He called at a house just after dark one evening, knocked, and when the occupant came to the door, shot him dead, and then tried to escape, but was captured.
Two days before, he had wantonly insulted a helpless cripple, and the man he afterward took swift vengeance upon with an assassin bullet had knocked him down.

Such was the Baldwin case.

The trial was long and exciting; the community was fearfully wrought up.

Men said this spiteful, bad-hearted villain had caused grief enough in his time, and now he should satisfy the law.

But they were mistaken; Baldwin was insane when he did the deed--they had not thought of that.