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On 2/27/1859, Daniel Sickles (10/20/1825-2/27/14) shot Philip Key. He went
on to achieve immortality by becoming the 1st USian acquited on the
defence of temporary insanity. However, this did not become an easy
defence to uphold:
My name is Charles Guiteau, my name I'll never deny.
To leave my aged parents in sorrow for to die.
But little did I think, while in my youthful bloom,
I'd be carried to the scaffold to meet my fatal doom.
I tried to play off insane, I found that would not do.
The people all against me, it proved to make no show.
Judge Cox passed the sentence, the clerk he wrote it down,
On the thirtieth day of June to die I was condemned.
"Charles Guiteau," Lomax, FS of NA
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