April 15, 1908

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Below, an old-fashioned lunatic–really crazy–is on trial in the killing of his ex-wife, who used to sleep with a knife under her pillow. He uses the "everything went black" defense … The Police Board appoints a committee to study scam artists who specialize in the occult: "slate writers, trance mediums," etc. … Quong Wai, who is fighting a deportation order, says he is an American born in San Francisco. He says immigration officers arrested him at a streetcar station without reason. 

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