wife for six years, when
she left him on account of infidelity, non-support and drunkenness.
One miscarriage and one apparently healthy child were the results of
this union.

He came in conflict with the law for the first time at the age of
twelve or thirteen for some offense against the person. We have an
incomplete record of his criminal career, but this can easily be
surmised when we take into consideration that part of it which we do
possess. Between March, 1903, and December, 1910, he was arrested
thirteen times for assault, twenty-eight times for disorderly, and
drunk and disorderly, twice for housebreaking, once for petty larceny
and twice for vagrancy. Habitual drunkenness, destruction of private
property, and depredation on house furniture, add to the list of
charges against him. During this period he served a penitentiary
sentence, was tried for murder, and acquitted on a second trial on a
plea of self-defense, and on four different occasions, was ordered to
be examined mentally. Following a debauch, during which he was
arrested three times for assault, he developed a mental disorder in
jail while awaiting trial, which necessitated his transfer to the
Government Hospital for the Insane.

He developed the idea that someone was always around him looking for a
chance to kill him. Continually heard strange voices and noises. Was
very nervous and irritable.

The records accompanying him stated that for years he had had a
particularly bad and dangerous temper. That he had had several
previous attacks of mental disorder; had repeatedly committed
assaults, and was found not guilty of murder seven years ago--an act
of insanity. Had been arrested by the Washington police about
seventy-five times.

His mental disturbance soon cleared up, and on admission to the
hospital he was absolutely free from any psychotic manifestations.

He was a well-developed man of average intellectual attainments. He
was somewhat unstable emotionally, and his promises to lead a better
life in the future were usually accompanied by a good deal of crying.
He was a monumental liar, and although endeavoring to impress the
examiner with the idea of being quite remorseful about his past life,
it was clearly evident that his moral status was a very low one and
that his promises and resolutions were merely brought forth to aid him
in securing his freedom. He was extensi