as again arrested for a post office robbery and sentenced to five
years at Leavenworth, whence he was transferred to this institution
April 7, 1911.

As has been stated, he commenced to indulge in alcoholics at a very
early age and has continued this habit during his lifetime. He states
that he had an attack of delirium tremens, during which he received a
severe burn on his left arm by jumping out of a window into a bonfire,
while trying to escape imaginary persecutors. During the years
1903-04, he was addicted to the steady use of morphine and cocaine. He
has led a very loose sexual life; has been infected with gonorrhoea on
numerous occasions, and contracted syphilis several years ago. He has
never married. He intended to marry once, but the girl, he discovered,
was not true to him, so he gave her up. He is a Catholic, attends
church occasionally when at liberty, and was in the habit of going to
confession while at the Penitentiary.

The medical certificate on his present admission stated that on the
night of March 20, 1911, the patient was reported for shouting while
in his cell, claiming that invisible enemies were shocking him with
electricity. There were no symptoms observable before that. Has
delusions of persecution in which invisible enemies are continually
shocking him with electricity and other means and are planning to do
him other bodily harm.

He complained of not being able to sleep and of being tortured. Said
they wired his cell and gave him an electric shock; that he spoke to
the President of the United States and was told that the latter would
visit him.

On March 22d, complained of being choked by supposed workmen. Later he
stated that he had been kidnapped at Erie, Pennsylvania, and expected
the President of the United States to get him out in a few days. He
requested the doctor to send for a priest, complained that they had
failed to send for the President as promised. Said that he had
received a severe shock the night before from the people upstairs, and
stated that they had stored two thousand volts to turn on him.
Following this, he was restless at night and was apprehensive of being
burned to death. Finally he wrote a letter to the President in which
he complained that his life and health were in grave danger; that he
was the victim of a conspiracy, and was being detained illegally at
the Penitentiary, stating that whe