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Show X WW ;THE FT SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1923. if r 4 2 Scott, ' Convicted Slayer, Portrayed Scenes for Audierxes That Were Later Paralleled . fit. in Ghastly Earnest-- ". , v- - . , ft. it'-- Make-Believ- 1" f ... I , - i ? ! i 4. Grazed Mind7" xi Thought It All i ; . 7 and. How His1-- - " ! V ; How Russell . 1 raw bVjvjL.M V,'r. 5t; -"I -- ' ' ..... A A" - Vv . e, I 5 S j4 .,, ; j" w 4 ' , K . to V fit it vr .. .J .JW Ml 0 Itaanell . A fWo4t Takon Written Aftrr Hii Arreat Dr letter fp 3t v by Scott a Few Hours Before . M WINIFRED Have Been t Banged. VAN" PVZER." he a Asked to Write the FEW days ugo a personobl youngfelloi who ahowed tha stamp of sducation ni culture detplU tha lines of dissipation in his faa, m lad Into the Asylum for tb Criminal Iiuana at Chester, HI. The door clanged behind him and he settled down to spend the rest of his fears perhaps, as a madman among dangerous lunatics.' t. It was the final bit of "business," the "tug," .in the drama that Russell T. Scott, bandit and slayer, has lived and at the same time acted out as if it were a stage production, during the past fjve years. Scott is in the asylum" instead of his grave forbids the i because American jurisprudence of an Insane man. If ever he is proved out of hjs , to be Unci, the State may drag him iiyinif tomb, nr.i demand that he be "hcn?cd by the aeck until dead" for the deliberate murder clwrk in a of JosephjMaurur, a twenty-year-olftire acres from the City little bascmetit Ilall int.Chii'tto's Loop district, one nigat in , r ' .' liUniVe So That It Could Be Used in Ilia Bohalf to Secure a Stay at Execution. SI ' ' Yfl n. TO J - reached Governor Small of Illinois from 'jjstroit It was slfrned "Robert Scott" anrf itsaid : "I am the one that shot Joseph Maurer. Delay hancring of my brother. I will be in t9 sur-- .. render myself." A r?jj-iev- e was rushed y the prison. Invesl gation proved that the message did not come from Robert Scott, but front a telegraph operator who sympathized with the condemned man. And it was the delay caused by the telegram which made possible the further hearing which saved ' . Scott's life. ' .. ' Paranoia was the form of insanity the illustrious attorneys, provided through the funds collected by little Mrs. S;ott, convinced the courtaff.ictiihcir clients Jtw a meRtal tiiaease characterized by delusions of persecution, and such delusions, according to the testimony of Dr. Harold Hulbert and Barnes Whitpey Hall, noted alienists, benet the actor. It was, they said, principally because- - of the turge wracking experiences closeness to death that atst Photogranh of way; expert, f Mrs. Scott, Who his mind gave that would shatter the i ought Valiantly ences reason of a strong man und Successfully and Scott is nfc strong. to Save Her . Psychiatrists say' that anHusband rrom other attribute 'of tha de the Gallowo. .. Seene from Shadow," a One-APliylet in Which Scott Appeared in Vaudeville, and Which Paralleled H;s Own Cae in Mapy Ways. In the "Photograph Scott, the Figure on tha Left, Is Shown Heading With the Governor for the Llfeot-Jttirethrrr- 102. declsfCl ir.ssne because of "cell shock," th result vf. Ihrec timc beinj sfhtenocd to die and ep'-- time reprieved .in the very shadow of the gallows. ' This, at least, is what the jury Ko. is - JlutDf wes Dmei .'(rowan, commence-man-- oiiinnnaiTe, bootlegger and r, Sctt--,aUo- . sW ' it - '' . h,fi 1. He- - ,bceiL,avracUr. 'aaid to have' Seen very .y nor actor, the type 4fScribed',R "ham" by tlw profestsion. But. it. was tha' xole of all othrrr furiously.-eaou;;h,that hf 'fancied, hlmilf In Uioat; the only cw that ho carried oer itw jncccssive pnaaes or his M and aliowftu to dominate fich. ' i And Sett is still an actor. .When I caw him i' ' P in his'celKfnur d.C bof era ho .y's to die on the ' ''-A' last seatcr.ee of doat h, he was er)le.un(irthi . .In hi ov.n mind he was drsaior.zini? hw a wntrJer'ul play in whicn fPfrhi,-- ; hwaew M a the'hdfO Bnd:'Sl5?: E"ch n'ta- - thing that ' h Jtaooens-vps.- ' moving' toe plot pet' il!erK The VMHim riVjliv , ' f , art-tig- Itw - eloiiH t b'.g rciL"V" " iTl.Vr W.r-- clima. That iims eiiinn mer.nt hta. W'J nvver :eemod to oct'ur to hlrn. .'jnated It wts liis ?b:g scctio,'' rtvI" " chin-.- -' to reach." h'strionic heights hover of. '?' 1nlWdib1ctW",a-miS- y ef.,.;aase!rSC53'"al. dr-haU artd cal tin'; as1 oa th5 stage!- And, .his Iw'frhu' ! a. last ini?L't fckCh pludittK witHJ'M' Cnvenw't, f nt'w'in Kfe", be expected his irothf''or.rioinjcna tn stp forward took it fjHStr&nfed and ptiail ,tw 5vc- l.im.. hbd Tvrit.icB intoW-a- l!g play Rome thw- - fttt-fpa.rt thai vo.ui ii(Mive the charges surrounding ' - hjh', . fct ! In fourdays he was to go to ignoble death. Out beyond the prison walls his aged father and R -t-ydence-thawea-ll . beeiu-i't-ttop- - . in" ped itlt.told , the-sto- ' - -- one-roo- m - - avehmr His sorTOwHg voumr wife was Over in; Detroit soliciting subscriptions" f roiu, sympathizers with which to pay for his, further defense and notherjchance..But He didn't 'ho; ntisn'i interested in these things; . even care to talk about them, Instead he jwanted to tt-- me what-- a great actorJieHad . DianktownJ' '1 was a wow in Tankvllle." This is what he said. He dramatized everything." i Lines from hit sketch crept in. That sketch was an act called "The Shadow," and acttvfcimselfwrote ry of twOYbrohers," accused, of a murder. One escapeS ;' the other was sentenced hang. The one who, escaped worked "tirelessly- -' to" secure evidence-- which would free his brother and clear ' himself of suspicion. , One the very night of the execution this brother, believing he had. 'unearthed facts which would , prove convincing, risked his liberty .and CT" .i i ' f be'oi'e.-'dreamer- re-fl- J ; rangement Is peculiar susceptibility to suggestion. Not only will sustained suggestion urge the victim of paranoia into fantastic forms of behavior, but it will actually bring about the dreaded "split personality," they explained. The sufferer, then b.elievee he has taken the mental andsometimes- - the physical characteristics of someone else, often an imaginary character. He lives the life of th"1 hereon as he conceives it to be, or as it has b suggested to him. Such a condition, perhaps, would account for Scott's acting of "The Shadow", through his own drama. Undoubtedly it would explain other eccentricities of conduct, notablv a long stretch of real lif e acting of .another eharae Tr ef jie prayeff on tlie stare "Joey the Dope" in tne gripping arama "iiurncane." Olga Petrova was the star of "Hurricane" when it appeared oA Broadway two'years age.'V Scott was not a member of the New York Company but, as "Robert ' Brister" be played in the Chicago company v. Six years ago Scott, then twenty-fou- r, labored with his brother Robert, in a suite of offices in Windsor, Canada, to perfect a selling organization. Within four years the business had spread all over Canada and Scott was talked of as a "boy millionaire" and "money wizard." Then the brothers undertook the financing of a (30,000,000 international bridge between Detroit and Windsor. It was too much for them. The business waa swept away and Scott lost his personal fortune. Even then, however, he was not so badly off. It seemed that something might be saved out of the ruin. .But a Boston manicurist, Dorothy Newburg. sued him for $50,000. alleging breach-oHe had wooed her on trips to promise. Boston, she said," representing himself as unmarried. Afterv a sensational kwauit, a jury awarded her f 10,000. Scott was without money to , pay the judgment Imprisonment lay before him: His wife, with the revelation" ot his gross infidelity, left him temporarily. Broken, he fled and hid himself. became a hobo and van- The a dav at a time at small, drudging tasks." He drank to sottishness and' sought further solace in drugs. Then he found a' place on the stage end for a time It looked as If lie would "come back." But he took to bootlegging' and peddling dope-an- d the-- confidence game. Then came the desperate end final phase of hit career.- - nHe learned that the casket way to get money was to take it away xroro aomsDoay wiui a revolver. He went out on the streets of Chicago with a gun. His brother. went with him. Alter no . less than twenty-fiv- e successful "job' came the night when they tried to rob the drug store , in the heart of the city's theatrical district 'and when the boy clerk, who resisted, waa killed. , Robert Scott eacape'd. But Russell was arrested the next morning as he waa preparing to' - leave the city. And it was only when alienists established a "dream world" for' Scott, a land of shadows in. which ha lives with his fancies, that be was saved from paying with his life for that night. It waa in this' "dream world" that I found drama him, acting over again his which once, he acted on the stage. i , di-u- Scene -from "The Hurricane," the drama in Which Russell Scott Appeared in Chicago, Playing the Part of "Joey the Dope," Shown Above in a Dramatic Scene ' With Olga Petrova. life by going to the home of' the Governor and telling his He ' pleaded desperstory. ately and dramatically. And ten minutes before the innocent man was to mount the gallows, the Governor issued a reprieve. In the play, Scott took the of the brother who pleads with part the Governor. The story does not exactly parallel his real life drama, yet whtn he found himself moved d. hobo. lit Hi Wu to A Ar-a- ? g -- to the' stage of real life he atill was playing the the innocent man condemned topay the price of another's wrong.- - ' No matter , what may have .been the actual of his case whether it was his hand or t facts the hand of his brother Robert, as he declared, that shot down the drug clerk he seemed to have hypnotised himself into believing that some part ot ' r a p p en ingJ would save him as dramatically as it had saved him in' the play. And, strangely enough, Alsomething did save him most when the death mcr:h was ready to start, a telecrcro eleventh-hou- h-- ' ". -- ' x '"" " is'-- ::r-"l- l f , V ... . r, : 1 |