The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-19
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I'D GOOD BY SURGICAL
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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 their Judgment,
to remove any and all such pressure
on his brSin as may he caused by
adnioids or other accretions, and
that the said Jacob Haddiman be de-
tanned in st. Luke's Hospital subject
to the order of court"
Judge Julian Mack, OF Chicago,
/, and Judge Harald Solomon, of Stock
holm, Sweden, were sitting on the
bench with Judge Barratt in the Jd-
venile Court here when this unprece-
dented order was handed down, and
both concurred 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-
formatories or to an asylum. Since
he mas made a special study OF iuve-
nile crime Judge Barratt has COM
mitted several 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 Spurgeon Welty, and very
wicked boy became a lovable and
capable little chap. DR.. Desiderio
! Roman, who accompanied Lieutenant
Peary in his hunt for the North Pole,
did the same for Jacob Haddiman in
! St. Lukes Hospital, and the boy,
who was daring and persistent
thief, shows marked and increasing
signs of moral regeneration. Jacob
Haddiman, it was discovered, had
| fractured skull.
Who, then, 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 proof.
The Theory of U,e Burglar.
Hear Dunlap. who. when willing
his brain to science wrote, with the
hand of death on him:
II am and have been all my life
a criminal. Why?
WAS l born too late? Should ]
have lived in the days of the great
adventurersrDrake and Cortes and
all other pillagers and conGuerors
and heroic thieves VINO 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 unhero-
ic thieves of this decade?
'Or was it because of some subtle
| quirk in my brain, some cerebral
formation. some little grouping of
the brain cells, that I, who should
have been an honest mar, an artist
a poet perhaps, became burglar?
May it not be that spicule of bone
/ presses on a convolutlon of my brain
and, so doing. prevents my whole
nature?
81 do not know, and have thought
hard and long on the causes. But
this, although / do not know, Is what
I am inclined TO think: Real crime
is a disease, or rather crime is the
symptom of a subtle disease of brain
and nerve, Just as rash is in some
cases symptom OF fever All those
who are criminals-and in this list
| place the ancient conQuerors, the
gentlemen adyenturers, the burglar
the counterfeiter. the swindler, the
priest of high finance, all of tbs
under world, and all. too, of the
upper world who are tinged with the
evil-all those who are criminals.
say have this disease.
1T may be that the disease that
germinates crimes and criminals
springs from bacillus. There are
many reasons for believing it is so
have seen the criminal faint COM
municated in the most curious ways
hardly credible. l have seen Grim
inal phenomena that parallelled the
contagion of slow fevers, the stride
of quick, destructive disease.
Certainly crime Is contagious.
have seen honest, law-abiding mer
turned within fortnight to Grim
inals. have seen others in whom
the course of the inoculation wal
slower.
''Is there a subtle bacillus of evil
n germ of crime. that causes the fer
ment of the under world? | do no
know. Perhaps my brain Will tell
l have left it for the men of scienc'
to ponder over, to dissect, to exam
inc microscopically. Perhaps the!
caa find the germ of crime. So |
who all my life was the enemy OF SO
ciety, may By my death become IT
benefactor.
Instead of prisons | would nav
sanatoria for the treatment or Grim
inals. / would have the finest spe
cialists for them. l would have tn
disease of crime coped with logically
or course the criminal should be Sc
gregated, but the disease should b
recognized. The treatment of tn
criminal of to-day is parallelled b
the treatment of the insane durin
the Mi lie Ages, and, in fact, as shof
a time ago as the eighteenth cen
tury. Crime is a disease to be cor
rected by surgery OF by medicine, an
some day judge will come who vii
be big enough and brave enough t
say so and act accordingly"
Dunlap, to have mis- theory prove
or disproved, willed his brain to tn
Wistar Institute of Anatomy and hi
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