Evening star., 1924-06-08
FRANKS CASE STARTS
STUDY OF STRANGERS
Chicago Tragedy Stirs New York
Police to Teach Children to
Detect Frauds.
AUTO RIDE OFFERS SCORED
Policewoman to Conduct Abnor-
mality Course.
By Consolidated Press.

By Consolidated Press.
NEW YORK, June THE pitifui
Franks case in Chicago Is gong TO
be the means of saving many lives
each year in New York city. 1t is the
big reason why New York police
women are to give instruction to
pupils of both public and private
schools. The instruction VIII be III
how to distinguish the abnormal anu
potentially criminal stranger WHO
offers candy or a motor ride, from the
thoroughly normal and respectable
citizen, who. under certain clrcuh-
stances, might conceivably make the
same offer.
Sinse the Franks case. private
schools have requested that police
women be sent to talk to their pupils.
And the Wadleigh High School 70!
girls is planning Il course Tor It's niSn NJ
session next fall to he conducted bS
the head of the citiy's police women
Mrs. Mary Hamilton.
1T was the Ruth Cruger case OF
over twenty years ago Whlch Arst
pointed out the need for women on
the police force. of New York city.
said Mrs Hamilton today, and IT is
the Franks case which will point out
the need for public instruction in the
schools on the subject of abnormal
ity."
"Mnsher Squad" Defended.
Mrs Hamilton knows whereof she
speaks 1t was she who, as result
of her work in revealing the murorr
of little Ruth Cruger in an Italians S
bicycle shop. became the hrSt ponce
woman in the city, She now mas mas
charge of the patrol women in the
"masher squad"
inly
masher squad" said Mrs. Hamilton
but the need for such squad is
more urgent than the average citizen
might suppose. I'd hate to recount
for you the cases les. CT fdrnd a9horihaii's
THE policewoman, you know, Is
very much concerned with preventive
work as well as with crime detectlon
can do such good work whore abnor-
maIity is concerned. The Mrs. Bauer
murder, the Hall-Mills murder and
half a dozen other famous crimes
were obviously the deeds of murder
ers with abnormal mental twists. IL
is estimated that in a big city lke
New York one person in seven is
bit abnormal. No one has estimated
what percentage of people are crimi-
nally abnormal, but in the aggregate
the number is shockingly large.
Divide Normal and Abnormal.
needed so much to work with girls,
with the young of both sexes and
with women. We aim to save the
abnormal and potential criminal from
himself by wedding him out from
normal people and by procuring for
him the medical treatment which
often can help and sometimes can
wholly cure.
we aim also to save the normal
from the abnormal; to teach young
especially the broad. unmistakabie
peculia rites of the distinctly amor
NAL man or woman.
"T'he course to be given at night in
Wadleigh High School is, however,
more than that. 1t is course which
prepares girls to become police
educated women in the police depart
ment is very great in any large city.
A course of lectures with some field
work will serve to show these h1gn
school girls two things-whether
they are fitted to become police
women and whether they want TO
take up this career.
Warns OF Auto Rides.
"Just as you study history and
ologist, SO you will study sociology
and psychology in order to be a
policewoman. Field work? Plenty Of
Twists to city prisons and other
institutions, as well as glance
through various advertisements. 1t
is not only the man who asks a boy
or girl to go motoring who is often
dangerous: it is the man who inserts
apparently harmless want ads re-
questing stenographcr or filing
clerk.
"Abnormalty is the greatest prob
lem in the United States today, bar
none" Mrs. Hamilton concluded. "and
the next greatest is the average
ignorance on the topic. If 1 could
speak to every boy and girl of school
age in the country, I'd say this:
Never accept a ride from a stranger.
He may be stranger than you realize"