OBSESSED BY KNIVES
YOUTH'S AMAZING ACTION Stated to have an "ohscssion in knives amounting to psycho-neurosis," Albert James Thomas Tuitt, aged IS, of Southall, was at "Oxbridge sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the sectnd division for causing grievous bodily harm to Elsie Gertrude Moore, of Hayes. Middlesex, by cutting her cheek with a knife. Miss Moore explained that Tuitt showed her a dagger he had made, and she asked to take it home to show her relatives. He handed it to her. but said that if she took it home she would "have to look out first thing in the morning." Next day when she returned the dagger to him at the Hayes factory, where they worked, he pulled out another knife and slashed her cheek. , According to a psychologist's report, Tuitt was of superior intelligence, but his obsession required treatment. It was stated that ho would receive the treatment in prison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)
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