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Show I WILLS SELF TO i), AND DOES Astonishing Incident in London h Attributed to Auto-Sug-gestion. AGED MAN IS VICTIM Meant Planned for Hanging Are Inadequate, In-adequate, but He Perishes None the Less Head Hano Limply In Handkerchief. London. Cnn n man "suggest" suicide sui-cide to himself nntl dlo of the sugges-It sugges-It Is snld Mint tho nntlvca of Snmon In the old dnys could "hale" one an. other to death. Hut rend on: j Something hns been written of tho extraordinary elTect of Doctor Coue's mcntnl suggestion treatment upon n group of British shell-shocked soldiers. He delivered his lecture to th0,n nnd , trented some of them its he hud fronted front-ed thousands of more or less ponnnl people nt Ids now world-famous Nancy clinic unil tlio result was nn outburst of hysterical excitement which wns deemed to be exceedingly Injurious to tlie siifforers. It wns, Indeed a mod riot of the shell-shocked. The episode erentcd much criticism of tho whole Iden of thernpeutlcnl use of niontnl suggestion. nut It by no incnns decrensed the tTPr Increasing flock of patients rushing rush-ing to Cone clinic nt Nnncy, which this f manner lins been greater tlinn ever, having been swelled to more than twlc Its normal proportions by tourists tour-ists tunny If not most of them Amcrl-tana. Amcrl-tana. Had Immense Sate. The Cni.c book bud an Immense sale here In Krglnnd and the discussion of the sn'iject In drawing rooms, ut clulis and In the newspapers since It wus first brought forward hns rivaled In enthusiasm tho perennial political debutes. I All sorts of extraordinary phenomena phenom-ena In this general direction have been reported from nil parts of England I and by all sorts of people. I Astonishing cures nnd complete I fnlhirnti hnvh hoon rnnnrtml with I H Hli Neck Rested Limply In It. H Emit cngerncss by pros nnd nntls and there even has been some rather ncrl- MM nwnlous dlscimslon among those who I believe and those who qfllrm und those H who deny, H Hut the most astonishing Incident a which has Iwen brought to public nt- twit Inn during the whole course of tho l"ng drawn out nrgument Is furnished ftS by the trnglc ending of one Alfred Bfl Manning, nged slxty-slx. B He hud been unable to get work for n consldentMe tlm6 nnd bnd been Ma tuueli dlHCfiurugpd. although he hud not nrtnally suffered In a dangerous K way from lack of food. B Hut he was old. tired and unsucccss- f fill of fl m,r( nn,j n cnsc Whlch I "Hen furnishes suicides. B Thruet Head Through Noose. H And he wns found dead In his room flf with his dentil deelurcd to bp sulcldo BE U tho coroner nllhough It could be V hold to ho thnt only by n per0" nc- M "pllng rery fully tho theories of those ! "''Herlnj, that great power lies In nuto- Mt ""SKOstloa. . . When found bo hnd been dead for M nnio time, kneeling at the foot of his 1 bed. HE M Me hnd tied two corners of n very M nrge hundkcrchlcf together, molting n m "op which he hnd anight over one of f tho bed-posts, B Through the pendnnt cloth circlet H thus formed Manning hnd thrust his f bend nnd. when he was found, hla neck rested limply In It. K But the loop wns large nnd loose; he handkerchief would not hnve BB pressed tightly on his throat If his BB bead had not borne Its weight down BS upon It nnd that scurcely could have BB been achieved to the point of Btrangu BB '"lion by Ms own will-power, I |