HOW A MALINGERER WAS ROUSED.
HE COULDN'T STAND THE SHOCK !
Received, September 19,10,50 a.m. Melbourne, September 19.
Abrahams' malingering was discovered by means of an electric battery. He lay completely supine with his eyes closod and had to bo fed.
The prisoner never spoke and the doctors reported that stupor web the result of shock and that it was impossible to cure him if ho remained in the gaol environment. Prison Doctor Shields boliovius; the prisoner to bo shamming, applied the battery, Abrabainsstoodthefirstsliockvory woll, but when tho charge increased ho showed signs of distress, aud tho doctor told him if ho would admit he waß shamming lie would stop tho current. Tho prisoner admitted he was malingering though hostillrefusod to move or feed himself. Further threats of battery, bowever made him talk, eat, aud walk about the room. Probably a similar euro will bo tried with Louis Abrahams whois still in a like condition, from which his brother was restored. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, Emind September 19,10 AO 11,111, St, PnußsßEite, September 18, The Czar Ims decreed tho formation of a Council to devise means for providing employment for the holiest poor. ViiiXXA, September 18. In the municipal elections the Anti-Scmikes have secured an overwhelming victory over the Liberals,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5134, 19 September 1895, Page 2
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207HOW A MALINGERER WAS ROUSED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5134, 19 September 1895, Page 2
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