Murder Test to Save Life
Persons making false confessions of murder should be medically examined by.a trained psychiatrist (student of mental diseases) to avoid other people being murdered. This suggestion was oll’crcd by Dr. Cliffod Allen, of Harley street, London, in a letter to the Lancet. He writes: “1 understand that the murderer of a woman in a Olapham flat has had his appeal dismissed, and as this matter is no longer sub judiee it is permissible to draw attention to a fact ‘This man made a confession of having committed another murder three years ago but was acquitted. This acting a phantasy of murder indicates the future murderer, but it is treated by the judicial authorities with olfhandedness. “This is by no means the first case in which a murderer has made a fatso confession and has had it disregarded by the police, but has proceeded to commit a real murder.'
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 211, 7 September 1936, Page 12
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152Murder Test to Save Life Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 211, 7 September 1936, Page 12
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