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Show ' ft if Ranging is going out of fashion find penitentiaries arc- not the vogue. Criminal lawyers have deviled many schemes by which they can outwit the fury of the law and turn the anger of the State Into pity. Tt was about the time of the Civil "War when the unwritten law was invoked before a Jury and a man Who had killed another lor violating the sanctity of the home went free. Insanity, both permanent and temporary, tem-porary, have been invoked for thou- I ' sands of years. Now comes the latest thing in the progress of crlm- b Ins! defense, tt is the prenatal in fluence. The other day the Sheriff at Little Lit-tle Kock, Ark., arrested Jesse E. i ' "--'ii i, i barged with killing hie Stepmother The woman was the only mother he had known His own mother died at the blith of Cogglna and the new mother, who came into the home, treated the hoy like her own from babyhood. "it's prenatal Influence' said Cogglna -i can't help it when I kill. The feeling comes over me all of a sudden and I want to kill. I was born that way." The boy ir. only 1G year old The day of his arrest ho asked a reporter report-er to feel his head. The reporter felt his head and discovered a little lump there about the size of a hlck-jfMLf. hlck-jfMLf. orv nut that was hard like cartilage, 'That was there when I was born," said the boy. "It is p prenatal pre-natal defect." "Df I look like a criminal? ' he asked reporters. "Do you think I would have killed the best friend and the only friend I had if r had been iu-my right mind'. The thought of what I did makes my blood run fold now. but at the time I enjoyed it. I thrilled as I felt mv lingers tighten around her throat and felt her muscles tighten and pulsate as I strangled her. "The feeling of joy at the killing stayed with me until I got out of town, but since I realise what I did 1 have been suffering. "My mother died when I was bom and my relatives tell me the top of my head was as flat as a pancake when I came inte the world. My aunt. Mrs. Bertha E. Dowel of 500 West Second street. Pine Bluff, Ai k . frequently told me my father was surprised when I did not show signs of idiocy when a child. "I fell into bad company early and abused myself by drinking and smoking cigarettes to excess and in other ways. In the last year this has been especially true, and for months T have had spells when I longed to kill someone. The thought of a weapon never entered my mind on these occasions. It alwas was my wish to kill with my hands. I arn not trying to make excuses for the awful crime I committed, but I think I am a mental and moral wreck although my body seems healthy enough." QUIT SCHOOL WHEN ONLY 11 YEARS OLD. "I recall being compelled to quit school when I was 11 years old because be-cause my father was out of work and I had to help. I was in the sixlh grade when my education stopped. "The next thing I remember is di Inking my first glass of beer. It was at a family gathering. I can't remember my first cigarette, butt bu-tt a cause it seems I always have smoked A them. The beer habit grew on me ,lP and I frequently drank whisky "The first job I had was at the wage of SI a day. 1 was big for my age, and when my father returned re-turned to work he offered me no opportunity op-portunity to go back to school. He eaid I was big enough to work. "My father, as long as I can remember, re-member, was my enemy. He did try to break me of the cigarette habit, but It was impossible to do so, because the habit had me, and there was nothing that would satisfy satis-fy that desire for a cigarette. ' I had no bad associates that I can now recall In fact, I had no time for pleasure al all. But I had Ca.ll the bad habits a boy could have, and they ruined me. My advice to hoys who want to profit by my example ex-ample is to be pure minded always, to refrain from cigarettes and by all means to shun liquor. 'My father always took my wages and allowed me only 0u cents out of it. It was this that caused mo to take $10 from his pocketbook aud f run away from home. I wanted money to spend when I went out With "the boys, "After my father had refused to let me return home I went to live B -with my grandmother. I frequently W received letter:- from my stepmother inviting me to visit home during my father's absence. It was after reviving re-viving such an InvitaJtlon that i went to see her on the day of the murder. "I called at her home about noon and she said she would tlx dinner for me. At 2 o'clock we sat down , to eat. My stepmother reprimand-eel reprimand-eel me for blowing my nose at the table and I resented it. , Then something snapped in the back of my head and .i desire to murder some one came over me. It seemed I must murder some one, but I can't see why it had to be my poor stepmother. I sank my tinkers irto her throat and dragged her to the ted I squeesed and I squeezed, and the tighter I squeezed her tin more I liked it. The moment I knew the was dead i craved for liquor 1 found a bottle of wine and drank all of it. but it seemed to have little effect on me. Then I opened a drawer and found S3 35, and discarded m old clothing for a suit belonging to my father. Robbery had never entered en-tered tnj mind, but I took the money, put iny old clothing in a suit case and started downtown." m:V PLEA BETTER THAN INSANITY. The pica of prenatal influence is better in the hands of a good lawyer law-yer than the insanity plea for that sends men to the Insane asylum. Even temporary Insanity, pleaded by Harrj K. Thaw, has kept him in trouble for many years and doubtless will continue to keep him there. Cogsins' plea is much like that of William V. bleary, the Haver-straw, Haver-straw, N". Y., political boss, who killed his son-in-law, Eugene M New man. i Hears sent for the boy to come to his office. He nodded curtly to the youth to take a chair when he arrived, and then arose and walked to a safe at the side of the room Ills back wa turned toward the boy as he swung open the safe door and groped into one of the compartments Young Newman sat with a hand thrust into the inside in-side of hia coat. Suddenly deary wheeled and faced the boy, his eyes glaring, his hecks white and his lips snarling. The lad saw with horror the rc-volvsr rc-volvsr Cleary held and tried to rise from his chair. But he nover did. For In rapid succession four bullets onlcrcd his body. He did not utter a sound, Ills small body sagged slowly sideways and then dropped to the. floor. And later It was discovered that in his inside coat pocket he carried a certificate of mariiajfe w hich showed that the ' leary ri was hia legal wife The ase seemed t lear enough. No one thoughl there would be any sflBBBi 1 heir Clients Y From Prosecution & - u " doubt about the verdict. But they did not count upon Dr. Floyd S. Crego, the Buffalo alienist. Dr. Crego took the stand at the Clean' trial and said that Cleary was In a 'twilight state" when he committed the crime The- great mental shock that Cleary Buffered when he was told of his daughter's condition, Dr. Crego said, was accelerated ac-celerated by alcohol, and both together to-gether made Cleary irresponsible f"r the crime. And so well did Dr. Crego urge this point and so much evidence did he bring In support of it that the jury promptly went to work and acquitted Cleary. Justice Joseph Morschauser, the trial Judg condemned Ihe ver-dlet ver-dlet So did Mr. Harriet Stanton IESSECOGGINS, in three J poses, and his stepmother. step-mother. Blatch, president of the Women's Political Union. "The erdlct was disgraceful," she says. It stands as an example of American lawlessness law-lessness It is time that all men got over tho idea that the honor of us women is their especial keeping. keep-ing. We are perfectly able to protect pro-tect It ourselves." SANE -MAN .LO1j CAN BE PUNISHED. But despitu all the condemnation the verdict brought forth it Btandf 11 is a granlto monument to the fact that another new and effective defense has been found for the mur-durer, mur-durer, especially for the murderer with fundi), it is also an Imperishable Imperish-able monument to the fact that the only unsafe man in the American legal world is the sane man 'Demetla Americana 1 and "brainstorm" "brain-storm" were two Insanity terms which were brought forward by this trial. Scientists who had enjoyed a country-wide reputation previous to tho trial for what they were supposed to know about insanity were exposed a.s dullards and lm-posters. lm-posters. Scientists previously unknown un-known blossomed over night into insanity pleas put forth saved tho prisoner from conviction and death and sent him to an insane asylum, which as many persons believe will not hold him for long. Tho "twilight state" defense offered of-fered by William V. Cleary was without precedent In criminal trials in tins country! according to Dr. Floyd S. Crego, the Buffalo alienist who gave tho technical defense evidence evi-dence for the defense. Dr. Crego testified that a great mental .h... k. accelerated by alcohol, made Cleary irresponsible while In tho "twilight state." Dr. Crego admits that ho is not the originator of the term "twilight state." It originated with the late Professor ifcendel of the University of Berlin. Professor Mendel used It in his text book on psychiatry. the translation of which was published pub-lished in 1907. Professor- Mendel gave this definition of the "twilight state" : "This is the want of clearness of consciousness In this caso tho psychic phenomena which are being i ompleted are not recognized by the individual. The actions performed per-formed in this condition are completed com-pleted on the threshold of self-eonsclousness self-eonsclousness by means of images of memory." Advertising Good lor Churches. "Churches would be better supported sup-ported If they spent one-tenth of their budget in advertising," says the Rev. Dr. Charles Stelzle, ex-ecutlve ex-ecutlve secretary of the fnterehureV. Unemployment Committee connected connect-ed with the New York Federation of Churches. To a reporter who called on him at the office of the federation at the Fifth Avenue Building, Dr. Stelsle suspended the labors of a particularly busy day long enough to say: I have been for years an earnest advocate of church adertidng. 1 urged the subject upon a conference confer-ence of Cincinnati clergymen of many denominations a short time ano. I believe that the dally newspaper is the best of all modi-ums modi-ums for the advertising of churches because it has the entrc Into the homes of the people. 'It Is well known that newspaper advertising is not looked upon with the same suspicion which detrocts from the effectiveness of certain other methods of advertising, and J am convinced that newspaper readers would have the same confidence confi-dence In church advertising and would be Influenced by It in the same way as by other advertising lh y find In the dallies. "It would bo a mighty good thing, In my opinion, to have people generally gen-erally see that the churches are spending some real money in presenting pre-senting their work to the public at large 'What claim has the church upon the newspapers for valuable space'.' A newspaper is a private enterprise, and whether or not a sermon sent mm n ' IBs BE HiBBIH I J-i-U' to It by a minister should be printed print-ed depends wholly on its news value. The editor Is tne sole Judge of that question. That is his business. busi-ness. "The question came up at the Cincinnati Conference, of reports and abstracts of sermons and other addresses furnished the now-spapers at their request. I have known of cases in which w hen such a request was made, the minister replied; 'Come and get it.' I would not have one of my clerical brethren lose sight of the fact that a newspaper news-paper can get along without his contribution better than he can get along without newspaper aid. I therefore urge courteous treatment of editors and reporters on all occasions. oc-casions. Saw Sons Taken. A handsome and well dressed man of about 50 years, who arrived In New York on the Baltic and registered reg-istered at the Hotel Broslln as C. E. Carboncau, w:s removed later to the psychopathic ward of Bolle-vuc Bolle-vuc Hospital for observation on tho recommendation of Dr. Richard II Conway Gibbons. Dr Gibbons, who was called when the mans continual mutterings were observed by the hotel employes, said that he appeared to be suffering from the strain of a terrific nervous shock. Mr. Carboneau told the hotel clerks and Dr. Gibbons that he had been a lieutenant in the French army and had fought side by side with his live sons; thut in one battle all six of thom had been captured by the Germans, that la a fog thT had fled from their German prison, that his flvo sons had been shot down in the attempt to escape, and that ho escaping unscathed had made his way to England and sailed to America. Before he was taken to Bellevue ho sent a cablegram to his daughter In Paris, assuring her of his safety. A Charles Eugene Carboncau la widely known In this country through a picturesque career, starting start-ing in the Klondike in the gold days of 1S0S. His intention was to make a fortune in the gold fields, but he altered his determination and married mar-ried Belinda Mulrooney, "tho Klondike Klon-dike Queen," w ho owned a hotel at tho confluence of the Bonanza and Eldorado creeks, and was the holder hold-er of claims to many valuablo properties. prop-erties. In that region he was known as "the count," and was the original of several characters in Action writ-ton writ-ton around the Klondike mlnlns camps. liaising Figs in Mississippi. Although the area where figs will crrow in this country is extremely limited, in certain sections of Southern South-ern Mississippi this fruit grows so plentifully that its value Is not appreciated ap-preciated and barrels of figs go to waste every year. Under the conditions con-ditions that exist In dooryards and gardens the trees require little or no cultivation and the majority of owners eat a few, can a few for home use, and permit the rest to go WL to waste. During the past year two m counties of Southern Mississippi de- Rrj. cided to specialize In canning figs. Bb- One girl packed 5 00 pints which she fl sold for from 35c to 40c a pint. Wtit The girls in these sections are now K I leaving tomato for other less for- Ef . tunate districts where tigs will not BfJ I grow and are planting six fig trees h on their tenth-acre formerly plant- K ed to the other crop. The demand K for this product from figless see K tlous is far beyond the supply. iK - Non-Coking Cool. H The latest reports from tho Preo- K lenna coal Meld of Tasmania on tho K northwest coast, Inland from Table R Cape, is that three fresh seams K have been discovered while con- utructing a new road on the mines. IBs" I The seams are said to average two IP feet In thickness, and to bo of good R quality. Samples of tho coal tested In Kg Launccston show a large percentage Kit. of carbon and a low percentage of B& ash. Tho new scams, like all oth- HI ers tested from Prcolenna, do not ; I coke at all, thus showing It to bo K quite distinct In character from R I pre'vlous discoveries. B. . Spanish Lessons. w&'':' The Builders' and Manufacturers' ES Exchange of Washington. D. C, has I ; I arranged for classes for the study Bp I of Spanish. Each member of tho exchange, will bo entitled to ono Hr,j scholarship. Young men will be Br ; invited te jog' these classes with BiT a view to equipping themselves for Kg 'f the work of helping in the lmpor- lr?;' tant work of developing closer re- Bb"' latlons between tho United States vk'v. and Bathi America. The builders and manufacturers Pa of Washington understand that they B.-.rs. will probably at no time be In po- B'il sltlon to engago in any large way in South American trade, for this is m not a commercial or manufactur- Bj-ing Bj-ing city, but have planned this course in Spanish to open a door 19 I of opportunity to worthy young men B'vi of the city, I Origin of Onyx. pT-- "When waters charged with car- I bonate of calcium derived from bH limestone are allowed to evaporate KpRj they depart their load In the form of sinter or tufa. This process can be observed at many thermal and i "petrifying" springs and also In tho formation of stalactites and stalag-miles stalag-miles in limestone caverns, In this way large masses of compact car- bonate arc formed, some of them J of great beauty. Tho so-called "onyx marble." of which the Idex- B iean "onyx" is a familiar example, B are formed in this way. Some p-ek of this class is formed by springs B Its variations In color and texture B to which Its ornamental character H is largely due. arc commonly pro H duced by impurities or Inclusions. such as oxide of iron or even mud |
