Show r VICTIMS OF O ALCOHOL the rhe I Identity Existing n n and Chronic Inebriety What la is called the jurisprudence of or Inebriety Inc Ine briety is II a n new department of or medico-legal medico that offers offer material for entertaining entertain In ing speculation and develops a Q now and Interesting phase of ot tho the much much discussed liquor question Dr UrT T. T D. D editor of or tho the Journal of or Inebriety bas baa attempted to establish an Identity between Insanity anI and alcoholism of or s sufficiently close character char acter to warrant a radical departure from existing judicial methods In tho tim jf Jr criminals whose whoso lawlessness is manifested roam mani rested under tho the Influence of or I liquor Enough disputation over 8 such stich ch criminals has o oc occurred oc- oc recently wj U tho Boston Herald lo to give ho Dr views the merit at al least of or timeliness and throughout the country there are e enough ough cases of or the char- char I that he of or pending Judicial decision de do- cislon to lo blako pec peculiarly interesting nn any suggestions in the tho line of or a n change of or judicial judi cial dal method Tho The three theories s which tho medical gentleman pointed but out In his address on Medico Legal Logal Problems of Inebriety before be be- tore fore tho the Massachusetts t Medical Society as lr prevailing in tho the treatment of or alcoholic arc aro thc these e Tho The ethical and moral view V which holds that drunkenness Is at atau au indication of or personal depravity that it Il dc dr e along tho the lino line of or animal gratification antI and that It should re receive ehe the most positive censure and punishment of ecclesiastical and lay lar power The legal view was vas next riled aa as that which assumes that Inebriety t Is tho tiso manifestation of or a n lawless that Is essentially hostile to the spirit of ot luv la and and that G aa as such It ought to lo bo hr severely punished Tho The next theor theol theory which i i is the tho ono one that lint elicits Dr ballon nod support Is the scientific amid me medical Vi view ViV V which considers coq the thO appetite Intoxicants a manifestation of or a con li Disorder er which may bo be due disc II I lo n 8 multitude e of or causes for which tho tim ma may not in any sense he be responsible It muy maybe be c a symptom or a coincident of or Insanity in lii turu turn may be a n symptom of lr ill in m Ir Medico lIy this theory won 11 0 In ac regard the drunkard ns as incapacitated foi ci jOll I Involving In g consecutive MU du effort ctt IL of or 1 rcA and reasonable rr nature lie r or Ci Ii Aut vIew v elul a new method of or judicial tl for flit III drunken criminal or criminals with do lIo II-Ic II lined hued i- i I alcoholic olo-l olo t ste and amid tendency It I would practically abolish the judgment judg judg- ment lIt hl 11 is often oHen so hard bard eu on the victim I of if f l and nl tb tUA Mr nn 1110 lat a- a ala la IU he Ito l would be tr on ott I mid It i i I n grounds by liy 1 jn fI pathetic l i I IK i ii 1 i. i inai IM va vi t. t r r. i- i u 5 lh t Ih si arc aro accountable for Cor the tho til ni ha habit it and DOlt that only emily I by Ly treat based sed on physical l' l the tho dread malady 1 bo be 13 od lt Tho Insanity of or tho the vL im iii I of or dl drink must bo be ns assumed and the tho bin imi di-imi im i'm I Hoof f I is on An tho prosecution to prove provo I that thai tin Ill I iri r la is s samie au n the natural and u ii 1 being in lh Hie tIit o opposite pos d Iiii n I Ui rn tarts farts reasonably accurate time the iun statement that Hut a drunkard r I is a n i is iLso u iL ubo il bo so If evidence iJen e of the tho kind hind that s la seal II I fade facie Nevertheless Ne s the sentiment of ut tho the judicial powers is frequently u in in contradiction of or this ill idea 3 nUll anti otto one notable an 10 aliened inebriate E cited by uy Dr Or e Crothers to toil il II I Initiate titi thu lh Impression In III d that a criminal r alcoholic in iu in Is cognizant of ot and fur Cur hits hia misdeeds John U U. U SwilL Swift shot allot his July 1 1 at al Hartford Conn Coon in December of ot th time the yen ho bo was tried tiled and sentenced t lo to I be hafl lunged d a y year ar later Inter April 5 5 1 19 5 The fhe Legislature was ap appealed aled to to commute hi iii sentence to lifo life Imprisonment ciary emary Committee made an au u ex exa a of or all aU c dence and new Dew teatime ny fly offered and reported in favor of ot tation Both houses bouses of ot tho the Legislature voted to sustain tho and commute commute- the sentence to lira life imprisonment A An 0 ad cd verso vet wave wao of public publio sentiment caused the time Governor to veto eto tho the action of tha Legislature Legisla lu turn ture t cud aud 0 the tho members of or oZone one bod body that they failed railed to sustain tuc their thuir l' l vote Hence Smith was hanged banged April l IS l IJ Ho was a chronic inebriate and had been drinking to great excess for weeks bc- bc fore the thu murder The defense claimed that Swift was wai incapable of ot deliberation and premeditation sire pre meditation at th the time of or the crime front Irom the effect of ot continuous In Intoxication No l testimony was called The prose pros cotton cullon claimed premeditation malice and amid andu 1 u it full lun comprehension of or was vas doing Dr Sir Crothers cited this case caso U a as au no in instance ill ill- stance stance- of hereditary alcoholism Swifts Swift's father who was an erratic man man had haJ an ton apoplectic seizure at twenty four years of 01 age Swifts Swift's grandfather ou hU his mothers mother's side sid we wr u a drinking man waD HI HU His only son lion waa wad wu wada wua a inebrIate tho the other four children of ot which Swifts Swift's mother w was s one were wera all uil exceedingly nervous and some ome of or them hysterical Swift himself was always o n weak child had brain fever hi in Infancy and violent nasal hemorrhage In youth He had bean bein In the reform at Conn fonn aud and In la manhood was au all excessive drinker |