Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-08

short order.
New York Herald.
And now New Y ork has become grea
whispering gallery since the latest news
about the Whitechapel butcheries. Thes'
awful crimes are becoming the genera
topic of conversation. You hear 1t q
home, you hear it in the street cars anC
on the ferry boats. Lawyers, detective s
judges and doctors wrsngle over thee
ries. All agree in denouncing the Lon
don police.
But who and whist is the murderer
he 50 Injured man who seeks revenge
upon the low women OF the slums? u n
6 religious fanatic who thinks h
has q divine mission to decrease
the social evil By slaughter Is h
Q raging mad man who chuckleI
night aud dsv over the details OF hi:
bloody deeds? Is he man who Stays
his victims under sudden and uncon'
troll2ble homicidsl impulse and is ther
tortured by remorse till another frenzy
drives him forth again to seek blooc?
These sre the questions that ring II
one's ears almost ever hour. The knoWl'
edge thst the assassin is still st largs
and that he may and is almost certsin &c
repeat his crime hiss created public ex
element even in the metropolis Of Amer
les thss ia not hard to eccouDt for.
THE MURDERER is A LUNATIC.
"I can conceive OF these crimes being
DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton, the well
known alienist, "znd they were very
probably committed by man belonging
TO class Of insane persons known ss
piquers Il Is form OF insanity mani.
tested by variety ct impulsiva desires &c
do mischief, such as to destroy property
and cut and mutilate. Vita this condi-
ton is associated homicide tendency sud
8 stste OF sexual a5errstion. It is form
OF mental disease that leads TO peculisr
imp Ilsive acts, such as cutting CT
women's hair In the street and
throwing vi:riol aud other des!ruc-
tive substances. The very pleasure OF
the act is the motive for it. The nomj-
cidsl acts are nesrly always connected
with muiIstions of the corpse or very
dramatic surroundings. There sre cnees
on record where women have been
enticGd into caves and mutilated in dis
gushing gay, the same marks being
present that are found in the White
chapel murders.
"rwo or three years ago man named
De Bou-ke ran amuck through -Four
teentb street, attacking and cutting pao-
pie. Ths. was case of the kind l refer
TO.
"These man are usually sane On al
other subj They belong 20 the cligs
OF monomarlccs. II is generally coz
genital state existing from birth. They
are m sntally in some respects like cez =
tain class Of deprsved men who sre
By society."
r"Do you think, doctor, tass these
murders are the result OF e
desire for revenge on the class 80 which
the victims belonged3"
'I do not. A prominent physician 3D.
vsnced thst theory 10 me TO Gay, but il
does not strike me as probable. Assum
Jag thu cs5led accounts to be true, there
ere some things about thege murders
that indicate the kind Of insanity l hsve
IN entioned. The regularity OF The Gc,s
and the peculisrity ofthe mutation point
to this direction"
A MENTAL PORTRAIT OF THE MONSTER.
Assuming the murderer to be Md
man, what is his probable mental cordi
ton noW2"
"Ol, be is probably resdi5e The news.
psper accounts of the murders and en-
)ying l., going all over the crimes sgGin
IN his Imagination. But he may belong
to another class Of lulatics who have
awful spells OF remorse, and who only
kill when the impulse seiz5 them. He
may suffer great mentsl anguish. There
is another class OF luns!ics whose lust is
excited By the personal psculjs:i:eg CT
their victims, who Will be ee!zsd with 5
fury on seeing woman with peculiar
kind of hair or peculiar ii yure. II
these Whitechspel cases there are strong
signs OF sexual alteration in the manner
Of mutilasion. think the murderer will
DO great deal m ere killing. Toe more
be gives wsy 10 his passion the more
pleasure il is Likely TO give
him. His mental condition ct the time
he sheds his victims blood is one Of ex-
.reme exbilarstion. There ere authentic
instances where this insanity is accom-
pc MED by a c&rnibalistic instinct, where
The murderers drank the blood. These
natmen generally deflle the bodies Of
heir victims or commit fancy, pictut-
ssque crimes. Sane men are not liable
&c do eucn things"
"Doctor, you have spoken as though
5ou assumed the murderer to De man;
might it no! have been c woman?"
at is very, very improbable. Women
who suffer from the fora Ct insanity that
me defiemsnt Of these bodies indicates
10 not commit homicide: men who suffer
rom it do"
DOES He LIVE IN THE WEST END.
"If you were looking for the White
chapel butcher what kind Of man would
you seek?"
"Hs belongs vsry likely to either one
IL two classes. lie Is either low, coarse
sort of idiot or an intensely refined, over
sducEted msn, who has degenerated into
, condition Of ultra seIsuality. He may
De q common lsborer, or may be man
rom the west end Of London. l should
Tot be at sll surprised TO hear that he is
nan living in an sris:ocrstic part Of the
;ity who sscludes himself Ell dsy and
goes out st night to crafty his strange
md horrible desires. He Is likely O maa
Who is eccentric in his dress or has the
nsare physiognomy. Every human being
ass during his or her life some insane or
morbid appetite. 1t may be fash or i.
may be permanent disease. Tnis is IN
luastionaoly an extreme cs5e."
DR.. Hamilton told the Herald reporter
horrible stories cfexirscrdinsry passions
developed by human beings, some Of them
still living in New York, and exhibited
portraits OF them.
"Whst Itesr," said he, "is that this
nsnis for butchsring msy become cpl
Ieuic. You know we had al epidemic Of
clothes tearing in Paris. and every one Is
SIMILAR with the frequens epidsmics Of,
suicides"
DIR. sPITzKA's THEORY.