SHAMMING LEADS TO MADNESS.
• 'i: —• • At the Norwich Assizes on January 23 Mr Justice Wills had before him a prisoner named Ruffles, charged with housebreaking, -whose case had been remitted from the Assizes "of July in consequence of a difference of opinion by medical witnesses as to the state of the man’s mind. The prison surgeon was of opinion that the prisoner was insane, while the" superintendent of the County Lunatic Asylum thought he was only shamming. The superintendent now expressed the belief that Ruffles was insane. At the previous Assizes he was undoubtedly malingering, but by reason of long shamming the prisoner had, said the witness, acquired the form of insanity he had been trying to imitate. Mr Justice Wills ordered Ruffles to be detained during Her Majesty’s pleasure.
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Evening Star, Issue 10882, 16 March 1899, Page 4
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130SHAMMING LEADS TO MADNESS. Evening Star, Issue 10882, 16 March 1899, Page 4
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