DEAR SIR: I wish to return at once to England to the Cissel Hotel. You
told me not to take my wife back after the courts here had granted me
a divorce, so I look to you to just please come on here in person and
have me released, as the United States Senate has given permission for
you to come and release me. I am the young man that rescued you from
drowning at River View, and after telling you my case you advised me
to get a divorce. The guests from the hotel were wishing for me to
return when on here, as also my family.
Please find enclosed check for your expenses and give prompt action.
Very respectfully,
(W. H. M.) HOWARD HALL,
Washington, D.C.
The check:--
U. S. Treasury,
Pa. Ave. and 15th Street.
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 1, 1914.
Please pay to King George of England Ten Thousand Dollars for
professional services.
$10,000 W. H. M.
Thus by the mere stroke of the pen he, a poor mortal accused of murder
and indefinitely confined to an institution, succeeds in putting himself
in touch with King George, in drawing _ad libitum_ upon the United
States Treasury, in ridding himself of the wife whom he accuses of
infidelity, and in annihilating old age by styling himself "The young
man," when in reality he is fifty-seven years of age at present.
His belief in these statements is absolutely unshakable, notwithstanding
the fact that he retains a clear orientation concerning his immediate
environment, and thus has the actual state of his affairs constantly
forced to his attention.
His grandiose compensation has such dimensions as to gratify every
imaginable wish of his. He came here because he was divorced from his
wife, not because of any crime he had committed. He is the son of the
supervisor in charge of this building. He owns this institution and
built it for a place in which he could count his money. He had forty-six
wagon-loads of this. He will live 250 years, because he has taken the
severest punishment to secure this. He refuses to assist with the ward
work, because he pays $1.50 a day for board and is not supposed to do
any work. He was brought here to select a woman for his wife. They
brought him a lot of blue-eyed blondes and also a lot of Baltimore and
St. Louis beauties, etc.
W. H. M., Owner, Washington Asylum, 5000 Branch Hospitals, five
million employees.
ANACOSTIA, D.C., Fri., Nov. 6, 1914.
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT:
I came over here to take out forty-six wagons loaded with greenbacks.
I respectfully had it arranged to have the Senate hold me here on
account of so much wealth until I thought it safe to return. Please
sign this and return it by mail. The Senate ordered me to write it to
you, as there is no crime against me.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Fri., Nov. 6, 1914.
DR. W. AND STAFF OFFICERS OF WASHINGTON ASYLUM:
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