d to a very
marked degree morally. He gave his past history without the least sign
of regret and when questioned concerning the reason of his criminal
life, he objected strenuously to being called a criminal, insisting
that what he did was right. At times he impressed one by his mode of
reaction to various daily occurrences as being as naive as a child
and suggestible to a very marked degree. He frequently threatened to
commit suicide if refused some of his impossible requests and showed a
marked tendency to hypochondriasis and exaggeration of actual ills. On
this basis he developed various persecutory ideas, exclusively against
those who had anything to do with his care and safe-keeping. The
warden at the jail before he came here tried to poison him and took
the opportunity of accomplishing this while he (the patient) was
undergoing an operation. The Government sent Secret Service men down
to watch him and persecute him. Here the physicians are doing the same
thing. They are trying to down him, to make his life miserable for
him, etc. Throughout his sojourn here he was clearly oriented, knew
everything that was going on and failed to show the least indication
of the existence of a deteriorating process. He showed also a marked
tendency to write a good deal of poetry and fiction in which he spoke
of himself as a martyr who had been persecuted and downed all his
lifetime. His stories were of a fantastic, adventurous kind, in which
gambling, shooting, and similar highly melodramatic situations were
enacted. On July 17, 1911, he was returned to prison as recovered.
Another point of interest in this case and one to which I have briefly
alluded before, was his tendency to the exaggeration of symptoms and
to malingering, but the malingering which he manifested was of the
kind that the child manifests in an endeavor to attract attention to
itself and to arouse the sympathy of those about him.

Here again we have before us a kaleidoscopic picture of the life of a
human being who from childhood showed tendencies so antisocial, so
criminalistic, that it is hard to get away from the belief that most of
the attributes which went to make him just what he is, must have been
inherited. Let us take this poorly-begotten organism and follow it
through life. We shall see how its existence has been a continuous round
of conflicts with everything it came in contact. He entered school an