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Show I ROYSCOTT NOT " II Deeds Due to fata! IB . Malady. III Boy Who Cut Two Giris Is ID Committed to the IB Asylum. HB "Feeling" Against tlio Lad Has Given HH Array to Sympathy for Him NJ and His Parents. IB T&oy Ecott was committed to the Stato HBH asylum for tho lnsano yesterday morn- HjWj ing. District Judgo Hall was on tha Blij bench. Doctors Snyder and Odell con- Hll ctitutod tho examining board. Scott's own lift testimony was an Intelligent diagnosis of HM his case. It was corroborated in a more IB detailed and moro scientific manner by lllfl Dr. Ewlng, who had treated him for nor-vouflness. nor-vouflness. Chief of Police Lynch took tho llll boy to 1rovo ,ast evcnlnc-. llij Described His Feelings. ill Roy Scott did his best to explain Just jj what ailed him. Ho described the un- ( controllable Impulse which seized him at MEm times, and told of his own nervous affllc- II tlon. Ho told how he hnd cut both Mary jt Burton and Elsie Gallacher and how ho fflj felt. Tho examining physicians then lls- fj tened to testimony from members of tho 11 family and friends and from Dr. Ewlng. mmh This was to the effect that tho boy had II! always been Intensely nervous and hys- Tho commitment was then mado out. i Scott's own diagnosis of his caso as mon- 1 if omanla was sustained by tho doctors. I ft Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott, parents of Kill the boy, have the sympathy of tho en- nJ tire community All tho rago which was HH aroused when It was first learned that f t! the man who did the cutting on Main If !( street had been captured, has given way nf to feelings of pity, as It has been made Hlf dear that mental affliction was tho Ell i cause, and as it has been shown how tho IMJ i.rfortunate boy tried to fight down the munla which he knew had seized him. St! Hope for a Cure. Hi Hoy Scott was well reared and kindly IftU cared for. Ho was sent to school and his HNS parents did all they could to steady tho Hn) nerves which they knew wcro unstrung, luff They liad. however, never dreamed of tho Hill ,c'nl mature of the trouble nor had the IMgj doctors who attended him, apparently. It Mil Is considered by physicians as altogether BUM probable that the boy can In tho courso HHO of t,mc completely cured. liVM The commission to the State hospital liCl for tno Insane, of course, puts a ston to IrvM ,iny erlminal proceedings against the boy. ll'M Friends and the family now look forward lM 10 tnc t,mc '1C will emerge, free from tho IHl malady which resulted In this unfortu- III nate episode In his young life. |