"SPLIT PERSONALITY"
The novel defence of “ infantile fixation and split personality ” is expected to be the plea of Velma West, a debutante and bride of eighteen months, who has confessed to slaying her husband with a hammer because he slapped her face. The Wests were prominent in East Cleveland (Ohio) society, and lived in Perry, a village of a few hundred inhabitants. The defence is expected to urge that the inhabitants of small town life had a maddening effect upon this city girl, whose smoking of cigarettesj drinking, and playing cards were criticised by all her neighbors. Velma confessed that she battered her husband’s head with a large hammer and tied him hand and foot. Then she changed into a smart afternoon frock, motored to friends in East Cleveland, and calmly played bridge until late at night.
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Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 3
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137"SPLIT PERSONALITY" Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 3
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