TRAGIC PRACTICAL “JOKE”
GIRL DRIVEN INSANE
Paris, October 3
The tragic story of a practical “joke,” which caused a girl to lose her reason, is told by the Strasbourg correspondent of Le Matin. A party of young medical students travelling from Leipzig to Halle noticed a girl travelling alone in a compartment, and by way of a joke decided to frighten her. One of them, therefore, took a human skull from his baggage, and, fixing it on the end of a walking stick, suddenly thrust it into the girl’s face as she sat reading.
The shock proved too much for the girl, for with a scream of terror she fell fainting to the floor, and when she recovered consciousness was found to be insane. Despite all efforts to calm her, her symptoms grew more violent, and before the train reached its destination she was a raving lunatic. The perpetrators of this ill-conceived “joke” have been arrested.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3704, 15 October 1927, Page 2
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156TRAGIC PRACTICAL “JOKE” Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3704, 15 October 1927, Page 2
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