People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1895 — Hypnotist to Die. [ARTICLE]

Hypnotist to Die.

Wellington, Kan., Dec. 31.—Anderson Gray has been given the death sentence by Judge Burnett, according to the verdict of the jury finding him guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of Thomas Patton. Thomas McDonald, while under the hypnotic influence of Gray did the killing, but was discharged after trial. Gray is a well-to-do farmer. Patton had incurred his enmity and Gray hypnotized McDonald, a farm hand, and while the latter was in that condition compelled him to commit the murder.