The Sunday globe., 1901-07-28
To the Reading Public of Wash
ingtOn
.FINXELSTEIN, ALLEGED ASSASSIN
Who Was Arrested for Attempting 10 Enter
the White House to XIII Our Dearly Be-
loved President-Dr. Richardson Gets
Even with The Globe and we Dare Not
Say llsI - Our Introductory.

/ on Mr.. tlnkelsteln's statement, which
he wrote and composed III about fifteen
minutes. He has been released by DR..
Richardson from St. Elizabeths, and
we have an idea the doctor furnished
him our address as part payment for
the little Write-up of st, EliZabeth's
which has appeared in these columns.
Mr. tlnkelstein - certainly man OF
experience, and mas been patient prls-
er and traveller to some extent. We
shall say no more. Ladies and gentle
men, Mr.. FlnKelsteiu! Hear hlm for
his cause;
Washington, d. c., July, 1901.
TO THE EDITOR OF IHE GLOBE.
DEAR SIR: Having been a victim Of
circumstance in this country, and de-
string an investigation concerning my
treatment in the State Of Utah, or rath-
er the Land OF the Mormons, | wish to
make public now royalty 1 was treated
! there and how royalty / was treated
here, upon arriving in this city, and
why | came to Washington.
Had | joined the Mormon Church,
PROBABLY this statement would not have
! been made. was on my way from
| Glenwood Springs to San Francisco;
stopped of at Salt Lake City; register
ed at the Kenyon Hstel; deposited a
! box of money containing S232,50 in
! the safe. was informed by the pro-
| prietor he had given my money to L.
j. Montgomery. He also informed me
he had a bond for the money for him
self. he did not get no bond for me.
| brought suit, and was represented
by Smith and Walton, attorneys-at-
law received judgment in the justice
of the peace court, and it was appeal
ed to the circuit court, and while
was being confined in an Institution,
which they call the Utah Insane Asy-
um The appeal was dismissed, and
/ received $25 for my Nthing for my
share.
On November jth, ! was insuEed and
threatened with 80 days for refusing TO
cash bet on the result Of the govern
orship. II is the custom Throughout
the world never to cash bet on any
result until it known VINO the winner
is Knowing there was Hot county
counted, /, therefore, refused to cash
the uet, and Informed him that for his
insult and for threatening me, that
before | would cash the ticket every
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to be counted, and | did not care if
Heber NJ. Wells was nominated and
elected through the power Of the Nor
mon Church. threatened November
9TH; confined January Sth
There was held in Salt Lake City, a
stockmens convention, between Jan
uary 14th and 18th, and | had ar
ranged to bring off a boxing exhibi-
ton. Being a man of the world, and
knowing a boxing exhibition would be
well patronized by such a convention,
providing the promoter would produce
good talent.
had secured the best talent that
could be had in the Western States.
In Denever, on Monday, December
10th, | was informed by the Midland
Railway otficials-Mr. Bailey and Mr..
Donnell-that the police department Of
Salt Lake would not allow me to go
on with my deal. Boxing exhibitions
in that State are legal, but | did not
know a man had to be a Mormon to
bring one off.
On returning to Salt Lake, | was fur
nished with a letter of introduction
from Z. II. Green, Union Pacific Rail-
way agent, to L. NJ. Allison, Jr., we'll
known attorney of ogden, and a mem
Der of the House of Legislature, and
had determined to bring it off at Og-
den.
was confined to my bed with a cold,
and had secured the physicians sery-
ices of Dr. Geo. w. Perkins, also a
nurse, Mrs. c. NJ, Harris. | had been
shaved on the evening of the 22d, and
the nurse informed me that the barber
who had shaved me had remarked
when he returned to the barber shop
that | had insulted her. She insisted
on me leaving my bed, knowing it was
not the truth, and when she said she
could not go home and face her chill
dren, told her | would oblige her.
Immediately, as | struck the bar
Der, Chief and Superintendent Of Po-
lice John Carlisle and Captain Brown
ing were upon the scene, sent me to
the Ogden General Hospital, furnished
me with another physician, DR.. r. S.
Joyce, who informed me l had pneu-
monia and typhoid fever, tied me down
with ropes fifty-seven hours, pricked
my lip with a needle, and gave me
poison four different times | was dis
charged as cured December 30th. They
cured me of everything in eight days,
but | haven't cured them as yet. On
January 5th, | had the pleasure Of
making the acquaintance of Chief of
| Detectives Pender, who represented
| himself to me as being a Union Pacific
Railway conductor Inquired as to the
boxing exhibition, and informed me
! John Carlisle, the chief was a very par
! ticular friend of his, and If | would
accompany him we would arrange for
| police protection. was placed in a
buggy and sent to Provo, Utah; placed
in an iron cage and fed on bread and
water eighty-three days. | was de-
prived of the communication that was
sent me by my mother and acquaint-
ances, and the worthy DR.. Milton II.
Hardy informed my mother that she
could not visit the Utah insane asy-
| lum, that il was closed to visitors by
the order of the board Of directors
After being discharged | came to
Washington, and I'm arrested again
by Detective Michael r. Mueller; sent
to st. Elizabeths on Monday, April
29th, and confined there until July
11th The press throughout the coun-
try had been notified by the police de-
partment that they had arrested a mur-
derous maniac, as he was entering the
White House On May 10th, the police
department and their medicine men
had a hearing concerning their opin-
ions as to my mental faculties.
Detective Mueller testified he did not
arrest me as | was entering the White
! House, and some medicine man, Chas.
/ c. Marberry f. Vale, testified | had a
| demsion that I was being prosecuted
| by the Mormons. l had an imagina.
tion. When placed upon the stand, I
made a statement that ! had been
victim, and there was not a question