South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-10
His Mind Finds Itself

Leondowski was taken to the prison hospital
In few days he began to improve, and with the
Improvement came sanity. James Bracket an
inmate who had known him in Clinton prison,
came to wait upon him. In other days he would
have feared attack This time the patient, with
cleared mind recognized MS benefaeto- with
kindly smile.
"Hello. jim" he said. How are your"
.cMind restored" commented the doctors,
watching the greeting Then as the days passed.
the prisoner began to move from his cot He
was taken into the prison yard, where DR. Squire,
No longer hestating TO walk alone with him,
talked frequently to test the state of the mans
mind
Thomas A. Edison's famous questionnsire had
inst appeared when the first questions were
askad and DR.. SQUIRE made it model. he pre-
pared QUESTIONABLE for the man who had been
insane Here is what a man but recently v1o-
lently insane did with the test:
O-How is your health? Any head Is al
right. but I have slight stomach trouble. Ny
brain has been fine since the operation.
Q.-Do you smoke? Al have not smoked
anything since / was %.
Q.-Do you know that Poland is now free
country Ayes, 1 read the newspapers and
know that.
Q.-Have you ever heard Of Psderewski7
A.-Yes. He is q musician He is a good musi-
as a politician heard him play once in Utica.
It cost me 50 to get in. / do not know why
went because I do not understand music.
Q-Have you ever heard of Chauneey M.
Depew? Al think that he is the gentleman
who tells funny stories.
Q.-Can you tell which was made first the
hen or the egg? A.-That must be one Of MI.
Edison's questions.
go you have heard Of Mr.. Edi'on7 A
I ought to have heard of him. ! worked for an
electrical concern before I got into trouble.
Reverting his own troubles, he said that he
had been shot by a man who had been his friend.
Leondovski said that he loaned the man money,
and that when he asked for it, he was shot.
Day after day they took him out for airings.
At first it was IN a wheel-chsir, and then he
walked about the yard. At length there came
time when he was able to leave Sing Sing and 20
back to Dannemora, thence TO be sent 20 Clinton
prison for release because the law requires that
a man take the same tortuoUs course out ~
prison th2t lcd Inn 10 g cure.
period of scientific observation followed the
peaceful return of the man to the Dannenora
Hospital The doctors followed the case with
unbounded interest, and it is only just few
days ago that they reached a point where they
were willing TO say that q cure had been actually
effected, and that science had performed mod
ern miracle on this unfortunate man.
It will be but short time when be is again
restored to the world, man Of good intentions,
Of hopeful outlook and Of intense desire to make
the most of world that had been only full Of
dark clouds.
DR.. Squire says that the same principle can
undoubtedly be applied to other cases whers the
various areas Of the brain are affected. He ex-
poets that the operation viii lead TO many others
which will seek to correct abnormal conditions ia
the brain cells and thus restore normally TO the
patient
No longer is phrenology despised in making
ba Al, - g.
bumps" as a means Of determining tendencies
but they DO look at the ehsrted areas Of the won
derful human machine called the brain with the
idea that each holds place in the direction Of
human destiny, and that injury to an ARA
may be corrected by operative nrss~-