A Spiritualistic Murder

The evidence on which the hareu-:iinel Pike, the wretched man wlio hot the long-haired Jones in Chicago, was acquitted on the ground of inaanity, was tolerably clear. His grandfather, ather and brother were exceedingly sof tïeaded, and he himself had been coninod in asylums at Taunton, Mass., Blackwell's islantl, ïf. "Y., and other lftces. The medical experts declared ïim insane without dissent. One of them -eatified that Pike had sustained a fall vhen young, and that he believed that aome time afterward an npparition ap}oa,red over his left shoulder, and ask(id ïim where )ie had beeu while unconscious f rom the eiïects of the fall. The spirit, or whatever it was, suggested that viiik; unconscious his spirit actually lelt lis body. In the year 184a he owned gome timber land at Binghamton, Í. Y. , and there he partially destroyed a lai'ge number of trees for no earthly reason so f ar as known. As to his coolness immediately after the murder, tliat was notliing new in sueh cases. Probbly, judging by his own standard of right and wrong, he would try to carry out what he called his principies. The expert thought that Pike should be shut up in a lunatic asylum and never be re.eased, as the insane condition rnight be leveloped at any moment. The prisoner ïas been sent to an asylum. How long willhestay there? Perliaps that convenient littlo spirit over the left shoulder will pjoim hini,