The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-02

recor of this queer type Of theft
stated: This snatcher OF ARTIFICIAL
cuf!s is obviously no monomantac.
put Is out purely to enrich himself.
Ny records show that previously the
! had been daring enough to clip
from the head Of his victim. often in
broad daylight. Montmartre. the gay
exploits Of this kind in 1910, the cul-
prit being a mad Englishman who
had a mania for cutting Oft women's
hair. Earlier in the same year wom-
en- and girls in Berlin were ~terrorixed
VINO was q victim of the same mental
abnormality.
"Fodor's victims numbered hun
dreds. He often contented himself
with stealing small quantities Of hair.
U ne more often secured thick
tresses. the loss Of which caused
mucn embarrassment. His skill in
stea!ing hair was extraordinary. and
ne frequently victimized as many "a
q dozen persons successfully. To
catch the perpetrator a large force of
capital. After he VAS arrested just
outside n kaiser's palace. in the act
OF severing a school girls long plaits,
MS lodging was found stacked with
hair of all hues. bound with different
colored ribbons. to which were at
ached cards classifying them in color
and texture. Many trcsses had strange
inscriptions attached to them.
I'm July. 1909. Secondo Reverb, an
Italian kitchen porter. who earned
for himself the name Jack Clipper,
was sentenced at Marlborough street
police court to four months imprison-
lent and recommended for deporta-
ton for hahn cut a piece Of the back
OF the dress of a theater attendant
while on the top of an omnibus pro-
ceeding from Charing Cross: he had
also cut the tail Of a woman's coat
on an omnibus in Regent street. and
when arrested had four pieces Of
material. which had evidently been
cut from other women's coats. in ms
pockets.
IAN epidemic Of dress slashine dis.
turbed tube and elevated railway
users in New York in the summer Of
1909: when hundreds Of cases Of
mutilation to dresses and coats were
reported within a month. The per-
petrator was never discovered. Many
people suggested 1t was the work of
an interruptions ~dressmaking or tall
oring firm to increase trade, but no
proof Of this was Forthcoming, and
monomania was ultimately accepted
as Inc only reasonable explanation.
Men with " mania for ink Singing
are perpetually annoying women in
the streets. and many beautiful dress
es have been ruined in this way. In
Jun Of 1905 and November, 1907,
there was a great outbreak OF ink
throwing in Bond street. Oxford
street. and only in May of this year
the terror r~eappeared in the west end,
the sufferer being a Hanover square
lady who had q ten guineau dress
spoiled. Not long before that u lady's
seventy guinea ermine stole was
ruined in this way.
'In January of this year a e
occupation was disclosed at Marlbor-
ough street police court. when a man
confessed that he chewed up bread
and dripping. which he threw on
ladies. dresses. and was often we'll
paid for wiping them clean by un-
suspecting women. This mar had
previously been charged with throw
ing green paint over a lady's dress
at Earrs Court Station, almost cover
ing her from the shoulder to the
waist.
"In all probability" concluded the
doctor. these mel cannot be classed
as lunatics. There are thousands OF
people in London who are apparent
~ sane on all subjects but one. These
men either carry out their nefarious
practices for business purposes.