octor. Upon being paroled, he returned to Olean and obtained a
position in a tannery where he worked for six months, receiving two
dollars per night. He was drinking heavily all this time, and one
night, failing to return to work, owing to his intoxicated condition,
was discharged. He states that the above is the longest he ever worked
at any occupation since. Shortly after being discharged, he was
arrested in company with several others for robbing a post office. He
was about twenty-three years of age then. He claims that he had
nothing to do with this robbery, and it was just an unfortunate
accident that he got mixed up in it. He was placed in the jail, and
while there the warden tried to poison him. He developed various ideas
that poison was placed in his food, that his stomach was all dried up,
and because he would not eat, he adds: "They sent him over to this
Hospital,--the Government Hospital for the Insane."

He was admitted here the first time on May 29, 1904, on a medical
certificate which stated: "About April 19, 1904, he refused to take
food and claimed to be kidnapped. He had delusions of
persecution--said his head was full of nails and requested that his
brain be cut up. Said the President was his friend."

On August 1st, he eloped while at work in company with another
patient. The record of his mental disturbance at that time is very
meagre, and nothing of a definite nature can be obtained from it.

From here he beat part of his way, and walked part of the way to
Cincinnati, where he had a sister living. One night he heard her
talking to her husband about sending him back to the hospital, so he
robbed them of what money they had in the house, bought a revolver and
returned to Olean. He says he bought the revolver to protect himself
from a certain police captain at Olean. He frequently refers to this
man in a vindictive and abusive manner. States that this police
captain was after him all the time; that whenever any crime was
committed in the city, he was immediately suspected. He was "tired of
this" and bought the gun, intending to kill the police officer if he
should bother him any more. Here he adds: "Anyhow, the cur was killed
afterwards, I am glad of it." After a series of crimes, tramping and
debauchery, during which he suffered from an attack of delirium
tremens, and served a sentence of nine months in a Pennsylvania jail,
he w