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Show 'CLAIMS IE j" WAS ROBHED Man Wilh $35,000 on Him Falls Victim to Hypnotism Washington, March 7. With a story ! of having been hypi.otied and robbed of .3 5,000, a man who gate his name I to the police as U. J. Tellalr, and said he was manager of a dairy company of Philadelphia, came to his senses in - the emergency lmt.pltal today. Telfair told the police lie arrived here lo close a deal lor a 70o-acro ' dairy farm near Seminary, 'a. Tho price was $."i0,uo."i. He declared he ! had ?T,u00 In his j ocket.s to make tho first payment on Friday afternoon. According lo his story, he started for a bank before It dosed and took a walk on the Mall around the Washington Wash-ington monument. There, he says, ho j met a man who had hypnotized him often, and at a glance be fell under , the Influence. He says he remembers turning the $15,000 over to the hypnotist, hypno-tist, tut as lo what transpired after that bis mind is a blank. |