n he was walking peaceably along the
railroad track, he was kidnapped by enemies who had a design upon his
life. He was arrested and while in jail these same officers robbed the
post office and later accused him of the crime. They bribed a witness
to testify at the trial against him and because of this he received an
unjust sentence of five years. He believed that the friends of the
chief of police of his home town, Olean, New York, were paying large
sums of money to the warden of the Leavenworth Penitentiary in an
endeavor to have him electrocuted, and that their efforts had nearly
proven successful, as he had been tortured night and day for the past
month, in fact he was unable to stand it any longer, and if the
President did not come to his relief at once, he intended to take the
matter in his own hands and make short work of the warden. He thought
he was accused of the murder of the police officer who was killed in
his home town, but he insisted that at the time of the murder he was
locked up in jail, hence could not have done this.

The patient continued in this trend of thought and conduct until his
transfer to this institution, April 7, 1911.

On admission here he talked in a coherent manner, was clear mentally
and quite well oriented. He reiterated the story given above,
namely,--that he was kidnapped in Pennsylvania on a trumped-up charge
of post office robbery, was tried by a "phony" court and sentenced to
five years at Leavenworth. Soon after arriving there the warden had an
electrical apparatus rigged up with which he was tortured constantly.
He complained to the doctor about this and begged to be put in a cell
so he could get some sleep as he could not sleep in his cell on
account of these electric shocks. He heard them saying from above that
they were going to torture him. One night they had him paralyzed on
one side.

In an endeavor to explain these persecutions he stated that probably
the railroad police who arrested him were friends of the police
captain at Olean with whom he had had trouble for a long time, and who
was later killed by someone; that probably they blamed him for this
killing, and that for this reason they framed up the charge of post
office robbery against him. He believed that the electrocuting which
he was receiving at Leavenworth was a part of this scheme to get rid
of him, as he knew that the police captain at