ix months which he served in Brixton's Military
Prison, London. In 1887, at the age of nineteen, under the name of
Henry Sayers, he joined the Welsh Division of the Royal Artillery,
whence he deserted two months later and sold a kit and coat belonging
to another recruit; was apprehended, tried and given a sentence of six
months. In all, he was dishonorably discharged from the service seven
times. In 1892, at the age of twenty-four, he immigrated to this
country. On arriving here he worked about a month at railroading and
then enlisted in the Army, deserted after serving three months, and
crossed the Canadian Border. He subsequently returned and gave himself
up to a sheriff, was court-martialed, dishonorably discharged, and
given a sentence of one year and a half. After being released he
resumed his nomadic existence but in a more pronounced manner. Since
1895, he has had no definite occupation, subsisting on begging,
stealing, and peddling minor articles, chiefly on the two former. He
has spent most of his life since then in penitentiaries and
workhouses, and when at liberty, in cheap boarding-houses and
missions. As far as he can recall he has been arrested twenty-two
times for vagrancy since 1895, served four years at Moundsville and
Atlanta for robbery, and six months for theft. He commenced to indulge
in alcoholics at a very early age and has been an excessive drinker
all his life. Has been intoxicated on numerous occasions and has had
delirium tremens twice. In 1897 he indulged in opium smoking for
thirteen days and in 1904 sniffed cocaine for a similar period. On
three or four occasions in his life he has had sexual experiences
with men and there is a definite history of inversion. He has been
married twice. His conjugal life with his first wife was a very
unhappy one. He attributes this entirely to his own fault. There were
three children from this union, all of whom died in infancy. He left
his first wife without obtaining a divorce from her and subsequently,
in 1898, married again. This union was happier than the former one.
His second wife, however, died in 1905. There were no children from
this union. He acquired gonorrhoea and syphilis in 1899. In 1907 he
prepared an elaborate attempt at suicide, purchased a dagger for this
purpose, and set June 13th for the date. He was, however, arrested
shortly before this and thus his plan was frustrated