Deseret Evening News | 1907-07-01 | Page 2 | Psychic Epilepsy as an Excuse for Crime

PSYCHIC EPILEPSY AS ASAN S SAN AN EXCUSE FOR FO CRIME New York July Jul 1 Inquiry among e In III mental diseases dIscuses discloses IHl elIBe that psychic epilepsy which Dr Kl El biter mr offered M tv I 11 plea idea to ex e eUK ruse UK on till thin tho other day n plea which II of the lie at torney assistant alKI but bill bid was accepted by b tile the Justices JuslIN or iii I special session hay long K boon been recognized Bald b lt physicians The feature etc tIre of t the tile afflic affliction tion rion Is Lu that Its are arc prone phone to com corn commit commit mit acts of at violence front from sun Him plo assault to murder r While lIlle hitte agree that thai they th alp ale ai a to 10 the community colIc It I I and a lid C to iu become po tt of ut a 1 homicidal main no beau lly it expert Is willing to have himself I as liS tile the forced 1 incarceration of or those thoMe who vito surfer front from thu the disease disca lIt An All Ac of oC If the Ito of ot this thin lIll C un cia inter citing of or tho till many cases capo II of and 1111 thit loss loSI of or and lost t Identity that havo hD been reported In re ro recent cent cen t years C rs nay fill lId however lint t It must h II remembered that thai Imposture lulo IH Is com coin common mon enough and a many tI to t o linx hu who iho cite aro not 1101 Im ml lo of o Ihl curt wort IH hi I vr ery ry Iy of at Numerous Nil me lile record recorded ed oil by hy h various author upon medical let where the tice deception II has J kept kent up tot for some settle years yearn Such Im irn Impostors posters are re known among Amon medical Ino cx ox ports and to the Ib aa ces dummy rl