The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
OTHER WOMAN
CLAIMS RIGHT
To KILL
Ready to Die Rather Than
+ See Lover in Arms of
Another.
By VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

Cosmopolitan News Service.
NEW YORK, March 3.-"Tht
other woman!'
That phrase was re-echoed today
as in many recent murders through
out the country, in the search fol
the slayer of Frederick Schneider
wealthy contractor and former dash
ing army captain.
! It is another unsolved mystery II
/ which a married man has beer
killed, not by the wronged wife, bu
by the Other Woman.
| Formerly it was the injured wife
for whom the unwritten law was
called forth. Now it is the Other
i woman who takes the law into hel
own hands and wipes out her in
jury in blood.
New Problem for Juries.
Will a new Dolphin w. Delmas-
the attorney in the Thaw case who
pleaded an unwritten law for men
come to plead at the bar Of justict
u new unwritten law, permitting Z
woman to destroy the life of any
man who has ceased to care fol
| her? Will juries face the new prob
lem of deciding when it is justifi
able for a mistress to slay her mar
ried lover?
The married man who drifts int
an affair with another woman nj
longer has his wife's vengeance tt
fear half so much as the vindictivt
Vengeance of the other woman.
| What prompted these women
Mrs. Paulette Saludes, and, in the
Schneider murder mystery, the un
known fourth: to kill their lovers
Surely not the old plea Of innocence
1 betrayed? All these men whC
were slain were married, and thos,
women who killed them knew it
knew they had wronged some othel
woman as grievously as they them
selves later came to be wronged.
Revenge is Suggested.
Is 1t that a woman who love.
would rather see her lover deaC
than in the arms Of another? One o.
| the best-known condolences ii
the country thinks women suffer
SO much under the anguish Of thai
thought that no price seems tot
dear to pay for release from 1t.
+ Is it that a woman would rather
be hanged with peace in her SOU
1
| ture of daily pictures Of her mar
in another's arms?
| Is it, perhaps, blind desire To-
revenge-an eye for an eye and {
tooth for tooth?
Or is it, as Helen Mencken, thu
| young star of THE Seventh Heaven,
claims, that the American women O
| today are so spoiled-So used to tax
ing what they want--that they stoI
at nothing?
An assistant United States distric
attorney feels the laxity of our lega
| system is responsible, since womer
are practically never convicted o.
| murder.
Result Of Neurosis.
A prominent psychologist ant
neurologist says it is the result Of
the increasingly neurotic times II
which we live, and the suggest Of
| newspaper accounts of similar
crimes.
Is it true that all men, no matter
how far they stray from their wives
keep in their hearts seed. which viii
| later sprout into a desire to return
And does this knowledge help thu
| wife to wait patiently and hopefully
while the other woman, knowing sht
has nothing to turn to-:neither hops
nor standing-becomes reckless O
consequences.
Or is it only poor sportsmanshiH
on the part of women who want tt
| have their cake and eat it, too?
Fanny Brice, formerly Of the Zieg
field Follies and present headliner a.
| the Palace, dropped her comedy masl
+ when spoken to on the subject o.
the other woman who kills the mar
she has loved.
Crazed By Great Love.
Still loves" persists Miss Brice
/ otherwise she wouldn't care what
became Of him. It's only live love
that makes q women so mad she
ceases to be a normal human being
You know, know, every woman
knows who has ever loved a man
| what happens when you think Of
him in the arms of some other WON
| an. Godi That's what makes any
woman want to kill!
You suffer so that you cry out
| for any other pain rather than that
| Like when you have a toothache
and want that tooth out-even though
1t means going without it for the
rest of your life. You don't care
You don't care. You want that pair
stopped at any price.
"A wife always feels that some
day her husband will come back t.
her. But the other woman knows
that when their affair is ended, II
is ended forever. She will have tt
think Of him always back with hi
wife, or with somebody else. Tha
drives her mad. No hope. Nothine
to turn to. When love is takeI
from her-she Is bankrupt! AND
at least, If he's dead, there's one
pain she won't have to suffer-shs
won't have to think of him in some
other woman's arms!"
Prosecutor Blames Juries.
Abraham 1. Menin, assistan
United States district attorney
| thinks the failure of juries to con
vict women of numbering their Low
| ers has a great deal to do with tn,
| number of such crimes.
There is no doubt teRat the fea
of punishment Is a strong deter
rent" he said Love is a power
full and dangerous emotion. 1t de
ranges the reasoning process 81
that a woman, acting under stres
of emotion, might not stop to con
slider punishment. But the fore
knowledge of sure punishment will
act as a break on the headlonj
| yielding to emotion. Women hav,
not had that check"