The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder CasesGoddard, Henry Herbert
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The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder Cases
Goddard, Henry Herbert
Crime -- Case studies; Murder -- Case studies; Offenders with mental disabilities -- Case studies
After we finished milking, we took the milk down to the milk house;
then I went back to the barn to feed the horses. While I was feeding
them, George came up from the milk house to feed the calf. I generally
fed the calf. George seldom did it. In feeding the horse, I had to
carry hay around from the old horse stable to the new one. In going
around for some hay, I met George right outside the old horse stable
door. He said, "Lew will be around here pretty soon. You can get him
then." After I had finished feeding the horses, I took the fork over
to the old stable. As I was doing so, Lew went in the new stable. I
met George at the stable door when I came out from putting the fork
away. George said, "He's in the new horse stable; go get him." I went
in and told Lew there was a nail in the last stall next to the box
stall and that he had better look at it. He went up to look at it, and
while looking at the place I told him, I struck him on the head with
the blackjack. He turned part way around, threw up his arm, and said,
"Hey, what are you doing?" I struck at him some more; he rushed at me
and we clinched. This happened in the stall alongside a horse. After
we clinched we got out into the passageway, back of the horses. Lew
soon got the blackjack away from me. As we came out into the
passageway, I think I saw George near the door. He afterwards told me
he heard when I hit Lew first and that he came in, and that while Lew
and I were wrestling, Lew made a grab for him and knocked his glasses
off. Lew and I tussled quite a while up and down the passage back of
the horses; Lew was hollering all the time; I think we went down
once, got up again, and went down again, with Lew on top of me; then I
got on top of him. At about that time he called for George; George
must have gone out in the meantime, for when Lew called for him, I
remember the door being opened and George coming in. He came up and
asked Lew what was the matter, whether the horses kicked him. Lew
said, "Yes, yes, help me." George stooped over and whispered to me,
"Where is the blackjack?" I told him Lew had it. Lew then said,
"George, you are no kind of a man." Whether George got the blackjack
or not I don't know. He then went around by Lew's head and started
kicking. I had my hand on Lew's head and the first kick George made he
kicked my knuckles. I then left go of Lew and got up. While getting up
George was continuing to kick him in the head. After continuing to
kick him in the head after I got up, George went around and kicked and
stamped Lew in the side. Then he stopped--and said as though to
himself--"Which side is his heart on?" Then he started to kick him on
the other side. After a while he stopped. I don't remember whether he
said anything to me or not. Anyhow, George took him by the head and
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