BELIEVES HE'S ROOSEVELT.
Remarkable Fantasy of a Man From
Grandin, Mo., With $290.
Joseph DeViera, 56 years old, was picked up at the Union depot yesterday afternoon in a bewildered condition. Sergeant R. P. Lang took him to police headquarters and turned him over to Colonel J. C. Greenman, investigator for the police department.
When searched DeViera had $290 but he acted as if he had been drugged. When Colonel Greenman asked him what was the matter he answered: "Ask J. B. White. He knows." Mr. White, who is connected with the Missouri Lumber Company in the R. A. Long building, was called over the telephone. He said DeViera worked for him at Grandin, Mo. He is an engineer and machinist.
"He was in my office this morning," Mr. White said. "He seemed all right then. When he left he said he would leave for home in the afternoon."
After being locked in a cell in the matron's room DeViera became very violent last night. He yelled with all his lung power that he was "Roosevelt, the mighty hunter." Then he became Napoleon I, and finally said, "I am the Christ, son of the living God, here to reform the world."
"Do you know Adam God, the reformer?" Patrolman Patrick Boyle asked.
"Sure," was the quick reply, "knew him in Africa when he was a baboon. He knows all about the origin of the species, just like I do. We are living too fast for the mighty hunter. I can hit a bear in the left eyebrow at thirty miles."
This sort of rambling talk, yelled in a tone to attract a crowd outside the station, DeViera kept up most all night.
