n his case and the recent change of administration, and is fully
convinced that many important officials held over from the last
administration owe considerable gratitude to him; when he is seen in
his self-assumed most important role of the man of destiny, flooding
Congress, the Courts and many high officials with petitions, charges,
writs, and proposed investigations; when one sees the criminal code as
transformed by him; then one begins to get a proper perspective of the
grandiose phase of this man's mental disorder. It is impossible, of
course, with the limited space at our disposal, to even give the
briefest outline of his activities, but it might be stated that only
within the past several months he has succeeded in very ingeniously
getting his case before a considerable number of senators and
congressmen and many other prominent officials. Among the bills which
he proposes to have enacted into law, is one, as has been mentioned,
to abolish entirely the Courts of the District of Columbia. Of course,
courts which cannot administer justice, as he sees it, must be
abolished.

On his admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane, he really
welcomed the procedure, stating that at last he had the opportunity to
be under the supervision of a trained physician who would soon
discover that he was absolutely sane and would render a report to that
effect, thus vindicating him. Unfortunately for the physician, he did
not see his way clear to render such a report, and Y's amiability soon
changed into a very bitter antagonism towards the one who had
immediate charge of him, showing a great deal of rancor in his attacks
upon him, in spite of the fact that he has been accorded all sorts of
privileges. He has, of course, by this time consigned many hospital
officials to life imprisonment, and the amount of damages which he
expects to collect from them and the Government runs into fabulous
sums. He soon began to solicit the grievances of his fellow patients,
establishing, so to speak, a law office in miniature upon the ward;
and whereas formerly these patients in the criminal department merely
aired their grievances as they saw them, they now accompany them with
quotations from the statutes concerning these points furnished by this
legal missionary. Soon, however, even the insane patients on his ward
began to distrust him, and at the present time there is ha