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Show 60-Year-0ld Man Is Free After 20 Years in Asylum TRENTON, N. J Tall, dignified 60-year-old Raymond Reid, described de-scribed by a chancery court judge as trying to portray the spirit of Christ as female as well as male, has been freed from a state mental hospital. He had been confined, for 20 years until his recent release. Reid walked calmly out the main gate, kissed his 83-year-old mother who had obtained the court order for his freedom, and said his only feeling concerning his confinement was that of "hating a great evil like Abe Lincoln hated slavery." Reid had been committed to the hospital in 1927 as a "paranoiac" after being arrested for writing what the prosecution described as a series of threatening letters to 125 state officials. Throughout the period of his confinement, con-finement, he sent other letters to state officials protesting that he was being persecuted for his beliefs. |