Show HYPNOTIC SPELLS TWO remarkable CASES OF ALLEGED MESMERISM A moan maine girt has haa lived under the influence of others for twelve years A we new york girl influenced into a foolish fool la h marriage for twelve yearl here is a trilby la in FAAI life the extraordinary circumstances that have surrounded the life of miss abble abbie M jk nutter of N north orth 1 edgecomb edgecome b maine just h have a v e been brought to the attention of the public by deputy sheriff L patterson patter son of Wiss casset serving n notice 0 to her to appear before the lincoln county probate court in proceedings for the appointment of a guardian for twelve years since her mother died the girl now 22 years old has lived hidden in the family of alfred dodge in north edgecomb gecoma ed mrs dodge is the girls second cousin for twelve years she has lived an utter recluse in the attic of the dodge house avoiding the neighbors and every stranger so resolutely that there are many persons in edgecomb who not only have never seen her but do not know that such a person exists though she aives barely three miles from Wiss casset her former schoolmates m ates in that town have entirely lost sight right of her the charge boldly made that the girl has been hypnotized put under restraint quelled into subjection by force of stronger wills will come out in the legal proceedings and will make the rase case one of maine main 4 s most singular actions at la law this irli 2 charge mr and mrs dodge indignantly deny and they are supported by the girl all of edgecomb is in an uproar about the affair the selectmen have held an inquisition inqui stion tion the grand army post at damariscotta Damari scotta has interested inhere interest pd itself actively for the girl is a veterans daughter the neighbors talk of nothing pise the dodge home Is a lonesome place it is a big unpainted house several rods from the highway and below the level of the road there are no near neighbors th girls guardian paid to the dodges a year 5 ear for her board and when he turned her property over to her in 1895 there was 1000 left since then the dodges have drawn of this out of the bank on orders signed by the girl soon after this withdrawal it was said that mr dodge had discharged the mortgage on his farm many rumors then spread at the height of this gossip last autumn came miss lida A burish of dorchester mass a cousin of abbie nutter no one in the community had felt called upon to act in the matter but miss mias burish who is businesslike set out vigorously to deliver her cousin from the enchanted castle of the dodges she obtained as counsel george B sawyer of Wiss casset and I 1 began legal p proceedings roce edings to place miss abble abbie again under guardianship the case came before the selectmen of edgecomb who held a hearing miss nutter the dodge family and others interested were present the selectmen returned a decision that in their opinion abble abbie M nutter la Is a person of infirm mind and incapable of managing her own affairs I 1 they therefore recommend to the judge of probate that a suitable guardian be appointed the girl does not appear mentally unbalanced inexperienced perien ced and weak she certainly Is IB she moves as if in a dream he her voice rings hollow and the neighbors insist that there is a mystery in the household a mystery of mind guiding mind hypnotized the girl that their pretty daughter was under the influence of her hypnotist husband Z D DODGE when she was married and therefore was abt responsible for her action is the ground upon which the parents of mary T whitman will bring suit for her for divorce from berton T main at jamestown N Y so much are they in earnest that main has been arrested under that section of the penal code which classes a fortune teller as a disorderly j person before main tame came to t that hat town from sheldon ill III miss whitman who is very clever and very popular was engaged to a prominent young man they were remarkably devoted to each other and their early marriage was looked forward to I 1 I 1 with mains appearance there came a change he secured board with wigs miss Whit mans mother and from the first by means of his strange powers ab obtained a powerful influence over the daughter the girl who had bad been vf vac lacious va cious ions became suddenly despondent and fretful her tractable temper was wag replaced by impatience and queer outbursts of anger so marked was the change that not only her lover but bat her faraby farahy speedily spee dlly noticed it the no former caned on im miss misi whitman and wore before leaving co confided to her sister that tle he VW SS is ifs XV sa r S 1 un am coming over on thursday eleft ing he added and have it out that fellow main has got to leave this house but even then the whitman family did not suspect the real cause on wednesday afternoon miss whitman went down town with her mother on an a shopping tour and met main on the street while she was waiting tor for mrs whitman gome come on and well get married Is all she asserts that main said to her notwithstanding that he Is a little faced fellow and of anything but attractive manners she says she was powerless to resist and in obedience to his will followed him as he had commanded they had gone but a few block when telling her to wait tor for him where she was standing he disappeared main it now se seems ems was penniless at the time and applied to a dentist for IL a dollar with which to pay the justices fee this the dentist declined to advance but he bad no oba objection action to loaning the prospective bridegroom a hat bat the batters lat being in a markedly dilapidated lapi dated condition main next needed witnesses so BO he called upon henry arnold and another man to act tor for him they consented and the bridal party proceeded to the justices office arnold having gallantly offered to guarantee the marriage tee fee arnold also took the bride to his home while the bridegroom returned to his broa brooding ding house and announced his nuptials in the briefest manner the distracted mother hastily sought a lawyer but on being told that she had negal egal redress she allowed the 5 71 z i BERTON L MAIN couple to return home it was the next day before the girl had an opportunity to tell her story and upon the facts as she related them it was determined ter mined to bring suit for divorce and in the meantime to have main arrested when locked up he soon worked himself into a hysterical frenzy and it I 1 is mins now strongly suspected that his mind is unbalanced |