From the web article: Joe Arridy was the happiest man on death row
...
"He is one of the worst Mental Defective cases I have ever
seen," the officer wrote. "I picked him up this
morning for allowing some of the nastiest and Dirtiest things done to him that I have heard of."
According to the officer, Joe had been "manipulating the penis of Negro Boys with his mouth" and allowing said boys "to enter the
dirty road with their penis." ("I would be more technical," the officer explained apologetically, "but do not know the terms.") In another time, Arridy might have been deemed an at-risk teen who'
d been sexually exploited by older youths. But in 1929, he was simply a
pervert who had to be locked away.