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Show ANOTHER CASE. OgdenitCS were shocked Sunday when they learned through then gitt newspaper that a horrible crime had been committed A use- I tul citizen was murdered in his bed as he slept. i Later details seem to indicate the murder was inspired in an nn II balanced mind. The facts in the case would admit of hardly any, other verdict than that an insane person was responsible. Just a few years ago one of Ogden 's best known physicians was slain without cause by a young man afterward found to be insane,1 but who had acted "queer" for many months. I These eases go to show the need of careful supervision of those persons classed as "queer." They are thought to be harmless until they do that which shocks the community, wrecks a home and makes I children orphans. The army had a system for determining the mental caliber of the men in uniform. Sometimes it seems as though some such sys ! tern should be adopted inxcommunities to (Srirermine what steps should; he taken to prevent tragedies by putting suspected eases under sur- I veillance. |