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Show SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 10 led by TBpy's Science C5 ,Yr- v'-.i- V: --- - .- r -- . - ' IflOS fapire Complec T. 't - r;Jv - . . , 9; i rt- - w... :,r ! "V v. , I 1 . .1.,- VAMPIRE BAT. South Tba American Bat, Which Sock, tha Blood of Slaeping Horea and Which Hai Tata Similar to Ita Human Nameakat. Much-Dre.d.- I- ft h ; v V f ' 'I ' v - d Y I ' Alarming Misdeeds oj a Wild ( Child, Who Sank His Teeth in Playmates' Faces, Let Street Cars Graze Him, and Threw Explosives Into His Mother's MOTHER AND SON. Mr. Walatsic Shown With Her "Vampire Blood Child," Who.e Tatte for Human She Couldn't QuelL r . -- ?" , '. r. - k Xiji - i, ' ' . . i " ' , x ' the records of medicine there are several authenticated cases of that ' weirdest of maladies, 'Vampirism," ft in which the sufferer is obsessed with the desire to drink warm human blood. A doxen times in the past hundred years students of abnormal behavior have been able to observe actual humaa vampires. ... But usually these unfortunate being succumb only by degTees to their eerie thirst. They hava invariably been people of mature age, and ihysicians have been able to trace their development through agony, termyears of inating in surrender" to the craving. Now seienee's eyes are focused on d Bernard Walassic, boy of Baltimore, who has shocked and alarmed his neighborhood and puzzled his ' family by exhibiting the typical traits of did it beeatm I liked tows the the human vampire. ' Hushed and awesome rumors have ' Welfare Society of spread through the section of the city In Thi Family A ' ' ' ' v which the boy lives.. Mothers let their Baltimore immediately took an in- - " -- Ji s 0"m ' ' children out to play reluctantly. For the terest in the case. They found that U II I I tL JStT : innocent-lookingI1 PMiiX.. "vampire boy" had al- Bernard had been first treated for ' V ' 'ZZ fe i ready made three of his playmates vic- "strange symptoms" two years ago, f-f " -tims of his astounding mania. after the diphtheria attack. At Hi &s just 4 -$ Bernard that The only explanation vl time physicians recommended that " on the his attacks ' boys would grive for the boy be put in a corrective 2 that i ( not kad the to see j Hiked because bought, ooy was: "I did it but Mrs. Walassic was institution, blood flow." to do this. 7 reluctant 5 .maternally ?y tov"- "VAMPIRE BOY." PUc4 Ib th Edward Welsh, six; Sidney Eppel, five, k After the three victlpis of the 2i!! Photo of Bernard Walaasie, Taken and Melvin Sachs, three, were the chil- "boy vampire" complained to the j' y After Three Children Testified He dren upon whom Bernard made his vam- authorities and Bernard's case was ' V"" Had Bitten Them Severely "To pire assaults. The three bitten boys all brought to light, Dr. Leslie B. Hoh-See the Blood Run." Note the told the same story of the manner in 1 Placid Innocence of his " which they were attacked. It is thought I 1 f Expretalon. that other and similar attacks upon little . out " .! j-S"He began runnt.f , girls may- eventually be traced to Bernard. will cheek his extraordiX f ,y , ."v 4 In lha atreel and Irinff JT 11 Young- Eppel was the first victim. He nary tendency, ha may dedown close to the trolley still bears scars of the boy's teeth above much not man into a velop tracks while cars were his right eye. He declared that one afterdifferent from, tha Mad noon while playing in the street near his pasting." Count. home, Bernard ran up to him without Yet to tha casual obborn sha was attacked warning, clapped a hand over his eyes, by a mad dog, who at- server he seems to ba a and sank his teeth into his face. tempted to bite her. "I more than ordinarily Screaming, he ran home and told his and was fesrfully frightened, : They had been he bitten. how parents His features and fainted. Then, a youngster. were inclined to pass the matter off as . few weeks later, a fam- have tha healthy innocence two chila childish prank, until ily living next door wera that you would expect to dren told how they, too, had been bitten in an automobile find in the face of a carehurt Then other youngsters in the same way. -' accident They were fully sheltered and rather Berhow revealed in the neighborhood cut and shy boy. He seldom shows home brought numerous on nard had tried to bite them for- any of the wild fury with I couldn't bleeding. occasions on faces, legs and hands. bewhich ha is credited except I and that sight, get An investigation was begun, and the lieve my son may hava when ha is in ona of his mother of the unusually "eomplexed" been affected by these "tantrum," such as on the boy was questioned. The result was one things before his birth." occasion of his visit to the of the strangest revelations of child .. Dr. Hohmans, how- doctors. psychology in the annals of "fixed ideas." His mother declares thai ever, scoffs at this exUntil two years ago, it seems, Bernard "Medical one of her biggest probplanation. was a healthy and apparently normal science has proved that lems is to keep him from child. At that time he was stricken with conditions running Several Mrs. to Since away. then, according diphtheria. S ava nothing to do with times she has hidden Walassic, her son has exhibited eccena child's habits," he Bernard's clothes to make tricities that have grown more and more him stay in, only to find maintains. alarming.Meanwhile the res. that ha is unconcerned "Ever since be came home from, the idents of Barnard's about lack of covering, and done the strangest things, . hospital-1 '.v- VAMPIRE SYMBOL. neighborhood are won- will attempt to run out I've triad -- spanking, .my .boy, but that . , dering what he will do Into tba street without a seems to .do no good. It seems no kind Frontispiece to Balsac's Famous Novel, TV VICTIMS. .. next, if he isn't put stitch on Seccuna," Which Deals With tha Drinking af of punishment makes him act right - like "Left to Right! Sidney Eppel, Edward Welch and Melvin Sach. the Three Baltimore Boyt Who ' After he has been placed Ha man Bloody .". away where he can do . the other boys." ' Declare They Were Bitten in the Face by the "Vampire Child." In soma institution which no further nrm. Not long after Bernard's Illness he was interest, already knows about them. as his and grow to be normal It is said in the vicinity oT Bernard's cares for cases like his, it will ba given a dime with which to buy candy at mans, noted child psychiatrist at Johns such of tha By glandular thersphy "cases as fttro-bo- rn Wnlf. poor to tha watch attacked many have all development of made a ing with home be He that returned may a nearby store. bulging Hopkins University, study as Bernard's seem to hava been alha as caused little three who Perhaps scientists the bey." "vampire Here Meanwhile is a circumstances. In other than to kitchen. the the children mora the physicians, opinion pockets and retired enmost now Perwhich miraculously improved. the mania older grows examined are a to the and physicians. he the to advances sv startled the be him by progcause, few moments laymen curiously examining sharp explosion slaves hinLwill be slowly conquered and Finally, shrewd students have suggested, the household. The boy bad bought, not nosis and cure of the youngster's malady: boy's history. Human vampires are ad- haps a dozen or even a score, say his play"Bernard Walassic belonsrs to the class mitted to exist by science, and many mates, who now carefully avoid the lad after a few years be may emerge with an even more optimistic explanation of candy, but large firecrackers, which he the boy's ease. They point out that quite normal tendencies. had placed in the kitchen stove. eommonly known as 'emotionally unstable.' people contend that Bernard is one of with the biting mania. y admit, however, possibly his malady may ba an entirely - "It's a wonder we weren't all killed," Unless his vicious habits are cured now these pathetic examples of twisted The doctors who took charge of tha case declare that when Bernard appeared that he must be wstched closely for a long simple result of having been told net to do his despairing mother admitted. "He did he may grow up to become a criminal. will tha things which have puzzled and alarmed . that "several times. We couldn't stop him. Now there is a chance. Our penitentiaries Exponents of this theory to account in the clinic for his first examination ha time. Though his "biting obsession" his family and friends. It may ba that hi But that isnt the worst He soon nbegan and hospitals are filled with types such lor the bors actions point to the ease, a refused to answer questions and showed quite possibly disappear, there remain a recurrence chance the peculiar psychological reaction prompts havu-fthe crone-onth- e oi .years.-ago- , as Their of by he for his ana iying-aaw, proceedings tne sweet contempt an..aged out in liveajnight represents running stubbornly persist in a course nfaHn tmmiir vamtreaho- hlm-close to the trolley tracks. He says he been saved u they cad been taken in band Island of Haiti who was convicted of se- - storming through "thfrtwm.kicking-thin- gs about and throwing whatever he have faced legal prosecutien in the past which ha haamafound, by accident, to ba does this to see how near the cars can at this boy's age. eretly imbibing blood from her nine-yea- raiders. come to him without striking him. "Whippings and punishments win do old niece, causing the child to decline as could lay hands upon. It was with dif- there is, as far as can be ascertained, net annoying to Dr. Hohmans is of the opinion thst "One day I 'watched a car pass our no good. In defectives of this kind their if stricken with some wasting disease. ficulty that they persuaded him to sub- a single case of a total cure. But on tha ri, to see grievances are increased- - by such measmit to the tests. other hand no jease of a person of Ber- Bernard's predicament 1 not aa mild and window and was horror-stricke- n They point again to the Countess child of psycholstudent beautrful and the a tender years hss been known. He simply disposed of as this, however. He rich and delusions nard's under inches from the few a ures, every Nesrly peculiar Hungarian lying my boy wheels. The motorman tried to stop, but which Tthey suffer are thus aggravated. woman, who owned a castle in the Car- ogy who. has had to do with Bernard be-- mav ba younr enourh to overcome this believes that the trouble is much mora, d, and that tha boy actually "Just as I would find myself lost if pathian Mountains. . At her trial, which lieves that here is no ordinary case oz malady which is past the comprehension it was too late.. As the ear rushed by, 'derives pleasure from sinking his teeth Bernard lay looking up at the wheels and ceiled upon to run things in some - took place three hundred years ago, she a "bad boy." While they concur in the of normally eomplexed indhriduala. All Mr Walaaile ran da now la to into human flesh. In any ease, modern smiling. He said he got a big kick out of executive capacity to which I had not- was convicted of abducting young and Kliof ihit with ahrewrf care, he haa a medicine and modern methods give aim -so been Bernard himself and finds chain I didn trained, But I attractive peasant that boyt thought girls, certainly lost in the games of normal children. He ing them to posts in a dungeon ofher mal citizen, thry consider his predicament the verdict of the years. Hope, lies in the a chance of cure far beyonde what ha . sore those wheels would crush him. ' remarkable advances of. mental research would hava had evea twenty-fivyears "Something like this happened nearly retaliates by biting and other extreme castle and visiting them nightly j drink very grave at the present time. or measures. H!s desire to the see blood blood do home veins. He Not often flow ran time from thir shivery apparitions through opened away during tha present deeaoa. strange I acts ago. avery day. I 1 U. M .VVH, Ml, Mi;tVlUt Thus no one need fear that America There are other cases of genuine detective thrillers materialize into flesh DSTf UCIU after timer. Once he was found, after a is actuated by a liking for seeing other of tha fearful human vampires on record, and it is pos- and bleod. "Draeula," that creepy play pituitary and other hltheto unexplored will witness a counterpart search that lasted all night, twelve miles people suffer. "He should be placed in an institution sible thst this is the haples mania from from the book by Bram Stoker, dealt glsnds of the body, and if Bernard is character in Balzac's- - "La Succubus" -, way. He had broken an electric machine of fictional humaa vamwith a Transylvanian nobleman who sated suffering from a disease hinging upon most shockir that makes ice, and the owner came to at once. There he can be studied by com- which little Bernard is suffering. His mother has her own theory as to his cravings by drawing the blood of improper functioning of these mviterious pireg for the Baltimore boy will be under me with a bill for repairs. I had no money petent men and treated. It is his only ao Bernard will hare to be put in aa chance of a cure. 'Many times children, the cause of his condition. She recalls young maidens. It is possible that, u ri- organs the whole course of his life msy the watchful eye af Twentieth Ceatun , with proper' care, outgrow complexes that about four months before he was le u this Baltimore boy is given care that be changed by application of what science acieoca. institution." Kitchen Stove psycho-pathologic- .' ..'- al seven-year-ol- Jjj "I fNT' C:'"'"'Av V ' W TllHS- J "JLjegTi ik'V.T? JMSVScKi '0 l1 iWf. ikW! - .iMf Z&Zs x ...." 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