The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-23
Sorry for Crime.

He said he was sorry he had done
the shooting. but persisted in his as
sertions that DR.. Violin had circulated
| the story that he was a German spy,
, that II was because OF her belief he
was q German spy that the pretty
nurse would have none Of him, and
that he knew that DR.. Wolf had
called the police station shortly be-
fore the murder asking that the Jap
anese doctor be Investigated as a pos
sible German agent. When DR.. Brush,
no longer a young man, bravely dis
armed Ishida and demanded to know
why he had shot DR.. Wolf, Ishida re-
piled: HE has said that i am q Ger
man spy. that / am a traitor TO my
own country and to this country; so
I killed him"
As he was being. led out of the
institution he laughed long and loud
ly, not bitterly, but just as IL some
one had just finished a very funny
story.
It was not until his arrival at the
Towson jail that he told the story
that he had killed DR.. Woln because
a nurse had been assaulted.
/ DR.. Brush, the eminent psychiatrisI.
who is head Of the hospital, had just
begun TO worry about Ishida's condi-
ton, when he nrst came to me with
the complaint that DR.. Wolf was cir
cuIating the story he was a German
spy, I laughed heartily at the alb
surdity of it," said DR.. Brush. Il
never said anything to DR.. Wolff
about Il, and were DR.. Wolff alive he
would say he never dreamed Ishida
had any animosity against him
Later, when he complained Woln was
staring at him and hypnotizing him.
told him he was carrying the thing
too far. When he complained that
DR.. Wolf had looked at the papers on
his desk, l demonstrated to him that
Violin had merely laid his own manu-
script on the desk while he was lee
turing to the nurses and using the
blackboard near by.
"Ishida had written a little play en-
phasizing the difference between Gus
toms and conventions in Tokyo and
New York. One of the patients, who
is an artist, was painting the scenes.
II developed that the nurses did not
have time to rehearse their parts In
the sketches. and ordered 1t post
poned. Ishida declared that Violin
was at the bottom of 1t. 1t was the
morning before the shooting that
reason. He came to my residence at
s o'clock, before I was dressed. His
early visit alarmed me, and saw him
in my bathrobe. He wanted to com
plain of Wolff again. and i told him
he was carrying things altogether too
far.
Laughing Together.
.That same night only few hours
before the shooting, as I was leaving
the hospital for the night, found
them laughing and Joking together.
As l said goodnight to them, l felt
really gratifled, believing that had
at last dispelled Ishida's doubts OF
Violin, and that everything would be
all right.
"The next development was when
I heard the shots as 1 sat In my
office the next morning"
It has now developed that Ishida
shot Wolff in the back as he was
bending over a desk. Wolf wheeled
around, received a second shot in
the abdomen and fell groaning to the
floor. Ishida fired a third shot into
his face as he lay dying.
Wolff never spoke and died almost
His father, Rev. d. w. wolff, came |
from Myerstown, Pa. yesterday for |
the body. He was grief stricken. but
tried not to be resentful. He said:
81 hope this miscreant will be
properly punished"
DR.. Brush, who is editor OF the |
American Journal OF Insanity, first |