PYROMANIACS
As there are contain persons, known as Kleptomanics, who have such an alfection for the property of other persons that they cannot resist the temptation to appropriate it to themselves whenever opportunity oilers, so there are others who revol in conflagrations.
Occasionally this desire to see things burn becomes an uncontrollable passion and the person then a dangerous incendiary. Sometime ago a man was captured and tried in London on a charge | of arson, when it M’as developed in the ; course of his trial that he had been in the : habit of setting fire to buildings for the I pleasure of seeing them burn and parj ticipating in the attendant excitement. Ho M’as pronouneod a pyromanic, and | consigned to a lunatic asylum.
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