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Show A LOON S WORK. A Murder "Without Ulame to the Slayer. A Warning to All Who May Have to Deal With the Unfortunate Insane. Elgin, 111., July 30. A horrible crime, for which the author will not suffer, occurred at the Northern Illinois Illi-nois insane hospital here to-dav. The fireman. Go. Lindsay, bad toriL heln- er John Anderson, a quiet patient, ihev were in the coal house, no others being present, and the lunatic pos-sesed pos-sesed yyith a sudden madness, killed Lindsay with a heavv hammer, being caught in the act ot thrusting the unconscious dying man into the furnace, Anderson is a man of forty-five, whose mania is of a religious nature, and it is six years since he came from Rockford. lie had never shown homoeidal tendencies. ten-dencies. The corner's verdict holds j nobody guiitv of blame. |