"Hypnotism as a Defence; The Singular Murder Case Just Concluded in Kansas. DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT Story of the Case in Which the Actual Murderer Was Acquitted and the Hypnotizer Convicted" (1895)

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"TOPEKA, Kan., April 7. -- The decision rendered by the Supreme Court yesterday, sustaining the ruling of the Cowley County District Court, which convicted Anderson Gray of the murder of Thomas Patton, although Thomas McDonald acknowledged to having committed the deed, closes one of the most extraordinary cases ever brought before a court of justice, and for the first time admits that hypnotism is a defense for murder."