Emil S. made a number of statements when he came for examination. He had once had a treatment by injections. Both his mother and his grandmother had been insane. He said that his brother was an officer in the navy, but this statement was found to be false. According to his story, he had lost touch with his troop at the end of September, 1914, and had lived in several lodgings in T---- up to October 19, when he was arrested. He said that he did not know that a man who had lost touch with his troop had to report. A week after his arrest, S. entered a shop and asked for coffee, saying that he had a furlough of 24 hours and wanted cake for his comrades. He said he was the owner of an estate and would send a roebuck for the cakes. The shop-man gave him cakes to the value of one mark. Bystanders said that he had been lodging in T---- for about two weeks. It seems that he had told his landlady that a city official had quartered him upon her and that he was on furlough. He went away in the morning and came back in the evening. He had written to a bank of which he had once been a representative, asking for money. One night he had lodged with another landlady, being given a meal, and he had there stated that he was in the City of T---- on duty and that his horse was in the barracks. He offered a thousand marks for his board and lodging. At another lodging he had given himself out as a courier. In fact, the letter to the above-mentioned bank had been signed “Otto S., Land-owner, at present, courier.” “If I do not revoke this in person or by writing on January 1, 1915, I beg you to pay to Mr. and Mrs. M. of T----, one thousand marks and deduct it from my balance. “This is to be considered as my last will. As witness: present: Joseph B.” The letter was addressed “To the direction of Commercial-Counsellor P----.” There was no stamp on the letter. A second letter reads: “Honored Sir, Commercial Counsellor: I beg you to send by return mail to the address given below 1000 marks, and deduct this amount from my account. I have been in Russia. Well, things are moving now. Thank God, we have reached the point we have. Write me please more in detail about my property and estate and give me your very valuable advice. With best regards to your esteemed wife, I remain Sincerely and respectfully yours, Otto S., at present courier, otherwise, land-owner.” As for this Commercial-Counsellor P., P.’s son stated that his father had been dead for three years and a half. S. gave himself out in T---- as a land-owner, falsifying his name, asking for beer to the amount of a mark a day, borrowing from his landlady ten marks, paying nothing, but remaining on friendly terms with the landlady and her women lodgers, making a contract with a superintendent ostensibly for his estate, and borrowing money from him.