Show T < J > S r + roDT OP CRIMINOLOGY TURNS EDUCATED MAN INTO A THIEF ra d iflte ° Rush Medical College Proud of His Evil AcComplishments Ac-Complishments Only Sorry That Morphine Has Sapped His Ambition Col William James Pat Ir L < cuf > cr M i A graduate of HUBI and I iLtdn medical schools was ar J tho other day on a 20 here t frr charge Patterson lays tho h to deep delving In criminology t declared that ho was glad he criminal His only regret ho a was that ho had allowed tho hlne habit to gain such a hold that ho had not become tho hlIII I test criminal of the ago I Is a story of a long batik I Ipsttersoiia i ik a man of Igh instincts against Lgenerato tendency Finally tho In him ann inch of his downfall Patterson at ntrs to Ws long study of the iology of crime So thoroughly k e p ATE Lz i ten t-en W j J f j ss bf 2 v ii > 1 1 Ii COULD NOT RESIST THE DE sum TO STEAL laYs has he mastered tho subject I he regards MacDonald as almost itfro although tho latters works are lard the world over b hIs early years Patterson fought 1 ist his Inherent desire to take littt belonged to his fellow man be Dtie of tho disgrace that ho feared IJ i father mother and other loved i t II would suffer from his actions a Hen he met loved and wooed tho Iwsan of his choice for her sake Id for the sake of tho children that Im born to them he continued tonga to-nga the unequal battle It was he iili11 versus environment ho de t Ites Heredity finally won That Is the excuse which the once Ited physician and instructor gives lit his present condition From a un of prominence and an heir to A wit wealth Pattersons fall has tea BO complete that tho police i had him living in tho most abject TPrt1 In a dingy room in tho lower t hi of the city I Mr onb great regret in life is that t I line fallen a slavo to tho morphine I uMt and unablo to resist its use a Ue failed in my ambition to become a H greatest criminal of tho age wasp o was-p amazing statement Dr Patterson a LIla after his arrest a I glory in crime and am a crlm 3 Ul 1 because it is impossible for me s IJ M anything else I have trlod and n red and am glad of If Tho fight F a unequal at best and I am glad l at t I finally started out in a career ro l cf crime and that I have committed I b thefts and burglary have stolen into houses at night time and taken prop erty that belonged to others for the pure love of It I did not need lie money did not want tho booty that I took away after I gut it but there was a satisfaction too for deep for words or self satisfying explanation I Imagine that a woman who has I held her lover at aims length and perhaps fo the best of reasons has refused to surrender to I him for a long time must feel much as I did when 1 committed my llrst theft It was not much too little a thing to notice Yet It was tho beginning of a career that I mapped out for myself after I fully realized that there was nothing in the world that could prevent mo from being anything but a thief I was In a fellow physicians of flee I saw a pocketbook lying on tho table lie was busy with a patient I opened tho wallet and found two dollars In It I then had plenty of money The contents of the purso could do mo lit tle good but resist the desire to take the money I could not did not I knew that tho high character I bolo would protect me from tho possibili ty of exposure The cunning that I have learned since which I uso to protect me from being found out when I havo succumbed to my desire to take possession of tHat which does not belong to me was not necessary in that case That was years ago how many I do not know It was tho beginning The desire to commit crime Is similar sim-ilar to the desire of a genius to develop de-velop the talents which are his It often is tho strongest passion of his life for which he will give up everything every-thing else just as an artist will struggle strug-gle along for years go without tho necessities that ho might havo In some other walk of life that ho may devote tho talent which he feels within with-in himself I have watched the development ot tho thieving Instinct in myself from this time that I was old enough to understand un-derstand tho meaning of the feeling which took possession of me I never had tho desire to kill but I possessed a talent for scheming and outwitting others My early youth was spent in Salina Sa-lina Kan As my parents were wealthy I was given every educational advantage As soon as I become old enough to read and understand what I read I gloried In tho achievements of noted criminals even murderers That was the kind of literature that I read when I could steal time from my studies I found tho same kind of Interest in that kind of romance as others found In love stories and stuff of that kind I was too Intelligent though not to understand to what instincts such as I felt in myself led and did not Immediately succumb to my desire to become a criminal I have never accomplished anything any-thing worthy In the annals of crime and probably never will My offenses havQ all been of tho minor sort because be-cause like men who have tho talent tal-ent but fall to become great writers or Inventors I became slave to habit which was stronger than ambition stronger than the Impelling force that would have made my name a household house-hold word as a criminal if I had not fallen by the wayside as so many others havo done before me AA a u JII |