MALINGERING.
An instance of malingering which few people will find credible was gravely narrated by a doctor in the Berlin criminal courts last month, during a trial for theft. The defence in the case under consideration urged that the accused was of unsound mind, as he was so completely lacking in sensibility that when in prison he amused himself by driving needles into various parts of his own body. Dr. Hoffmann, who was called as an expert, retorted that this was but a mild example of malingering, and mentioned a case of one Kabell, who, in order to persuade his gaolers of his insanity, hammered a nail into his own forehead with a chair leg, and then hung one of his garments on it.
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Waipukurau Press, Issue 278, 4 July 1908, Page 7
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124MALINGERING. Waipukurau Press, Issue 278, 4 July 1908, Page 7
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