The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-01-06

velop within them certain characteristics,
which, when they manifest themselves,
take on such unique forms that they at
tract widespread attention.
AS long as these hallucinations are mere
abstract theories there is no particular
harm in maintaining them, but they so
often become homicidal in their nature
that what to do with the crank" is fast
getting to be serious sociological problem
Guiteau, President Garfeld's assassin, is
believed by most persons to have been a
crank on the subject of notoriety. The
man who tried to blow up q Hudson river
steamboat with an Internal machine, when
asked why he had planned such a diabol-
ical plot, is reported to have said, II wanted
to see how high the people would CO." So,
too, with the crank who attempted in the
same manner to destroy European steam
ship in midocean- He said, 81 thought
I'd have some fun with the boats agents
by asking every day whether she had been
reported" No ruler of great nation, and
in fact very few men of large wealth, have
entirely escaped the annoyance Of cranlzs
in some form or other.
Roth, the man who shot at Rev. DR.. Hall
has recently been adjudged insane. So has
Edward NJ Field, who ruined his firm as
well as his father, the venerable Cyrus W.
Field. II Norcross, the Russell Sage bomb
thrower, had not been killed by his own
act, it would have been readily shown that
he was a paranoiae, or reasoning maniac
like Roth, Field and Doherty, who persist
emily prosecuted Mary Anderson, the ac-
tress, by writing love letters to her.
A remarkable crank IN many respects is
John Mic Klensch, who was a short time
ago adjudged q paranniac in New York
city and sent to the Wards Island insane
asylum
Klensch was a protege of ~Citizen"
George Francis Train, who took him for q
lightning trip around the world as his sec
rotary, but left him at Tacoma, Wash.
Thence Klensch walked every step of the
way to New York, 30 he AYERS, and once
more became "Old Psycho's'' secretary.
He might have still been with Train had
he not offended the great man by having
printed some cards declaring himself To be
the Universal Psychic Genius, Citizen
fmmp, Unlimited Faster, Biggest Man
Living" Below these modest self applied
titles there was the rather Indefinite as
sertion, Il know" This 1t was which Is
alleged to have given Train mortal Of
fenso. The assumption OF knowledge was
too sweeping to suit the apostle of psychic
force, and Kensch was obliged TO leawe
He turned up short time after as ono Of
the competitors in fasting contest N New
York, but although an Unlimited Faster"
he capitulated after ten days Of starving
Kfensch imagines that his humble spirit
has left its earthly abiding place, having
been supplanted by that Of the fabulously
wealthy hero of Dumas romance, the
Count Of Monte Cristo." Klensch found
himself about year ago with something
like thousand dollars in his possession.
This was all; nevertheless he gave it to
Citizen Train with instructions TO present
1t TO a newspapers Christmas tree fund
Train sent twenty-five dollars and kept tho
rest for Klensch- He developed violent
traits a short time since, with the result al
ready detailed.
Another paranoiac was Michael Harvey,
q boiler maker, of South Brooklyn. He
had been in an asylum since last March,
but had improved 50 much THAI recently,