The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-01

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tor"
Vance smoked minute media.
lively.
1--WE read about 'cm. lnt'restin'
toys. They can no doubt indicate:
a certain augmented emotional
stress when the patient transfers
his attention from pious platl-
tudcs to problem III spherical
trigonometry. But if an innocent
person were harnessed up TO the
various tubes, galvanomcters. cleo
tro magnets, glass plates, and BRASS
knobs of one Of these apparatuics,
and then quizzed about some re-
cent crime, your indicat ry needle
would cavort about hike a Russian
dancer Us a result Of sheer nervous
panic on the patients part"
Markham smiled patronizingly.
And | suppose the needle would
remain static with a guilty per
son IL CONTACT?
"Oh, a. the contrary Nance's
tone was unruftled. Tho needle
would bob Up and down iust tic
samc--but not because be- was
guilty.
"If he WAS stupid, for instance,
the needle would jump - result
Or his resentment al n seemingly
r.wialgled third degree torture.
And # he was intelligent, the
needle would jump because u his
suppressed mirta III The puer-lity
OF the legal mind for INDUCING in
sLch nonsense
You move me deeply" said
Markham My head is spinning
like a turbine. But there a's those
Of us poor worldlings who believe
that criminalty is a defect OF the
brain
$50 it IL" Vance readily agreed.
But unfortunately the entire hui
man race possesses the defect. The
virtuous ones haven't, so to speak,
the courage Of their defects. 49,.
However. if YOU were referring to
a criminal type, then, alas! We must
part company.
at was Lonnbroso, that darling
of the yellow journals, who in
vented the idea of tn congenital
criminal. Real scic, fists like Du-
Bots, Karl Pearson and Goring have
holes."f
II am floorcd by your crudition,"
declared Markham, as he signaled
to a passing attendant and ordered
another cigar. al console myself.
however, With the fact that, as
rule. murder will leak out"
Vance smoked his cigaret in ST.
lence, looking thoughtfully out
through the window up at the lazy
June sky.
"Markham," he said at length,
"the number of fantastic ideas ex-
tant about criminals is pos lively
amazing.
How a sane person can sub
scribe to that ancient halucination
that murder will out is beyond
me. 1t rarely outs, old dea. And,
if it did out, why a homicide bu-
reau? Why all this whirlin' dervish
activity by the police whenever a
body is found? :. The poets are
to blame for this bit of lunacy.
Chaucer probably started it with
his 'Mordre vol out, and Shake
spcare helped it along by attributine
to murder a miraculous organ that
speaks III lieu OF a tongue.
1T was some poet, too, no doubt.
who conceived the fancy that car
casses bleed at the sigh of the mlr-
derer. :. Would you, as the great
protector Of the faithful. dare tell
the police TO wait calmly in their
offices, or clubs, or favoritc beauty
paflors-or whercve' policemen do
their waiting until murder
outs? Poor dear!-lf you did.
they'd ask the governor for your
detention as participant in the
crime, or apply for a sanity hear
ing
III arkh am grunted rood-na-
He was busy cutting and
lighting his cigar.
don't know what case Vance
was referring to; but there are sew
eral instances of this device on rec
ord, and writer's OF detective fic-
ton have often used it. The latest
instance is To be found III G.. Is.
THE Innocence of
Father Brown IN The .tery entitled
THE Wrong Shape"
III WAS Pearson and Gnring WIN,
about 20 years ago, made ar extern
sive investigation and iahuiaticn of
criminals IN England,
tho results Of vhic', showed ID that
criminal careers began mostly be-
tween the ages OF q aud ~. I'D
that over 80 per cent af criminals
were mentally normal, and ca that
more criminals had criminal older
brothers than criminal fathers
4Sir Basil Thompson. II. G. r.,
former assistant commissioner of
metropolitan police, London writing
in The Saturday Evening Post sew
eral years after this conYe ssation,
said: Take, for example, the prov
CRIB that murder viii cut, which is
employed whenever enc out Of many
thousands Of urdiseovcres murder
ers is caught through chance cow
cidence that captures tic popular
imagination. II is because .utdcr
will not out that the pleasat shock
of surprise when it does out calls
fer Il proyerb to cnsilrinc tie phe-
nomenon. The poisoner who is
brought to justice has almost in
variahly proved to have killed other
victims without exciting suspicion
until he has grown careless
Ito be Continued)
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