He believed that the electrocuting which he was receiving at Leavenworth was a part of this scheme to get rid of him, as he knew that the police captain at Olean was a friend of the warden of the Penitentiary.
"Studies in Forensic Psychiatry"
Bernard Glueck
This automatic electrocuting device attracted so much attention, and got half a column in an evening paper, that the manager made me stop it."
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin