was indicted on the 2nd of April, 1906, by the grand jury of said
court, for perjury; the grand jury was about to adjourn, as they had
no evidence upon which to indict me, but they were called back to do
so in order to please the A. E. Company. The grand jury was authorized
to indict me in order to please the A. E. Company, as I was later told
by several members of that jury. I have also been told by numerous
detectives that they were hired by the A. E. Company to watch me." He
continues in his brief:--"I was kept in jail until the eve of the 13th
of February, 1905, when the jail doors were suddenly thrown open and I
was told to go home, the same as the circumstances related in the
Bible concerning St. Paul and Silas, who were in prison and during the
night their chains fell off, the prison doors opened and they were set
free by the hand of God. I believe the same thing happened to me; I
was released by the hand of God."

He further states:--"There are more than 17,000 newspapers in the
United States, and these people had it printed in 10,000 of them that
I had committed perjury. I sued them for slander, and a more just and
upright case or grievance for bringing suit could never be found."

Attention might be called here to the grandiose phase of his disorder.
His was no common slander; it was published in 10,000 newspapers.
Neither was his release from prison an ordinary everyday occurrence,
but resembled the Biblical episode of St. Paul's release from prison.
Later on, when through advancing years his intellect is becoming more
and more enfeebled, he expresses his grandiose ideas in a more direct
and naive manner. He tells the physician that he knows the law better
than any living authority; that none of the so-called judges around
town can compare with him; that he has made a brief of a case which
could not be duplicated by anyone. He is likewise the greatest
physician, and he will prove this when he gets to court. At this
writing he is beginning to show evidence of senile deterioration and
is no longer the keen manipulator of the law of years ago. He
endeavors now to gain his ends by more direct and extremely puerile
and childish methods. To illustrate:--His physician had left the
institution about a year ago, and soon afterwards X---- produced an
affidavit purporting to have been made by this physician in which he
set forth that X---- was sound m