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Show DOCTORS CLAIM 'CRIMEOISEASE' CHICAGO, Sept. 19 INS Two Chicago scientists today plannad exhaustive taaU I prov tha exist-nre exist-nre of a mysterious "crime dl-. dl-. Prelimlnery studies, they announced, an-nounced, Indlcat that every evfl-doar evfl-doar la af flirt ad with tha malady and that It I tha fore Impalltng tham to wrongdoing. Th doctor who yaatarday disclosed dis-closed thalr aanaatlenal theory ar 8. W. Brownateln ef tha Chicago board of hoaHh and W. H. Lvy, county )all phyalcian. By making teete on prloonar In tha Jail, tha doctor eaid thay had coma ta ballava that a paraon' criminal tendencies may ha clearly traced In I ha aplnal fluid. To datarmlna tha worth ef a thaory thay had worked out in nina ycara nf atudy. tha doctor exam-lined exam-lined nln vnluntear In th Jail. F.xtractlng a amall amount nf tha 'aplnal fluid, tha doctor" found that In rarh inatanc tha rail rount waa much higher than In a law-abiding Icltiien. i Both were hesitant to claim too much for their discovery until It I has been bulwarked by further re-I re-I saarrh and they announced that aaveral hundred criminals would be eo examined before a final analysis 1 would be made. I The experiments ta dsts. how- aver, wer unvarying In thlr r-' r-' suits, ths doctors said. With the 1 cell count In a normal parson's ' spinal fluid ranging from three ta 1 eight a ruble millimeter. It waa 9 found that In a criminal th count varied from 3d to 137. Dra. Brownatein and Levy disclosed dis-closed rssults In fiv of th nine cases studied. They wer: Cast 1 A burglar with a record '' of 13 arrests. Cell count 101. Case 2 Another burglar. Cell " count H Caae t Habitual criminal. Call : count Te. Cas 4 Minor criminal with 38 sireats. Cell rount ft. iCase I-Burglary and highway robbery. Count 3. |