Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-24

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abandoned his idea to kill, and will be
satisfied with giving publication to
the records of his imagined persecu-
tion at the hands of the state admin
istration.
Williams was an inmate of the Ore.
gon insane asylum, having been COM
mitted from Tillamook county, in
1907, and was parolled from the insti-
tuition in 1903 as a convalescent.
Since that time, however, he has de-
veloped symptoms of violent insanity,
and, laboring under the delusion that
he is being constantly prosecuted by
'absent or wireless treatment" from
the insane asylum, started to walk
from Indiana to Oregon, with the
avowed purpose of taking the life of
Governor Benson, successor in office
to Governor Chamberlain, whom he
then blamed for his imaginary perse-
cutiOns. At first his letters and tele-
grams, sent from different points in
his progress across the continent,
were regarded as jokes, but they
have come with such regularity and
persistency of purpose that the friends
of Governor Benson take more Sc
rious regard for his personal safety
and have notified the sheriffs of the
several counties visited by Williams
to arrest him and hold him for extra
dition and recommitment to the Ore
gon asylum.
The text of his latest communica-
ton to Governor Benson is addressed
from Lincoln, California, which was
received at the governors Office this
morning follows:
Lincoln Cal, Sept 22, 1910.
Gov. F. w. Benson,
Dear Sir. / regret to have to
write up about that dirty plot and
trick thet was played on me in Tilla-
nook City and county in your state,
in August of 1908, when was sent to
your state institution for the cure
of the drug habit, which was a false
charge, as the druggists as well as
the doctors of that town and your
medical board of your state knew as
well.
Il will continue to publish the dir
ty plot and trick that was played on
me in your state until receive JUS
tice. Not only from your state, as
the constitutional laws, in sections 8,
and of our national, as well as our
state constitutional laws, allow, but
until I put the citizens of not only
Tillamook, but the citizens of Salem
to shame for allowing a state insti- !
tuition to control them. But will con-
tinue to write it up and show what
kind of governor G. c. Chamberlain |
was. But what kind of a governor
you are, who. having sworn to up
hold your state as well as the nation
al constitutional laws, fell down on
the most important sections of your
laws In regard to censuring and tor
turing of American citizens. But al
lowing them to be controlled by an
invisible power you seem to think
that public officers a mere plaything,
instead of a public trust.
And to tell you the truth, IT looks
to me as IL you and your boasted
good moral government was only
bluff. And that you were nothing but
a mere puppet and mechanical image
in the hands of your state institute.
Yours,
sWM. H. WILLIAMS.
p. SIS there any law in Oregon
or is your state constitution merely a
back number in regards to citizens
rights. You seem to think that the
letters / wrote you. are a pack of Lies.
By the way you have tS ded to my
case against the city and county Of
and the state institute, by
the way you have stopped the censur-
ing of men by your state institute
VIM. H. WILLIAMS
"P. S.-For few days in this sec