rd of the man in this regard is
rather incomplete, but according to his record at the Secret Service
Bureau, he was sentenced in 1890 to a two years' term for highway
robbery. In 1902 to three years for counterfeiting; in 1904 to three
and a-half, and in 1908 to six years for the same offense. These
sentences were incurred under various aliases. He married at a very
early age. He says he made up his mind one night to get married and
two days later was married. His conjugal life, like everything else he
engaged in, proved a failure and was characterized by repeated
desertions. He commenced using alcoholics at a very early age and has
indulged excessively all his lifetime. He has had several gonorrhoeal
infections, and has an active luetic infection at the present time.
On May 5, 1908, he was sentenced to a six years' term of
imprisonment. Soon after it became necessary to perform an operation
for appendicitis, and upon recovering he began to complain of having
been cut open and of having had poison put inside of him. The U. S.
Government sent men down to the prison who were threatening to kill
him. He saw detectives from Washington whom he recognized. He was very
apprehensive and refused to submit himself to an examination, and made
homicidal attacks upon the officers. On March 8, 1909, he was admitted
to this institution. His conduct here was characterized throughout his
entire stay by the same attributes of character which were at play
throughout his entire antisocial existence. He was at all times very
emotional. He was very sensitive, becoming offended on the least
provocation, and when laboring under some imaginary grievance his
antagonism and vindictiveness knew no bounds. He was constantly
plotting and scheming some means of inciting a revolt among the other
inmates and took every opportunity to put himself forth as the
champion of the other patients. He was very egotistical and vain and
showed a marked tendency to interpret most trivial occurrences in his
environment as having some reference to him. He was always ready to
endow every incident with a personal note of prejudice. He showed
throughout marked fluctuations of mood. One never knew what sort of a
reception one would meet. He was a pathological liar, was keenly alert
to everything that transpired about him and was always ready to
utilize every incident to his own advantage. He was deprave