Show MAN FOUND SANE Erratic Actions Due to the Combined Effect of Dope and Abscess in Ear EarI I Charles Applegate the colored man arrested by Detective Shannon for picking pebbles from the streets be because because because cause he thought they were diamonds was examined before Judge Armstrong for his sanity yesterday afternoon It was decided that he was wa not insane but that he should be sent to a hos hospital hospital pital and operated on for an abscess In his right ear which seems to have caused his mental trouble He will be kept in the county jail until arrange arrangements arrangements arrangements ments can be made by the authorities Applegate told a strange story to Judge Armstrong He said that for the past 18 years ears he has been bothered with a constant pain in his head due to this abscess and that In order to find relief he had become addicted to the use us of cocaine and morphine When I gets that stuff in me m I swear I dont know what Is ls doing he explained to the judge His story was told in a rational way and Drs Raley Haley and Calderwood declared that he was not insane Applegate said that he was born in Tennessee and has been roaming reaming all allover allover allover over the world for the past twenty years For a long time before com corn coming comIng corning ing here he lie was vas employed on one of the Pacific Mali Mail company steamers plying San Francisco and Sitka Alaska |