St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-10

aDfG SCOry OF He ANc1lSoI,~ tuo t1F
centiyes to the deeds. terrible as were
the wrongs to his family and race, were
scarcely adequate to such wholesale
butchery. The story is improbable. ana
were it true, its hero would necessarily
be considered a lunatic. The methods
of homicidal maniacs are very diverse,
and often difficult of analysis. Some
times it is melancholy mother Who
destroys her children under the deiur
sion that she saves them from some
threatening disaster, or because voice
commands her to sacrifice them. SomeT
times it is some moral imbecle who des
lights in
TORTURING INNOCENT PEOPLE. IS
to death. Often it is the victim of alco-5
hol who ssruns amuck." stabbing right:
and left through crowded thorough1
fare. Frenzied outburstS of violence III
acute maniacs. and general paretlcs are
by no means infrequent. But: there Is
class of iunatics, formerly known as
mOnOmaniacS, but to whom now the
term paranoiac is applied, which constlt
tutes the most dangerous OF all the I'M
sane classes. The word monomanis has
been discarded because misleading from
its derivation. Although the insane
man may have but one dominating oe-
lusions, defective reason and Judgment
centering about the so-called Imperative
conception, so that he can scarcely be
said to be insane on one solitary siio-
ject, as the word monomania would im-
ply. ParanOia is form of insanity
which develops in person who from
birth has defective mental Organlza-
ton. In paranOia the intellectmay be UNI
impaired; there may indeed be unusual
capacity. John Brown, Benyen,ito
Cellini, Guiteau, King Ludwig OF Bar73
varia. and many others, both notorious
and famous, were undoubtedly parano-
iacs. Society is full of them in every
class. high and low, educated
and ignorant, and they vary. In
their characters from the mildly
eccentric individuals to the most
troublesome ''crankS." The popular.
term for a paranoiac is "crank,
person peculiar from birth in speech
and conduct. The great trouble is that
most of them are so bright intellectually
or so useful. and injure society in gen
eral so little by their presence, that they
cannot be incarcerated, although they
may be lifelong affection to their i'm
PLY their homicidal tendencies are
upon the whole developed rarely. The
MOTIVES OF HONICIDAL PARANOIACS
are also various. For instance, Du-
borgne, who, some years ago, stabbed a
number of women in Fourteenth street,
New York, had far other reasons for so
doing than this Whitechapel murderer.
The former had decisions of persecu-
ton and Authorizations of hearing. He
fanced he heard people reviling him as
he passed through the street. He heard
them say. s'There goes the wretch who
is taking all the money out of the cotln-s
try" The Whitechapel murderer is
actuated by one of two motives. He
kills to satisfy religious fanaticism or
because of perverted sexual instinct, or
there may be combination of the two
impulses. The fact that his victims
have been selected. from the lowest
classes of immoral women In London
certainly mclines one to the opinion
that his desire is to immediate these
creatures upon the altar of religion,
his deluSiOnS being that they are the
chief emissaries of the devil in the
spread of evil Under the fiendish
penal code which he has established. it
seems necessary to kill and mutilate
these poor creatures. If this be really
his sole imperative idea, however. it
will be the only example of its kiud
in history. The religious paranoiac
is not SO apt = to concentrate
his reforms upon one vice alone.
He usually makes war upon universal
evil, but by insane methods. He
harangueS audiences, announces him.
self as a prophet perhaps, is constantly
quoting the Bible to his associates, and
often incites rebellion and riot. John
Thorn, who caused the bloody Canterby
riots in 1888, is an example in point ola
religious paranoiac. The fact that
women of this class are selected should
not be taken too seriously. That he Sc
lects women is a more important point.
That they should he of base type is
ties of the case. They are the only
women he
CAN INDUCE TO FOLLOW HIM -
into dark corners in the dead of night.
When, on the other hand, the motive is,
excited by perversion of the sexual i'll
stinct with cannibaliStic or similar in
sane propensities, the crimes are linn
tied to women, and the lunatic is more
secretive. Andreas Bichel murdered
young girls, cut open their warm bodies,
and ate their quiyering flesh. The
Westphalia murders, few years ago,
with most shocking mutiiation of the
bodies, of which more than twenty
young women were the victims, are
of similar origin. Only recently
in Texas there was series
of butcheries of young women,
all perpetrated under circumstances so
peculiar as to point to homicidal
iunatic as their author. The remark
able cunning of the London paranoiac,
his secretiveness, his ability to e!ude
+ho Hour off oorc of inctian p,,o Of
the most crowded quarters of the globe,
his careful selection of victims of one
sex, theNsingular mutilation' to which he
subjects them, all indicate that he is
actuated by motive partly religious per-
hapS. but more than likely for the
devllish qualification Of perverted in
stinctS, and at the same time demon
strate him to be one of the most daring
and astrocious homicidal lunatieS Of
which medical jurisprudence has any
record.
Evictors Charged With Murder.
DUBLIN, Nov. 9.-The inquest in the
case of James Dunno, an aged tenant
who died in the roadway after being
evicted from his home at Ardee, has re-
suited in verdict of murder. The cor
oner has issued warrant for the arrest
of Dudgeon & Emerson, solicitors.
Russia's New Loan.
BERLIN, Nov. 9.-Tbe amount of the
new Russian loan is reported to be
G20, 100000. The Earrings and the
Credit Lyonnais are the chief members
of the syndicate.
Cablettes.
The North German Gazette says that, ows-
ing to the increased traffic on the railways,
the Pussian government has ordered the