Show FEMALE CRIMINALS A DETECTIVE SAYS THAT WOMEN ARE MORE CRUEL THAN N MEN in reality there are as many female criminals as ahr there are ar male b but t clr conspire to shield the wicked woman women seldom reform theodore eodore 0 metzler the well known tw san ban francisco detective has not had bad twenty enty six years of experience in in 1 his profession without obtaining some very strong impressions and opinions in regard to crime and criminals As a sort of text test said mr metzler for what I 1 have to say on this subject I 1 will state that in considering men and women as criminals between whom and their deeds comparisons are to be made mada I 1 consider that widle while man is undoubtedly as a rule the more prominent in crime woman on the other hand is at once more cruel and cunning in what she does I 1 from the circumstance that a considerable sid erable less number of women than men are convicted of crime the inference is drawn that in women the cri crim m inal propensities are weaker or dundei andel better control such a conclusion is however not borne out by the facts fox foi when crimes crime s have been traced to women it has been found in the great majority of cases th that atthe the guilty deeds have been committed not only with systematic cunning but also with a coolness and cruelty which have seldom been attributed to man there are several reasons continued mr metzler why so few women have been convicted of crime mans natural sympathy for her often causes him tc overlook important points against her and then again he is always extra careful forbear for fear he might do her injustice and injury men in the detective pr pro bession may pretend to have no sympathy for a woman yet a good looking face and a bewitching smile always find a tender spot in their hearts of course there aro are exceptions but they are very few if there are men in this profession who are not susceptible to a womans comans plea 1 I in my experience of twenty six years have failed to find them another thing it is seldom consid ered that girls are watched more carefully than boys and aro are under greater restraint neither is it taken into account that older females spend more ot of their time at home while males of their own age are aie on the street or mingling with persons persona whose habits are not always the best many of the temptations to crime come from business complications in which women have little or no share BS as they spend most of their time at home with their children and female companions most homicides you knot swa ro the tha results of anger excited when persons are away from their homes lind and families as violent qua quarrels generally take place in the street or barroom and not in the parlor or sitting room now as to the cruelty and deliberation of the female criminal the history of crime shows that mor most t of the murders committed by women areA are those hose perpetrated by the administration of poison olson they show careful preparation and great deliberation in almost every instance treachery is employed the victim being invited to partake of refreshments by one who is presumed to be a frie friend fid murder by the administration of poison is ia considered the most foul and the darkest of all crimes but ant it is the one i that women have been addicted to more I 1 generally I 1 than men in all ages and countries another very remarkable fact continued the detective has recently been mentioned in a london paper by the chaplain of Cler kenwell jail it is ia that some criminals criminal sare practically incurable from a table prepared by him it was shown that during last year there were committed to the prisons and jails of england and wales men and women who had bad been convicted no less than ten times previously yon yea see sea the force of the comparison A partial explanation of this strange state of things may be found in the fact that women are more thoroughgoing in all things good bad or indifferent than the men they do nothing by halves be ba the matter the construction of a sh shortcake the malaca of a crazy quilt or the poisoning of a rival woman devotes sall all her time knowledge and talent to what she has in view then a again ain a woman has less chance of reforming than a man the latter can go 90 to a strange or distant place raise raise whiskers or shave those he had assume a different name and commence life anew he can generally find employment but with the woman it is ia more inore difficult disguise is not so easy and if eb she goes to a different place some one is liable to recognize her A strange woman is 13 always looked on with suspicion as it is presumed that she would prefer to live in the town where she was brought up and where her old acquaintances are A man gets credit for his enterprise if he goesta goes to a now new country and engages in a business for himself but seeh is not the case with a woman if sho she is once discovered e her own sox sex are the first to point their fingers at her up lip toeur bobea noses and ref refuse use to associate with her the ahe re gult of which is that she becomes hard conod and aid ballom pal lons and is again driven to crime sau san francisco post I 1 |