The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10
1 NEW DEPARTURE
PHILADELPHIA JUDGE SEND PRISONER TO HOSPITAL
To Be Operated on in order to Ascer- certain If Any. Brain Pressure Causes Commission of
 Crime.

Philadelphia, June s.--(special. )-- Tt is ordered that Jacob Haddiman. the prisoner at the bar, be taken fortn- with to St. Luke's Hospftal py nss mother and an officer of this court. and that the surgeons properly In attend ance at that institution perform sucn operation upon the said Jacob Haddi- man as will be necessary, n tneis 1uas- ment to remove any and all such pres sure upon his brain as may pc caused by adenoids or other accrstions, and that the said Jacob Haddiman be ds- tained at St. Luke's Hospital subject to the orders of court.
 In SO many words, Judge Norris g. Barratt, one of the foremost jurists of America, gave judicial indorsemenf to the theory of Edward Dunlap, . con- ~1cf. who offered his body and brain to establish the fact that crime is an evil dence of disease or maIformation.
 Judge Julian Mack of Chicago and Judge Harald Solomon 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 philanthropists inter- ested in the enforcement of the cumpul- sorry educational act and the child labor laws and these sociologists hail with approval the radical departure made by Judge Barratt.
 In Pennsylvania, a Judge may send boys to any one of the several reform atories or 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 ln- sane at Norristown, where. under com potent medical and surgical treatment. wonders have been worked with incor- rigihles.
 No man can see where. all this will end, but it is certain that the hospital departments of all prisons will be brought up to a standard of excellence sat least equal to general hospitals open to the public and that the attending prison physicians will be men of ex- ceptional skill in surgery of the prain-
 Intense interest has been awakened by two successful operations that have given scientific indorsement to the theory of Edward Dunlap. the burglar. |.
 pr. Ernest La Place trephined the skull of Sturgeon Welty, and very wicked boy became a lovable and ca- ,able little chap. Dr. Desiderio Roman, who accompanied Lieutenant Peary to he fartherest point North in his hunt !or the North pole. did the same for facob Haddiman at St. Lukes Hospit- Il and the boy. who was a daring and persistent thief, shows marked and ever increasing signs of moral regen- eraticn. Tn the case of Jacob Haddi- man who, 1t was discovered. had fractured skull, the result amounts to the resurrection of a soul
 Who, then, shall not insist that all criminals are merely vicious and that none is diseased or malformed? The proposition advanced by Edward Dun lap, burglar, really seems to be close to proof.
 Hear Dunlap, who. when willing his brain to science, wrote. with the hand of death upon him, T am and have been all my life a criminal