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Show HINDU PALACE OF CRIME FOUND NEW YORK. May ?.. It was a strange story which Detective Callahan Calla-han told In the police court today In describing the raid last night on the Mystic Temple of Om, a young man who Is entered on the police records as Pierre A. Bernard, a native of India. In-dia. ' Om" was arraigned on the charge of abduction after the detectives had found him in a luxuriously appointed house, where was taught physical culture cul-ture and languages, surrounded by a number of pupils, mostly young women. wom-en. Some of his girl pupils said Bernard Ber-nard represented himself as a "swaml" from India. "When I pushed open the parlor doors," Callahan testified at the hearing hear-ing today, "Bernard was standing on a glass clobe on a hair mattress In the center of the room He was going through some peculiar gyration. Five girls and several men, all in bathing suits, were gathered around him trying try-ing to repeat the movements." Miss Zella Hopp said she went to Bernard's office last October and consulted con-sulted him about a method of curing her of heart weakness. Bernard told her she must come to the place and stay for a time, which she did, first paving him, she testified, a fee of 1100. Mls Hopp told the magistrate that Bernard had a peculiar Influence over her and that she believed he bad hypnotized hyp-notized her. She made grave charges againut Bernard. While she was In the place she met Miss Gertrude Levy of Tacoma, Washington, another "student," "stu-dent," and when she got out she thought frhe ought to advise Miss l?vy's sister ol what was going on. Hr letters brought Mrs. Hanford, the sister, to New York, and the two women wom-en complained to the police. |