Fact #58740
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A blind deaf mute black youth is found by two police officers in an alleyway in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA, and taken into custody. He will be committed to an institution later that month under the name John Doe No24. He will never be positively identified, and will spend the rest of his life being cared for by the state. When Mary Chapin Carpenter reads his obituary many years later, she will write her song John Doe No24.
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