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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1925. . X ' ' Xtr ' " : ' " - f ' ' ' ' X " ' " ' "' ' . ' ' ' I X A ' I - ;. ... Scknce teste XX - - - ; . 4 ' r ) . the Tight are seen two lignifi-can- t extraordinarily AT "close-up- " photo-stud-i- et of a pair of widely torious juvenile slayers; Dorothy Ellingson, Sin Franciaco's "Tiger Girl," who, although only seventeen, slew her, mother, and William Cavalier, 15, who killed his grandmother, at Pottsville, Pa. The obvious fact that the two faces depicted are of dissimilar structure is made additionally interesting when viewed in the light of the following table, pren pared by a of features usually regarded as criminal stigmata: FOREHEAD: High, with slight bulge. EYES: Eyelids drooping. NOSE: Nostrils opening outward. EARS: Large, outstanding, and according to old school psychologists, symptomatic of criminality. MOUTH: Open, indicating adenoidal condition. no- " . x . the F "- '- i- .- ' " - -- ' N ' "'JL - :""X'.'.. Pottsville boy, fifteen-year-ol- d 'who slew his grandmother; Roland McDonald, also fifteen, the Maine farm boy. who from ambush shot Louise Oerrlsh. his nineteen-year-olschool teacher, and killed her; Winona Green, the Arkansas choir-gir-l, charged with murdering and his wife: her father-in-laand Frank McDowell, the Florida youth, accused of slaying his mother, father and two d sisters. In several of these cases, though not by any means all of them, and abnormal ', psychology - expert one very important factor. ' se This is alcohol And if their ' deductionre Correct, far lest Crime might be expected fronv posterity if the current generation were to pay "NO!" t li resolutely, to every cocktail invitation. The mobt interesting phase of this "'".ff1!6 conclusion is the decision, which is still far from unanimous, that the wav in which drink affects children, gran.i-chil- dren and great n of the drinkers is subtle and roundabout, instead of Immediate and recognizable. The false, old idea of the transmission of evil impulses by means of whiskfv and gin was that a love of intoxicants in one generation bred an identical love in the next. Now science finds that it is not so simple as all that. For example. Hear what Dr. J. W. Amey, Dorothy Pcrkini, Greenwich Flapper, Accu.ed of Fatally Her Suitor, Thomas Templeton, t a Birthday Party. ').' :.v i it I ' 1 Z- . ' . ' ' i ; Jail, Charged . with Causing Her Father- - ! .nu . ' I I ' Xs j r 11 J ' . i: - ' - rx - '1 'A f i ' i- x 1 Khvw l y y; 1 15 1 1 II I Vmrlbt ); i- ' V I. v f " Ft t ' I- f ' f ' i ' f - X .N ! ' ? I I - " J f X- i l1 . X 'i ' ' h s I I tuch a highly-ttrunemotional and ner-vo-u temperament as that possessed by "The Tiger dirU" Dr. Amey is no defender of matricide, but at the same time ho cannot, he eaya, in his medical capacity, hold tho Ellingson girl wholly to blame for the terrible tragedy which she precipitated. In connection with her case, it la interesting to note certain statistic which have Iust been transmitted to this country. Dr. Clarke, of Wakefield Prison, England, discloses the startling fact that of all the criminals confined there 48.5 per cent had alcoholic fathers. When epileptic criminals are considered, 6T per cent have a definite and undeniable background of paternal alcoholic inheritance, while 18.2 per cent have a somewhat doubtful, bat probable, intemperate parentage. So, concludes Dr. Clarke: "Like the epileptic-idift- t and imbecile, the epileptic criminal REVEALS THE POTENCY OP PATERNAL ALCOHOLISM." What a vivid bearing" this statement has on many of the juvenile cases, especially that of wiinam cavaner I The young grandmother-slayer was, according to the Cavalier neighbors, impelled to kill Iter for pocket-money mere because the strain of drink had been handed down to him th rough a grandparent. Psychologists" although "noT tinahlmous," at the time of the trial of "Babe" Leopold and Dickie Loeb for the murder of Bobbie Pranks in Chicago, voiced the opinion that a tendency to certainly had something to do with their subsequent career of crime. Drink does not seem to have entered Into the motivation of Dorothy Perkins' slaying of her young suitor, Thornaa Templeton, in Greenwich Village, but in a vast number of cases, the inner evidence points to the bottle as the of an emotional "stick-up"- or the origin knife-thruthat suddenly ends a life. Meanwhile, the controversy. as to the i i i r ij suia enrelative influences oi nereauy vironment goes on, with some clarification oi viewpoint made evident the further the specialists push their investigations; And their findings, sincere humanitarians hope, win unajiy clear up tne dark muddle of our juvenile Killers' terrible impulses. , "Alcoholism as alcoholism is not Inherited," asserts W. Bevan Lewis, M. Sc. "What is usually .inherited is something wholly different. But that alcohol, like other toxic agencies in the parent, results in certain abnormal conditions of the germ-plasis unquestionable." ' This is one view, in which not all the specialists concur. But on one platform they all stand, shoulder to shoulder: that recommending temperance. If there is a single neurologist in the country who : favors Indiscriminate drinking, he has not come forward with his banner. ' "Today's wild parties may turn into ; tomorrow's atrocities," says the chorus of 'science, and everyone who wants the blood-taiof the young killers of this generation solved and removed exclaims i I Si I - ; st ' P 1 lr xtsrfxJ ?l V'l pmrmta..-. al .' if f' '. far-seei- 1? - 't teeth, with stret laid on the bicutpid for motion, and alto to several fit had by her mother before the child tea born. Both of thete condition would teem to infer a definite malady. And the combination of uch a condition with the alcoholic background of the father would naturally bring about ,r ' j 'v- , 1 New York's most eminent specialists one in mental disorders, has to say ahout the influence of alcohol an Frisco' "Tiger Uirl"J - ' "Authoritiet- are iteming more and pre-nat- . 1 J ' ; j f nil That (h. mm af in Flowen Almort Prx'lM-tHwlli 11 HuBiaa IVInat. Th W hit !. laOprtl Blark BloMoma of th Mm Ktt. t the Toe, are to Oowmt Mixed the . Hlark ea4 r M mt the Oatr. From the Letter erU Come th Morm ! the Llee. ere Jiottent honte ef Hhlrh Mixed, Oihen Beln Pere Hleck' ', er White, Like the (.read- , Arlrnttft lv ' 111 A" J : - ' ' 111 ? , 1J : " 1 " J '(..! , ' - ii ' ' 3 ' , , Frank McDowell, Florlda'i Quadruple ' Slayer, Who Killed Hi Mother, Father and Two Sisters in Their St. Petersburg Home. Hia Case Is Being Exhaustively Studied by Psychologists, I s' ' " I . " brain-specialis- ts 'X: Ari, ;' , !Z?Af I I I f t . - "- k I l 1 - ; mt : ,; - pocl ' . , , , x. x jX'- X"tcX JTT SV $ Littl n th m-- av::;-- M Xr-w.- '. 4 I T Tria Awaiting , 1 -- I ' . , i 'A. i ,? I 'I ' ; ilx Ls r''' ray - Winona Green : ; V f1 1 grand-childre- v' ; f i I - ' px I X'. nmw - ?j!y m . p "X-X- . - . , - X' V;X rvg life, so often turn to rag, despair and homicidal mania? Why should a sweet-facegirl in her 'teens whip out a "gut" and send a bullet through the heart of a loving mother? Why does a serenely smiling boy, not yet twenty, plot and execute a dastardly death lor someone near and dear? These flaming questions, which have sprung into being as the rerult of the recent surging wave of juvenile criminality, are taxing the best scientific brains of the United States, who are desperately trying to stem Vne- - tide of lawless impulse which, armed With knife and gun, seems daily growing more of a menace. Themost remarkable discovery in connection with the soul-taiwhich causes merechildren to maim, wound and destroy hasAo do with that oldest of arjfftments: Does heredity plav Dainty a vital role in the acquisition Villag. of evil, destructive desires? Shooting But which the answers patient research has dug up and assembled are NOT old, but "firsh.TTtal and infinitely illuminating. In the gathering of these opinions, psychologists, social workers and statisticians have contributed their combined and individual intellects, bent on rationalizing the strange passion for slaying lately manifested in the cases of young men and -- "t:' makes Youth, which should the happiest period of every women. The chief instances on which analytical effort has been focused by the experts have been those of Dorothy Filing-son- . San Francisco's "Tiger Girl," who, though outwardly merely a pretty flapper, coolly shot down her mother: William Cavalier, the i "' mk,- WHAT ?X. Crime Impulse V r t Next the f from t f - x' x,; Generation ur V'"X A Gin-Bre- d f "Ww.'f CHIN: Usually normal and with-opsychopathic indie tions. Drinking Parents and Children, and How Specialists Hope to Banish ' 'XX". M X f Gun-Totin- g well-know- J r New Discoveries About ' Vv x:Sr-;.-, filers Jyvil . , , L-- 4 more convincei L. that hertdttg. rather t"tai :'. - X j . ttable nertotii tyttem, to he exeettive In thingt. Children of habitnai drunkard etitnromet, plavt the greater part, in all if not Plutarrh'$ $ aying , are frequently born 'Drnkarit beget drunkardt' long &ee potltire idiott: One, hundred and 390 Mattachutettt were mak-minde- charactqr-forviiatio- forty-fiv- Many descendant) of alcoholic inherit a weakened and unstable WOflritiserf. parent nrrvout tyttem, and it it thit inttablllty which render the victim unable to rititt bad impuUe and make Mm or her follow more quickly the rieion influence into tchiek environment mag throw him. Statistic from, targe tiutitutiont thow 1hat from Z0 to IS per cent of alcoholic ! malet have had either an. alcoholic fatheror mother, and are liable, throtgh on nn-- IMS. to iBtsmsUauf Testers Serrtsa. la Ores Brttsla Uahts - Sieil ' - ... ' e idiot in otit of found to be the descendant of drunkard. "Beech, jn EnglandCdltcoverei that of 4t0 idiott Sl.t per cent mere descendant of aXcoholict.yJn Pari,' Boumeville found that of 100n 4dMic epileptic and eea minded children. 7f had alcoholic father; 8j, alcoholic mother, and 65 parent who ; iccre both dnmknrd. "In the cote of Dorothy Ellington, refer" ence ha been mad to the condition of her . nt "SobeitP ' |