Show f ft t r I Ir r r r I j t i 0 jr l B mor morr 1 r neto CRIME 9 1 r r f P PW b W fe r 9 r o N oT T t K d j i- i J t f N x W Wt x Fyn J. J x ff f r y 5 i i-I i t r oL II b r j ioL i OC f. f l. l i t y H 1 Ir i t J t I i. i f S r ft I p th thI I I S ab N J 11 11 S I L L A I 7 j r t J illk P it a j 5 I Dorothy Ellingson the red haired San Francisco Fran cisco flapper who killed her mother when the M latter objected to the girls girl's wild parties J J I S r J c Heres Here's What a Noted No V Alienist Has to Say About the i ro i Recent Contention That Haired Fair-Haired X a Women Figure More Prominently in Commission o of f Acts of Violence there is a common impression impression r r sion Zion that criminals mostly have dark hair eyes and complexion actually in my own experience most criminals have blue eyes fair complexion and brown hair says Francis Carlin Cartin Car- Car tin lin once a faT famous famous fa fa- T Scotland Yard detective in ina a book recently k published In the criminal 55 4 records office he headds headds headds adds the descriptions descriptions descriptions of convicted persons show a preponderance of pf blonds they con- con Dr Or SI d mock 76 percent per percent percent cent of the total Which is the more vicious in this country The question was put to Dr Siegfried Siegfried Sieg Sieg- Siegfried fried Block a noted alienist of Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn N. N Y V. who has examined hundreds of ot criminals for the authorities at Sing Sing Bedford Reformatory the Gerry Society Raymond Street Jail the Tombs and House of Good Shepherd Only recently he worked on the Gray- Gray Snyder murder trial I dont don't believe any anyone one has gathered statistics on the subject in this country he said A rough estimate would make it about 50 In England naturally there are arc more blond criminals than 4 brunettes because there are more blonds blond there than brunettes S In the extreme climates of the north and south we find people of the more phlegmatic types who are apt to commit commit com com- mit crimes against the person the more deliberate crimes such as counterfeiting big robberies and so on are committed by those thoe oe in temperate zones The me cleverest women criminals are far more subtle than the men criminals That is y they manage to escape lp pt the authorities You very ery seldom hear of a woman playing a big role in a crime but that does not mean that women are not responsible for the commission commission com com- commission mission of g great at crimes I have bave examined ex- ex examined many many haired bobbed-haired bandits murderesses and women thieves and f those who traffic in dope but what I consider the worst woman I ever encountered en encountered en- en countered was not among any of these THIS n woman was a nurse in one of our large arge hospitals The superintendent superintendent superintendent super super- became infatuated wi with h her He Re was a married man man who bad had a family of ot four Cour children At first she turned him down good and hard bard not for any altruistic reasons as it later turned out As the result of a big drive he managed to get bold of considerable funds Cuds That altered the circumstances The two eloped and managed to elude the police authorities for or more than a year One day the deserted wife received a telephone message directing her bel to call for her husbands husband's body at a ceri ceri i i cd 1 wJ G lii jJ tain tamn apartment He had died of in in- in Before sending the call th the girl who had bad vamped him from his family family fam fam- ily and squandered his stolen money had bad taken every precaution to safeguard d herself from arrest She was actually responsible for the theft and desertion she escaped scot That girl was a dark skinned olive brunette Most of the hair bobbed bandits' bandits 1 have examined were blondes whether natural or drug store I cant can't tell Most of them have been brought up in very lowly surroundings and simply take the line of least resistance Now I want t to be very emphatic in making that statement that I have no exact data to go on in saying that these incorrigibles belong mostly to the blond type It just so happens that the ones I came in contact with were blondes Some other alienist might have happened hap hap- happened on more brunettes Dr Block was asked whether in his opinion blondes are m more re easily influenced by environment the environment the little fair fair- haired angel type usually being the pet of the family and so maturing with more selfish ideas toward those with whom she comes into contact I 1 have heard that theory advanced but in the tho cases I have bave handled 1 I have not found that you can pigeonhole them so neatly Environment which is another another an an- other word for training should count for a great deal but you must ber her that it is the abnormal persons who come t td our notice Some years ago a beautiful young blond college graduate was brought to me by a very rich couple who had adopted her when she was a baby They had given her every advantage She was bright and clever and tive It wasn't until she entered college that she broke loose loose as they put it Up to t that time she had been a little bit unruly but her ber foster parents had looked nu u o on vii n that mat as a s su simply sImply p y th the e e ff erves nu u o on vii n mat as a s su simply sImply p y th the e e ff erves effervescenCe cence of youth At college she got into a very bad scrape but managed to graduate Intellectually Intellectually In In- In- In 1 I found she had bad developed quite normally her emotional development develop develop- development ment was retarded She was stubborn willed self of the show-off show type I 1 treated her for a 8 nervous ailment with which she was suffering at the time Later this girl was taken abroad The next time I saw her was when I 1 was called in by a Judge to examine a prisoner who had hat been caught working with a gang of narcotic agents Four years had bad intervened since I had bad seen her and she he had deteriorated greatly Looking up her family history I found that both her parents had been crimi crimi- nals Since then though she has been given every opportunity she has continued continued con con- on the downward grade which she is making at toboggan speed I believe that heredity may make or break an individual and sometimes this is proved in odd ways An in instance instance instance in- in stance is the case of twin girls one onea a blonde and the other a brunette wh who were born of very fine parents and i i Y 5 j. j 9 rv k na X r N I w ii 1 75 4 h s i sib St y 5 a r ft I 1 i i t r 5 R 5 4 Mrs Irs Ruth Snyder the Tiger iger Woman now in Sing ing Situ Sink Prison sentenced to death for the murder of her hi husband IS iS iSa is y a synthetic blonde n n I ICelia Celia Cooney the blond haired bobbed-haired bandit of Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- Brooklyn lyn who staged daring holdI holdups hold hold- 4 I ups ops were raised in the best sort of environ environ- ment Their father and mother treated them exactly alike The brun brunette tte had hada a rather fiery temper and was very high- high spirited the blonde was one of those little angels I first encountered the blonde in the offices offices' of the Gerry Society She had run away from home and got into bad company though she was less than 16 years of age As she had an ex excellent excellent ex- ex home she was parol paroled d in in the custody of her parents We met again when she was sentenced to the House of the Good Shepherd At present she is in the Bedford Reformatory This girl is one of th the so-called so sports reverting to an old type several generations back and inheriting all aU the bad qualities of her ancestors IT TT IS a great mistake to believe that all bad young women are feeble A minded feeble person perso n cannot be so bad as a legally sane san e person There is a difference between the medically insane and the legally in in- in sane A prisoner is declared legally legall y insane only if he or she does not know the nature or quality of the act com com- I believe the worst woman criminal I f have ever encountered was one whom O 10 t Jo I shall call Mrs N. N wh who is so evil that she has committed every every crime possible except counterfeiting She has been in court dozens of times butis but butis butis is so shrewd that she has escaped a conviction This woman is henna haired but was originally blond Although she was married to a thoroughly respectable and very well to man s she seemed to crave the society of hoodlums Her Iier husband husband husband hus hus- band called on me one day and asked me to visit their home and surreptitiously surreptitiously surreptitiously question her She is very anxious to get a write write- up in the magazines he told me If y you u pose as a writer you will get get her herto herto herto to talk very easily casily She is getting to toe he e so bad that I am afraid unless s something some something some some- me- me thing is done she will land in jail Following his hint I 1 had some some cards ards printed and called at his residence after calling up and making an appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment for the interview She was very cordial and very proudly showed me over her home I 1 recognized several masterpieces on the walls with the signatures rubbed out and ier ter name signed in their place At the windowS window were very heavy dt double uble hang hang- ings That there was a very serious derangement derangement de de- in this womans woman's mentality mentality- y was quite obvious to me before th the e afternoon was over All AU I could do hov however was to confirm the husbands husband's s suspicions and arid advise him to have he her r sene sent away Whether she suspected him of harborIng harborIng harboring harbor harbor- ing any such plan or not I 1 do not know w for certain However one day when he her r several husband husban came into their living room several toughs came from Crom behind th the e window hangings and nd beat him up Shortly afterward he died From then the n i r t. t on she was brought into court on sev everal ev- ev eral occasions when men who had been bee arrested for cries ranging from assault assaul t and robbery to manslaughter and murder mur mur- der placed the planning of of the crime crim on her shoulders So plausible she wa was however that in each instance the w was wa s let off while the men paid the penalty y of their crimes I 1 I was called in to examine her for the th e Judge on one occasion Some Sometime time later late my chauffeur received a telephone call cal from Cram her asking him to go and see her ber lIe He told me about it and I. I warned hi him to b be on the lookout Co for mischief A Ar A wide wid veranda ran along ran the front of he her r home and just as my man placed hi his s foot Coot on it several men sprang forward forwar d and started to attack him Forewarned he he managed to escape Another vicious redhead was brought brough t to me by her mother At the time of he her r first visit the girl was acting as private privat e secretary to a prominent Wall Wal St Street man She was very nervous and wa was s suffering from a plight Might ight attack of chorea commonly knows known as St. St Vitus dance Her tier mother told me that her daughter was running wild with a very gay crowd and that teat she acted sometimes as if sh she e were not responsible for what she wa was s doing While treating this this' patient 1 wo won n her confidence She was very jealous o of f an older sister who had made an exceptionally splendid marriage She too wanted to marry a wealthy man man an and d was afraid she was going to be an of old I maid as she has passed her twenty ninth h birthday and was getting pretty desper desper- ate Though she had beautiful red hair hai r and regular features her teeth were vet very y bad I 1 suggested that she have these thes S attended to right away away t J After the nervous affection wa was was cured I not did did no nob see her again until one morning I was called to examine a prisoner who had bad attempted to murder a man This was about four years later She had invited the man out to a small bungalow which she and her sister had bad rented for the summer This place had gas but no electricity When she had bad given the invitation she had intimated that there were to be several other friends there When the man arrived he found her alone She seemed to be all right and joked about the party falling through Later on n she proposed to her g est mu much b to his embarrassment As gently as aa he could he turne turned the proposal down J After supper when they were sitting inthe In tn Inthe the living room the man said he began to feel drowsy he knew it he had fallen asleep The woman had turned on half balf of the cas gas jets As soon as she saw saw he had dozed off she turned on all the oth others rs left the house and slammed t the e door The slamming of the the i L 1 0 I 1 Vio m. m man in Jin inha ha llau u HUu i w managed to smash one of the the windows To a policeman who came hurrying up heto he to told a incoherent half t story t and the 1 stenographer was was caught running down the next block It developed that this woman had become become become be be- come a drug addict and was mixed up with a gang which used physicians' physicians t letterheads and false prescriptions in ift A dl order to obtain narcotics Her younger younger j sister had joined her in her wild esca esca- J pa d es 1 The father was an ordinary law- law If abiding fellow who had died while they i were both young The mother was a avery avery very quiet rather nervous person with witha J Ja a marked speech defect 11 Most of the uniform girls I have i examined have been blondes or red- red haired The uniform girl is the type which falls in love with men who wear uniforms To the great majority of this thie type it doesn't make mak much difference what the uniform is whether it is r that of a letter-carrier letter a policeman a amarine amarine marine a sailor a soldier or a car con con- ductor Some specialize and get their biggest kick out of falling in love with one class dass such as sailors marines of or navy officers u THE HE most vicious one I ever met was wasa i ia a woman who had been born blond but had hennaed her hair She had inno inno- ti looking cent blue eyes and a rather freckled face She liked to play with the affections of sailors Having b been n born of a s very good family she descended descended descended de de- de- de very swiftly to the bottom after her first misstep The greatest kick she got out ont of life was to by fair means or foul get sufficient influence over her victims victims victims vic vic- tims so that they would go out and break the law for her sake This Th's may have been the covering up of an inferiority in- in inferiority in complex To show to what lengths this woman would go she sent a sailor out one night with instructions to shoot a policeman When later on the gob came to his hi i senses in a cell ceIl in the police station and if f blamed her for his hilS act she denied it As the Snyder Gray-Snyder case has been a appealed 1 I cannot discuss it in detail Hw However ver I have asked many Judges and criminal lawyers just why it raised so t much more excitement and end indignation than other murder cases Th The consensus of opinion seems to be that it stands out because it was wai wa so barbaric so so uncivilized uncivilized uncivilized un un- un- un civilized sc se 15 exceptionally brutal When a murderer gives poison or uses any of the more e modern means of getting rid of his victim he does not appear to be such sucha a monstrous being though his act may have been committed with no less pre pre- meditation However now that Rutn Snyders Snyder's hart hair rl is growing out the half halt inch at the roots according to Sing Sing guards |