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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 7011, member: 33&quot;]Yes, they are not very accurate!</p><p><br /></p><p>The article that I can&#039;t attach is not the one I mentioned above with mutual hypnosis mentioned... but it does say this.&nbsp; It&#039;s worth quoting the whole thing, for its somewhat histrionic tone:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>HYPNOTIZED, THEN ABDUCTED</b></p><p><b>New York Physician Leaves a Family to Elope with a Beautiful Songstress</b></p><p><br /></p><p>May 7 -- Miss Adelaide Schell, the beautiful daughter of one of</p><p>New York’s best known insurance men,</p><p>has eloped with Dr. Francis Alexis Sutorlous,</p><p>a rising Harlem physician. Mrs.</p><p>Sutorious, the doctor’s wife, is prostrate</p><p>at her home, where she has been abandoned</p><p>with two young children.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mrs. Schell, mother of the eloping girl,</p><p>attempted to kill herself. She is almost</p><p>insane with grief and shame.</p><p><br /></p><p>The police are hunting high and low</p><p>for the missing couple, with orders to</p><p>arrest the doctor on sight for abduction,</p><p>Miss Schell being only 17 years old.</p><p>It is feared that, overcome by remorse,</p><p>The elopers may destroy themselves together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hypnotism is said to have played a</p><p>part in the elopement. A friend of Miss</p><p>Schell says that the doctor was a student</p><p>of hypnotism and that she noticed</p><p>his remarkable Influence over Miss Schell.</p><p><br /></p><p>This story of blind love, which has</p><p>shocked Harlem society, was hidden behind</p><p>this personal, which has been published</p><p>for several days in the morning</p><p>papers:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Adelaide and Frank- Come home to</p><p>parents and all will be forgiven on both</p><p>sides; no publicity as yet; mother vary</p><p>ill. PAPA.”</p><p><br /></p><p>This falling to elicit any response, Mr.</p><p>Schell put the case in the hands of the</p><p>police in order to&nbsp; have the doctor arrested;</p><p>Mrs. Sutorius also sought the assistance</p><p>of the police to find her husband.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Boston Post, Tuesday, May 8, 1900; pg. 4, col. 6-7[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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