In February 1887, an otherwise unnoticeable doors-man assigned at the Kansas State House of Representatives became distraught over what he heard being said by the representatives meeting inside.   He felt what was being spoken was blasphemy, and heard a righteous command in his mind to make just amends.  He went into the building, locked the doors, and proclaimed with all of the zeal of a street preacher that “God has demanded their lives”

The life-path that brought this man to this fateful day is ever so bizarre and interesting, and he is involved in one of the most infamous events in our nation’s history – yet few know who he is.  He started his professional life as a hatter, which in the 1800s, exposed him to high levels of the neurotoxin mercury.  It would be difficult to deny that mercury had some effect on his erratic behavior and unusual choices that he made, which include self-castration and the event mentioned above.