The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-24
|Ec1oUs ROGUE.
EXCEEDINGLY CLEVER
.ass lpILepTlc FITS

= c.r.lsll, watched ,,. BY %.,, ~.
Long r'"s--T'''''' D'''-'
simple Manner
Stafford Newton tells s.. an
per' s.a SsD Of an impostor who
s stoned epilepsy for a great r.
v ,s's' in spite Of the .t faG'
\ watched by the most Skill
ogists. Ito fits forms q
2 isiS - the education of many
par p Europe ur and America .,,,, In
ID Ut Il has been successfully
wnsl Great many years and is
|, ~ the the police, the feign nIl'
= i = called al. throwing of hts,
= oSucking. 1t is invariably
,Srees, after this formula
;soutlv friends, are walk
~, ss, street., when suddenly o. one
s sTv in an epileptic fit. The
I a,,1 sick man pretends TO Dc
rne sS and gives all Of his at
C tho res s Naturally al,
w s.Ord gathers around. The
I lifts pocketbooks and watch
Pkes off with them
Is one man whose career , as a
= epilepsy T is most remarkable.
- name was Craig, and my
,oaaa Of him was when l was
, w;,h the Whitechapel Road
E0ital. the biggest hospital IN
III had been noticed that
Craig fell in a fit in the streets
reports were sent i'll to the
money and jewelry lost. he
Than suspected and was sent
hospital, both to be treated and
jched This man was q perfect
he was so we'll up in his act
sbough he was most carefully
be escaped detection. BE was
i man, but perhaps his pals
n the London police had too
re on their movements. At
Craig was next heard of in
The old formula was repeated.
fits. and valuables stolen were
d the police. He was shifted
Om hospital to hospital, and a
atch was kept upon him, both
HAS in one of these fits and in
pf their intermission.
began to think that a coup de
HAS necessary to save his repu-
Q was at this time confined IN
and was in one Of the upper
the front part of the building.
re doors that opened out on q
This balcony was 3S feet from
ID, and at its base there was q
E pavement. Epileptics are us
bill, stupid sort of people, even
bin fits, and Craig feigned this
aswell as the other symptoms
Eease. He was allowed to wan
the hospital pretty much az
ID, and every once in awhile
would fall in q fit. The doctor!
discovered his fraud, but Craig
than uneasy at the way he wa
bnd suspected. One morning hi
BIN his chair, and, with a daze(
look, at the same time puttins
up to his head, he staggered
be balcony and tumbled owe
1-down, down, the full 80 fee
stone pavement below. Whei
licked up, it was found that on
lists was broken and that he wa
hurt, though, wonderful Il
eriously. OF course this settled
nds Of the doctors the doub
previously existed as TO whethe
fraud or not. The thing work
as Craig had planned that i
nd in course Of time he wa
ID as a true but incurable cpl
Once again on the outside, h
pccessfully the old game of fit
et picking in threes.
more be was taken up and sen
kpltal. Here a young doctor Sc
Plf the task Of watching thi
que. He had every symptom
d roth at the mouth, bloc
Feam from his tongue that b
n In his commissions, and Their
olhlng wanting in real epiler
this young doctor kept hi
patience had its reward.
day, just as Craig was goin
nepreliminaries before fallin
Eing dazed, the slowly attemp,
NJ OH the coming spasms. tn
Oh the hands-the young dot
was watching him observe
cad OF closing the hands wit
over the thumbs, as woul
.ne case necessarily in tru
-ior the thumb, having th
uscle' must feel the contrac'
nrst-Craig shut his hant
nngers on the inside of I'll
Inc doctor gave him a gent
- sue and said: 'That'Il d,
Ve caught you. You are a FRAUD
0ne your tricks we'll and for
out your time is up. If yo
true epileptic or just a lit,
y N J medicine, you would ha,
hngers over the thumbs
y, single protest Craig straigh
'ua said, We'll, l knew it W,
come some time. >"
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Anown, had been SO write
medical journals of both e,
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