constantly misunderstood. The
whole "white slavery" episode for which he is unjustly made to suffer
ten years' imprisonment was a trumped-up affair on the part of the
sheriff, who was bound to make a case out of it. He married the girl
with the best of intentions, and when arrested was with her on the way
to the Atlantic coast, preparatory to sailing for Paris, where he
intended to give her a splendid time. She testified against him at the
trial because she was scared into it by the officials, and, being
naturally of a weak nervous organization, she gave in. He was certain
he was going to die if he had to serve out his sentence, because
prison life is so different from the life he has led in the past. He
is entirely too refined to be able to stand the rough life of
imprisonment. Referred the examiner to the Austrian Embassy, which
could readily establish his noble descent and get him out of this
terrible predicament. When, later in his sojourn here, he was
interviewed by several gentlemen from the Austrian Embassy he
maintained the same attitude of wronged innocence, notwithstanding the
fact that these gentlemen confronted him with an undoubtedly genuine
photograph of himself, obtained from the Austrian police. It seems
that he was quite a famous character in Austria, and had served a
sentence there under a different name for a similar offense (white
slavery). Soon after his arrival at the Government Hospital for the
Insane he began to scheme for his escape, and on one occasion
attempted to saw the guards in his room with an improvised saw. He
likewise began to associate freely with the more dangerous element of
the criminal department of this hospital, quite likely with a view
towards getting assistance for his escape. He spoke with reluctance of
his ideas concerning the inventions, adding that he had decided to
quit talking about these things, because, although he is quite
convinced of the extreme value of these original ideas of his, people
have told him he was crazy wherever he expressed them. As an
illustration of some of these extremely valuable original ideas the
following may be mentioned. It concerns a bed-bug trap which he
invented, and which he described as a paper pocket which is placed in
the bed and scented with oil of pine so as to attract the bed-bugs.
These make their home in this paper pocket and lay their eggs there,
after which i