X-RAY TEST FOR SANITY
MURDERER’S PLEA / LONDON, September 25. At the Old Bailey yesterday Frederick Sorensen, a Danish labourer, was found guilty of the murder of Minnie Barry at Rundell-road, Paddington, and sentenced to dea.tli,. The woman was found strangled and with a wound on the head.
Mr. Francis Peregrine, for the defence, submitted that Sorensen had poisonous bacteria in his head and was insane.
Sorensen was defended as a poor person, and leave had been given by the Home Secretary for him to be liberated from prison and X-rayed by a Harley-street specialist. Dr. Seymour Cochrane. Shanks, a radiologist, said that he X-raycd Sorensen and found that ho had chronic mastoiditis—-inflammation of the bone behind the ehr at the base of the skull. Mr. Peregrine: Radiologoy is com- . inonly employed nowadays in the investigation of mental disease?—Yes.
Replying to Mr. Eustace Fulton, pro scenting, the doctor agreed that disease of the mastoid bone was common, and he did not suggest that overyono who had it was insane.
Other medical evidence was given
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1933, Page 4
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