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twain-new-642	Mark Twain	A New Crime			.epub	application/epub+zip	1724	83	76	This country, during the last thirty or forty years, has produced some of the most remark able cases of insanity of which there is any mention in history. And on both these occasions the circumstances of the killing were so aggravated, and the murders so seemingly heartless and treacherous, that if Baldwin had not been insane he would have been hanged without the shadow of a doubt. This remark, and another which he made to a friend, that his position in society made the killing of an obscure citizen simply an "eccen tricity" instead of a crime, were shown to be evi dences of insanity, and so Hackett escaped punish ment. However, it is not possible to recount all the mar velous cases of insanity that have come under the public notice in the last thirty or forty years.	./cache/twain-new-642.epub	./txt/twain-new-642.txt