PRETENDED INSANITY
A PRISONER'S DECLARATION
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(AUSTRALIAN-XEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 7th April. The "Daily Chronicle's" Paris correspondent states that after feigning insanity and dumbness for twelve months, a prisoner named Castellent, accused of robbery with violence, broke his silence when he was sentenced at the Shone assizes to 15 years' imprisonment. Castellent declared that lie ihad been pretending insanity, hoping to escape punishment. As he had not succeeded hi wished to admit that he was not mad. Three of his companions were the real culprits, and he and another accused were innocent.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 9 April 1924, Page 5
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96PRETENDED INSANITY Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 9 April 1924, Page 5
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