The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-23
SAYS HE KILLED
TO AVENGE NURSE
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planned to him that the hospital was
not under the jurisdiction OF the Bal.
timore police but under that Of 'I,e
Baltimore county officials in Towso1,
he went away.
He himself says he then went 10
the courthouse in Towson and tried
to md Justice John T. Hopkins, the
very man who a few hours later
held him without bail on the charge
Of murder.
Ishida says he was informed that
Justice Hopkins had gone for the
day and he, then returned to tho
hospital, where with his new revolver
in his pocket, he laughed and jolxed
ana d1ned with the unsuspecting vic
tim OF his hatred and Jealousy.
No more compelling example of the
strange and devious pranks fate plays
with the human soul was ever record :
ed in medical or legal jurisprudence.
Here was a man who had analysed
every phase OF the human brain in
its minutest and most intricate work.
Ing. He knew just where and when
every thought and action of q patient
deviated from the normal. He had
written an exhaustive volume in his
own language, the seventh edition OF,
which now lies on the desk in the
hospital to which he will never re-
turn He was even at the hour OF the
murder engaged on an article de-
scribing a new system OF differen-
tial psychological diagnosis which
he has originated. And yet as he
went among the patients suffering
with mental Affections he Rugged to
his own breast decisions no less fan
the victim of Authorizations which
were as much the vapor OF his own
Imagination as those OF the ward pa
tients he 50 carefully charted and
tabulated.
The strangest phase of the situa-
ton was that he could not recognize
in himself the symptoms he so read
fly detected in others. For weeks he
had attributed every real or fancied
misfortune he had to his fellow work.
er, DR.. Wolff. AS he sat at the side
OF deranged patients and heard them
make absurd statements which had
no foundation in fact. listened to their
fantastic fears and apprehensions
which had no base, he himself lived
in daily fear OF DR.. Wolff.
He believed DR.. Wolff was trying
to hypnotic him. He declared DIR.
Wolf had circulated stories to, the
effect that he was a German spy and
had thereby injured him in the eyes
of his associates at the hospital. He
could not be dissuaded from the idea
that DR.. Woln was responsible for
his play not being produced as sched-
uled for the Christmas holidays.
He believed DR.. Violin was spying
on the private papers on his desk.
And. totally unaware OF the turmoil
raging in the brain Of his Japanese
associate, DR.. Wolff went about his
duties in the hospital, occupying the
same office with the man. sleeping
in an adjoining room, using the
same bath, eating at the same table.
The murdered man is described as
amiable and lovable, and no one can
remember that he ever spoke a sin
gle critical word about the man who
such ILL., feeling about him.
At the hospital 1t was said that un-
doubtedly the most surprised man
when the 'first shot was fred was
the man into whose body It pene-
trated
Fate Staged Tragedy.
1t was as II fate. with her tongue
in her cheek, had deliberately staged
the entire tragedy to set at naught
the efforts OF men Behind locked
doors in the charmingly arranged
rooms of this admirably conducted
institution were men ana women
" hose mental incapacity was known
and whose illnesses these doctors had
set out to cure. Yet, coming and go
ing through the institution doors, |
free to do as he pleased. was this |
doctor whose delusions and violence
" ere destined to lead him to commit |
the cardinal crime and land in q Jail |
cell.
Just how far his own delving into i
The actions and reactions Of the hu-
man brain brought about his own |
DECISIONS is a matter OF varying |
opinions. Whether or not IL was the |
constant association with and study |
of distorted brains which unseated
his own reason and caused him to see
people and their actions in q gro
.esque and mistaken light, will shortly
De decided by the alienists called
lpon to examine into his mental con-
iition.
mt of the institution and the chief
Under whom DR.. Ishads worked, de-
,lared that in all his forty years ex-
he had known OF only one
mental expert who had gone insaneI
Ind that doctor was a man who had
personality from the
tart.
"Given a well-balanced brain in the
DR.. Brush declares. there
reed be no apprehension that the
tudy of insanity will Gauss insanity,
tut were the individual homeopathic
II slightly pycopathic at the start,
lie might not be able to stand the
train.
There are thousands OF people who
manager to live. perform their work
md succeed who are not normal
mentally and who constantly surprise
Is alienists because they do get by.
tut put under any particular strain
y emotional stress, they are very apt
o collapse"
DR.. Ishida, himself so often a men,
'er OF a committee to examine into
he sanity OF others. will soon face
n examination board. Both the
and the attorneys for
is defense plan to have expert tests
made. Probably no stranger examina-
ion will ever go on record than that
Meeting between eminent psychiat-
lists with an eminent psychiatrist.
DR.. Ishida, unlike the average un-
informed patient being examined, will
Understand the reason and motive
or every question and test. He may
ven be tested by his own newly de-
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