Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-12-15
DUAL PERSONALITY OF J. FRANK HICKEY Remarkable Career is Re
 vealed by Murderer of
 Boys in Confession. CIR FED BY DRI N K. Postal Cards Led to His ArreSt-Man of Education and Re- iinement.
CRAZED BY DRI N K.

revealed on the criminal branch of the Supreme Court here on Monday when Frank Hickey, confessed slayer Of children, enters the prisoners pen to answer the charge af murder ing and maltreat ng little sevenVear old Joseph Josephs of Lackawanna, x. Y. on October 12, 1911,
 Hickey free from the influence of alcahol that changed him from a mild hammered and inoffensive man to maniac with perverted tenden- cies, has been incarce1ated in a local jail since his extradition from Toms River, N J. where he was located at the Renw:ck colony for inerbri- ates. Seemingly his attitude toward tis coming trial is that of man who has inadvertently committed crime while insane, but having T regained his senses has determined to make a game fight for his life.
 Upon his arrangement before Jus tice Charles H. Brown in a special term of the Supreme Court on Dec. 2. Hickey wac unperturbed and calm. He entered technical plea of mot guilty" to the charges against h.m and in quiet and we'll modulated voice requested Justice Brown to assign him counsel.
 The evidence which led to the ar- rest of the confessed slayer of the little Joseph boy was remarkaple series of postal cards addressed to police officials and to the little fellows father. On these cards were printed or written the most reyolting deGils of the JosepAs' crime, with directions for the recov- cry of the boys body. The cards, ac- cording to Hickey's confession were written by the dual personality en- eendered by drunk. In other Words Hickey sober was haunted by his crlmes and was ovoTtaken by frenzy of repentance, but HlcKey drunk revealed in his debrucheries, minsling wild exultation with sen- ile sent mentality that led him to commit his confession to the mails. For instance, while under the ln- c1- in POSfOn sep tember II, 1912, Hickey wrote Chlef of Police Michael Began. of Buffalo, as follows:
 "I am ok of trying to fool myself. ,sm homicidal maniac. l killed ,1cev Jcsephs Of Lackawanna, N. Y. s,wangled him as did others. Please advertise the fact"
 On the same day Chief Of Police Roy Gilson, of Lacl2aWanna, N. Y., received postal card, from Hickey also postmarked Boston. It said: elf you only knew the remorse in my heart on account of the murders I have comm tied as a resul, of my homicidal maniac, even you anu George Josephs would pity me. am writing this just getting over another drunk to try to forget the ones killed. but, like Banquo's ghost Il won't down. am fast going 70 nieces mentally and physically"
 These postal cards were followed by others addressed to George Jos- ephs, the murdered boys father, end to Chef Gilson, of the Lackawanna police. These cards fcr. the most part were signed with fictitious names. The writing, however, was found 10 tally with that of J. Frank Hickey, who has been employed in the 1-acka- wanna Iron and Steel Co.'s plant at IacNawanna and who had w:itten his employer letter.
 Hickey was a constructor expert, a man of some education and appar- net refinement, who was accustomed to those luxuries of life which were available to the master of a rather large salary. In conversatloh with reporters following bis confes- sion he stated that the accidental kill ing of a man twenty years ago while he was a drug clerk in Lowell, Mass, woe tho causa of his downfall. Hfck- ey said that he gave a drunkard by the name of Ed Mercy slight dose of laudanum in draught of whiskey the man had begged from him and that the laudanum caused the mans death. This death haunted him. said Hickey, and he took to wnlskey to drown the memory of his crime.