BENEFACTOR ROBBED.
" NEURASTHENIA HUMBUG." James Wilcox, aged 31, who was stated to be a clerk, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to six month's imprisonment at Clerkenwoll, lately, for stealing clothes, a gramophone, and silver fruit knives from Dr. Watson, at Hampstead. The doctor said Wilcox came to him as a panel patient originally, and, pitying him because he was out of work, he was given work about the premises. This was on October 17. On December 21 the doctor went away for a fortnight, and came back to find how he had been plundered. Wilcox, who had. lost his left hand in an accident, said he suffered from neurasthenia. The magistrate: " Neurasthenia is all humbug." The man's wife, who was in court, fell in a faint on hearing the sentence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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