| Show awa a waa oa I I I ITHE THE MOLLIE NOLLIE CASE OF FANCHER i L Q I O oI I H i H H I H 4 j jY t A Psychological Y 22 l L Marvel E U UNE 8 S a beautiful girl IC 1 years old was passing up Ful Fulton I Fulton ul ulton J ton street Brooklyn In a I cur Near her destination she sig signaled signaled nal d the conductor to stop tho the car He lie did BO so The young lady la stepped to time the street tho time conduct conductor whirled on or rang rani the limo bell blI the car ear Out hut the time girl had hind on one of the hoop skirts shirts so 80 generally worn by b women In those days It caught upon tho car step the till lady Indy was lOS dragged almost a 11 block adding one more to the lime tragic list of accidents caused by feminine long lon clothes The girl Mollie rancher Fancher I was vas awfully hurt her spine being permanently In InJured jurld Violent spasms ml began beron Feb 7 alternating with trances and cataleptic cata cataleptic leptic attacks which at length made mado her case the tho puzzle of medical science It U is now the year that Miss Mills Fancher has hall lain In the same name room upon the same name Side of ot the same Barne bed and ond upon tie the t e same side of 01 her bier herboy body boy The present generation was wall not born when iho she lay clown down upon that couch of ot suffering Buffering Pain Patti l Is In her hot had hador tr ad ador or heart henrt or some flome part of ot that tha t tortured body always except during the strange trance state slate which with her takes s the place of sleep We Wo are all nil spirits pris prie In bodies D but Mollie Fawner Fancher U Is halt half released so that her chains gall galland galland galland and tug lug mercilessly at her conscious consciousness ness In this life The worst trouble seems to 10 tie lie at the base basa of the brain There Is II a n spot atthe at atthe atthe the back of her head which If it ba he touched ewer ever BO so tenderly will make mako her unconscious In the years she has hu lain upon her bed her father tather brother and sister Bister and tho the beloved aunt to whose care her dying mother left her hor In child childhood childhood hood have all aJl passed away one by one yet for tor some strange reason she the tor tortured tortured tortured one who has prayed and longed to go alt all these years your remain remains The Tho tero t r spasms from tram which she has suffer suffered ed havo have drawn bar ber lower limbs back backward backward ward and twisted them In what herphy hu phy has hns called a n three twist And yet In n the appearance of the In Invalid Invalid invalid valid there Is no sign of ot suffering She looks like hike a beautiful spirit s Imprisoned d dhere hero here to show how mortals that there really are arc beautiful spirits No one would guess guells her to be more than 25 years ears old I though she Is 63 53 Her skin Is like an In intents fa tents tants ills fair and rosy and light blond hair curls softly about her face to co Her hands handi and arms are of ot perfect beauty fit nt for tor a n sculptors model Miss I affords to the tho psycho a n case unparalleled on the earth today The Tho one most like her was the of Prevorst who was chained In the body In much the same way and andI I who said to her physician I am as one detained at the moment of dissolution I between life lite and death I seem eem out of myself to hover above my body and I think of ot It at as a something apart from my myself myself self Mollie Iollie Fancher upon her bed berJ yet et travels She never sleeps as IlS we understand the term but passes ino Imo inoa a state different dller nt from ordinary unconsciousness Then she ahe seems to fly II over overtime tho time earth at nt will to follow tallow her friends to their homes In various places and watch their movements as O If they were I present with her Time and again her herI report of ot what they the wire were doing when 1 I she phI he hae thus visited them has hos ben been bP n ex cx exactly artl verified Slip She hl seems II ms to herself to toI I glide or float upon the time air from place I lar to 10 toI 1 I place noting objects and anti persons It lIs Is easiest for tor her to follow tollow the movements of ot those she love loves best belt Persons Persona and they are not a n few tew who have In sleep experienced the tho sensation of or Urine tying hith hither er and thither to different will understand The Impression of ot floating through the air l II is even enn more more vivid valid than the ordinary consciousness one OliO has hn of walking And yet et while Fanch Fancier r rII ris Is II conscious of moving through the sir Mir MirIn airl sirk In k l vIsiting different spots spall her poor body bach boil Ilea Iles upon Its bed Led seeing knowing nothing her face tact deathlike Which Is Mollie that which Is conscious of traveling through space or that thal which lies lien In her home absolutely absolutely lute I knowing nothing The strangest episode of this strange 1 I life Ufa came corne In the nine years year beginning b g tho latter part put of May 1800 At that thAl t time lIs went Into a trance from which silo alto wakened normally Then tollo followed Id another In trances al alternating alternating with spasms she sho lived d nine years Tho convulsions were so terrible that sometimes for tor hours h he i r body would be doubled doll bled around like a I hoop After Atter the muscular rigidity pass oil al she would seem to be b taken poe noe posies slon sian of ot by L nome Gome other entity Five different dif different ferent beings seemed seamed to manifest L Lher through her l During Durin all these thele n nine in e years yean her right arm remained drawn ur up u p behind her head Her lint left arm sh she he e could move mOe but her hands hand were tigh t clinched except the thumb And forefinger gem ger er of ot each ench After Atler a time Urne she began i e wholly blind so far tar tu as 11 eyesight eyell ht was con c on corned and her physicians proved It I I L t e force toree Slit She Sh told those th around her that tha f i she aw saw out of the top of her head y i M MI I 1 would not dare daro to writ tilde this except I i that It II Is an liB well Veil authenticated as any I I i t fact ever was vas wasAt i At the end nd of ot the nine years Mlis Iii n anther Fancher came to herself one day look bolt looked bolted ed cd up at h her r faithful nurse nur and said a 1 Why aunt what has hal become blOOm of your I red cheeks checks You look M so old odd and changed And to this day I I I Fancher remembers nothing of i 3 Il nine yar yeara tara when she Bhe seemed to b tie be fi lire fiVe e in one a With a friend of ot my rny own I visited I I IMIe 1 Miss Mies Fancher I whom she had hart seen before After Mtr talking to nil tle lay lady I e r 1 awhile the Invalid looked at her and I t said IBid You have IvI tome some trouble with kith lib t l s your head bead you rout Con o and beat at the base bue of th the hi brain Tb The Tbt lady lad continued that abe ala n j m a had bat and ant was wu taking treatment for tor It m t 1 Now No how could Fancher rancher discover I that when I myself did not net know It ithe She Bhe he sees teea lime th tb things thin other people PI do doyet I yet t not ai at others do da The darker tr her room morn Is II the more mart distinct objects In It tt I appear to her Uk Ilk the cut cat t and the I i owl she sets sees In III the dark but not Jot with lIh 1 i I her eyes ht t light girl rI her pain pin In the little nourishment she he take t kil Miss MIll I rancher l is I more than rUI I Ilk like There Then have laY been periods of ot 1 11 i months menthe when th the natural actual of her physical phy kal body have b been en almost ahn sus aus suspended uhf f At present prent the she doss doH not steal atral i low law In a month as much food as AI asap ji persona eat at one meal Inell A Of homemade broad bread Is le I all aIL nut Hut she drinks i l 1 quantities of water two ui i Gallons a day Jey Th Time things here hero wt set t down are faithful i I If f I 4 1 j I I Ii f I A 1 i 1 ii I I t N i t 1 i i idl I r j h hi l lr r i t ti i 1 I Ij II I j 5 a at t t tb b t rot roti 1 11 1 J i t i ii i 1 r eta etal cc l L h 1 h hY r I t r Y 1 if 11 J r rr rm A j r fk si sir m i t tw r e i I w A r rIl silt i Il e eb I It b 11 iii 1 t y l i iJ rt i ir r J I Ii I It t i 1 f I IP If P I f 7 t l lif r rt t a Is t 1 fi 4 j jJ if l J I II I ty by Ii Burr Studio N Sew fW w a i t f j jil TUCKED COSTUME OF BLACK J il i yet pt with hands nt at the back of her head with th the two thumb an and d fingers she Ibe did exquisite embroidery and an needlework made mads wax flowers and wrote In the nine years letters leth ir In ira Ina I Ia n a beautiful hand Irv He remained remain tight shut abut and could only be opened by b and true You ou can depend on them but butI t tI I I do not account for tor them Has Ilse Mollie I Fancher Fischer recovered certain faculties I which man has hal mostly lost through dis dia disuse I use In the th course of his evolutionary t I pro progress W MORTIMER tt f |
