FEIGNED MADNESS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144131, 28 June 1913, Page 3

FEIGNED MADNESS.

GERMAN' PRISONER’S RUSE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received June 28, 9 a.m.) BERLIN, Juno 27. The policeman Jaenicke, who was involved in a charge of betraying German naval secrets to Britain last year, and was committed to an asylum owing to his having gone mad, has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. The doctors of the asylum have concluded that he was exceptionally accomplished in the art of simulating madness. Their suspicions were first aroused by Jaenioke running to the window on hearing the cry “A Zeppelin airship,” though he had previously feigned deafness. Jaenicke was a man of Herculean proportions, and was brought into court heavily chained and tried in secret.