:18:03
We'd be grateful if the doctor himself
would answer the question.
:18:08
Mr Vogler is deprived
of the gift of speech.
:18:13
He is dumb, gentlemen.
:18:17
Perhaps Mr Aman
is also deprived of the gift of speech?
:18:23
- I haven't heard you say anything.
- I haven't been asked, Commissioner.
:18:29
- You undertake magical seances?
- We haven't claimed that.
:18:34
- Your friend, Mr Tubal...
- We use devices, mirrors, projections.
:18:38
- It's simple and perfectly harmless.
- Another question...
:18:41
- Mr Vogler cures illnesses?
- We haven't said that.
:18:46
Mr Vogler recently, using
another name, toured Denmark.
:18:50
He made an appearance as a doctor
and received patients in inns.
:18:54
"Patients were magnetised according
to Mesmer's principles in a dim room."
:19:00
"This resulted in quaking and nervous
attacks of various types."
:19:04
"Some fainted."
:19:07
Why do you ask
what you already know?
:19:10
There seems to be a remarkable
division in Mr Vogler's activities.
:19:15
- What do you mean?
- There's the idealistic Dr Vogler...
:19:20
...who practices medicine according
to Mesmer's doubtful methods.
:19:25
Then there's the less tasteful notion
of Vogler the conjuror -
:19:29
- who performs all sorts of hocus
pocus from homemade formulas.
:19:34
If I understand it, Vogler's activities
range without scruples -
:19:38
- between these two... extremes.
:19:41
Tell me. Do you consider
you possess supernatural powers?
:19:46
This incomprehensible interrogation
is hurtful to both parties.
:19:51
- Hold us if we've acted illegally...
- That's what we intend to find out.
:19:57
- Forgive me, I didn't know.
- Sit down, my dear child.