SLEEPY SICKNESS DEFENCE
BAG-SNATCHING TRAGEDY. William Arthur Day, 43, a wireless operator, who was wrecked off the coast of Labrador and suffered great privations which resulted in his developing sleepy sickness, was found
guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, at the Winchester Assizes recently, of the manslaughter of Martha Grace Beer, S 3, in a park at Dor-1 Chester. | It was alleged that Day snatched the woman’s handbag, knocking her
down, and that she died from a fractured skull. Dr J. A. Pridham. said that Day I suffered from sleepy sickness, and he I was of opinion that he was of unsound > mind at the time the act was committed. I Dr Greenham, pf Brixton Prison, said sleepy sickness was a disease which led to impulsive actions. ' Mr Maitland Walker,. prosecuting, said that Day was Willing to gO- tO a mental home as a voluntary patient. Mr Justice du Parcq bound Day over, a condition being that he should enter the City of London Mental Hospital.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 January 1934, Page 6
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