Show veteran still lives battle Ex experiences perien ces psychiatrist reports theft was made under delusion BALTIMORE an unnerved war veteran was treed freed on a burglary y charge when a court psychiatrist re ported he broke into a shop and stole a radio under the delusion he was getting ammunition for his bud dies dr jacob H conn testified wilbur shattuck s anxiety hysteria was confirmed twice through examina tion after he had been hypnotized and again under the influences of a truth serum 0 the 32 year old veteran of the bougainville bougainvillea Bou gainville campaign Is under treatment at a veterans hospital here dr conn reported that under hyp shattuck writhed around slapping at flies and mosquitoes muttered vines vines and talked about comrades blown to pieces in the next fox hole one of the examining psychia krists mentioned a truck they need ammo I 1 took a truck got ammo amino dr conn quoted shattuck the psychiatrist said the hypnosis examination produced one sequence in which shattuck described how he slit a jap s throat in a struggle at a sentry post there was another in which a comrade was staked to an ant hill another in which he described how japs had cut a finger from an amer lean ican captive captives s hand each day and finally his ears and tongue the specialist conceded that pa rients under hypnotic examination may sometimes exaggerate he said further tests using truth serum and other evidence convinced him the diagnosis is correct in this case he attacked his wife and crawled under the bed thinking the japs had him dr conn reported everything indicates it was a valid authentic hypnotic experience which is not being imitated it is a very complex psychological lem of an emotional unstable vet eran who has not been able to digest his war experiences |