The San Francisco call., 1898-01-30
AFTER A THREE YEARS SLEEP
ring his mother and shooting his father.

2 his mother and shooting his father. wrecked brain worked on like crip- pied engine.
 I've lost my hat he said, piteously, as they rushed upon him: Please find it for me" And he fell to mumbling incoherently. The expression on his face was that of a troubled child. Later it became less intelligent. The lines which made the face seem firmly nodded appeared to relax and to give the effect of nabbiness.
 In the face there was no trace of hor- TOT at any time, only one of trouble and bewilderment. Willie" Gipp ex- isted no longer.
 Some mental Arrangement had slain him before he killed his mother. In law, there was no one to expiate the crime, so they moved the helpless creature to the State Hospital for the Insane and waited for him to die.
 They who wonder about the soul may wonder about the immortal part of Gipp during the long trance which was so like the sleep of death in it's destruc- tion of memory and inconsistencies of surroundings. From the moment of his apprehension he relapsei quickly into coma, as one who is utterly weary and must rest.
 They lifted him into a cot as if he Ddu Dctl d pdIltHl tln6E, ana thencefOrward volition seemed to have left him forever. He never spoke He never moved, except when the attend ants forced him to and guided his limbs. For perhaps half of the time he lay on his back, his eyes fixed upon the ceiling, but with vacant gaze. A child would have followed with his eyes the strategic marchings of flies upon that ceiling, vaguely, but consciously Gipp, it seemed. saw nothing-certain- ly not the kitchen of his home, from which they had carried out his mother No; he had forgotten even the hat he lost when he became a child that day.
 Wonderful as it appeared to the doc tors, who expected that he would waste away and die, he neither lost nor gained weight. Physically he remained what he was when they carried him to his cot. In the matter of food he swal- lowed what was placed in his mouth and ceased to swallow when they put in no more. That he had any feeling in the matter no one could say.
 Some who saw him held the theory that his sense of motion and speech was chained. but that he was aware of all that passed about him, remem- bered the killing of his mother and Iay there day after day, month after month, going over and over the ter rible events, unable to do anything but think. This the doctors said was not possible under the circumstances. He did not think at all, they said, his con- dition being one of anesthesia, due to shock.
 On January s, last, three years and two months after the tragedy, "Wil- lie" Gipp awoke. The brain for time almost readjusted itself into the per feet machine it had been before his crime.
 An attendant busy in the dormitory at o'clock in the morning heard an unexpected noise behind him and, turn ing suddenly. saw Gipp walking toward him. His face wore a bewildered ex- pression. His hands ran through his hair and rubbed his eyes. His glance swept the room wonder1ngly, as one never seen before. .,
 The attendant gazed at him in won der and fear, he was so like one risen from the dead. The boys eyes fixed themselves upon the nurses face, and