Editing William Chester Minor (section)

==Mutilation, decline, and death==
Minor's condition deteriorated. In 1902, he was suffering delusions that he was being abducted nightly from his rooms and conveyed to such distant places as [[Istanbul]], where he was forced to commit sexual assaults on children. He cut off his own penis ([[penectomy|autopenectomy]]) to prevent such actions. He used a knife he otherwise used in his work on the dictionary.<ref name="forsyth">{{Citation| title = The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language | first = Mark | last = Forsyth |date=November 2011}}</ref> His health continued to worsen and, after Murray campaigned on his behalf, Minor was released in 1910 on the orders of the then Home Secretary, 35 year-old [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="forsyth"/>

Minor was deported back to the United States and resided at [[St. Elizabeths Hospital]]. There, he was diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]]. In 1919, he was moved to the [[Retreat for the Elderly Insane]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], where he died in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/66721.html |work=[[ODNB]]|title=Minor, William Chester|author= Winchester, Simon|author-link=Simon Winchester}}</ref>