Show HTIVOTISU AXD CKUIE A BTAIITLINQ theory in relation to criminal jurisprudence has re ccntly been put forth In Franc and has been n suljcct of widespread discussion In Kurope and America for several weeks Some months ago there occurred in Paris a peculiarly pe-culiarly shocking murder Tho victim vic-tim was a man named It Goalie who was strangled by means of a noose flung over his head in an apartment into which he had been cnticnl The police learned and surmised enough t construct the following theory A man named Eyraud had acquired a strong and evil influence over a young woman named Gabrielle Rampart Ey mud Is represented as 1 man of santanlc character who for some len desired the death of M Goufle To compass his murder Eyraud compelled Uc Bompard to lire him to the room where the crime was consummated This theory was formulated soon after the murder was done and a celebrated hypnotist of Paris an nounced his belief that I Jllle Bomnard were placed in his charge he could take her to the room where tho crime a committed compel her to reenact the bet she took In the tragedy nnd narrate all other particulars connected with I He made this declaration on the theory that the young woman was a hypnotic i hyp-notic subject whom Jie could control con-trol The advisability of trying such I an experiment was for some time questioned aiid held under advisement advise-ment bt as we gather from one of our exchanges I was at length attempted at-tempted The room in which Mr Gut waa strangled was placed in the same condition aa when the crime occurred Two detectives I aeted the supposed parts of JL Goufle and Eyraud The one representing repre-senting tho former sat In an armchair I chair and the young woman who was present and under the hypnotic influence coolly seated herself in his Jap The detective who was personating Eyraud then threw a noose over the others head and the young woman went through the motions of seizing his hands to prevent him from removing the cord from his neck She gave at the same time = verbal narrative of the tragedy and said that while she was sitting in the lap of MGouOt > she saw Eyraud preparing to throw the noose over the victims head from behind and that M Gouffe noticed an expression of terror In notC aplon her face and tried to cairn her A moment later she said shoe was ihmirn to the floor 15 the struggles of the murdered man a Eyraud jerked the cord The results of till experiment have been astonishing their con Crmalion of the theory the police bad already formed of the tragedy and the question now agitating the French courts and bar ii Ougbt hypnotini to ie admitted as an element ele-ment of proof in criminal prosccu ton This question Involves the furtheronts Isbypnctlmaiclencc nnd li I It possible fur one IKTMJII to obtain r strong a hypnotic control iver another as to compel the latter to commit crime crme I is asserted that many French savants believe fully i hypnotism and in the theory that Mile Born par acted under form of compl sion which she was pon erlew t resist re-sist S strong is the hold which this opinion lIt gained upon the public mind of Paris aud indeed of all France that the cfllclals show a marked reluctance to prosecute ike young woman The casu is one of the most noted in modern criminal annals and come of Its features illustrate certain remarkable tendencies tenden-cies peculiar to tecent years |