HUMAN CLOTHES PEG.
. An instance of malingering which few people wfll find, credible was gravely narrated by a doctor In the Berlin criminal courts last month, during a trial for theft The defence in toe cose under consideration urged that the accused was of unsound mind, as he was so completely lacking in sensibility thrit whea in prison be amused himself by driviig needles into various parts of his own body. Dr.-Hoffmann, who was;'called-as an expert, retorted that this was but a mild example of malingering, and mentioned a case of one Kabell, who, to ! order to persuade his gaoiers of his ln- | sanity, hammered a nafl Into his own forebead with a chair leg, and tbcn buna; one [fit hja garments on jr.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 153, 27 June 1908, Page 15
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124HUMAN CLOTHES PEG. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 153, 27 June 1908, Page 15
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