Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1911 — DECISION LEFT WITH JUDGE [ARTICLE]

DECISION LEFT WITH JUDGE

International Tribunal Is Compared With Unsatisfactory Case of Hypnotism In Murder Trial. P. J. Corcoran of the western aviation circuit said at a recent banquet in Salt Lake: “The international tribunal has decided against us in the Grahame White claim. Well, that international tribunal is always unsatisfactory, anyway. It is almost as bad as the hypnotist In the murder trjpl. ' “In the days when hypnotism figured in every murder trial, a famous hypnotist offered to hypnotize the prisoner and get a confession out of him. This, offer was accepted. “Accordingly, after a thrilling scene in the courtroom, the accused man fell back stiffly In a trance, the hypnotist ceased the weird movements of his white hands, and there was a tense pause. “‘Well,’ said the Judge in a low voice, “you’ve hypnotized him, haven’t you? What are you waiting tort “1 am waiting,’ tbe hypnotist answered, ’till you tell me whether I’m to make him confess that he did It or make him confess that he didn’t’"