicians have manifested the greatest interest in the experiment, claiming that in the case of gunshot wounds in the abdomen, when the suspension of the functions would materially assist recovery, the use of hypnotism would be of vital importance.

William Best, the most notorious resident of the Faint Lick of Kentucky, was shot and instantly killed in a quarrel bySpeed Nunn. The killing of Best wipes

out the last of a family of outlaws who have been the terrors of the section for many years. Richard Allen was struck on the head by a heavy auger while cleaning out a well at Portland, Ind., and his skull fractured. Tammany is at work reorganizing new districts in New York.