
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, April 4, 1994                   TAG: 9404040012
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: DAYTON, OHIO                                LENGTH: Medium

MENTAL ILLNESS CITED IN CASE OF CLINTON LETTER

A man who warned President Clinton about assassination plots and later killed himself had a history of paranoia and should have been committed to a hospital, a health worker told the Dayton Daily News.

Michael Mower believed he had special knowledge of conspiracies because of "transponders" placed in his ears at birth, Judith I believe there may be plans to have you or possibly even your wife assassinated. They also want to get their hands on me and . . . want me to be the antichrist of the Bible. Michael Mower In a letter written to the Clintons Patterson of the Day-Mont West mental health center said in Sunday editions of the newspaper.

She interviewed Mower on Tuesday and wrote to the county Probate Court asking it to commit him.

On Friday, Mower shot two sheriff's deputies who tried to subdue him and ask questions about a letter he wrote to Clinton about the plots. He then killed his 70-year-old mother and himself during the standoff at a motel where they lived. The deputies, who were acting on behalf of the Secret Service, were not seriously hurt.

"He reports that the Mafia, the Vatican, Satanists and Sodomites are planning to kill the president," Patterson wrote to the court, according to the Daily News. "The client reports that his life is in constant danger from these many conspiracies."

The rambling eight-page letter to Clinton, dated March 9, said Mower feared for himself, the president and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"I believe there may be plans to have you or possibly even your wife assassinated," Mower wrote, according to a copy of the letter the newspaper obtained. "They also want to get their hands on me and my family because we know too much, and for revenge, and because they want me to be the antichrist of the Bible."

Mower also wrote that he would not surrender to authorities. But he had promised to give them more information.

by CNB