The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-28

the bones and buried the flesh of the
woman in his cellar beneath a mass
of quicklime. He tried to escape to
America and was captured aboard the
steamer. In Crippen's case there en-
ters the element of the other woman
which is lacking in that of Charlton,
but it is not enough to overturn the
odd condolences present in each.
Charlton and Gilmore Case.
Charlton killed his wife in May.
Belle ElmOre's feat took place prob
ably the latter part of March.
Is Charlton'S mind a weaker dupli-
cate of Crippen's and did the message
Of criminal suggestion set vibrating by
the physician find its other pole in
the mind of the young American,
forcing him to a similar murder? The
inspector would have argued so. I do
not know.
This explanation of the claw is not
in terms OF telepathy. Telepathy in
its larger sense implies a conscious
effort 10 implant a thought or the i'm
petus for an action in another mind,
not necessarily harmonious. The ''law
of the duplicate crime" seems to be
independent of any conscious effort.
Somewhere in the world there is a
mind keyed to the same pitch as that
Of the first criminal.
The explosion of nerve cells which
results in the crime of passion runs
along Ike the fire in a fuse, passes
over the mysterious connection and,
whether the parallel mind be three
miles or three thousand miles away,
the first explosion sets that mind off
and the duplicate Offense results, mod
flied only by the varying circum-
stances of the principals. The Ger
mans believe in the Doppelganger-
the dOuble-which each man has.
The theOsOphists and the HindOOs
believe in the astral body II is a part
of all ancient religions that every act
has its duplicate in another sphere not
under the cOgniZance of dWellers in
this. How if there were a grain Of
truth in all this but that what man
has been trying TO recognize and what
he has formulated as the Doppel-
ganger, be but the dim recognition
that every human mind has its exact
counterpart here on earth, a mind
that is responsive TO the same VibTa-
lions and so delicately sympathetic
to the mind Of its double that it must
perfOrce repeat the actions which that
mind creates?
The KeIIner- Wheeler Parallel.
1t is an odd theory. it is true; may
be fantastic, maybe not. How other
wise account for the condolences?
Condolences repeated beyond the
bounds of coincidence to perpetuate
a half bull. become a law. SO it is of
the duplicate crimes.
In December Of last year a girl,
Alma KeIlner of Louisville myterious-
" disappeared. No trace of her was
discovered until June of this year.
Then her body was found hidden in
the cellar of a school house. She had
been wearing trinkets valued at
small sum, but there were other rea-
sons for suppOsing that she had not
Leen murdered for robbery. Joseph
Vending, a janitOr, who disappeared
shortly after the girl was missed, was
accused Of the crime and indicted by
the grand jury. She had been killed
BY a blow with a club.
In the meantime, between the date Of
he Kellner murder and the discov-
Try Of the body, hideous murder was
lerpetrated by Albert WOlter of New
York. He enticed 15-year-old Ruth
TO his rooms in an east side
enement house and there murdered
for robbery or other
purpose Is equally uncertain, as in the
<eHner case. Was Wolter the mental |