Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1906-03-02 | Page 10 | Admits He Has Desire to Kill

ADMITS HE HAS DESIRE TO Kill Alfred Aifred Lockett Asks to Be Locked Up Lest He Be Commit a Desperate Murder TWICE IN INSANE ASYLUM HIS REQUEST IS GRANTED BY SHERIFF C FRANK EMERY Declaring that he is possessed of an irresistible manIa to commit murder Alfred Lockett twice an inmate of the state insane asylum at Provo delivered ered himself to Sheriff C Frank Em Emery cry ery yesterday esterday afternoon and asked that he be locked up His request was vas granted and he spent last night In the county jail Today he will be bee e examined again as to his sanity Lockett was not content with a yen ver verbal bal request that he e be taken in charge His request consisted of a letter writ written written ten by himself and addressed to the sherIff and he delivered It in per person person son Cant Resist Mania The letter was as follows Kindly excuse me for troubling you lam I am possessed with a mania to kill I asic you as a favor to be sent to the state mEt mEL ti 1 hospital for life as I do not desir to become a murderer Last Monday Lockett was examined before Judge Armstrong on a charge of Insanity and was discharged The evidence against him was the fact that he had written a letter to County Attorney Parley P Christensen In which he accused state and county of his wife officers of a lo local local cal bank ot of conspiring against him This was not thought sufficient to jus justify thy his commitment to the asylum Calls on the Governor I Lockett recently called on Governor Cutler and demanded that he give him redress against those who he declared d were conspiring against him He coupled his st with the announce announcement announcement ment that unless the took action he would appeal to President and other officials at the na national national capital Lockett Is a carpenter In addition to having been in the Insane asylum i here It Is said that he spent several months in an asylum In California He and his wife have had some trouble over the sale of their home and are said to be separated The officials the slightest doubt that he Is actually possessed of a desire to corn com commit mit murder and they will urge that h he be sent to the asylum