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and criminals, I suppose. There was one man who had honestly had an injury in the course of his employment. He had employment that was honest employment. He was working at it. In the course of this he had quite a serious accident. He made a claim. It turned out that he was a man with a very hard prison record. That had nothing to do with it. The crime for which he had been committed and which made him the terror of all persons related to him was a most gruesome and hideous crime. He had tied his wife to a bed post, had proceeded to heat hot pokers and flat irons and burned her flesh with them. He had carried on this pleasant little sadistic entertainment for a whole night before she managed to get to a window, open it and scream loud enough so that the neighbors came in. Whereupon he was arrested. He got a conviction of some sort. That, of course, spelled not only a sadist, but probably a deranged one. He was a very queer-looking man also. I just use that case to illustrate that we had very strange people going through.
There was the man who came to kill me and out the throat of the man who represented the insurance company. He was a totally deranged man - just plain crazy. Then there was a man in the hearing room once who was a great, tall, long- armed, long-legged, long-faced, long-nosed Irishman - what they call the “black Irish” - with wild eyes. He had lifted
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