The following story, from Alamo, Michigan, has been circulated in the dailies, and indicates a great danger for which few people are prepared.
A young man, named Dwight T. Holmes, boasted of his mesmeric powers. It is said that he put a young lady, Annette Garlanger, under hypnotic influence, Jan. 9, and that while in this state she smoked a cigar, and did other strange things, at Holmes's command.
Then he experimented on Miss Kitty Rood, ordering her to feign death. She obeyed, and the exhibition was agreeable to the spectators, until it was found that her respiration had ceased. The doctor was called. He pronounced it a case of heart-disease, and said the girl was dead.
