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freed, would a become. ‘insane. “Heanwhile, - vafter ter each “meal, r, she felt — an aggravation oss condition, and . and all A.. of fantastic shapes and images kept coming and going before her eyes, so that i the faces of the kidnappers and jailers. appearcd to her as weird and horrible masks; that she was able. to properly comprehend only the reiterated statement "We are going to kild you." | pinally, under these ‘Sredouxes, her mind became more confused and distorted. “Further weird, concepts and images appeared before her, and she was unable to distinguish between | wnat was real and what was imaginary. She -finally came to the realization that she was becoming insane, and fought to ward off this condition. Among the things that most served to deprive her _ | | | of her sanity was the statement repeated to her many times that her mother and fathex had abandoned her, that they had offered a reward of $50,000 to have her brought in dead or alive, and that they Were working with the FBI to destroy her. | Ber recollection of ‘everything that transpired from shortly after the bank incident up to the time that she was arres- ; t ted, has been a though ghe lived in a fog, in which she was con- ee fused, still unable to distinguish between actuality and fantasy, and in a perpetual state of terror. A short while before her arrest, she began to experienc. t “i lucia intervals in which her. sanity briefly reappeared, and durin: one of these, she began to doubt that her parents were involved in” ; f any pian for her destruction, and wished, by some contrivance, to - , m ears what their feelings toward her were, and whether they woul? 4 | accept her ‘back and give her some of the help which she so dcs~ : & perately needed. For this purpose. she decided to return to San ' 3 ss +3 + Francisco, to try to find. some method of establishing common? cas 5 “4 tion, with her parents, to discover. whether or not rhe was +o reais!”