told that the boy was then in school. Going to the schoolhouse and
asking for him, the school-mistress, who knew me, denied that he was
there, but I pushed in, and found him, and a ragged, miserable
looking little wretch he was. I brought him out, put him into the
carriage and took him with me on the journey which I was then
contemplating to Amsterdam, N. Y., stopping at the first town to get
him decently clothed. The boy went with me willingly, indeed he was
glad to go, and in due time we arrived at Amsterdam, and from there
we went to Troy.

I had not been in Troy two hours before I was arrested for stealing
my own horse and buggy! My turnout was taken from me, and I found
myself in durance vile. I was not long in procuring bail, and I then
set myself, to work to find out what this meant. I was shown a
handbill describing my person, giving my name, giving a description
of my horse, and offering a reward of fifty dollars for my arrest.
This was signed by a certain Benson, of Kingston, Sullivan County,
N.Y. I then remembered that while I was traveling with my insane
patient from Montgomery through Sullivan County, I fell in with a
Benson who was a very plausible fellow, and who scraped acquaintance
with me, and while I was at Kingston he rode about with me on one or
two occasions. One day he told me that he knew a girl just out of
the place who was subject to fits, and wanted to know if I could do
anything for her; that her father was rich and would pay a good
price to have her cured. I went to see the girl and did at least
enough to earn a fee of one hundred dollars, which her father gladly
paid me. Benson also introduced me to some other people whom I found
profitable patients. I thought he was a very good friend to me, but
he was a cool, calculating rascal. He meant to rob me of my horse
and buggy, and went deliberately to work about it. First, he issued