POSED AS DOCTOR
“CIENCE TEACHER FINED £SO ‘DUAL PERSONALITY” (From a Correspondent) SYDNEY, August 14 Pleading guilty at the Central >olice Court today to a charge of ;aving used the name of Dr. Frank!
Cahill, of Melbourne, William Williams, 23, declared that following terms of unemployment a dual personality “seems to cloud my normal mind and I am then someone else.” ne was lined £SO on the charge I and a further £SO on a breach of re- j connaissance. The police stated that the defend- ! ant had been twice convicted for a ; similar offence. Williams said he was a science and mathematics teacher and he had no ; criminal intent. i 1
Detective-Sergeant Gordon said that the police had received a complaint that Williams had told a woman he was a Dr. Cahill, of St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, and could extricate an appendix in 27 | seconds.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 10
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146POSED AS DOCTOR Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 10
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