SINGULAR MANIA.
— « „ WANTED TO DO MENIAL WORK A young man was taken into custody in Vienna who 'had made himself conspicuous by his singular behaviour. Every day for some weeks he had stood near the- entrance of a public school waiting for tie schoolboys to emerge from the building. >y ( When they came out he produced a small brush; and blacking and blacked every boy's shoes. The 'boys reported; their experience to their teacher, who caused the arrest of the man. The poor fellow, who is a- student of the technical institute, is moved by an irresistible impulse to perform all sorts of menial services. He !has been placed in a lunatic asylum.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7583, 23 December 1902, Page 2
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