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Show THE CRIME OF A MANIAC. nurrihta Murdar In thn Northurn Ittlnoia Insane HoipHal. Ei.nin, HI., July I . A horrible crime, for which tho author will not sulTor, occurred at the Northern Illinois Iusaue hospital here yesterday. Fireman Fire-man George Lindsay had for a helper John Auderson. a quiet pationt. They were in the coal house, no others being present, and the lunatic, poss'-s-sed with a sudden madness, kiiled Lindsay with a heavy hammer, being caught in tho act of 'thrusting the unconscious, dying niau into the furnace. Anderson is a man uf 45. whose mania is of a religious nature, and it is six years since lie came from Kockford. Ho had never show 11 homicidal tendencies. tenden-cies. The coroner's vervict holds nobody no-body guilty of blame. |