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Eating Watermelons
When [Dr. Krohn, prosecution psychiatrist] testified my mind carried
me back to the time when I was a kid, which was some years ago, and we
used to eat watermelons. I have seen little boys take a rind of watermelon
and cover their whole faces with water, eat it, devour it, and have the
time of their lives, up to their ears in watermelon. And when I heard Dr.
Krohn testify in this case, to take the blood of these two boys, I could
see his mouth water with the joy it gave him, and he showed all the delight
and pleasure of myself and my young companions when we ate watermelon....
I can never imagine a real physician who cared for life or who thought
of anything excepting cash, gloating over his testimony, as Dr. Krohn did
in this case.