the same bedroom.  Olmstead’s early history is not clear from the data to hand.  It appears that he began his career as a schoolteacher in Connecticut, and that he there married the daughter of a prosperous farmer; but shortly after he “fell in love” with her male cousin, whom he describes as a very handsome young man.  This led to a separation from his wife, and he went West.

He was never considered perfectly sane, and from October, 1886, to May, 1889 he was in the Kankakee Insane Asylum.  His illness was reported as of three years’ duration, and caused by general ill-health; heredity doubtful, habits good, occupation that of a schoolteacher.  His condition was diagnosed as paranoia.  On admission he was irritable, alternately excited and depressed.  He returned home in good condition.

At this period, and again when examined later, Olmstead’s physical condition is described as, on the whole, normal and fairly good.  Height, 5 feet 8 inches; weight, 159 pounds.  Special senses normal; genitals abnormally small, with rudimentary penis.  His head is asymmetrical, and is full at the occiput, slightly sunken at the bregma, and the forehead is low.  His cephalic index is 78.  The hair is sandy, and normal in amount over head, face, and body.  His eyes are gray, small, and deeply set; the zygomae are normal.  The nose is large and very thin.  There is arrested development of upper jaw.  The ears are excessively developed and malformed.  The face is very much lined, the nasolabial fissure is deeply cut, and there are well-marked horizontal wrinkles on the forehead, so that he looks at least ten years older than his actual age.  The upper jaw is of partial V-shape, the lower well developed.  The teeth and their tubercles and the alveolar process are normal.  The breasts are full.  The body is generally well developed; the hands and feet are large.

Olmstead’s history is defective for some years after he left Kankakee.  In October, 1892, we hear of him as a letter-carrier in Chicago.  During the following summer he developed a passion for William Clifford, a fellow letter-carrier about his own age, also previously a schoolteacher, and regarded as one of the most reliable and efficient men in the service.  For a time Clifford seems to have shared this passion, or to have submitted to it, but he quickly ended the relationship and urged his friend to undergo medical treatment, offering to pay the expenses himself.  Olmstead continued to write letters of the most passionate description to Clifford, and followed him about constantly until the latter’s life was made miserable.  In December, 1893, Clifford placed the letters in the postmaster’s hands, and Olmstead was requested to resign at once.  Olmstead complained to the Civil Service Commission at Washington that he had been dismissed without cause, and also applied for reinstatement, but without success.

In the meanwhile, apparently on the