W. S. NEEDHAM
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GREENSBORO, N.C.

Greensboro, N.C.
Sept. 22. 1913.¹

Hon. Locke Craig,
Raleigh, N.C.

Your Excellency:-

Don't you think a legislature should make provision in our New Constitution for providing a Prison for the criminal insane like they have in New York. Our Legislature passed an act several years ago making provisions for one: but the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional, so it is necessary to engraft it in the constitution. I have known murderers to go scot free on the plea of insanity and every body said such should not be the case. Hoping that such an institution will founded,

I am,

Yours with Highes Regards

W. S. Needham.

1. Though this item was stamped "answered" on September 22, 1913, the governor's reply was not found among his papers.