Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-07-19
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Philadelphia, Pa.-"It Is ordered
that Jacob HaddIman, the prisoner
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 opera
tion on the said Jacob Haddiman as
will be necessary, in taeir judgment,
to remove any and all such pressure
on his brain as may be caused by
adenoids or other accretions. and
that the said Jacob IIaddiman be de-
tanned in st. Luke's Hospital subject
to the order of court"
Judge Julian Mack, of Chicago,
and Judge Harald Salomon, of Stock
holm, Sweden, were sitting on the
bench with Judge Barratt In the Ju-
venile Court here when this unprece-
dentcd order was handed down, and
both concurrcd In the thought that
too many boys are sent to prison who
should be cared for in clinics.
In Pennsylvania a Judge may send
boys to any one of the several re-
formatorios or to an asylum. Since
he nas made special study of juve-
nile crime Judge Barratt has COM
mttci aevcral boys to the State Hos
pital for the Insane In Norristown,
where, under competent medical and
surgical treatment, wonders have
been worked with incorrigibles.
DR.. Ernest La Place trephined the
skull Of Spurgcon Welty. and a very
wicked boy became lovablo and
capable little chap. DR.. Desiderio
Roman, who accompanied Lieutenant
Peary in his hunt for tie North Pole,
lid the same for Jacob Haddiman in
St Luke's Hospital, and the boy,
who was n daring and persistent
thief. shows marked and increasing
signs Of moral regeneration. Jacob
iladdlman, it was discovered, had
= fractured skull.
Who, hen, shall now insist that all
criminals are merely vicious and that
none is diseased or malformed? The
proposition advanced by Edward
Dunlap, burglar, really seems to be
close to Pre- VI.
The Theory of the Burglar.
Hear Dunlap. who, when willing
his brain to science. wrote, with the
hand OF death on him:
Il am and have been all my life
q criminal. Why?
WAS I born too late? Should l
have lived in the days Of the great
Observation-Disclosures and Cortcs and
all other pillagers and conquerors
and heroic thieves who could trace
their lineage back further than Jason
who questcd for the Golden Fleece?
WAS | born too early-before the
days of high finance and the unhero-
ic thieves Of this decade?
"Or was It because of some subtle
quirk In my brain. some cerebra!
formation, some little grouping OF
the brain cells. that ], who should
have been an honest man, an artist,
poet perhaps, became burglar?
Nav It not b that Il spicule of bone
presses on convolution Of my brain
and so doing. prevents my whole
nature?
Il do not know, and have thought
hard and long on the causes. But
this, although do not know, Is what
! am inclined to think: Real crime
is a disease, or rather crime Is the
symptom of a subtle disease of brain
AID nerve, Just as rash Is In some
cases a symptom Of fever. All those
who are criminals-and in this list
I place the ancient conquerorS, the
gentlemen advcnturers, the burglar
the counterfeiter, tho swindlcr, the
priest of high finance, all OF the
under world, and all, too, OF the
upper world who are tiGged with the
eyil-all those who are criminals,
say have this disease.
1T may be that the disease that
terminates crimes and criminals
springs from bacillus, There are
many reasons for believing it is so,
| have seen the criminal taint com
municated in the most curious ways
hardly credible. have seen crim-
inal phenomena that parallelled the
Contagion of slow fevers the stride
of quick, destructive disease.
Certainly crime is contagious. l
have seen honest, law-abiding men
turned within fortnight to GRIM
inals. | have seen others in whom
the course of the incubation was
slower
"Is there subtle bacillus OF evil.
n germ of crime. that causes the fer-
ment of the under world? | do not
know. Perhaps my brain Will tell.
| have left 1t for the men of science
to ponder over, to dissect, to exam
inc mlcroscopically. Perhaps they
ca. find the germ Of crime. 80 |,
who all my life was the enemy OF So
ciety, may by my death become lts
bencfactor.
Instead of prisons I would nave
sanatoria for the treatment OF crlm-
inals. | would have tho finest spe-
cialists for them. I would have the
disease of crime copcd with logically.
OF course the criminal should be Sc
grerated, but the disease should be
recognized. The treatment or the
criminal of to-day is parallelled by
tho treatment of the insane during
the Mi lie Ag"s, and, in fact, as short
a time ago as the eighteenth cen
tury. Crime is 4 disease to be cor
rected by surgery or by medicine, ana
some day judge will come who VIII
be big enough and brave enough TO
say SO and act accordingly.
Dunlap, to have mis- theory proved
or disproved, willcd his brain to the
Wistar Institute of Anatomy and his
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