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mitted to the Central Insane Hospital. Six months later he 
was released as cured. The fact is that he has not recovered 
and at the present time it is often necessary for the neighbors 
to come in to help restrain him. It is not unusual for him to 
be kept tied in his room for several weeks at a time. He lives 
with his children. 
Walter Miller, the second son of John, was born in Town- 
ship 12 in 1854. He attended school for 3 months as a boy 
and says that he has since “edicated himself'7 He has always 
been peculiar and unreasonable. For years he has been 
threatening to kill a neighbor who he thinks is trying to steal 
his farm. He also imagines that people are following him, 
that his wife is untrue to him, etc. He has always been a 
very immoral man. Most of his sex offenses have been against 
the women of his own family. In January, 1910, he was sent 
to the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane where a diagnosis 
of Manic Depressive was made. 
In March, 1918, he was visited in his home, where he ap- 
peared very friendly. He is even strained in his expressions 
of friendliness. He seems ill at ease. He is very suspicious 
of even the most harmless of remarks. He cannot get it out 
of his mind for a single moment that some of his neighbors, 
one in particular, are trying to steal his farm. One night he 
lay in watch for him, and when a calf ambled across the 
barnlot blazed away at it with his shotgun, supposing it to be 
this neighbor coming to steal the farm. While talking every 
little bit he would come back to the question “Has anybody 
been complaining?” While talking he acts as if he were con- 
sciously trying to see every little gesture of each person in the 
room. He is very boastful, thinking that he does things a lit- 
tle better than anyone else. He often repeats the statement 
that he is very religious and spends all his spare time reading 
his Bible. At the same time his profanity is very noticeable. 
Walter has 8 children, 1 of them being feeble-minded. Rolla 
is a tall, well-built fellow, 24 years old. He is very bashful, 
never talking to anyone if he can help it. When visitors come, 
he is never seen. The boys in the neighborhood say that he is 
such an adept at hiding that he can be only a few feet away 
and never be seen by a stranger. He really does seem to have 
an extraordinary ability for effacing himself. 
Maud, the third child of John Miller by his first wife, is a 
