Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-02-08


the berth Of a sls Ing woman and
his fingers ciutched her throat When
he left her he fancied he had stran-
giec her Co death.
l<irwin not only Is the only pirate
OF the high seas. but also the only
professional stranger In this country.
Has Psychological Theories.
Another remarkable thing about
kuwln h that he Processes to have.
undergone "a complete. mental aud
physical transformation in the eight
years he has been Ia prison.
Every tissue Of nay physical being
has been changed since | came "a
prison." kirwin said lass week. YOU
knaw. science sAys that 1lir lives arn
divided Into cycles OF aeven years
and that in each seven years our en-
tire physical being Is made over. go
hat Ia your body NJ wen ns milne.
there IL not ono tissue. not one parti-
ci" of bone. nor one nerve cell that
WAS there seven years ago, That ~
"a well-estRhlishcl scientific fnci. uc-
coptod by all tho thinkers ct tho
world
But science says nothing of the
psycbical changes that take place la
thr same period" continued this plr.
atc-sirauElcr. who talks like T. coll
lrgr professor. And those change
do occur Just as surely as the physl.
cal changes do Our minds change
oar ideas at right and wrong change,
wc either progress or retrograde.
mentally and morally as we go along
There can % NO standing stii. men
tally.
Claims Moral Change.
And In me there has been worked
q fun mental and moral change
am literally born again. by system
NJ reaUng ana thinking. 81 mental
Interrogation ana rotrospec,ion. I
| have taken On new moral nature.
aud nov. having been reformed aud
/ made over from an abnormal into d
/ normal man. I am ready tO BE- par
! dnucd and sent out into the world 90
| b" good citizen. Society II only do
ing itself and myself an injustice by
| keeping me locked up. I have large
! ambitions to do good. 10 he useful,
| Co redeem the past. and I have la
me the making of good citizen"
The prison authorities are agreed
upon one thlng--that Kirwin Is man
or wonderful intellect He ~ ab.
normally bright and intelligent
Born In Toledo. kirwin Ia early
youth showed a preoociousHoss that
under the right training and envir
onment. might have developed him
into "a great man, But he had no one
10 care for him. he was r. child oi
tho gutter and he became wanderer
and r. criminal Of the most danger
Gus type. Before he was IA ne sery.
"a term in the ohio industrial
school That was the time he tried
~ strange n girl Co death.
tits eliminating Crime.
Released from there before he was
TO- he was sent again 20 the reform
school for boys In Pontiac. m. Tor a
similar attack on girl tie was dis
charged when he became of age and
soon thereafter ne was arrested u
Cleveland. a dissolute wcman wa
found strnnglod ia death and Kirwir
was the last one seen with her Bu
there was lack of discriminating evi
donce and hc was discharged.
Then he married and became az
oiler on tho steamer Western states
that piled between nuitalo and ne
troit
one night IN September. 1900. Kir.
win opened the door ~ Mrs Adena
n. Swoetiugs stateroom while sh'
was asleep. and after strangling hel
until he believed she was dead, stol'
her ie'yelry worth SEGA, and wen
back Ia work. when he was arree,c,
the stolen lewolry was found viii
him
Convicted &c Piracy.
MrE Sweeting recovered. she guos
The steamboat company for damages
aud recovered Si2.000. ana that MAJ
have had something 90 DO Win tn
punishment ~ Kirwln. Anyhow, h'
WAS not charged with grand larceny
a. an ordinary thief stealing tina
amount would have been. but an OLE
united States statute. defining a
piracy any theft from passengers OF