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...Surgeon Bevan rushed Theodore Roosevelt after being shot by a Milwaukee maniac (1912). The bullet, Dr. Bevan recalled last week, went through 100 pages of manuscript and an eyeglass case before entering Roosevelt's body. When Roosevelt died some seven years later the bullet was still in his body, so far as Dr. Bevan knows...
...execute three soldiers. In the turmoil that rocked Vienna after the War Ferdinand moved as a kind of passive Bohemian, passive revolutionary. A monastic soul, he lived among orgiasts and was never shaken; love failed to touch him. His best and only friend, a Jew, became a religious maniac and graduated to an asylum. When Ferdinand went to see Nurse Barbara for the last time he was horrified that she should be so old. He ran away from her, went to seek the only society he was fitted...
...inquisitors twice imprisoned St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, on suspicion of heresy. Inquisitors also accused St. Teresa, reformer of the Carmelite Order, of canonical misconduct. Her mystic Concepts of the Divine Love brought censure. She was saved from punishment by King Philip II, morose religio-maniac...
Last week one Dewey Ede, tramp, told the Lancaster, Pa. police that he had bunked overnight with a man answering the description of the maniac. The man had said: "They call me the 3X slayer. . . . Now that my mission has been completed I will head for Harrisburg and then to New Orleans and take a boat back to the old country...
...Ansonia, Conn., Raymond C. Spang, maniac depressive, returned home to his wife and four children after escaping from a New York veterans' hospital. To celebrate the reunion he took them on a picnic to West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted...