The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-03-17

child Of Eve All Who have heard OF
the Philadelphia buichery are horri-
Ned. save only this moral idiot. whose
disordered brain conceived 20 horrible
sacrifice 10 his desire 20 experience
the feelings Of murderer. II is clear
that In young Henderson certain In
stincts are lacking entirely. while 9TH
ers are abnormally strong. The or
binary child OF four years knows from
Instinct and from parental training
that he must not harm a playmate.
and he will express contrltion after
a blow dealt In anger. Such Is the
normal brain OF a child. But Hender-
son al fifteen. a child no longer In
years. lacks not only the manliness
common TO boys OF his years. but has
In place OF pity. mercy and response
biiiy only an unreasoning desire 10
crafty other instincts such instincts
as are foreign to a normal human be-
Ing. Morally he Is an imbecile. II Is
Tor the allenist TO determine in what
measure this trend toward murder Is
due TO Illness In childhood. and In what
measure. II any. II Is tracenble 20
hereditary influences. MY grand
father and my father killed their men.
Now ] have killed my man." the boy
said 20 a police surgeon. In the mis-
hhapen head there had been treasures
up the knowledge that his father had
once been the cause OF a mans death.
The warnings. the sorrow. the lessons
dwelt upon by his parents that he
might remember that incident In his
fathers life only with regret-all
these found no Judgment in the abb
normal mind Of the boy. lie remem-
Dered onl ythe fact OF the killing. and |
bethought him that in murder there
was distinction.
Prayers. tears. the horror OF his cid
ers have not moved the boy from his
indifference since his crime was made
known. Those who have examined
him saw that his first Idea was 10 pro-
claim that he had placed himself on
Level with the men killers OF whose
deeds he had read In the cheapest OF
novels. They noted. too. that he seem
ed Incapable Of regret. forgetting his
Victim In his logged adherence to one
idea-that he had taken human life.
and so had reason 10 be proud Of him
self.
Boys OF his own age. the happy. mis-
chievous. full hlooded chaps. he feared
and avoided. They would have resent
ed his attempted domination by heal
thy blows. and no one would have
been the worse for H. But. coward
as he was. he was bully. too. To
dominneer was 10 be happy In his
narrow way. so he selected for com
panions boys OF six or eight years
children who were too young not 10
feef pride In association with big
boy" and who were too weak to re-
sist his brutality. Little Lockyar. the
sane, sanguine. healthy child. goes out
10 play In wood with the sallow.
coarse featured. brutal big boy" who
IA at once his companion and CON.
mander. The idiot. walking along
with the sane. has marked him for
sacrifice. With a certain low cunning
which Is a little higher than animal
and distinguishes him from the animal
that would have struck down the vie
tim at sight the moral idiot lures the
child far from the paths frequentod
BY pedestrians lie restraints himself
this boy whose ears project from his
skull. whose thick lower lip hangs
low, whose eyes are sullen and shift
Ing, whose color Is unhealthy. whose
forehead recedes. whose head Is big
gest at the points Identified with the