ose
based on the same flimsy tissue of his distorted imagination he
actually realized on is not known. As far as can be ascertained, the
issue of insanity was never raised, at any rate by the Court, prior to
the perjury trial, and it was only when this master litigant, after
having been active as a complainant for a great number of years, at
last betrayed himself into committing a criminal offense that the
issue of insanity was brought up.

A prominent Maryland Judge, who had known X---- for over forty years,
had the following to say concerning him:--"I have known X---- for
forty years, and he is a general nuisance and menace; he is crazy on
getting money, and for years has been manufacturing bogus judgments
against citizens of this and Montgomery Counties and the
A. E. Company. At one time he held judgments against that Company for
a million dollars for an imaginary wrong, all of which were eventually
gotten rid of on the ground that they were fraudulent. He also, in
some fraudulent way obtained judgments against our County
Commissioners, without their knowledge, for $1,500, which were
impounded by Judge M---- of the United States Court at B----, where as
a then non-resident he brought suit to recover on them. He then went
down to Dickinson County, a remote section of Southwestern Virginia,
and obtained other judgments for some four or five million dollars
against the County and various citizens, which were obtained by
perjury and forgery. They were eventually set aside. His brother died
in 1907, and I became one of the sureties on the executor's bond; last
year a judgment turned up here against the executor and his sureties
for $17,000, which purported to have been given by the Circuit Court
for said D---- County. It was a forgery all the way through; even the
Seal of the Court to the certificate was a forgery. I wrote the Judge
of the Court and he answered very promptly, stating that no such suit
had ever been entered and that the judgment was a myth. We succeeded
in impounding this judgment. No one up here feels safe when X---- is
at large. We have suffered a great deal of trouble and expense in
trying to protect ourselves against him, and everybody regards him as
being not only insane but also a very dangerous man."

On admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane, July 9, 1907,
he was found to be a fairly well-preserved man for his age