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Show CLAIMS HE WAS THE VICTIM OF PERSECUTION Stamford. Conn., March 19. Charged Charg-ed with sending an objectionable letter let-ter to F. W. Carpenter, secretary to President Taft, John C. Harvey waB arrested yesterday and examined by a commission of physicians as to his sanity. Harvey is about 40 jears old and came from Idaho three years ago. He maintains that he Is the victim of a conspiracy and admits writing letters let-ters to former President Roosevelt, former Attorney Genoral Bonaparte and Congressman McKlnley of Illinois. His trouble dates, hesaid, from the time when he published the Cache Valley News in Preston, Ida., whore ho says be was the victim of religious ! persecution. I This antagonism on the part of his ' enemies, he says, caused him to be I sent to Jail on three occasions and j finally sent to an asylum for the insane. |