Formerly criminals in Iceland were put in the lunatic asylum. The Icelanders could not understand anyone being so foolish as to commit a crime, and being an exceedingly kind-hearted folk thought all criminals must be insane.
From the editorial page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Oct. 31, 1925
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