Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-12
Story Discredited

Story Discredited
A story published to the effect that
Mrs. Milburn was seen to board a
Santa Monica car on the morning of
February 23 and join a man and wo-
man, who appeared to be trying to
interest her in some real estate deal,
is wholly discredited. The motorman,
who was quoted as saying that he saw
Mrs. Milburn and the man and woman
and overheard a part of their con-
versation, placed the hour of this oc-
currence at q time when 1t Is known
Mrs. Milburn was still in Los Angeles
probably nowhere near the Santa
Monica car line
According to the motorman Mrs. Mil
burn was supposed to have boarded
the 1905 o'clock car in the morning at
Fifth or Sixth streets, on Hill. Those
who saw her leave her apartments.
407 South Hope street, say it was
about 10 o'clock. Later she went to
Strong & Dickinson's real estate office,
on South Broadway, near Second, and
utes. Therefore, the authorities say,
ii would have been impossible for Mrs.
Milburn to board the 1905 car.
Dickinson's Statement
Wallace Dickinson, who had talk
with Mrs. Milburn the day of her dis
appearance, recalls the time when the
woman was at the real estate office.
She called to learn about property for
investment, and seemed to be in a
hurry. In the course of the conversa-
ton she said it was her purpose to
visit Ocean Park that day, return to
the city and leave for the north that
night
Mr.. Dickinson arrived at the office
about o'clock that morning and was
busily engaged in attending to various
affairs when Mrs. Milburn called. She
was in the office fifteen or twenty
minutes. Mr. Dickinson says the wo-
man called after 10 o'clock. He said:
ut might have been later, nearer ~
said she was going to the beach and
get back in time to leave for San Fran
cisco. 1 remember that it occurred to
me at the time that she had better
hurry if she wanted to get back in time
to take the northbound train. My be-
lief is that the time she called was
about IL o'clock, or it may have been
later"
Tyndall Has Troubles
Since the announcement was made in
The Herald that DR.. Alexander ]. Nc
Ivor-Tyndall, the psychologist, would
undertake a study of the Milburn case,
he has been deluged with advice by
mail and telephone. Some of these COM
munications were from morbidly curl
Gus persons, while others were intend
ed for we'll meaning advice by numer-
GUS admirers of the psychist. Owing
to the pressure of other work and the
meagerness of clews, DIR. McIvor-Tyn-
dali has been unable to prepare any
statement for publication that would
lead to any definite steps in the solu-
tion of the mystery.
The fact that Dr. McIvor-Tyndall
interested himself in the case has re-
suited in innumberable requests for
aid in the discovery of buried treasure,
lost dogs, etc, which, the psychist
says, only goes to show that large
number of people do not grasp the cor
rect meaning OF his profession.
"Pyschology," explained DIR. McIvor-
Tyndall, sis a study of life in all its
phases, reasoning inversely from effect
to cause. For example, in a case like
the one under discussion, the psycholo-
gist becomes acquainted with the evil
dent details. and from them he pic
lures the exact kind of character that
would plan and execute just such a
crime. Then he seeks for the individual
representing such character. II IL
not generally known that persons OF
certain temperament can be relied upon
to select fixed ways of disposing Of
their enemies The man with a hasty
uncomfortable temper would shrink In
horror from the contemplation OF muir
der by poison. but he is more thar
likely to empty revolver into a per-
son who arouses his anger.
by the same law of psychological
afinity one cannot imagine a crafty
revengeful person using a revolver ia
commit murder He will invariably re-
sort to poison. These facts are well
known to students Of psychology, and