Show IMan Man of Plodding Mind Plays Part Authors Never Have Have- Dreamed Freda Lessers Lesser's Refusal to Respect Principles of Senators Senator's Senators Senator's Senators Senator's Sena Sena- tors tor's Son Appeared Monstrous l to Her Lover Says Critic Who Calls Prisoner Rich Psychological Study C. C Gardner Sullivan scenario editor in chief for Thomas H. H Ince nee motion picture producer s is u reputed to tobe tobe tobe be one of the highest paid scenario writers in the world As such it is his high province to study and to analyze human emotion in its manifold expression to trace it f from its source to its final linal flood This he lie has done in the accompanying article on II Harry arry N New elV whom he lie visited in inthe inthe inthe the Los Angeles city ja jail l at the request of the Los Los' Angeles An An- Angeles Angeles geles Examiner ner By C. C Gardner Sullivan I LV 11 or off on about a fictitious 1 young oung man who was willing willing will will- ing InS to sacrifice his sweetheart for fora a fanatical Ideal Meal but an Ideal wonderful wonderful won won- to him to visit Harry New In this man still young still with a hint of or boyishness in his haggard hagbard features I found tho the imaginary man of ot the stor story re reproduced reproduced reproduced re- re produced in everyday e life for tor forback forback back of ot the momentary blaze of oC rage rag which ended his sweethearts sweetheart's life lire there was something deeper something rooted in the soul of Harr Harry New It was an Ideal an Ideal wonderful to him his ideal of or orlove love and womanhood Turned Upon Girl Like Hurt Animal Freda Frella Lesser if it News New's cw's story betrue be betrue true unconsciously shattered this ideal when she told him she had decided not to bring their child Into being when she told him she had changed her mind about marrying marrying marrying mar mar- him It hurt New hurt himas him himas as 08 probably nothing else elso had ever cero hurt him and like e an animal that thatIs Is cruelly tortured ho he turned upon her to rend to lo destro destroy This Is not Intended as a de defense do- do tense for or New It Is hard Ilard to find finda a a. defense for a 0 murder such as his and I think he realizes this Nevertheless I believe that thata a shattered shattered shattered shat shat- Ideal sums sum up this mans man's reason for killing tho thu girl ho he ex expected expected ex- ex to marr marry Without seeing New Now without hearing him talk in it his slow fashion without being able to watch the strained stunned ex expression expression ex- ex which makes his eyes almost expressionless one finds it hard to Imagine how he hc could have e driven about for or four tour hours wl with h tho the lifeless body of hi his victim vic vie tim The horror the tho unnaturalness unnatural- unnatural ness rices of It teems seems too great for even the most hardened mind But once having seen the man his ac action action action ac- ac tion following the tho murder Is not hard to understand He lie Is to all seeming utterly lacking In imag Imag- Unable to Realize What That He fIe Has Done Even now ho he Is unable to to realIze realIze realize real real- ize fully tully what he has done Ho knows knovs that he h has s killed d a girl who tho trusted him He knows that he has vIolated the law of ot both God and man He Ho knows that this was waN a wicked thing to do not so much because It Is la forbidden by byman byman byman man but because bec It Is forbidden by God All this ho lie lio knows but the awful horror of that shadowed night ht on the tho mountain road ho he does docs not realize and I doubt that he ho over ever will New Is not necessarily lacking In Intelligence but his Is la a primal Intelligence He lie Is a primal man a aman aman man mon with a track single-track narrow mind not vicious ho he is not a n. criminal at heart but holding fixedly to the beliefs that have hae be become become be- be come como a part o of ot him He Is Is said to tobe tobe tobe be a college man mean but this tIlls Is IB extreme extremely hard to believe Ho lie has none of or the characteristics of a man who has studied whose mind has been trained even on briefly along certain lines If he ever went tent to he ho has In a 0 few Cew years shed his colle college o atmosphere most moist completely Strangely Careless of Personal Appearance Seeing him on the street one would class him as ns a man who works with his hands a stead steady reliable laboring t type pe His hands particularly Impressed mo me They were browned and roughened as If It from hard out outdoor work The nails were broken and cracked ed and filled tilled with dirt mute evidence that he does doe not consider th them m as aB es essential essential os- os to hl his personal 1 appearance Tho The neglect ls is not recent It covers cover cov coy er ore ers a long Ions period Ordinarily a college trained man mali even In iii Now's Nov's present circumstances circum stances stanc s would give some borne thought to his appeal appearance ance even If It sub- sub unless he ho were acting or too stunned by bv horror to r re remember re- re member Such I la is not not the thu case with Now He lie hat han t enough Imagination tion to be an actor He doesn't even cven act net subconsciously and while t ho does docs seem stunned it is hI not from horror As I said before horrOr horror hor her TOr has not yet penetrated his being In short New W Is tho the type of ot man who given Iven a n task which he understood would carry It out outto outto outto to tho the letter but were cre an unseen emergency to iso arise calling for quick thou thought ht ho he would be help holp- I less e es New Is la not a rounder Ho says and I think everyone believes him that ho he has never been a n drinking man lie He is essentially a plodder the one-Idea one man who ninety-nine ninety times out of or a hundred lives an uneventful honest life lite utterly removed removed re rc re- re moved from rom crime of any sort And yet et ho he Is In Jail charged with tho the murder of ot his sweetheart There seems to be but one answer un answer un unwittingly wittingly Freda Lesser Lesser- threw this track single-track mind violently out of ot Its accustomed groove roo e and like an engine without a pilot he ran rana a amuck in u ck All his life ife Itc New Ne undoubtedly has carried within his heart a picture o of the ideal woman He Ho believes In women and sets a high standard for them In little Freda Le Leser he found this woman a a. dream woman come true truc He Ho loved her with all an the Intense fixity of or his track single mind He had no need to call upon his Imagination She Sho was there In tho the reality I dou doubt bt if IC he ever felt the romance of oC his courtship Ills His love was too serious a n thing to be called ro ro- ro mance It was life liCe Conventions meant nothing nothing- to him In his sight Freda Lesser was as much his wife wire his woman as if Ir they had been married a dozen times over o He had won her Sho had given herself herselt into his keeping keeping- and she belonged to him The Tho only onh flash Clash of ot animation of decision that I saw him show was to the thc question Then you con considered she belonged to you Linked Together by Most l Sacred Tie Absolutely he ho said she was mine She did belong to me We Ve were linked together b by the tho most f sacre sacred tie possible Harry Harn New meant this He Ho meant It during the last talk with her on the tho mountain road He al always always al- al ways was will ill mean it Dead or alive Freda Le Lesser ser is his There is only one thing that can keep us apart In the hereafter hereafter here here- after ho he said and that is m my crime That ma may bar Jar me from morn Joining her Then you ou think she loves you ou 1 I do I know it He said this with unshakable conviction con and I believe he feels that the girl has already forgiven J him that If speech were possible for or her hor she would sa say I III know you ou didn't intend to hurt me rae and I still love you ou It Is hard to Imagine this type of ot man a killer and yet et t there ere Is Isan Isan isan an explanation the tho only one that seems to fit the circumstances When hen Freda Lessor told this man she was not going to bear their child chilli his child chilli she sho absolutely stunned him When hen she added that she didn't want to marry him that she didn't care caro enough for him to wish vish to be his wife wire News New's world slipped from rein beneath him Ho He has very cry strict views regarding the sacredness of ot life unborn In fact most of his views vies's regarding lIfo life and Its issues are narrow His half ulster sas says so so and I can readily believe bellove It To him Freda Lesser was as on or the verge of ot commItting committing com corn I a great crime and tho the I crime Involved ol that which ho he had already taken Into his heart al already already al- al ready loved To him it was vas monstrous monstrous mon mon- unnecessary His Ills Ideal his Idol fell at his feet teet shattered Ho lie Hofelt felt tolt her slipping from him and tho d his very u soul I. I Calls CaBs Harry New Nev NewA NevA A Pitiful Figure Wild lId with pain he lie followed out the instinct of or the primal man he struck at nt that tha t which was torturing Ing InS him And with the death of the girl I believe that strangely the torture In News New's heart ceased She was dead but she sho still be belonged belonged be- be longed to him Perhaps If I had kno known n the thc dead girl or her family I should not bo be ablo able to feel teel a certain pit pity for tor forthe forthe the vague eyed me tuna man so willing vaguely aguel to nn answer questions but seemingly seeming unable to frame rn me a u. thou thought ht of his own As It Il is 19 Harry New is to mo me a pitiful figure There Is no escape for him In somo some omo someway wa way he must pa pay tho the penalty ho he has haa incurred This does docs not seem to bother him and in his dr dreams ams If It ho he docs does dream I think he sees not the courtroom or tho the death cell coll but a little homo home that might have havo been And oddly enough nough this man handicapped since his birth has given g a new now twist t to the time annals of or crime Ho He has lias worked out something something some some- thing that oven even the most moat laying daring writer of fiction has haM not attempted He lie has hns reversed re the order of ot things entirely Hundreds of ot plays and hooks have hae been written about Harry Harn News and Freda Lessors the girl who gave and anti the man who took The Thc They have been carried further to the tho point where the girl g I betrayed and deserted has turned j I I I upon her betrayer and killed him but never nO before boCon so far tar as os I C can remember has a man shot eliot his sweetheart because she he refused to I marry him when that marriage was a moral necessity I Althou Although h he to my mind Is not I even b by tho tile widest stretch i of ot the Ima Imagination Harry hurry New i Is yet et a. a L rich study for Cor the let 1st A rich study and a 0 pitiful I J feel eel sorry for tor him but I r II feel sorrier for Freda Froda Lessor mother |