CRIME BY SUGGESTION.
M. Briand, late l’remior of Franco, at the session of the Legal fcloeiety of Medicine recently took up the problem of the employment cf mental weaklings to commit crimes, lie said : “These persons, when arrested, immediately show irresponsibility and are certain of acquittal. Their employers make sure by suggestion and threats that the unfortunates will not denounce them.” * M. Briand cited a dozen such cases recently submitted to his judgment. Among them were several girls of low intelligence who robbed for men employers, also a soldier who had committed a serio s of outrages against his superiors at the suggestion of a group of anarchists.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3583, 7 March 1914, Page 5
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108CRIME BY SUGGESTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3583, 7 March 1914, Page 5
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