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Toward the end, when he thinks he has failed to make Violet Kemble Cooper love him, M. God doubts himself. He regains his composure, however, by the time the keeper of the lunatic asylum comes to reclaim him. "If God came to earth," shrewdly explains M. God, "where else could he stay?" Left alone for a moment he makes his escape by walking out through the audience...
Patient, precise rather than sensational, he has won several unique decisions. It was he who discovered, after much digging, an ancient statute granting sanity trials to convicted murderers and had one-Gene Geary sent to an asylum instead of hanged. For Capone Gangsters Scalise and Anselmi, accused of killing two policemen, he won acquittal with the plea that they were privileged to defend themselves even against officers of the law. Since his association with Capone he has become much in demand, never takes a case for less than...
...complete his humiliation. When Mieze will have none of him, Reinhold murders her. Biberkopf is suspected of the murder; he hides, disguises himself, but the police catch him. Bewilderment at his bad luck has addled his wits; he is taken, not to jail this time, but to an asylum. There Death throws him but cannot quite keep him down. When Franz Biberkopf emerges from the shadow of death, and the threat of jail, he is older, wiser than most...
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...Fergus Falls, Minn., one Maurice Larson while being shown through an insane asylum became violent, was put in a straightjacket, kept there...