The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-09
TREAT CRIMINALS
AS UXFORTUHATES
That Is the Theory of Edward
Dunlap, a Capital
FelOn.

Special Tho Tribune
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. June 2.-"lt is
ordered that Jacob Haddiman, the prl5-
oner at the bar be taken forthwith to
St, Luke's hospital by his mother and
an officer of this court. and that the
surgeons properly in attendance at that
institution perform such operation upon
the said Jacob Haddiman as VIII be
necessary, in their judgment TO remove
any and oil such pressure upon MS
brain as may be caused by adenoids or
other accretions, and that the said ia
cob Haddiman be detained at ST
Luke's hospital subject to the orders OF
court
| In so many words Judge Norris ;.
| Barratt. one of the foremost 1urists oil
America, gave judicial Endorsement 10
| the theory OF Edward Dunlap, col-
Wet. who offered his body and brain TO
| establish the fact that crime Is an EVIL
dence of disease or malformation.
Judge Julian Mack of Chicago and
Judge Harald Salomon Of Stockholm
| Sweden, were sitting on the bench with
| Judge Barratt in the Juvenile court
here when this unprecedented order
was handed down, and both eminent
| jurists concurred In the thought that
| too many boys are sent to prison who
| should be cared for In clinics.
| The conduct OF the Juvenile court In
| this Jurisdiction has been watched with
| close scrutiny by pbllanthropists inter-
csted In the enforcement of the com
pulsory education act and the child Ia
| Dor laws. and these soclologlstS nan
with approval the radical departure
made by Judge Barratt.
In Pennsylvania a Judge may send
| boys TO any one of several reforma-
| tories OF to an asylum. Since he has
made a special study of juvenile crime
| Judge Barratt has committed several
| boys TO the State Hospital for the In
sane at Norristown. where, under COM
| petent medical and surgical treatment.
wonders have been worked with lncor-
| rigibles.
| No man can see where all this Will
| end. but II is certain that the hospital
| departments of all prisons VIII be
brought up to a standard of excellence
at least equal to general hospitals open
| to the public. and that the attending
| prison physicians Will be men OF eXcep-
| tional skill In surgery Of the brain.
Dunlap's Theory.
Intense interest has been awakened
by two successful operations that have
given scientific Endorsement to the the
ory of Edward Dunlap, the burglar.
| DR. Ernest La Place trephined the
| skull of Spurgeon Welty. and a very
| wicked boy became lovable and capa-
| BILE little chap, Dr. Desiderio Roman,
! who accompanied Lieut., Pcary TO the
| fartherest point north In his hunt Tor
| the North pole, did the same for Jacob
| Haddiman at st. Luke's hospital, and
| the boy, who was a daring and persist
| ent thief showed marked and eYer-ln-
creasing signs. of moral regeneration.
| In the case Of Jacob Haddlman. who. II
was discovered had a fractured skull,
the result amounts to the resurrection
of soul
Who, then, shall now insist that nll
criminals are merely vicious. and that
none is diseased or malformed2 The
| proposition advanced by Edward Dun
lap, burglar, really seems to be close to
proof,
brain to science, wrote with the hand
OF death upon him, II am and have
been all my life criminal.
"Why2
WAS l born too late? Should I have
| lived In the days OF the great adven-
turers-DTake and Cortez and all other
| plllagers and conquerorS and heroic
thieves who could trace their lineage
back further than Jason, who quested
for the Golden Fleece
WAS | born too early-before the
days of high finance and the unheroic
thieves OF this decade?
"Or was IT because OF some subtle
|
nation, some little grouping of the
brain cells. that l. who should have
| been an honest man, an artist. a poet
perhaps became burglar? May it
not be that a spicule OF bone presses
upon a convolution of my brain. and,
so doing. perverts my whole nature2
II do not know, and ] have thought
hard and long upon the causes. but this.
although / do not know. is what / am
inclined to think: Real crime is a dis
ease or rather crime Is the symptom of
a subtle disease OF brain and nerve,
Just as a rash is In some cases symp-
| tom OF a fever. All those who are Grim
inals-and in this list I place the an
cient conquerors, the gentleman adven-
| turers the burglar, the counterfeiter.
the swindler. the priest of high finance.
all OF the under world, and all too, OF
the upper world who are tinged with
the evil-an those who are criminals
say have this disease.
''It may be that the disease that ger
inmates crime and criminals springs
from a bacillus There are many rea-
sons for believing II is so. I have seen
the criminal taint communicated In the
most curious ways, hardly credible. l
have seen criminal phenomena that
paraneled the contagion of slow fevers.
the stride OF quick destructive disease.
Crime Moves In Waves.
'Certalnly CRIME moves IN waves,
There are epidemics of various forms.
as there are epidemics OF smallpox, Of
measles There are criminals who are
always criminals of one kind-social
cancers, social consumptives. There
arc, too. criminals who are only cases
of social chickenpoN or influenza.
Certainly crime is contagious l
have seen honest, law-abiding men
turned within a fortnight to criminals.
I have seen others in whom the course
OF rhe incubation was slower.
rs there a subtle bacillus of evil. a
germ of crime, that causes the ferment
OF the under world2 / do not know
Perhaps my brain Will tell. l have left
II for the men of science to ponder over.