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Show Mother and Daughter Hypnotize Each Other Remarkable Case Ends in Death of Young- Woman in a Hospital. Hos-pital. NEW YORK, March 24.i-One of the most remarkable cases In the experience experi-ence of the doctors of the Presbyterian hospital In this city, ended today ln the death of Miss Luella Huestls of Mount Vernon, who, with her mother, Mrs. James H. Huestls, had been In a trance for fifteen days prior to her death. Supposed Asphyxiation. More than twp weeks ago both of the women were found unconscious in the home of Henry Heifer, a lawyer of this city, and were supposed to have been asphyxiated by gas. Neither had since recovered consciousness and physicians and hypnotists were puzzled by their unaccountable coma. Miss Huestls was an attractive young woman, ased 22 years. Principal Cause of Death. Lack of nourishment was the principal princi-pal cause of her death, as it had been impossible to give her food except In liquid form and through a tube. Stimulants Stimu-lants and oxygen were administered without effect. A singular fact is that the young woman's mother who lay In an adjoining room began to show signs of the approach of death soon after the death of her daughter. Like her daughter, daugh-ter, the mother also is greatly emaciated emacia-ted and the physicians at the hospital say that her low vitality is due principally princi-pally to starvation. Hypnotized Each Other. A specialist in hynotism and psychology, psycho-logy, who Investigated the case, has made public his conclusion that the two women had unconsciously hypnotized hypno-tized each other and that gas asphyxiation asphyxia-tion had nothing to do with the case. He said that he had himself been hypnotized hyp-notized while hypnotizing a patient and had only been awakened by the arousing arous-ing of the subject. The case of the two women has attracted the attention of scientists all over the country |