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three goats, which promptly died under the same conditions 

 as the cattle. He became discouraged, sold his hay to be 

 fed to horses only, and sold his farm. 



The servant found employment with another party in 

 Schwartzenbach. Here, as in the preceding place, a heifer, 

 a goat, four oxen, and a cow soon became ill. Three oxen 

 were buried. The flesh of the other cattle was used for food. 

 The investigator was struck with the similarity of the mu- 

 tilations of the sexual organs with those observed in Wolf- 

 ikon. A Capuchin monk, evidently a good judge of men, 

 when consulted, advised the discharge of the servant. The 

 losses became noised about the neighborhood and were at- 

 tributed to the young man who had cared for the cattle. On 

 November 12, 1895, he obtained a new position in Ricken- 

 bach, not far away from his previous place. Fourteen days 

 later, a cow cared for by this man sickened like the preceding 

 and had to be destroyed. Autopsy revealed a finger-sized 

 fistulous wound in the rectum, two blood-covered lacerations 

 in the vagina, and hemorrhage into the peritoneal cavity. 

 On the next day a cow died suddenly from symptoms of 

 vaginal and rectal hemorrhage. A third animal had to be 

 destroyed on November 29. In the vagina only one perfor- 

 ating wound was found, but in the rectum thirty-five, six of 

 which were perforating. A fourth animal injured would 

 probably recover. The servant was discharged and a few 

 days later arrested. At first he denied his guilt, but later 

 confessed that he had caused the injuries by forcing a stick 

 into the rectum and vagina and pushing it back and forth 

 until the animal bled. The culprit was twenty-four years 

 old and a capable worker in stable and field. He was good- 

 natured but represented as wanting in judgment. In Wolf- 

 ikon, the scene of his first crimes, he was three years in one 

 position, but apparently he had come to sexual maturity 

 very late and part of the period of service preceded this. 

 His teacher, the local pastor, and the alienist who observed 

 him after arrest regarded him as of very low intelligence. 

 The size of the cranium was below normal. In the hearing, 



