Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-05
READ LOVE IN HIS BRAIN
Dr. Donlin's Scientific Theory of
 a Suicide.
NOVELS WITH MARKED PASSAGES.

Young Wilcox shot Himself. and His
 Friends Could Give No Reason, but a
 shrewd Investigator Pointed Out That
 He Had Been Disappointed In Love.
 NEW YOE5, Oct. 5.-Frank Armitage Wilcox, a young lawyer of 69 Wall street. committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. He was a son of Franklin A. Wilcox of the law firm of Wilcox, Ad- ans X Green and was employed in the firms office clerk.
 Relatives and friends of the young man express themselves as utterly at a loss to account for his decd. They attribute it to an unbalanced mind, brought about by bad health. He had been away from business three months during the sum- mer, and during that period had had sev- eral hcmorrhages. He had been moody and Respondent of late
 This may have bocn, and doubtless was, the chief cause of the suicide. It is the only cause contributOry to it that his friends will admit of. But some books found in n satchcl by his side, and in par ticular certain marked passages in nov cl, suggest n love affair.
 The Novel Suggested Suicide.
 The novel was of the sensational order and dealt with passionate love between an IlA1 t'lN II MOIiihll, ending in the breaking of all vows and the flight of the lovers. There Is talk of death as the final refuge death the lib eratOr the dcliVcrcr. the pardOnCr.
 \ remarkable confirmation Uf the the ory, suggested by these marked passages, that love led up to the suicide camc from the coroner's physician. who made an au- tOpsy of the young mans body. He found indications in the brain that love was at lsgFs fNF So marked were th,'sc indications that the physician declared them conclusive.
 It l. highly interesting that the physi- clan reached these conclusions before the significant character of the marked pas sagcS in the novel wcrc discovered, and consequently when there was no CirCum- stance other than tho condition of tho brain as he found 1t to direct his thoughts in this channel
 Dr. Donlin began the autopsy with an unbiased mald
 After formally establishing tho fact that two bullets had entered tho brain and caused death, and finding that the principal organs of the body were in a normal condition. which was all that GUS tom and the law required of him, the doc tor undertook a new line of iHvestig gation, with the double purpose of satisfying his | curiosity as to recent developments in tho scientific knowledge of tho brain and adding something, if possible, to that knowledge.
 Dr. Donlin's Discovery. Except unGcr somewhat abnormal con- ditiOns of the brain science has never yet been able to trace causes or motives for suicide by examinations of tho brain tis- sues after death.
 Before dcath suicidal tendencies are often discCrnlblc to the carefully trained observer. Tho health. tho face, eyes, ex- pression and manner of thought are often sure indications of this tendency. Examination of tho brain shows little except under unusual circumstances. but therc have becn developments in this di- rection of late and Dr. Donlin concluded ] that Inc would sCc what story, if any, was | told by the young suicides brain. So he laid it open znd made n critical examinn- | tion.
 The result surprised him. Tho brain in general seemed healthy enough. but tho center of amativcncss was fearfully and wonderfully developed
 | This cOnvolution, tho doctor found. was out of all proportion to the rest of tho | brain, 50 much so that he was convinced | at once that n disOrdcrcd imagination somewhere in the line of love was dis turhing or perhaps a controlling element 1 in tho mental operations.
 | When seen after tho autopsy, Dr. Don | lin expressed the opinion that young Will | COX had been led to suicide through love. l He said that the indications of this were | conclusive.
 And this conclusion, it will be noted again, was reached independently of the story told by tho plays and the novel
 found in the satchcl by the dead body.