Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1909 — TRAGEDY IN HYPNOTIC TEST [ARTICLE]

TRAGEDY IN HYPNOTIC TEST

Subject Dies In Presence of Audience and Several Women Faint. Somerville, N. J., Nov. 9.—-As the result of being hypnotized by "Professor” Arthur Everton, Robert Simpson has been pronounced dead by three medical men. Simpson was hurried to a hospital after Everton had tried for more than an hour to bring him out of a cataleptic state. The professor is a prisoner. Everton says that Simpson had been drinking and had complained of feeling (11 before he submitted to a mental test The subject’s collapse caused several women in an audience of 200 persons to faint