BOY’S RUSE TO GAIN SYMPATHY
THREE TIMES CERTIFIED AS DEAD LONDON. February 25. The mother of a 14-year-old boy charged with theft in South London said that the doctors had thrice certified the boy as dead. He had suffered from fits for years and could go off in a fit at will in order to gain sympathy. Sometimes the fits lasted 48 hours and he recovered hours after he had been left for dead.
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Southland Times, Issue 23445, 28 February 1938, Page 5
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