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Show MARRYING AND KILLING WOMEN. iWhen a man gets knocked on the head and a dent is loft which causes the skull to press on the brain, the victim now and then is so erratic as to be a lacly's man. A fellow answering that descrip-tion descrip-tion is now in jail in 'Los Angeles, held on the charge of murder. He , married more than 20 women and killed four of them. When start-ing start-ing out in life, he met with an accident to his head and since then he has been kept busy marrying and killiijg women foolish enough to accept the attentions of a comparative stranger. How an unbalanced profligate can go on for years, committing crimes against women, and not be detected until he has multiplied ' his offending by twenty, is explicable only on the theory that not j ono of the women conducted herself with prudence and ordinary H ' common sense. t ' None other than a deranged mind' would find in the victimizing B of lovelorn maidens a vocation worth while. H In no other country is there the same opportunity for the crimi- Bl nally disposed to operate. In Ameriea no record is kept of the niovc-jHf niovc-jHf inents of transients and family ties at times are so loogely held that H they are not at all binding. Men, women and children disappear and H ! there is no one to miss them. New York City alone is said to have Lj ' had a record of one thousand mysterious disappearances in a year. H , Nearly all foreign countries require registration and identifica- H tion cards in order to trace those who move from one place to an-other. an-other. To do that in America, where there is so much shifting, would . .be almost impossible, but some method of checking up on question-H: question-H: able characters should be employed. K .For women, who encourage the attention of strangers, there is Pl --bo safeguard. A percentage of them will become easy prey for the H I designing scoundrel and the maniac. |