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to attend to theirs. She is 50 years old, according to her own 
statement, but from her rugged appearance it would be im- 
possible to judge her age. She is very talkative, and at first 
one is inclined to believe that she is intelligent, but when her 
utterances are analyzed they are found to consist mainly of 
a steady stream of words which do not mean much. She 
believes in witches and goblins but says that the half-grown 
boys near her do more damage than either. She is of a very 
optimistic disposition; she says that she sees no reason why 
she should not laugh all the time since she knows that the 
good Lord will protect and not forget her. 
Home from which Annie Luigi >vas committed. 
Annie, the daughter of Clara, was born September 25, 
1885. When a young girl she was immoral and contracted a 
venereal disease. She then went to Chicago to live with her 
Aunt Mary, who is said to be a practical nurse. There she 
was treated and supposedly cured. Mrs. Robert Allen says 
that Mary is a prostitute and has ‘dots of girls in the house 
with her’'. A part of the time in Chicago Annie spent work- 
ing in a factory, cleaning bottles. As a child, she could not 
get along very well in school. She quit at the age of 13 when 
she had reached the second grade. 
At the age of 22, she married Jim Luigi. He worked in 
a stone quarry part of the time and kept a “blind tiger” all 
the time. He was very good to Annie in his way, but his idea 
of goodness consisted mainly in getting her more beer when 
