When slight, pale, soft-spoken (Charles M. Welsford, 16-year-old pre-medical student, is haled before the King's Bench this month to answer to a charge of murdering his father, it is expected that- he will enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
According to police, who admit they are baffled as to why the #model son" should have slain his business man father, the youth feels he has been under the influence of demoniac forces for many months—influences which made him leave his bed in the middle of the night to rob again and again.
He has talked' at length with police. For hours on end he has regaled them with weird stories of tthe supernatural powers that haunt his existence, taking him from his home in a trance, later perhaps to leave him in the middle of the city, his arms laden with articles whose Source he asserts he hasn't the least idea.
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