Financial Insanity by Christian Advocate

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 3, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 27.

"Financial Insanity."

By Christian Advocate

An ex-"prosperous business man" of Massachusetts was tried in the United States Court on the charge of criminally concealing his assets from his trustee in bankruptcy. Insanity "experts" claim that he was affected with a "mania for spending money, and that he had no idea where it went." His counsel set up the plea that he suffered from "financial insanity," and the jury acquitted him. Whereupon the District Attorney moved that the accused be committed to an asylum. But the court denied the motion, on the ground that "the defendant was not legally insane." It bodes no good when the courts of justice become a laughing-stock; but they will soon become so, unless there is a general reformation concerning modes of trial, order in the courts, and the morale of juries, as well as the rectification of the laws where they are full of holes for criminals.—Christian Advocate.