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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 18,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>CARLOAD OF INSANE SPEEDING EASTWARD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Will be Deported to Respective Countries Under Recent
Provision of Immigration Regulations</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> San Francisco, Feb. 17--A specially
constructed car started Tuesday for New York, carrying fourteen insane aliens
taken from California insane asylums.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> On the arrival at New York the patients will
be deported to their respective countries under the recent provision of the
immigration regulations that any alien showing insanity within three years after
coming to this country will be returned to his native land.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The car, which will be attached to a fast
overland train, is equipped with padded walls and barred windows. Its
crew, besides the immigration officers in charge, will consist of two matrons
and six men attendants.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Although this probably did not involve the N&W or
Virginian, it did involve railroads, and it reveals what today is probably
a little-known practice for dealing with some mental patients in
those days.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>