Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-12-12
opens his boek, quoting from Voltaire.
And here is, the way be begins:

opens his boex, quoting from Voltaire.
And here is the way be begins:
stop thief! I hereby raise the hue
and cry-stop thief.
1.-THE above extraordinary announce
ment is called forth by the cold, hard
facts about to be collected.
And his excuse for the book is this:
Now the sole and only object on
earth in bringing out this book att this
time is a desperate, forlorn hope upon
the part of plaintiff to bring the crime
that is being attempted against plain
tiff's property to the ear of the court
that appointed said referee, in order
that said court may prevent said
crime by setting aside the Ubiquitous
decision, as above foreshadowed, of
said referee"
Complains Of Injustice.
The book recites with bitterness
what the writer calls the injustice of
the proceedings leading up to the judg-
ment of the New York courts and to
his incarceration in Bloomingdale.
How Stanford White got him to
Bloomingdale is told in this wise:
Il received a telegram from my
friend, Mr.. Stanford White, proposing
to visit me in company with mutual
friend. AS I was on rather unfriend-
ly terms with Mr.. White at the time,
| owing to an abusive letter he had re-
Gently written me, 1 did not look for
ward to visit from him with pleas
ure. l therefore sent him telegram
to say that l was not well enough to
| see him. A few days later Mr.. White
walked in on me in company with a
physician. l shall not attempt to pic
ture my surprise. Let it suffice to say
that l was struck dumb.
MIR. White hastily excused his in
trusion and implored me to accompany
metropolitan whirl' AS 1 had some
business which needed my attention in
| New York l consented"
OF New York Mr.. Chanler says:
I'm other words, citizen of the
state of New York can be condemned
and imprisoned without a hearing. All
that is required to deprive citizen OF
the Empire state of his liberty is one
or two false witnesses, two dishonest
doctors and judge who can swallow
sworn conflicting statements without
a qualm. No defense is allowed to the
accused.
''This is truly the Empire state.
sometimes wonder, as I look through
the bars of my cell, how such things
can be outside the Russian empire.
Calls on Virginia for Rescue.
Fortunately for myself, however
l am no longer citizen of the Empire
state, but am and have been since
1895 a citizen of the sovereign state
of Virginia; which title to sovereign!
l propose to see Virginia make gOot
by rescuing me-"
Graphic automatism" he define
: thus:
I'm a word, the writing is, as tn
[ name implies, automatic. So far-bu
81 so far only-as conscious thought,
e., conscious mental action is con
without the help of the head. In othe
words, it is as though one had magi
: pen-or pencil, since pencil i
smoother and easier to operate than
2 pen-that started out to write so 500
l as the operator took it into his O
her hand.
= "The operator has no more inklin
|. of what the next word will be- befor
! the said magic pen has written sam
: than the onlooker.
l. 'All the operator has to do is
S hold the pen firmly in the fingers, di
same into the ink, and see that sal
f graphic automatism. After writin
r said letter, said graphic automatisl
n will write ad libitum for plaintiff
plaintiff must see to it that the pc
= is not allowed to wander off the line
3 This Napoleonic trance is vouche