says he did, believing he
had carried out the terms of his parole, promptly returned to
Washington and resumed his former activities. The first thing he did
upon his return was to have the following two bills introduced in
Congress, both of which are wholly based on his delusional ideas:--

"H. R. Bill xxxx, January 11, 1910. Mr. A. introduced the following
bill, which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and
returned to be printed:--A bill to correct the military record of
X----. Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress Assembled, that the Secretary of
War be and is hereby authorized and directed to correct and amend the
military record of X----, late assistant surgeon instead of nurse, so
as to read: X----, Assistant Surgeon of the United States Army, on the
12th day of April, 1863, and to place the name of X---- upon the
retired list of the United States Army as Assistant Surgeon."

The second bill was as follows:--

"Senate Bill xxx. Referred to the Committee on Claims. A bill for the
relief of X----. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress
Assembled, that the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby
authorized to pay out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, to X----, formerly a resident of W., in the State of
Maryland, the sum of $45,600, being the amount of the loss sustained
by said X---- in property and business while he was performing
important service for the Government in the year 1863, and in
recognition of valuable service rendered the United States, and
compensation for loss resulting from his causing the arrest of a
Confederate Spy, at the opening of the Gettysburg campaign, thereby
defeating the Confederate plan to capture the two thousand or more
government wagons loaded with the munitions of war of the Union Army,
which sum shall be in full of all claims and demands upon the part of
said X---- against the Government of the United States by reason of
the premises."

The patient was soon apprehended and returned to the Government
Hospital for the Insane, where he is at present.

In an extremely interesting brief of his case, prepared by the patient
himself, which, unfortunately, is too lengthy to be given in its
entirety here, he states, among other things:--

"I