The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-17

! ulSu' bul Judl Is just general lLl-
preston which have got from visiting
iails. have never attempted an exact
/ tabulation.
Now, so far as big men are con-
cerned, there is one type of big men
who are defective In their case, their
height is a disease which is known as
akromegaly. Their joints are large,
and there is a lax expression of the
mouth. Their whole facial expression
is weak and characterless. Except for
their unusual height they do not in the
least suggest the giants slain by Jack
the-Giant-Killer.
The tallest murderer that l can re-
call within my own professional eX-
perience, was Kemmlin, the first man
to die in the electric chair in New
York. He was about five feet eight
inches in height
Il saw all the members of the notori-
GUS Whyo Gang-a gang of brutal rob-
bers and murderers that was extermi-
mated by execution. Three of them
were smaller than am, DIR. Spitzka
is about five feet six inches tall-"and
the fiercest and most brutal of the lot
was the smallest.
"One of the most brutal crimes that
can recall was the double murder
by a negro named jefferson of his
sweetheart and of his rival. Jefferson
was small man. AS nearas l can re-
call his height, l should say that it
was under five feet five inches.
NO concluded DR.. Spitzka, "judg-
ing from my experience, l should not
be inclined to agree with DR.. Marie
that 1t is the tall men who commit
crimes Of violence"
The Ledger reporter carried his in
quiry to Capt Joseph Faurot, who is in
charge of the Bureau of Criminal
Identification in New York City. Capt.
Faurot has been connected with the
bureau for over fourteen year and
has taken the measurements of nun.
dreds of criminals
i 81 am decidedly of the opinion" said
Capt. Faurot, that it is the little man
rather than the big one who commits
crimes of violence.
Without looking over the records
and relying entirely upon my memory,
l should say that nearly all the muir
ders of unusual violence of brutality
! that have been committed in this city
during the years that have been con-
nected with this bureau, have been
J. perpetrated by small men-men con-
siderably under the average height.
There is just one tall murderer who
sticks out in my memory, and that's
Jackson, negro, who measured five
feet ten and half inches. He was
the man that beat in the head of
Charles w. RoXbury, a tea merchant,
one night in the Bronx. He was after
Roxbury;s watch and money.
There was never a more brutal
crime committed in this city than the
murder of fifteen-year-old Ruth Wheel
ed by Wolter on March "a, 1910. Many
people will remember the story of that
crime: how Wolter lured the girl to his
apartment by an advertisement for a
stenographer, and then, after cruel mis-
treatment, murdered her. He then
tried to destroy the body by burning
it in a fireplace, and the partly in
cinerated corpse was found. The evil
dence showed that the girl had been
strangled to death. That was certainly
crime of violence. Wolter measures
five feet, five and half inches.
cor take the murder of Mrs. Mar
, garet Keller. She was found lying on
, her bed in pool of blood, her head
having been beaten into an unrecog-
, nizable mass by an iron bar, which
= was left on the floor few feet away.
J The man who committed that crime
was Frank Furlong, who only reached
| five feet seven inches in height
another fearfully brutal murder,
the details of which were so revolving
; that they cannot be printed in a news
paper, was that of Annie Quinn in a
} boarding house in East 11Sth Street.
r The man guilty of that atroity was
) George Kramer, who measured five
J feet, four inches.
Then there was Frank Webster,
who stabbed Benjamin Rose to death
t Webster was only five feet five inches
in height.
Bauer was another little fellow. He
, shot a man, dismembered the body,
and was caught carrying a portion OF
it away in a dresssuit case.
! "Johansen was another underszed
[ man, and so, too, was Tobin, who kill
J ed a man in a Tenderlion resort, dis
membered the body, and tried to burn
} it up in the furnace in the cellar.
: "Dr. Marie may be right so far as
J France is concerned, But in New York