The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-20
STRANGE MAN
IN THE HOSPITAL
He Believes Himself to be a
Doctor. and Curses Out
Everything
NO RELATIVES. CAN
BE LOCATED HERE

Calls Himself "Doctor Watkins"
and Rails at His Misfortune in
Failing to Land a Position In
the Hospital.-He Sees Through
the Scheme to Interview Him,
But Fails to Understand That
He is Not q Doctor.
Doctor Watkins is one of the
most recent additions to the State
HOSPITAL for the Insane, and to date
| Supt. Louis ]. Picot has found no
body Who knows anything Of this
strange character. And he is held
while DR.. Watkins. in his perverted
mind. believes himself the Victim of
intrigue.
Some time ago this stranger ap-
peared at the institution and asked
for a position as physician in the hos
pital. At that time there was some
electing to do and as responsibilities
always graNitate to the man who Will
WeaT them, Doctor Watkins was on
@'iN riSt &" y LIZ 49,
lie asked for an assistants place.
Or. Iicot saw in q second his trouble
lie told the man that he had no po-
sition Tor him and the stranger re-
appeared the following day. Again
he wanted a position as physician.
He had not then eaten anything for
three days Or. Picot took him
away, went through the legal require
ments and committed him to the hos
pital from the county Of Wake.
Meanwhile he has grown ~restive.
He has heard that somebody has
been given his place. He believes
that Doctor picot has toted unfairly
: with him and that Z perfectly compe-
tent aiienist has been shelved for a
political ~faNOrite. lie cusses the su-
perintending doctor, and there isn't
in all of the range Of insanity, a thing
IN worse form than cussing Doctor
Picot. There are people out there
eAcusably crazy about him. He goes
through those amending corridors,
shakes hands as a candidate grasps
the member Of his constituency and
calls the boys by their first names
Nobody out there but Doctor Watkins
has anything against Doctor Picot and
it is pathetic to hear him swear il
his inlpotent rage at the man who
didn't GiNe him d job.
a reporter visited him two days
ago. Where are YOU from, Doctor
Natklns? he asked with sOlemnitS
t enough to spring the knee joints OF
an archangel standing up under it:
burden.
= None Of Your d. business
Doctor Watkins replied as he turne,
G to Doctor Picot. And YOU have tole
If me a ID lie. that's what YOU lone
II as he looked at both interviewers
Each effort to pull him out resulted
j, in ~perernptory demands to talk on
l. the window Doctnr pj.nt ITO
rs him by making his interviewer kee,
y, quiet. lie drew from the cOnfinet
/ doctor" that the ancestral home O
n, Watkins was in Caswcll county. BIZ
as the gentleman confessed himself a,
he eNpatriate. if indeed not an accatie
caring nothing for home ties q
10 brethren and living nnto himself II
hi could not ak long without reyersio,
he to the periidy Of DR.. Picot in choos
a ing somebody TO take his place Will
ar, he must stay there and brood owe
er the unattached Job.
in Where did YOU study medicip1
Doctor Watkins. the reporter agai
a asked. h doctor looked as if h
set meant to talk again, but he looEe
It up again and snorted: Il thought
told You TO keep your d mouth a.
he OF this. This is me and the docto
lie IS responsible for this. b
to newspaper man anykao."
tai He old DIR. PicOt tina he had nov.
studied medicine anywhere, that }
had read some on the subject and ha
never attended schoo to amount
anything. But know how 10 tire;
Ins these cases, he said, land YOU Eno
II. l can go through this place ar
SHOW YOU plenty Of people WI
raven got a d thing the matt,
~ with them. and You know it :" r
49, ilcot urged him to make diagnos
ply about this tina 6is6an olosrapi
ign kin and dismissed W. al OF +
"hom ne thoroughly distrusted
Isl They have never b.ora q q
the tives and haven, ~ an! rel
where he came fr,n, sh'Vst ~
the of DR.. Picot that 10 'heo
ign patient at same .+ho. ~ esSap
'heFe IS no way to find ont H;s