SAME OR INSANE?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 240, 19 March 1915, Page 5

SAME OR INSANE?

VV7//A.K FOR Till': .JURY. TilK UKRMAXX CASE COXCLUnF.n. 3y CaMc---eiv-:s Association —Copyright. Tioceied March IS. U.!T> p.m. Sydney, March IS. "Die llei'manu case, cm charces of fraud, was continued to-day. The medical superintendent at C'aliampark Asylum, win-re Hermann slaved for three week?, pavi! evidence that he had come to the, conclusion that .1 Icrnv,inn's delusions were not Genuine. 11° was a sane man. and not an epileptic. Counsel for the defence, addressing the jury, said that on the evidence lie cool,! not a sic for an onfrient acquittal, lint a°ked for a verdlet of not ::m':!!v on the "rounds of in! erniil tent insanity addins': "If ever I have heard a eoi'po-de-'; piece of stupidii \\ it is lliis, a man forjiiier for the fun of the, thina'. and leaving the footprints with a certainty of detection." ('oun-e] for the Crown contended that (lie careful and systematic acts inolved in .the case were those of a sane man. Xo saner acts were ever shown. Received March 10. 1.25 a.m. Wvdney. Afareh IS. The Jury found Hermann not .gnilty of forircrv, hut guilty of uttering, and stroimlv reeoinnicnded him to mercy on account of being a victim of intermittent, epileffsy. Sentence was deferred.