andoned cellar, and that it
was therefore an unhealthy place for the child. Upon regaining his
freedom he began to investigate the ground upon which the grand jury
indicted him, and soon, he states, he discovered that the District
Attorney's office committed a gigantic fraud by having maliciously
misrepresented the case to the grand jury; this body, he says, was led
to believe that the Ohio decree granting his wife the guardianship of
the child held good in the District, whereas the law of the District
specifically states that no extra-territorial decree should be
recognized within the District. He further discovered that Mr. J., his
wife's attorney, knowingly and maliciously became a party to this
fraud, and he immediately proceeded to file charges of mal-practice
against this attorney before the Grievance Committee of the District
Bar Association. The result of this was that the patient was charged
with libel in the Criminal Court. To his great surprise, he says, the
Court recognized this charge and found him guilty of same. While
awaiting sentence he was adjudged insane by a jury and committed to
the Government Hospital for the Insane. He believes this commitment is
the result of a deep-laid conspiracy on the part of the District
Attorney's office and some of the District Judges. These officials, he
believes, were afraid of him because at a hearing before a Senate
Committee he started to expose their fraudulent conduct. The judges
were prejudiced against him throughout, and it might be interesting to
mention here that among the multitudinous bills which he had proposed
for enactment into law since in the Government Hospital for the
Insane, there is one which is intended to abolish entirely the Courts
of the District of Columbia, so that unfortunates like him might get a
chance before unprejudiced judges. This deep conspiracy against him,
he is convinced, dates as far back as 1906, when the Ohio Courts
appointed his wife guardian of his child.

No great difficulty need be experienced in forming an opinion of this
man's mental status after having followed his history thus far, but
when we further read that, during his sojourn in the Government
Hospital for the Insane, he has evinced the most persistent tendency
to weave into his delusional system every important occurrence of
local or even national interest, that he sees a clear relationship
betwee