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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1955,
World's
Strangest Stories
UN
THE RIDDLE OF THE
THREE EMPTY
L
COFFINS
By Florence A. Kilpatrick
PARDON to any accompile not being the person who actually committed the offence who shall first give such information.
ONG before the death of the 20th Earl of Crawford and Bat carres in 1880 there was n
The bait of 2000 brought saying among the country instant response. The solicitors people on the family estate wire deluged with letters from of Dunecht that he would people who were ready to swear to their compilcity in the put- "dee awn' frae hame and his age. But "Nabob" remained bancs no' rest wi' his ain silent. folk."
Then ง gamekeeper called Whether this belief reached Machry gave the police unifor-
which the noble
led Carl's ution
to their family to not known. It is simi- arreding a man called Charles |
Soutar. funt, however, that he did die
the
Lary of
"awn frue homie"-in FloreNZE
Soutar, A mi-catcher And
Tood on December 13, 1880. It is even pencher, did not have a
elaborate end. He did not deny that more gnificant that
and readily plans were made to ensure that by was "Nabob,"
H be brought the body would bak safely to Scotland to be but in the crypt at Dunecht, A Morente embalmer was
cutrusted with the embalminu of the body which was placed
racket of Balium wood, then one of bend; the two comes were then put in one of heavy
wik. and ally led casket of walm west.
AD WAS set for the journey. hanne but there were
nblo difculties during the cross- ing of the Alpes. Alae wage II was suggested that it should be abandoned.
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There was no better luck on the see jouzi mes, don 14 violent stam sprang up to the Channel
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d
alange Laje,
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AC 11 o'clock one night near the end of April he was poochier: or Dumbersk Wood when two him. Both bad
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Ti k n their faces and poke with At des accents.
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Tw.. more men approveited. spoke, I said, like Ene- UNA Rebley, they niso wer:
PHLS{ One of them raised u shoot him, but DADES of the men said: "Don": 1. th.
It's only a poacher We Grow him
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with the gu then
stown to our party, and if you ever utter a word of what you've syn tonight you'l
and the coffin was almost Day To it with Yok” ille. Get wished overboaru.
Aberdeen WALS Auched теби Saurer 11 Bway, but the December 24, but no hearse large following day he would not realit ersigh could be found. The winn Quier coffin of walnut had to be tid
Dun:breck Wood
foul the spot where
TERAVINĚ. At last through heavy 4 bern attacked. He now rnow and biting winds, the des, tination was reached.
Five days later the end was Jakt to rest in the new mortuary chapel which had just been cum-
pleted. The entrance WBB evered with our granite slabs and the spACES between were Vpn
filed withi
marlar
Obstinale and superstitious
villagers
con-
tinued to shake their
heads
Several months Inter
It
pointed
that there
#1 Basure
sunes.
was
oul
be
the
This
was filed in
with
und
cement
Iron rail-
unele di
Whs
thist vid a newly raised mound in the undergrowth. With ideas of lat, jer ti zastre, he went away. g with a pick, and began retur by fine up the volk.
11
unciumtre he a cpse, blanke Remen- Te FRENT the previous night, he hartily re- buried the body und fed,
3--1
thecula 12:0
10
ngs were elected as provection.
itcrived
Later, how- he wrote over,
the anonyms
letters to solicitors.
not
the
The police,
fully con- vinced
by the story. went Dunecht,
to At
greater midnight they surrounded the
sood and after the night's vigh
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CAN HYPNOTISM BE
USED IN CRIME?
One man has another in a hypnotic trance. He suggests that his 'victim' should steal, take part in a fraud, or even murder. Can he succeed?
YES
Says Dr Bellamy Hobson
ot complacency is shatter- ed a book* by an ex-
one running a bogus char- standing on a railway plat-
und
will in fact, be a ity,
make all his form, It perienced hypnotist, who is victims subscribe to it. Or river. He is to dive in and en- diving board and the track a also a barrister. It is an he could persuade someone joy it. Which is a very sty authoritative work, written to give him a high price idea, indeed. with the help of the Society for
In short, some worthless
Mr Cuddon's argu- pro-
ment is that it may be im- of
Research. perty. The possibilities for possible for a hypnotist to make Psychical While he agrees it is diffi- an ingenious confidence
you commit a crime, but he can said cult for a hypnotist to make trickster seem endless. generally
very enelly commit one against that hypnotist can- other people commit crimes,
am quite certain that
would he claims that it is perfect be quite possible for A
never allow myself to be hypno- person
be ly easy for him to commit hypnotist to commit murder used, unless for some medical and to get away with
under it, or scientific reason and be them himself.
This may seem incredible, the most stringent safeguards.
The danger but the trick is to persuade the victim to commit suicide.
T
is
make
{
ποι commit crime, Cruise people cannot hypnotised into doing some- thing they think wrong or
sinful.
Actually in France, 21 hypnotist called Professor Liegeois once demonstrated to the police several ways
Three months later Mr Yeats, began digging at daybreak. They of committing murder. He
the Crawfords' lawyer in Aber- deen, received a strange Jetter.
I was badly written and con- tand the Information: The
und the body of the carl.
Bogus fund
He can get money under false pretences quite easily. All he has to do is to sug-
debts.
Far worse, it appears to you. Having read this book
to
an
of 1852 The Hypnotism Act made, regulations about public Many people take sleep- displays of hypnotism es
ontertainment, but there seems, gest to the hypnotised vic- ing capsules in fact, just to be no restriction on its use tim that she owes him £100, the sort of people with in private, which is where the that she ought to pay her neurotic troubles who might danger lies.
This seems reason- go to a hypnotist. He can even made a girl fire a re able and she signs a cheque say "You always feel better offence
It might certainly be made an hypnotise Anyone volver she thought to be
except ini the presence of an you take your cap independient and responsible loaded at her own mother! at once. Then he impresses when
it on her that she will, for sules, but you don't take third partybu it Irded t However, psychiatristR
Tonight, take 20, book rightly it is not impossible agree that this was a uni- ever after, remember that enough.
for the third party himself the 10 will have que performance, and the it was a genuine debt.
There are many variations best sleep of your life." And the hypnotised, which is alarm-
Ing. ordinary hypnotist
A last thought: almost anyone Cause anyone to rob a bank or assassinate a bishop.
victlin might be a good swim- people. In fact, this book 'gives So no опе has worried
*liyphosis, ita meaning and mer and diver. He is told that, practical instructions how to do
BCL, pructive, by Eric Cuddon, MA 23, 1882, nearly' much about hypnotism as a
a time when he will be l Barristor-at-Law, B. Bell and Sons, cause of crime. But now Lid 1095 10%. ad.
ΠΟΥ
This tiny i was not re- terred in the crypt at Dunecht, but taken to the mausoleum be- remains of the late Earl of Craw- neath the Lindsay Chapel In ferd are not beweth the chape! Lancashilie.
Dunecht, hut were removed
police The
returned to last spring.
Foutar's story. They retuod in signed believe that he was not impli- cated in the outrage and he was Mr Youls nor it, but arrested end committed for trial, cxactly one year after the in- terment workmen
The
"Nabob."
11
jetter was
Dunecht
crypt had been disturbed,
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On October
reported that the all over the two years after the death of the Mr Yeats inmediately sent earl in Florence, Soutar appeared for the police and instructed before the High
them to examine the crypt.
Footprints
He burgh.
WGS
Court, Edin-
accused of broken in the crypt at
bay
House some timc
in the earth were beween April and September, found. So were verkous toula, spades and picks. It was seen 1881, breaking open the conles embalmed
thut the heavy outer slab over
Brad
removing
the
the entrance to the crypt had body. He pleaded not guilty. been moved out of position and propped up by a block of wood, The police removed the second slab and entered the crypt.
Here
a torrifying sight met
The court was crowded.
Wies mcises were called who testified that Soutar had been soen
ng around the estate for several weeks between April and May. their eyes. The three coffins stood Others, who had met him in pub
upended and they were empty.
houses,
testified
that Souter
cannot
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you
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this theme. He could be the last. in collusion with some- OT, Bayo Mr Cuddon. the can learn how to hypnotise
you cannot make an
NO
honest man go against his instinct
By the President of the Medical Hypnosis Association
-T
to on
re-
plate a railway station
und he will fuse. He knows that this may
He realises it is
is possible hypnotise a crook into form
something kill him. doing
The body of the earl had dieap-body missing fro the tomb." hypnotise
when intoxicated had spoken of criminal. It is possible to game no longer.
peared.
M
was Machray,
found, but he had not
a
餞
that who
of
& generous man Some time ago. Dr X, o col- The most important witness who would normally sub- league of mine who was carry-
the gamekeeper acribe to a charity to,
ing out experiments, Duggested in to a subject that he would open This apparently moliveless on whaso
information Soutor
to that his eyes and dake part in nutrage created more exelloment had been arrusted. He testiled fact, subscribe and sensation than this quiet part that on two occasions Souter charity, But, from my ex- crime.
The subject was told where the perience, it would not be pe Y was an evil fellow of the countryside had ever declared he knew known before.
missing body of the earl was to possible to hypnotise law- planned to kill, a number then inserted an be fou
into carrying people with deadly germs. advertisement in the local Press credited Soutar's story, Boutar, abiding man offoring £60 reward to the however, made further revela- out a crime.
'A mistakeʻ writer of the anonymous letter tions to him and was so em- Equally, it would be im-
It would be a wonderful deed, for more information.
phatic particularly when under possible to make him repay the subject was told, to get rid He received no reply, but the the influence of drink -- that
a debt if he did, in fact, not of such habeful Dr Y, Landon solicitore at the Crow Machray had got in touch with
doctor in charge owe the money.
of the ford family got the next com- the police. munication from "Nobo" In
Why? Because a person, even periment marked two pleces after bypnosis, will carry out sugar with a pencil, saying that poison. Later, (a) will not they contained There were no witnesses for only actions that
when the victim, Dr Y, arrived, herm himself or others, or be the subject, who was still in o trance, volunteered to make tea would normally have done.
end to put the marked sugar in Dr Y's cup.
in
it he declared that "the body of
the late Earl Crawford is still
of
in Aberdeenshire," but went on the defence. The speech by Mir
to explain that he dare not re Asher, the Solicitor-General, are not contrary to what
anything further as he was was merciless. There was no
yeal
ir danger of his life if the men shadow of doubt, be said, that
had removed the his purpose. Other body with the sole idee of ren-
Poison?
The
ex-
of
who committed the crime dia- the accused
Dr Y drank the tea and, of covered
Certainly the stage hypnotists course, nothing happened. Dr X rembling statements neverthe- mm. It was, therefore, 'ecceSSERY less convinced the solicitors that for his purpose that it should be eemed to make people do all called his subject helde and "Nabob" had important in- "discovered" as it by accident sorts of things they would not said there must have been some
formation to reveal
£600 NEWARD
Earl of Crawford and Baloarres contenood to five years' penal, would not polson himself or has been taken from the vault servitude,
many the case still re- To
по normally do. But what mistake. This time he took two by himself when it became would have happened it the capsules from box: marked They at once issued placards known that it had been
FO hypnotist had suggested that his classium Cyanide. announcing:
moved from the crypt
subject should' drink a glass of He then asked the subject to Despite the evidence against prison or Soutar the caso was by no means che al or give poison to some put them in the next cup of tea and Immediately the gubject conclusive, It came as a sur- The inawer is, that the 'mub- awoke from the trance. Whereas the body of the ixte prise to the public that he was Ject would have awakened. Ho He woke up
anyone "alse," not even if some As long as he was playing p at Dunboht, a reward of @100
apparently good - Fenson was, role he was willing to follow will be paid by Her Majesty's misimed a mystery. It was not glyen to film. Government and a further re, generally believed that the not
is is not generally walled gations. He know very well the lumps of augu did not of 2800 will be paid by foo Intelligent poacher could that people all think under contain polson. However, the Aleop, Mann & Co. cry out such a plot. The mas hypnoel This means they will posiblilty that there might be Solicitors, to any, permaneno sive granite sabe could not have
no further.
him out of the trance state, age who shall first give such informe boen removed by one man alone, Buy the hypnotist's so far cyanide in the capsules brought tion shall lead to the dis- Thore were whispers that he had a man on due amis could be prin fact, infike Mr. Eric: Cud covery and conviction of the been employed by some highly, told, that he. My on a diving don, I should; mor that se for de perpetrator of the offences and placed individual whore send him to do the would not pegg the Home Søorstały will advise won, záver revétled,
mone thing when he is wounding.
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