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month." Q. "What time is it?" A. "Don't know." Q. "Where did you come from?" A. "Leavenworth." Q. "Who brought you here?" A. "Bunch of cut-throats, Sons of ---- tried to starve me to death all the way down." Q. "How long were you in coming?" A. "Don't know." Q. "When did you come?" A. "Don't know what time it was." Q. "What is the name of this place?" A. "Don't know." Q. "Where is it?" A. "On an island, I guess, some damn thing across the river." Q. "What sort of a place is this?" A. "Mad-house." Q. "Who are these people about you?" A. "Here to murder me." Q. "Is there anything wrong with them?" A. "Nothing but black-hands anarchists." Q. "Who am I?" A. "J. S." (correct) Q. "Why do you suppose I am asking you all these questions?" A. "Don't know." Q. "Why were you sent here?" A. "To be dumped off, I guess." Q. "How do you feel?" A. "Pretty bad this morning, my head hurts me." Q. "Are you sad or happy?" A. "Neither one." Q. "Are you worried about something?" A. "Why, sure I am." Q. "Did anything strange happen to you for which you can't give yourself an account?" A. "No." Q. "Do you hear voices talking to you?" A. "Yes, hear you talking to me now." Q. "Do you see any strange things?" A. "No." Q. "Do you ever have fits or convulsions?" A. "No." Q. "Did you ever try to commit suicide?" A. "No." Q. "Is there anybody trying to harm you in any way?" A. "Yes, those black-hands anarchists." Q. "How much money are you worth?" A. "Nothing." The foregoing two cases are representative of a group which unquestionably forms the most difficult part in the problem of caring for the insane criminals. Here we have a couple of individuals whose entire psychotic manifestations, if such they may be considered, consist of a most wild and vicious rebellion against imprisonment. They are individuals who cannot be kept under any prescribed mode of living, and when this is insisted upon, they react to it in an insane manner. Bonhoeffer justly termed them "wild men", for wild indeed they are when in one of their tantrums. The question arises, "Wherein lies the cause of this rebellion against discipline?" It certainly cannot be wholly attributed to the environment, for these individuals behave in a similar manner even when removed to t
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