Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 October 1908 — Page 6

DOCTOR RIDICULES INSANITY PLEA AS EXCUSE FOR MURDER * OF llfc. r HHg n' k J 'WggHMrlJ^ ZoBSIItOISr DR. ALLAN M’LANE HAMILTON. »Noted Alienist Who Lays Epidemic of Crime to Modern Modes of Living.

EW YORK.—Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton is the dean of American alienists. He has perhaps of all men in this country had the largest experience in the courts, and has been con

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■terned in more important cases in courts than any other American physician. His experience extends over a period of nearly 40 years. He was one of the chief government experts who was chosen to testify in the case of Guiteau, who killed President Garfield, and he was sent for from Buffalo to examine Czolgolz, the insane assassin of President McKinley, and again Ibis name is found connected with the Schneider proceeding, which was undertaken in pf CnlumMri to determine the responsibility of this interesting murder. His indepen•dent attitude in the Thaw case is generally known and commended, and although he had testified vigorously -against the doctors of Christian Science in the Brush will case, he was sent for by the counsel of Mrs. Eddy and consulted as an expert who was eminently fair and likely to give good advice. Ridicules Emotional Insanity. Dr. Hamilton referred to the many Important cases that have occurred during the last 50 years in New York, where so-called “emotional insanity” had been advanced as an excuse for •crime generally, and was disposed to ridicule this form of subterfuge. “As jnost of us know, the Sickles-Key case was one of the earliest American <ause celebre, and even in those early ■days made the judicious grieve. Gen. Daniel Sickles, a popular veteran of 'the civil war and an eminently sane man, after having watched Key, followed and shot him down in the (Street, and afterward pleaded emotional insanity so successfully that he was acquitted, although it does not appear that he afterward suffered any incapacity or showed any sign of mental weakness, living to a good old age and pursuing the even and sane tenor of bis way. “In this state,” said Dr. Hamilton, ‘the Cole-Hiscock murder was another of the same kind, and was tried in Albany, N. Y., in 1868, Maj. Gen. George W. Cole having murdered Harris Hiscock in front of Stanwix hall on the evening of June 4, 1867, while he was talking with two friends. Cole sought cut Hiscock, who had been intimate with his wife, and, placing a pistol within a few inches of his head, fired, killing him instantly. In this case, like many others, the defense was -emotional insanity, and the defendant •owed his escape from the gallows to the eloquence of a Mr. Hadley and to (the late James T. Brady, for there was SAVING A TOWN FROM FLOODS. Good Work ths Forest Service Did for Manti, Utah. One of the conditions governing the grazing of stock on the western national forest reserves is that certain areas where the watershed demands protection are closed to the stockmen because the watershed interests are many times more important than the grazing rights. Two notable cases of this protection aie the Salt Lake City watershed ' in the Salt Lake National forest and | the Manti watershed in the .Manti for- | est in the same state. In the years before the forest was I reserved by the government the little i •city had been annually almost swept । away by floods. Thousands of dollars had been spent by the citizens in building embankments, but to no avail. Every year the streets were torn up .and the neighboring fields ruined, says .41 writer in Out West. They begged 1 that the mountain n Move them

nothing to prove Insanity except an array of ridiculous testimony. As an evidence of his mental condition it was alleged that while in the army he had constantly whittled lockets, rings and other perishable ornaments, that he had nose-bleed, and that he was melancholy, while a number of reliable witnesses testified as to his excel lent mental health at all times. “About this time and until 1875 there were a number of murders of the same kind. Judge Parker, in th< Cole case, instanced no less than eight examples of men who had taken the law into their own hands, and who had been acquitted under like circumstances. Subterfuge for Lawyers. ""Tt- nri s city *■ was connected in a minor capacity witu two why Hirpm-' tant cases of this kind, one of which was the trial of McFarland for the murder of Richardson, which created much attention at the time, and which resulted quite improperly in McFarland's acquittal. The term ‘emotional insanity,’ as understood by the public, is not recognized by self-respect! 1g alienists, because it is difficult to imagine how a man can be sane one moment, insane the next and sane after the commission of the crime, as is usually alleged; and I think it is the disposition nowadays to consider this defense as the veriest excuse for impulsive bad temper, cruelty and the disposition to take the law into one's hands. As has been said, ‘it is a term invented by unscrupulous lawyers to afford the jury a safe bridge upon which to pass from the disagreeable technical dutj’ to the accomplishment of their desires, when the accused has killed some one who. according to the consensus of opinion, ought to have been killed.’ "It Is really a legal compromise with the truth. So-called ‘emotional insanity’ has been one of the most frequent devices selected to arouse false sympathy with criminal violence. People have been led to believe that there is such a thing as a sudden frenzy of passion, a feeling w'hich bas led a man to shoot another suddenly, and w’hich absolves him from all responsibility. That is one of the absurdities adopted by certain desperate lawyers, who, in the name of science, attempt to mystify hysterical juries. It is hard to conceive of any form of insanity which has not been of regular development, although the manifestations which precede the explosion are sometimes with difficulty recognized. In this connection I may refer to the dangerous precedent that has been recently adopted of let ting the outraged wife of the defendant tell the story of her wrongs with the idea of showing how readily it might have inflamed an inbe made into a national forest and that some restraint be placed upon the grazing on the mountain ranges in order that the forest cover might be restored and the floods stopped. The forest was established after a careful and systematic examination of the area had been made by expert foresters, and grazing upon a large aiea was strictly prohibited for a year. What was the result on the Manti watershed? Within a year from the time grazing was stopped the floods began to dimmish. The forest cover rapidly returned. The snow, held in check by the ■ bushes, grasses and other forest growth, did not melt away in a day as |in the past. The rains that formerly ; fell on a bare open ground were now i received by a sponge-like covering of i i dead grass and leaves, and these with ! the living vegetation held it in check ; from running off as fast as it fell. Four years have passed since the forest was made, and the danger from floods is no longer known in Manti, while the flow of water in the little ' mountain streams is more regular and constant than ever before.

Jured man and produced an insanity which rendered him irresponsible. “One genuine case has been made to do duty as a basis for all the others, and this decision was utilized in the 1 haw case. The case to which reference is made is that of a man who was really insane, and whose wife within a week of the time of the sexual assault of which she was the victim, communicated the fact to him, when he took the law into his own hands and killed the paramour. It was properly alleged that his act was an insane one. That is a very different thing from the instances where individuals, after receiving such information. wait weeks and months, going about their business and holding ordinary relations with the woman, or even indulging in litigation. Cowardice of Murderers. “There is something rather interesting about the mental attitude of an individual under such circumstances as to his conception of his social rights. I have often noticed that there is a singular lack of sincere injury and consistency in the husband’s motive for revenge, and there is usually a great deal more behind the facts as they first burst upon the community than are known. The husband who kills a paramour too often does it in a cowardly fashion, either shooting him in the back from behind a wall or in the dark. There is too apt to be an element of cowardice in the way it is done that robs it of the fine frenzy of feeling with which it is colored by the lawyers for the defense. Frequently the causes that lead up to these tragedies are known by the husband long before, and even sometimes condoned. My impression is that there exists a sort of inexplicable vanity, an exaggerated egotism, that inspires the semi-heroic attitude of injured virtue assumed by the husband who shoots another man on his wife's account. "You may ask what all this has to do with ‘emotional insanity' and the commission of murder, and my reply must be that where there is an existence which feeds upon sensation and separates itself from sanity and a cool exercise of judgment, we may expect more or less moral decline. Dangers in Mode of Living. “Time and space do not permit me to draw lessons which must be apparent to those who live in this era of extravagance and luxury, especially in big cities where home feeling is getting to be more and more thing of the past. The life in boarding houses, flatsand restaurants breeds unrest and discontent, and affords opportunity for moral laches which can only have one tendency. "It is to be hoped that the attitude of the courts in regard to the defense of 'emotional insanity' will be much

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more stringent and unrelenting than it has hitherto been, and it is to be hoped that the public will be spared long and expensive trials, with the exposure of the disgusting details and pseudo-scientific forms of defense. DESPERADO, AGED FIVE, AT BAR. Boy Admits Guilt and Smiles at Judge. If you were a little boy. and you lived next door to a “single lady” somewhat past youth, who told you how much she disliked little boys, wouldn't you now and then “shy” things into her yard, just to see her get mad? And if she “told on” you to your parents, wouldn't you be tempted to take a nice, hard “rock” and fling it at her front windows? Such was the experience of John Campbell, and the “rock” which broke Miss Calista Curtis' front window represented the revenge which landed him in the juvenile court recently. When the prisoner was brought beI fore the bar a grin overspread every face in the courtroom. Asked his age, ! he lisped "five.” Although Miss Curtis ■ represented John as a desperado, he I did not look the part. He resembled j rather the pictures of youthful cherubs !on Christmas cards. His dimpled | hands seemed fitter to hold a harp | than a “rock.” John smiled sweetly at

Lawyers should not be permitted, with the aid of disreptuable members of my own profession, to invent spurious forms of Insanity and to inject improbable dramatic elements in cases which have done yeoman service in the sensational fiction of all ages, and certainly, if possible, the alleged Insanity of a defendant should be settled by a commission of alienists and not be passed upon by an ordinary jury, who are only human, after all, and who are utterly unable to draw fine distinctions or to tell who is lying. Advocates Commission of Alienists. "A wise procedure, first inaugurated by the United States, District of Columbia, in the Schneider case some years ago, and lately more perfectly brought about by the Hon. Justice Warren W. Foster, of the general ses- i sions, provides for the appointment of a commission of alienists, who should receive testimony and give an opinion as to the alleged insanity of a defendant at the time of the commission of the act, as well as at the present time, and report. The decision of this commission may send the Individual to a penal institution of the insane, or he i may be put on trial should the claim of alleged insanity be unfounded. Dy this method the community would not only be saved from disgusting details, such as were poured out in the Thaw and other cases, but an immense amount of money coj^J be saved the taxpayers. As It is^jury trials are notoriously unfair, » matter how conscientious and hCuJigent may be the tribunal. Withal theTast year I have had experiencJ vlth two cases which Illustrate wWI mean. “In one a ha^aa corpus was brought for a chroyfc lunatic, whose actions were so glaring that her own counsel admitted ln s r insanity and could find no expert to testify in her behalf. The proceedings were held in a courtroom which at other times served as the meeting place of the Grand Army of the Republic. Incidentally. It appeared in the testimony that during the war she had given coffee and sandwiches to the soldiers, and a point was made of this by her ingenious and resourceful lawyer. To the surprise of everyone the jury, which was recruited largely from the old soldiers who made the room a lounging place, gave her her freedom and declared her sane ‘because sin had always been good to the soldiers.' "In another case the members of a supposedly intelligent jury, who had been sworn to express the opinion whether an alleged Incompetent was sane or insane, found that he was competent chiefly because they did not like the looks of his brother,' who was the next friend, and who had brought the action to have a committee appointed for his clearly insane relative. These two cases are examples of acts of injustice which can only be reme-

died by putting he whole matter in 5 the hands of cap ole and decent alienists, whose posi cm is so good that they are sure to*. /^'"mlpusly fait and to serve noL^nlv YL. ^sts of person, but tl the judge, and evidently had his mind made up that khe nice, kind man would soon beg J(o show him a ticktick watch or bifg forth some candy. He readily admitted the responsibility for the ston-a that broke Miss Curtis' window’, but there was no contrition in his manner. John’s father, Vho accompanied the ! boy to court, sard he had offered to pay for the window, but that Miss Curtis had refusjed. and insisted ot bringing the matter into court. Miss Curtis ciist a withering look on her cherubic adversary when she gave her testimony. John, according to her, is a "ver; bad little boy.” She thought the reform school was the proper place for him. John heard her strictures without emotion, but his father showed sUps of wrath. Miss Curtis wiL balked of her revenge. The refcpin school was not forthcoming. Instead, Judge Callan ordered her to <k?cept the money for the broken window offered by John's father. As Johr- was led from the room by his parent he waved “by-by” to the judge, adding the polite formula, “Turn again.”—Washington Post. i

NOTES jnDAftk FARM * — It is impossible to keep the milk utensils too clean. Corn for the silo had rather be too ripe than too green. The dairy without the Dabcock tester is like the engine without the gov--1 ernor. Cream that is ripe for churning presents a smooth, satiny appearance when stirred. 1 The well-worn hoe is a good testimonial for the farmer. The rusty hoe tells another tale. ! ~ Little things done in season will lighten the big tasks and make farming more pleasant and profitable. One farmer recommends quarter pound doses of baking soda for colic in animals. The fruit tree that show's a tendency to split at the crotch can be saved by boring a hole at the point of the split and putting a bolt through with a washer at either end. A two-inch hole bored a foot deep Into the stump and filled with saltpeter to w hich water is added and left to stand a couple of months will hasten the burning of the stump The intestinal nodules in nodular disease of sheep have been regarded as tuberculous in character, but are now known to be due to the irritation caused by the immature form of an intestinal worm. After harvesting the root crops turn the sheep in on the fields. They will pick up many of the small roots left behind. Surprising how much good feed Is lost if the animals do not help to pick it up. Carrots are good feed for dairy cows as well as other stock. When not fed In too large quantities they provide the best winter food for the milk cows. The carrot is always greedily eaten by stock, as it has in it a considerable quantity of sugar and no element of bitterness. Carrots are also supposed to help color the milk in the direction desired, but it would take a good many carrots to accomplish much in this regard. The effect of good OQ the iffiWm^^ystem. Hogs need clear water and plenty of it. The amount of water they naturally use is very great. It has been found that a pig fed corn meal as a principal diet used about 900 pounds of water to 100 pounds of gain. A pig fed barley meal used 1,500 pounds of water in making 100 pounds of gain on that diet. Many pigs get little 5 moisture outside of what they get in the slop. They should have a separate drinking tank or trough filled with water where they can drink whenever they so desire. Even if they get an abundance of slop they will drink much water. The appointment of a commission by the president to study farm conditions with a view to suggesting reforms that will make farm life more pleasant and "wholesome has afforded the humorists of the country a new' subject for their witticisms. Here is how it strikes the rhymster . on the Washington Post: We’ve been investigated down to Pohick on the Crick, A.n' I reckon that reform will strike us farmers purty quick; 1 We want the chickens taught to lay an ; egg just as they should. Thout settin’ up a cackle that’ll wake the neighborhood; ■ We want the pigs to break away from ‘ customs of the past • \n’ learn to use a linger bowl and not to eat so fast; ■ Ind cows should be persuaded not to overturn the pails I When milkin’ time comes ’round, an’ not I be switchin’ of their tails. We ought to make arrangements with the weather bureau, too. yor havin’ rain turned on or off, accordin’ as it’s due; it’s a mighty glorious feelin’ to be lookIn’ toward the day When we’ll give up all the bothers of our plain old-fashioned way. ■ When we’ll sit up on a fence rail in some cool an’ shady nook Vn’ help the corn an’ ’taters grow by read in’ from a book. We’ve rolled our shirt sleeves down; nobody wants to do a lick Jntil this farm reform has lit at Pohick on the Crick. “No,” said a farmer with whom I talked the other day, "I never break my horses until they are four years □f age. They always do better work I than the horses of my neighbors that : are broken earlier.” What did he mean? His idea of breaking a colt i was putting it to hard work, and when 1 suggested that the training of a colt should begin early in the first year he looked at me in amazement. I asked him if it was not a pretty tough job breaking the four-year-olds, and he admitted it was. The training of a colt does not mean that he must be worked. It simply means the educating of the animal to obey words of command, to submission to touch of harness and to follow' the guidance of the reins. And how easy all this is while the colt is young and easy to handle. A horse broken in this way is more thoroughly broken than he ever can be where the task is left until he gets his growth and habits ; are formed. Who would think of leaving the education of a child go until it had attained its growth and was j able to stand a man’s work?

Watch the butter m'lk and be sure I you are not losing lots of butter fat. ' Little leakages cause big losses In the aggregate. Remember that. Young ewes should as a rule never be bred under 14 months. . When through using a tool, or machine, put it up. Feed the horses regularly. Irregu- 1 lar feeding encourages bolting of food, leading to indigestion. It is no longer a question: Does the silo pay? Rather, what is the best method of handling the silo? Don’t forget that charcoal is good for the hogs, salt, also. Have it where they can help themselves. The road horse stuffed with hay makes a poor traveler. Feed light on hay and heavier on oats when using the horses much. Good bacon brings good prices. See that your breed of hogs is right, and then feed for the best results. Large animals consume less pounds of dry material per 1,000 pounds live weight per day than do small ones. The bull that isn't dangerous and the gun that isn’t loaded both belong in the same class and should be given a wide berth. De sure the chickens, young and old, have plenty of gravel. Much bowel trouble is caused by lack of good grits. Intelligent feeding of live stock requires not only a knowledge of the food constituents, but a knowledge of the animals fed. When building the hen house be sure it has a south exposure and good window space. It will make it bright and warm this winter and will make the hens feel like laying. It is a good thing to have the horse so gentle as to be able to crawl under him. and then it is a good thing not to do it. It is a poor place to be if the horse should suddenly startle. It has long since been demonstrated by experiments that corn alone does not make the best or most eco- 1 nomical fattening ration. The corn must be balanced by a feed containing more of protein. The board silo can be given a cement lining by cieating with lath and applying the cement. Silos thus lined should be thoroughly cleaned each year and then washed with thin cement to fill the cracks which may have formed in the thin lining. Cream that has been allowed to stand too long will break or become watery and will not make the best flavored butter. The secret of good butter making is knowing just when the cream has reached the right stage of acidity. The horse with a long-established ease of worms should be given a purbegun. Administer four drams of aloes before breakfast or on an empty stomach. Also give a warm enema of four quarts of strong soapsuds. Follow this with a course of tonics. Sulphate of iron, two drachms; gentian, j four drams, and columbo, two drams; twice daily, for a week or two. Give at the same time sound, nourishing diet and gentle regular exercise. Successful dairymen plan a system of crop rotation which enables them to have one market or cash crop, besides the profits from the dairy. The increased fertility brought on to the farm from the use of concentrated feed stuffs more than offsets the amount of fertility removed by the sale of the dairy produces. Another ! factor is that the same help required properly to conduct a dairy can find time, outside of the regular routine of dairy work, to care for a profitable market or cash crop. Tuberculosis symptoms vary according to the location of the disease. Commonly the lungs are more or less involved. The disease is characterized by dullness, tenderness of withers, back and loins, occasional dryness of the nose, heat of the horns and ears, want of pliancy of the skin, accelerated pulse, bad breath, slight, infrequent, dry cough, blue watery milk. If you are alarmed at the appearance of your herd write for expert opinion to your state experiment station. Here is the experience of one farmer with potatoes which showed a tendency to blight. In a patch of about half an acre he dug one-third just before the tops were dead, dried and put them in the cellar. Not one of these rotted and all seemed to keep in perfect condition. At the same time he pulled the tops on another third of the lot and burned them, leaving the potatoes in the ground until the middle of October, when he dug and , put them in the cellar. These also kept perfectly. The other one-third he did not disturb until the first of October, and when dug 'fully one-half had rotted. Clean cream, cold cream and rich ; cream are the three graces of the dairy business. Be clean and sanitary in milking. Have all pails, crocks, | cans and dairy utensils scalded and j ( clean. Keep the separator clean by i washing after each separating. Cool ‘ each lot of cream in cold water before i setting it away and have it thoroughly cooled before adding to the general ' lot of cream. Have a tank of cold ■ water or a well -ventilated cool cel- i lar in which to keep the cream. Stir j each of the separate lots of cream ' every day to keep them' uniform. ! Hav» a wire screen for each vessel so ' ?s to "air the et■ : flies and insects. Skim a rich cream ; ! 85 to 40 per cen . and it will k> •q: j ! sweet longer. Deliver the- cream to | the creamery or receiving s’ation ; . three times a week tn summe and | j twice a week in winter

MORE GOULD CASE BRIBERY hotel employe told priest OF BEING OFFERED $2,C00. Wife Submits Affidavit Defending Herself Against Charge of Drunkenness Made by Husband. New York. — That $2,000 had been offered an employe of the t Hotel St. Regis to give false testimony against Mrs. Howard Gould was the substance of an affidavit, purporting to have been made by Rev. Father Joseph G. Murray, which was presented to Justice Giegerich in the supreme court Friday. The case came up before the justice on a motion to strike out certain allegations in Mrs. Gould’s complaint in her suit for a separation from her husband, as scandalous and irrelevant. Mrs. Gould s counsel opposed the motion and presented several affidavits in which it was charged that certain witnesses had been hired to testify in favor of Mr. Gould. The affidavit of Father Murray was one of the papers presented. It declares that Michael 11 Doody had told the priest that while he was employed at the Hotel St. Regis where Mrs. Gould lived, a detective went to him with the proposition that he “give a proper report of Mrs. Gould’s comings and goings at the hotel, the amount of wine she drank and the names of her visitors, notably those of them that were men." Another affidavit, made by Maurice Molloy, alleges’that Molloy was und r contract, while custodian of Castle Gould at Port Washington, to treat Mrs. Gould in a contemptuous fashion. The lawyer for Mrs. Gould recited how it was alleged that Molloy had gone into the house, sat on divans and puffed cigarette smoke in Mrs. Gould's face when she ordered him out of the house. An affidavit submitted by Mrs. Gould in reply to allegations of her husband that she is addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors, says: “When living in the country and spending most of my time in the open air. I have drunk a cocktail on sitting down to luncheon, and generally a glass of white wine with luncheon. At dinner, whenever I felt like it, I drank a cocktail and a glass of champagne. We were always accustomed to have wine served at these meals, but that was the extent of my drinking.” FUTILE ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK. Yeggmen Use Dynamite in Cogswell, N. D., and Then Flee. Cogswell, N. D.—Citizens, aroused at 1:15 a. m. Wednesday by three distinct explosions, poured out from their homes to find that yeggmen had bloxta off the front door of the safe in the Sargent County State bank, but had fled before they secured any loot. The robbers stole a handcar at Nicholsen on the Soo road and came here upon it. They transferred the car to the Milwaukee line and used it to make their escape. They abandoned the car near Newark, S. D., and attempted to conceal it in a cornfield. The authorities have - sent to Bismarck for hounds to track the fugitives and posses are out after them. CAR UPSETS; MAN IS KILLED. Dick Brink of Grand Rapids. Meets Death in Auto Accident. Holland, Mich.—While on an automobile trip from Grand Rapids to Holland Sunday night Dick Brink, Grand Rapids, a prominent merchant, was accidentally killed. While driving down a hill near Vriesland the steering gear broke and the automobile turned bottom side up in a ditch. The other members of the party, Mrs. Brink, Mr. and Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Tenbroeck, all of Grand Rapids, escaped with slight injuries. Can’t Take Liquor from Depot. Lawton. Okla. — It is a violation of the prohibition law for a transfer man or any other person to convey liquor from the railroad depot. Liquor shipped from without the state ceases to be interstate commerce after it leaves the carrier’s hands. This is the opinion of Judge J. H. Wolverton of the county court, announced in a liquor case here Wednesday. Minnesota Town Burned. St. Cloud, Minn. —Foley, the county seat of Benson county, Minn., a village of 1.000 people, was practically destroyed by fire. The place has little fire protection, only a gasoline engine. Owing to strong winds, the fire spread rapidly. St. Cloud was appealed to for aid, but could do nothing. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Mine Workers' Secretary Resigns. Pittsburg, Pa. —Announcement was made here Thursday that W. D. Ryan, national secretary-treasurer of the United Min*? Workers of America, had tendered his resignation and will accept the position of commissioner of arbitration of the Southwestern Coal Operators' association. Steamer Wrecked: Crew Saved. Nassau. New Providence.—The British steamer Hesieyside, Capt. Bedlington. from St. Michaels for Key West, was driven ashore on Abaco island in a hurricane October 1. The steamer is a total wreck, but the crew were saved and have arrived here. Bishop of Connecticut Stricken. Hartford, Conn. —Right Rev. Michael Tierney, Catholic bishop of the diocese of Connecticut, was stricken with apoplexy Saturday night and is in a critical condition. Georgian Dies on Shipboard. Tokyo.—-H. I’. Smart of Savannah, I Ga., died September 24 on beard the steamer Mongolian, while eu route to j this <:’v l his daughter, the I wife of Dr. Fuehr, secretary ot the German embassy. Mr. Smart's death I was due to double pneumonia. Fatal Runaway Accident. St. Louis -Mrs. C. H. Shea of Ham- ' ilton. Ont., and her husband were In I jured. the former probablv fatally, ir. । a runaway accident near Florrissaci