Show WHO CAN TELL 1 Who can tell when sanity in a human brain leaves off and insanity begins 1 Judge Ulrich was an honored member of the New Tersey Jersey bar and stood high in inthe inthe inthe the Masonic circles as well as in the Knights of Pythias Pythia Ten years ago after a n nervous and mental mental men men- tal breakdown his family had him sent to the state hospital for the insane in Morris Plains and he has been confined there ten years On Lincoln's birthday birthday birthday birth birth- day which was being celebrated at the hospital Judge Ulrich made a speech and it so impressed the manager of the hospital and all the officials of the institution that they turned him out No doubt he was beside de himself when he was sent there but the dividing line between sanity and insanity might never have been discovered in his case except that a supreme occasion called up all his old memories and he was once once- more himself The rhe writer saw sav a man convicted con of murder when it seemed clear to him that the man was irresponsible ihle Sentence of death was finally commuted to imprisonment imprison imprison- ment to life in an insane as asylum lum and the brilliant lawyer laTer that prosecuted him told the writer ten years ears later that the case so impressed him that he went to studying in earnest the different phases of or insanity and he ho said I realized to my horror that every act of that man on which I ma made a reason for urging urging urging ing his conviction was unquestionably the act of a lunatic The writer knew of another r case where a man was convicted of murder but his attorney had him examined examined ex ex- by a commission of lunac lunacy which sent him to an insane as asylum and five years jears later that attorney attorney at at- torney torner showed the writer a a. letter from that same man which was wac as brilliant as any letter he lie ever cyer read It traced the case it stated how glad he ho was since sinco ho recovered his reason to know that all the time great damage he performed while insane was the killing of an old man lIe He went on in classic classie language language lan Ian guage to explain how the tho clouds broke away away from his brain how he came camo to himself It was a letter that no ordinary man could possibly write and it closed with rith these these- words Again thanking you rou for your our kindness to me when I was not myself I remain yours most respectfully Jesus Christ Where cool reason leaves off and where the vagaries of insanity begin is a question which has puzzled the world a good while and amI we doubt whether it will ever be solved on this side of tl the great divide |