| Show AN INK SLINtrER f Ho Does Not Attempt to Blacken Characters but to Spoil Ladies Dresses Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK May 2GJohn Connors the sta bleman arrested Frday night in whose pockets was found sufficient paraphernalia to lead to the belief that he was tho individual who for months past has beendestroying dresses by throwing Ink upon them was arraigned in court Saturday A woman whose dresses have been spoiled cannot identify him and the case is a astrango one Connors sticks toms original story that he took the pipe bowls and ink from his children Circumstantial evidence is over whelmingly against the man but there is abso lutely nothing in his appearance to saddle the insane crime of which ho is accused upon him He is pecularily shrewd and cunning In his answers to cross questions Dr G M Ham mond tho wellknown export i mental dis orders said that althoughneknew no exactly similar case there were many cases of morbid impulse on record in lyhlch indignities were In wlch indlgitos fueled upon women by men otherwise entirely sane He cited the case of a man whose mama was to seize young men and women and strip their shoes from their feet Dr Hammond fur ther declared that it would be absolutely im possible detect the presence of a morbId im pulse in the mental make of any man It is his belief that persons thus afflicted are pecu larily skillful in defending themselves against charges that be may brought against them growing out of the gratification of their instinct Considered on all sides the case of tho ink slinger i one of unusual interest |
