, 1892-01-15

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 u no particular
harm in maintaining them, but they 50
often become homicidal in their nature
that what to do with the crank" is fast
getting to be a serious sociological problem
Guiteau. President Garleld's assassin, Is
believed by most persons to have been a
crank on the subject of notoriety. The
man who tried to blow up n Hudson river
steamboat with an Internal machine, when
asked why he had planned such a diabol-
zeal plot, is reported to have said, 81 wanted
TO see how high the people would 60" So,
too, with the crank who attempted In the
same manner to destroy a European steam
ship in midocean. lie said, 81 thought
ia have some fun with the boats agents
by asking every day whether she had been
reported" No ruler of a great nation, anil
In fact very few men OF large wealth, havo
entirely escaped the annoyance of crank
in some form or other.
Roth, the man who shot at Rev. DIR. 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
UFDHEF nAu not Dten hllleu D1 MS OWL
act, it would have been readily shown that
he was a paranoiac, or reasoning maniac,
like Roth, Field and Doherty, who persist
emily prosecuted Mary Anderson, the &C
tress, by writing love letters to her.
\ remarkable crank in many respects is
John Mic kleusch, who was a short time
ago adjudged IA %paranoiac 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 a
lightning trip around the world as his sec
rotary, but left him at Tacoma, Wash.
way to New York-so he AYERS, and once
more became "Old Psycho's' secretary.
He might ave 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
Tramp, Unlimited Faster, Biggest Man
Living" Below these modest self applied
titles there was the rather indefinite AZ.
s~ertion, Il know" This It was which is
alleged to have given Train mortal Of
Tense. The assumption Of knowledge was
too sweeping to suit the apostle Of psychic
force, and Klensch was Obliged to leave
He turned up a short time after as one Of
the competitors in a fasting contest In New
York, but although an Unlimited Faster,
h~e7eapitulAted after ten days of starving
Klensch imEgines that his humble spirit
has left its earthly abiding place, having
been supplanted by nat of the fabulously
wealthy hero of Dumas romance, tn,
Count of Monte Cristo." Klensch founc
himself about a year g with something
like a thousand dollars in his possession
This was all; nevertheless he CAV 1t Il
Citizen Train with instructions to preseni
il to a newspapers Christmas tree fund
Train sent twenty-five dollars and kept tn,
rest for Klensch. He developed violent
traits a short time since, with the result al
ready detailed.
Another p%aranoiac was Michael Harvey
a boiler maker, Of South Brooklyn. II,
had been in an asylum since last March
but had improved so much that recently