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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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In Baltimore, Judge Joseph Sherbow cleared WWII veteran Wilbur Shattuck of stealing a radio, attributing it to war flashbacks. Hypnotism at a VA hospital cured his condition, as testified by Dr. Jacob H. Conn, allowing him to return to work.
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BALTIMORE, (AP)—A judge decided that hypnotism has brought Wilbur Shattuck's mind back to America and 1948, after a series of lapses in which the veteran thought he was still fighting Japs in the South Pacific.
Shattuck was also cleared of charges that he stole a radio from his boss last fall. Psychiatrists said he believed he was carrying an ammunition case—about the same size as the radio—to his besieged buddies on Bougainville Island.
Judge Joseph Sherbow was told how Shattuck stumbled over imaginary underbrush and slapped at imaginary flies while under the influence of hypnosis at a Veterans Administration hospital here.
Dr. Jacob H. Conn, court staff member assigned to the Shattuck case last December, told how he watched the sweating veteran relive the horrors of war, and describe the death of a mortar squad while he berated himself for not bringing ammunition.
Yesterday Dr. Conn announced: "He is now completely cured, your honor. He is now ready to return to work."
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Baltimore
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1948
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cleared of theft charges; completely cured and ready to return to work
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Veteran Wilbur Shattuck experienced war flashbacks believing he was fighting in the South Pacific; under hypnosis at Veterans Administration hospital, he relived combat horrors including the death of a mortar squad; psychiatrists determined he mistook a radio for an ammunition case during a flashback last fall