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Off to Sleep with a Click of the Fingers
The amazing hypnotic powers of the Great Riccardo were fully demonstrated in Nelson last month when subjects drawn from the audience performed ail sorts of gyrations at the hypnotic bequest of Riccardo. In one act he put his assistant, Mel Rogers, to sleep, with instructions to pinpoint the whereabouts of the escaped payroll thief, Nash, Mel was later seen in the window of Buxtons, dead to the world, by hundreds of people. Later Mel detailed where Nash was hiding and his movements, but as we go to press he is still at large.
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