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Show ! ... .. . 1 ' i i -i - i .... . sl. ........ Rcnartablc Ccnfcssioa bj Charles Sf:aplrc, c2 Trial fcr - Murder la Hc7 York. - , and upon retrial vai convicted and sentenced sen-tenced to eight years in Singr Sing. Isaac Michelson, who killed Martin Shepard, his business partner, and -was one of Shapiro's pupils, was also sent to Matteawan asylum. He also was found to have been shamming and was sent to Singr Sing: prison Also for eight years on a plea of guilty. NEW YORK. April 1. Charles Cha-plro, Cha-plro, under indictment for murder, made the remarkable admission, when arraigned today for his second trial that he had been shamming Insanity for five years and had deceived local physicians physi-cians as well as the physicians of the Matteawan Insane asylum. When Shapiro was first taken to the Tombs he began acting queerly and be has confessed to the directors, a lawyer and physician whose names have been given to District Attorney Jerome for investigation. So well did he simulate insanity that a lunacy commission adjudged him insane in-sane after his indictment and be was sent to Matteawan asylum. ' At his request another commission examined him. He was declared sane |