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New Form Of Temporary Insanity

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Actor Ludwig, of Berlín, played In a Cologne theater the part of a proseeuting attorney who, in a state of aberratlon of mlnd, carries out a burglary. This was a play by Lindau, entltled "The Other." The actor, after the curtaln had fallen, went home, and on the way broke into a jewelry store and carried off a mess of jewelry In exactly the same manner In which the burglary Is presented In the play. The courts pronounced the actor ïiot gullty, holding that he had acted under an lmperatlve conception which temporarily had deranged his mind. The prosecutor appealed, but higher courts sustalned the decisión of the lower court.

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Ann Arbor Register