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The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-08-27
Itching and Burning EruptiOns
Torture Victims.

If your skin seems ablaze with
the fiery, burning and itching of
Eczema, real and lasting relief can
only come from treatment that
goes below the surface = that
reaches down to the very source
of the trouble. kin-diseases come
from a disordered condition of the
blood, and search far aud near,
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-08-27

LOST-Lady's small gold watch,
with short heavy gold chain to which
is attached a Masonic watch key
plainly marked with initials H. c.. NJ.
Return to this office. ct
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-08-27

SuueTlng, anu Two
doctors de cided
that ] would have
to go through an
operation before /
could get well.
My mother, who
had been helped by
Lydia E. Pinkham s
Vege table Com
pound, advised me
to tryit before sub
hitting to an opera
ton. Itrelieved me
from nv troubles
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-08-27

Mr.. Mann says the present House
calendar is mere chicken feed. Well
even chicken feed at cents pound
is worth while.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-08-27

The Ford plant is preparing K
turn out 100000 cars next year.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-08-27
HOW MRS. BOYD
AVOIDED AN
OPERATION

Canton, Ohio suffered from a
female trouble which caused me much
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-08-27
BETHEL woMAN's COLLEGE

Academic and Junior College work For Girls only Seth fall
~ bepin Sept TO- Affiliated Baptist Education Society OF
Kentucky Controlled by of Trustees Strong faculty head
ed by W. Gaines A. B. A. Special include Music
MART Expression Science and Business Main budlngf re-
modelled and undermined $4,000 ormtoy ready for sepm
ct, FOR 100 boarding pupils and tuition, SO
weeks $500 Located prosperous city of $4,000 population in
beautiful campus Of Catalogue
BETHEL woMANs COLLEGE, Hopknsvine, Ky.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

sentative of The Tribune, Mr.. Fast
SAID If the case went to trial"-
which he then seemed to think it
would not-he would defend his
client by citing other cases in which
1t had been proved that the defend
ants had taken life, or committed
other acts of violence, when asleep.
Although few such cases have
found their way into the courts.
there are several on record. Opin-
ions regarding some of these fire.
quently were divided, but GRIM
biologists before and after Lom-
broso admitted that the commission
of crimes during sleep was entirely
possible under certain conditions.
Lombroso and some of the others
frequently expressed their belief in
the power of suggestion, taking the
position that in some instances of
"somnambulistic automatism" the
sleeper was the victim of self-hypo-
sis and merely carried out the idea
which in his waking moment had OBJ
sessed him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

of those devils as plainly as I see
you and the blood rushed to my
head. All the fear and the suspense
that I had felt in the past months
overwhelmed me, as we'll as ter
rible hatred of the men who, as
thought, were before me, and
grabbed my revolver which l had
under the pillow.
Although terribly excited l acted
as coolly as act now. 1 pointed
the revolver at the nearest man
and took good aim so that l would
not miss. I will kill this BEAST
told myself, and then-suddenly
was awake.
~ was sitting up in bed with
the revolver in my hand and my
wife, who was lying beside me, said {:
Jimmy That was all she said, just
Jimmy This was the last w0w1
she spoke, and it was my name ar
spoke. I looked at her. and. CH1
in heaven! l saw that there was a
great hole in her head, and l real
ICED that it was she I had shot and
not bandit. pounded on the
floor of my home with my shoe and
my brother, who lived on the floor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

four sisters of Charles Cawley were
attacked and killed by blows with an
ak. The crime was committed at
night. Another daughter in the
family was struck on the head, but,
although severely wounded, ulti-
mately recovered.
Charles Cawley was arrested on
the charge of having committed the
crime. The case caused a great stir
because of it's unusual character and
because the defendant was known
as an unusually gentle youth, who
had willingly devoted his entire life
to providing for his mother and
sisters.
The chief witness against Cawley
was brother, James, who testified
at the trial that on the night of the
murders he had been awakened from
sound sleep by noise, and upon
going to the door of his bedroom
and looking into the hall had seen
his brother walking about, exclaim-
ing:
ooh! Oh! Burglars! Robbers ~
The defendant, the witness testi-
fed, had all ak in his hand, and
when he saw his brother in the
doorway walked toward him, still
swinging his ak and exclaiming:
ooh! Oh! Burglars Robbers!'
The defendant, the witness went
on, attempted to strike his brother
with the ak, but was finally disarmec
and overpowered, after which the
latter called the police and had his
brother taken into custody
The prisoner did not seem to
understand that he was accused of
murder, and several hours later sud
denly demanded to know why he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

below with his wife, hurried upstairs
in accordance with the signal we
had arranged in case of danger. He
saw what had happened and ran for
the doctor. When the doctor came
my wife was dead"
Sapienza told virtually the same
story when arrested, and the
prosecutor of Newark, of which
lrvington is suburb, sent several
men to check up his statements. Resi-
dents in the vicinity Of 1870 Colt
Street, where Sapienza lived, agreed
that he and his wife had always
lived affectionately together. The
manufacturer, the neighbors said,
had never been seen with any other
woman. They added that Sapienza
was a law-abiding man, peculiarly
gentle in character, and had always
commanded the highest respect in
the community.
Chief of Police Green, the high
est official in Irvington sworn to
suppress crime and catch criminals,
voluntarily asserted that Sapienza
lad always had an excellent repu-
tation. In all the time the manu-
facturer had lived in Irvington the
chief of police said he had never
known him to commit lawless act.
II don't want to PREJUDICE the
oase," said the chief of police, "but
can't help but be inclined to be-
lieve his story"
The prosecutor of Newark there
upon established a precedent in
murder cases" in his jurisdiction by
moving for the release of Sapienza
on $4,000 bail, and the manufac-
turer left court in company with
Louis A. Fast, his lawyer.
Speaking afterward to the repre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Possible, Scssnce Says

Freud's theory that dreams are in
most instances merely the working
out of suppressed desires" has been
cited as part confirmation of this
theory, as have also the views of
Janet, Regis and other noted psy-
biologists. DR.. Smith Ely Jelliffe, of
New York, noted authority, has
recently written book in which he
devoted considerable space to the
subject of disordered dreams.
without in any way judging the
facts in the Sapienza case" said DR..
Jelliffe, "it must be admitted that a
crime under such circumstances as
alleged by the defendant is entirely
possible"
One of the most famous recent
cases in which "somnambulistic au-
tomatism" was advanced in defense
of a person accused of murder was
that of Charles Cawley, of Home
stead, Pa. This crime was unusually
brutal, but the defendant was ac-
quilted after DR.. #. M. T. McKen-
nan, of Pittsburgh, and DR.. w. K.
Walker, both noted neurologists,
had examined the defendant and had
inquired into every phase of the
case.
The facts were these:
In October, 1902, the mother and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

was in Jail. He professed to refuse
to believe that he had killed his
mother and sisters.
At the trial it was shown that for
several months before the commits
sion of the crime Cawley, an in
ventor, had been hard at work on a
new kind of car brake, which he
hoped to place on the market. He
had made several drawings of the
device on a scratch pad which he
generally kept in his room. About a
month before his mother and sisters
were killed he found that some one
had torn several pages out of the
pad and had scrawled this warn
ing on one Of the leaves:
eff you attempt to find cut who
did this will kill yourself and
family"
Cawley took the mutilated pad and
the warning to the Public Safety
Building in Pittsburgh and showed
it to a detective, who laughed and
told him that some youthful friend
probably was playing joke on him.
GO home and forget about it, u
the detective advised, patting. his
caller soothingly on the back
Morbid and Sensitive
Cawley went home as suggested
but did not "forget about it." In
stead he continued to brood, with
ever increasing intensity, over the
desecrated notebook and the scrib.
bled warning. He had worked very
hard trying to complete his inven
ton, and in his extremely nervous
condition, due to these labors, was
morbidly susceptible to the fear;
which the threat to kill had awak
ened in him.
AS the prisoner continued to in
sist at the trial that he had abso
!utely no knowledge of the murders
Drs. Walker and McKennan were
appointed to make a pathological
examination. The two physicians
found after an exhaustive inquiry
that when the crime was committed
Cawley was Gin a state of somnam
bulistic automatism," and DR.. Wal
ker, in submitting the formal opin
ion to the court, said:
"Of the essential nature of con
seriousness we have no knowledge
Whereas it was formerly believed
that the boundaries of one marked
the limits Of the other, we row know
that merely portion of the menta
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Armed With a Knife

There the son armed himself with
Il large carving knife, which he
took from the drawer of a table,.
and ran quickly out of the house
toward the barn.
Pausing only to slip on dressing
gown, the father ran down the
stairs after his son, following him
into the barn. AS he entered the
door Of that structure he saw his
son jump down from the haymow,
and run, muttering angrily, toward
the cutting room" and from there
into the stable. He constantly made
wild jabs with his knife, and seemed
to be pursuing some one who con-
stantly eluded him.
The chase continued for several
minutes, finally ending when the
younger man made wild leap into
one of the carriages and made jab
into the cushions. He was sitting
on the seat, still using his knife
nervously, when his father came up
to him. After some coaxing he per-
mitted himself to be led back to
bed. The next morning he said he
remembered nothing Of what had
occurred and expressed great as
tonishment over his actions.
In seeking an explanation of
what had happened his father
learned that on the previous day
his son had had an angry quarrel
with man from whom he at
tempted to collect bill. Very soon
after this quarrel the son had re-
turned home and gone to bed, con-
tinuing the quarrel in his dream.
Then, thinking his enemy was be-
fore him, he had pursued the phan-
tom to the barn after equipping
himself with the knife, and was try
ing to kill him when overtaken by
his father.
The Sapienza case has attracted
great deal of interest and has
called forth number of letters from
persons who profess to have had
similar experiences. One of the most
striking of these was written to the
prosecutor Of Newark by J. D.
Plumb, secretary and treasurer Of
the Pulvola Chemical Company, Inc.
manufacturing chemists, Of ia Lin
don Avenue. JERSEY CITY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

Criminologists Support the De.
Tense of New Jersey Man
j Who Killed Wife II

! have been successful and have made
little money. Well, l had deter
mined not to permit myself to be
robbed in that way, and 1 had pro-
vided myself with revolver. This
revolver, an old one, had been in the
house before that time, but 1 had al
ways kept it wrapped in a hand
kerchief and on a high shelf, because
was afraid one of the children
might find it and hurt himself.
"Well, when the letters kept on
coming, I got this revolver and /
placed it under my pillow, thinking
to defend my child. 1 was not afraid
for myself, but the letters made me
very nervous, and I kept thinking all
the time of the men who had been
writing me the letters.
II want to say, as / have said to
the police, that loved my wife. For
the ten years while we were mar
ried she had been a good wife to me.
1t was through her, perhaps, more
than any one else that l was able to
improve our condition a little bit and
get ahead. Before taking up the
manufacture Of concrete building
blocks had a store, and my wife, in
addition to her other duties, used to
help me there. l always left her in
charge when was called away on
other business, and always knew
that things would go right. She was
a good woman, who always worked
hard, and we never had a quarrel
that people could call serious. There
was no other woman for me after
we were married.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
The Blood Lust

"Well, as l say, on this particular
night, or morning, l dreamed that
the two men had come through the
window of my home and were
carrying off my boy. Then, though
| was never man to kill, decided
to kill. | saw my boy in the hands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

tROOO lHe UoiuSt VI uu-
~ man consciousness. within
"A the shadow-y domain called
the World of Dreams"
mankind frequently has encountered
strange experiences. Some of these
have been merely fantastic or hu-
uorous. but others have been GRIM
so Grim, indeed, that they APP
preached the realms of tragedy and
crime. They have given rise to the
question:
Can person commit a crime
when asleep?
Science, seeking to classify
dreams, has collected some of them
under the general name of 'incu.
Buses" or nightmares. To others,
which go beyond the boundaries
Of the ordinary nightmare, it las
somewhat loosely applied the name
of "somnambulistic automatism,"
including in that group nocturnal
adventures in which the individuals,
usually regarded as normal, commit
violent acts of which, it is contended,
they retain no waking knowledge.
Apparently sleeping, they seem to
enter a state just beyond the divid
ing line of consciousness, but short
of total oblivion. There, according
to physicians, they pass within por-
tails where the real and the unreal
are singularly confused. Visions,
which are part dreams and part
Authorizations, are translated into
still stranger deeds. A sort of Mr..
Hyde, lurking within the shadow of
son1nolence, pounces upon its victim,
converting a normal DR.. Jekyll into
a strange being ready to commit
acts from which, in his waking mo-
ments, he would shrink.
1t is within this strange category
of dreams" that the lawyers for
James Sapienza, the wealthy manu-
facturer of Irvington, n. j., seek to
include the crime committed by him
on Monday, November "a, last.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
'SOmnambulistic AutOmatism'
MAY Induce Such Crimes as
: That Committed by Sapienza

life is represented in clear con-
seriousness.
LAS the lower vegetative and
organic functions of the human ma
chine are carried on without it, SO
the instructive and emotional phe-
nomena may arise, develop and be
manifested without representation
in clear consciousness.
Many Of the most complex brain
processes are carried on in the
presence Of a consciousness so re-
Guced as to seem absent altogether"
The jury, accepting the finding Of
the physicians, freed Cawley on the
ground that he did not know what
he was doing when he committed
the crimes and was therefore not
mentally responsible.
Although no question of mental
responsibility has been advanced in
the Sapienza case, there are other
elements Of similarity which, it is
said, bring them into the same cate
CORY.
Another strange case, in which
the unconscious action extended
over a long period, was that of
~. c. p" the 2S-year-old son of a
wealthy resident of Pittsburgh.
Awakened by a noise at o'clock
one morning, the father of this
young man was just in time to SEQ
his son running swiftly through the
hall into the kitchen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
4 Striking Letter

Mr.. Plumb wrote:
Dear Sir:
~ am strikingly reminded of a
painful experience of mine many
years ago, and relate it to you for
what it may be worth as bearing
somewhat corroboratively upon the
Sapienza case.
Early in my married life I was
in the habit Of sleeping with rel
volver under the mattress at the
head of my bed. l kept it there be-
cause it was equally as accessible
but much less in danger of accidental
discharge as when under my pillow.
Zone night had wild dream Of
graphing with a burglar, and was
awakened by my wife's scream, or by
my own action, or both, to find, I'd
my horror, that l had my wife's head
under my left arm while was dig,
ging for my revolver with my right,
ut was all over in a minute, with
no serious damage being committed,
but it was dreadful thing, as I had
naturally grabbed my wife roughly
1t made me realize that might have
killed my beloved wife had / secured
the weapon before fully awaking, al
would have been quite probable had
it been little handler under the
pillow.
"Never again, / say, and the re,
volver has been banished to an ever
less accessible place."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
The 4,cakening

HE 4lCNkeNIng
Sapienza told the police that at 6
o'clock on the morning of that day
he was awakened from a terrible
dream by scream and the report
of pistol. only to discover, to his
great horror, that he had shot and
killed his wife. He insisted that he
had no knowledge of the act, and
that he thought in his dream that he
was firing at "black handler" who
had entered the window of his home
and was kidnapping his seven-year-
old SON. Grabbing the revolver
which was under his pillow, Sapienza
sent bullet into what he thought
was the body of the intruder, but
which, in fact, he fired into. the brain
Of Mrs. Sapienza rs she lay sleeping
beside him.
Investigation by the authorities of
Jersey City uncovered these facts:
For several months Sapienza had
been receiving "black hand" letters
demanding $4,000, under penalty, il
he refused, of having his son, the
eldest of three children, kidnapped
and killed. On October 10, more
than six weeks before Mrs. Sapienza
was slain, the manufacturer had
taken one of these letters to Chief of
Police A. S. Green, of Irvington, and
had begged that detectives be as.
signed to catch the men who, he said,
were threatening his sons life.
Chief of Police Green detailed two
of his men to follow Sapienza, but
when they arrived at the place where
the money was to have been paid
over they found no one there to meet
the manufacturer. The chief of po-
lice of Newark also sent men to
watch for the writer's of the letters,
but they did not find them. Never
theless, additional letters continued
to arrive, the last being received by
Sapienza a few days before the
shooting. In addition to the usual
signature this missive was grue-
somely decorated with what seemed
to be blood spots, as vivid reminder
Of the fate in store for young Sapi-
enza unless the father desisted from
his efforts to catch the criminals anc
paid over the money demanded by
them.
Afterward, in telling the repre-
sentative of The Tribune what hac
occurred on the night his wife was
killed, Mr.. Sapienza said:
The Dream,
"It seemed to me that two men had
come through the window Of my
home and that one had tied a hand
kerchief about my boys eyes and
had then placed him in large sack.
1t was so very real that, even now,
swear to you on the holy name of the
Virgin Mother, l can hardly believe
1t was not so.
II had never been man to dream.
| never walked in my sleep. But for
several weeks had been very nerv-
Gus over the Black Hand letters.
You know, among my people it is a
common practice for q certain class
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
By Arnold D. Prince

A CROSS the border of hu-
~ man consciousness. within
IA the shadowy domain called
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as are given in the Central Office Institutes. There will be
courses for Sunday School workers, and also for ministers.
Mornings will be devoted to class work, some Is courses being
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Afternoons will be devoted to recreation-boating, bath
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GREETINGS TO THE "BOYS"
Greetings to returned Soldiers, Sailor and Marines on july
4. All soldiers in uniform will be admitted free. Special en-
tertainment in films and speeches are being arranged for their
special benefit. Soldiers will be invited to give their personal
experiences.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-12-19
LARD SALE AT YUMA
ty Was Interested Spectator Last
Week.

County Assessor, R. J. Coleman re-
turned on Friday of last week from
Yuma on business. Mr.. Coleman
reports Yuma county in highly
prosperous and thriving condition on
account of the increased acreage that
annually is being brought under Gull
tivation. While there, Mr.. Coleman
was an interested spectator at the
government sale of several thous-
and acres of land lying south of
Yuma on the Arizona side. in the vi
cinity of the town of Somerton. One
five acre tract sold for $500 and one
thousand dollars of this amount goes
to pay the government for putting
water on this land. Some of this
lard sold rs high as $500 per &c e
including the water. Most of the
new land to be reclaimed by the
Government was purchased by citi-
zens of Yuma county, although bid
ders came from all parts of the coun-
try and the bidding at times was
spirited.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-12-19
a MERRIER CHRISTMAS

The deserved increase in the sal
aries of all teachers in the Clifton
schools-$15 90 per month-will con-
tribute to a merrier Christmas and
a happier New Year for them. The
action of the board in making the in
creases is highly commendable. Into
the hands of teachers is largely con-
fided and committed the task of shap-
ing and molding the minds of the
young today who tomorrow will take
their places in the fierce contests and
conflicts of life How we'll they
meet the responsibilities of citizen
ship, what becomes the dominating
purposes of their lives. the measure
of their thirst for knowledge and
Iaudable achievements, depends large
~ upon the teachers under whose in
struction they come. The public
Scholastic public school teachers
are the hope of America-the hope of
Democracy. In them there is no
class nor caste-merit alone gives
prominence.