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Show JUST WENT 'NUTS' "I just went nuts, I guess," said a young man of Poca-tello, Poca-tello, lying in a hospital bed after shooting the brother of a girl cf whom he was enamored and then attempting suicide. From the story in the city daily it appears that the young man waa deeply devoted to a young lady who in turn did not relish his attentions- To escape them, she went from Idaho to Nebraska. Unreasonably, he followed her there to talk to her, and she and her brother attempted to frustrate him by forcibly preventing his entrance into their apartment. apart-ment. The tragedy followed. The human mind is a delicately balanced thing. The more emotional suffer more from its temporary vagaries. The more stolid and phlegmatic are the least affected in emotional emo-tional crises. The mind, like all parts of the body, becomes ill at times and some times breaks down entirely. To what extent shall society hold the young man responsible for his act? "She wouldn't talk. If she had only talked to me, there wouldn't have been any trouble," naively said the young man- |