Show GIRL HAS SLEPT FOR SIXTEEN EN DAYS AND DOCTORS UNABLE TO AROUSE HER Many Physicians and Specialists Specialists ec e- e c a is s Arc Are Working Over Pretty re Nelly a Corcoran Corcoran Corcoran Cor Cor- coran Her Spell Seems Hypnotic Q HOW BOW THEY TRIED 0 J Q TO AWAKEN HER lJ 0 o 0 In tb their lr unsuccessful Att attempts to tn 0 e 0 Nellie Corcoran from h her r 0 O 0 Q mt sleep It p th doctors doctor have hao 0 G 0 U Shocked h her r with electricity C 0 J 0 G Slapped h her r body body- vigorously 0 Q Qt t 0 Pricked sensitive sensitise nn r C Administered rj powerful stimulants ants 0 n i 0 Applied 0 4 i G 00 NEW YORK Nov No 3 For 3 For six elx days dt's Nellie Corcoran has lain Iain unconscious In St. St Vincents Vincent's hO hospital and the the b best medical skill In In tho city ha been unable to to revive her or even cen to tell what Is the cause of at her condition Every trY treatment known to medical science dence has been resorted to In vain The doctors arc aro baffled battled by this new new- I mystery and In their dilemma Lave have suggested that she Is In a hypnotic il sleep ep and are arc 1 Investigating elIs along this line but with little tittle hope of at reaching a solution Neurologists Neurologist physiologists and diagnosticians dlag- dlag tho moat most prominent In the tho city have been called In by the hos- hos pital do doctors but none nono of or them hits hILS been able to explain the nature of oC the girls girl's malady or to bring her back to They have pierced her herskin herskin skin with needles and shocked her with electricity of oC a a. voltage up to the ver very limit of or safety but still she ahe lies Hea there peacefully sleeping While the doctors are arc puzzling their brains helpless to aid h her hr r the girl Is wasting Ii way sway Stille Nellie Corcoran was a bright healthy girl up to the night of or October when she Bhe bade good night to Mrs Irs G G. G Hanse lanse with whom she lived JIved and went to her bedroom droom It was Saturday night and she retired at 1030 30 11 p. p m m. She Sho made madeno no complaint of ot IlIne Illness s and In to fact all an that day had been unusually vivacious Little Dogs Dog's Strange Action That Thal anything happened to the girl during the night Is 18 not believed and there Is nothing to bear benr out such a suggestion suggestion sug sug- gullon but on Sunda Sunday morning Mrs rs Hanse says MS she was as awakened b by her little dog scratching scratching- at nt the side of or her bed Thinking that something something- unusual had occurred to frighten the dog Mrs Mra Hunse arose ant and made an Investigation but found everything quiet In the house and nothing out of ot the ordinary except that Nellie was sleeping later than usual Mrs fn Hanae called lIed to her and when the girl did not get et up went to her room and tried to arouse her Finding her efforts In vain Mrs Irs Hanse Banse became alarmed She ft felt lt the girls girl's pulse and could not detect the faintest beat at Then rhen the she he sent In haste for Dr who lives in the th same name hou house and hh he h work worked d over ov over i- i the girl from 7 a. a m. m till 10 a. a m. m on i October th but could not nol arouse u h her r Father Sullivan of oC St at Anns Ann's Catholic church where the girl was an attendant attendant attend attend- ant was wu called and nd at the priests priest's suggestion sug aug- an ambulance I was summoned bringing Dr Gilbert Donovan DODO of ot SL St Vincents Vincent's hospital He lie worked over o the strange Faile for a n while with no better results than Dr Brandenberg n rJ and then th ri took her to th the hospital wh where re the whole staff starr of physicians tried trl tried d' d various methods and means to ro revive ref her Her Breathing Very FAint First restoratives of ever every kind were cre tried but hut non none proved crr effective Powerful Powerful Pow Pow- erful stimulants were wre forced down h her r throat but did not produce the slightest slight slight- est eat change e In her condition or appearance appearance appear appear- ance Electricity was WR tried again and again the shock being a as strong as all permissible P without endangering her I life tr Mil hit still she he 11 lay on nn ht her r cot barely harI and un completely unconscious The hospital doctors rs work worked d without Oil nil da day Sunda Sunday and on Mon Mon- day prominent specialists were called In fh These sc tried new experiments The They pricked her hr with needles and she gave gae no sign p f heeding I T hey ey touched her most sensitive nerve nr j without effect erred Only once Id the they observe the slightest slight slight- est cat evidence p. or of f feeling In the rigid form tonn While an attendant was vigorously slapping her h her r t eyes 11 opened and cI closed pd again without th the least Jet sign o of rt recognition or a a. spoken worst vord or even een sound found und There are nr no pronounced symptoms The girl lI lies s as though asleep I br breathing breathIng breath breath- ath- ath Ing Ins faintly Her Iler pulse Is Just a little faster than normal and her temperature tempera tempera- t temperature ture shows only a n half degree re of oC fever Y Yet t her ap appearance l Is n changing ln rap rap- Id Idly During During- the six Ix da days she h has been In the hospital th the doctors say Bay she has haR aged ten years In appearance and they C fear ar sh ahe cannot be kept alive If It her much longer A As a I Ila la last resort the doctors have haw begun be h gun investigating the th thor theory theory- that someone some pome one hA has ban put the girl In a 3 hypnotic Yet they say It If she la 18 the victim of a n hypnotist hypnotist- she should have responded to some Iome o of the tests thc they have already trl trier d. d |