From the March 13, 1922 New York Times:

“Ossining–Sing Sing attachés announced today that Lawrence Kubal, Long Island slayer, is making a furor in the death-house trying to find a machine gun he imagined is hidden somewhere in his cell.

The guards transferred him to a padded cell and took everything from him except a mattress. He has been shouting and raving for forty-eight hours and has greatly annoyed the other condemned men.

Kubal was sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs. Minnie Bartlett at West Hempstead, L.I., for her jewels. Twice he tried to hang himself in the death-house, but was frustrated by guards. Recently a lunacy commission appointed by Governor Miller found him legally sane.”