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(3) Mulli alias Murari Lal.—This is a case of mania due to epilepsy. He
was admitted in a dying condition in epileptic coma.
It is stated that Mulli entered the house of a Brahmin with the intent to
commit a theft. He has gradually improved in health and his fits are less fre-
quent, has never shown any violence or any homicidal or suicidal tendencies.
His people are willing to take charge of him.
(4) Bhup Singh.—A case of acute religious mania. For some time it was
known in the village that he occasionally suffered from religious excitement. He
had dedicated himself to Mahabir and spent most of his time at religious exercises.
He was considered eccentric, but showed no real signs of insanity till 19th
August 1898, the occurrence being the annual family worship of Debi.
He became violent and abusive, his sudden derangement was attributed to
his having broken his fast obligatory on that day. He was placed in stocks for
about a week, and having recovered, was released.
On the 13th September, he again became violent and through fear of him the
village became nearly deserted. The next day, he seized two small boys and
dragged them about for several hours. A man named Phakhali, on returning
from work, was chased by Bhup Singh and felled to the ground with a log of
wood. When arrested next day by the Police on a charge of murder, he was still
holding one of the boys, but had ceased to be excited and violent ; and now that he
is quiet, says that he remembers nothing about the day Phakhali was killed.
In appearance, Bhup Singh is an intelligent and kindly-looking young man,
the last man one would suspect of a brutal murder.
His father and grandfather were both given to religious enthusiasm.
26th November.—Is quiet and rational, as he has always been since admis-
sion.
I think this is a case of hereditary religious mania.
(5) Onkar, Nai, was admitted into the Asylum under section 466 (2),
C. P. C., charged under section 302, I. P. C., and found incapable of making
his defence.
Some time before the murder, Onkar told people that he had an apparition.
His behaviour was peculiar and he had been confined to his bed for some time
with fever and had been unable to follow his avocation.
He was mending when the murder took place, though since he has relapsed
into his former state.
The murder was a very cold-blooded one. He entered his house, and having
locked the door, deliberately cut his wife to pieces with a knife and hatchet, the
act, as far as is known, being absolutely motiveless.
At present, he is always prostrating himself, is very melancholic, talks
coherently, but very slowly ; sometimes cries, does not know where he is, denies
having murdered his wife, says he was lying on the bed with her and the door
being open some one must have come in and killed her.
The medical history, after further enquiry, states that the cause is unknown,
but that the man's father suddenly ran away from home and returned mad.
(6) Bhopali.—Admitted into the Asylum under sections 380 and 457,
I. P. C., but acquitted on the ground of insanity.
He was brought to the hospital by his father, who stated that the son had been
very violent and had used abusive language to himself and his mother and attempt-
ed to escape. He talked incoherently and complained of his parents' ill-treatment.
He saw spectres and said some one was continually telling him to do something,
sleeps very badly. Three days after admission, he broke open the hospital
almirah and took the operating case and several other things.