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Show tlzed remember nothing of what occurs oc-curs during the hypnotic state." "I believe I follow you," the Judge murmured. "I hnve shown you why the normal nor-mal Nonce Belden would not steal. But now comes that mental shock I spoke of, with consequent amnesia for all of her life that has preceded preced-ed It; or it may be a part of that life. With the amnesia comes what we term dissociation or mental de Iter' S7 ft . 'OWRIGHT ky BELL SYNDICATE WN.U. SERVICE i ' 1 1 J 1 ' If Ih (lil WW III I u less In happier days possessed a single personality und that a normal nor-mal one, has now acquired a secondary second-ary personality. In plain English, two entirely different people Inhabit the one body. "The first personality, which I shall call A, Is the result of acquired ac-quired instincts, habit, education, and repression imposed on society by convention and the code of procedure pro-cedure which we call morals. This has been submerged wholly or In part by a second personality, which I shall call B, and when B personality person-ality rules her she hag amnesia for what I have termed her acquired or normal Instincts. Out of her unconscious un-conscious mind then emerge, as definite defi-nite Impulses to action, the old antipathies an-tipathies to such action, which we medical men term conflicts. "Let me Illustrate. We will assume as-sume that at this moment she Is possessed of her personality A, and that In this state she realizes she has runs in her stockings that 6he must have new stockings, but she sees some stockings which she can readily steal. Normal people often have impulses to steal, your honor, and Nance Belden has an Impulse to steal the stockings she needs. "But here a factor intervenes. She has been taught, from the day she manifested a thought, that It is wrong to steal, and this moral lesson les-son has Impressed Itself upon her conscious mind. With repetition, the thought, becoming a habit, dropped out of her conscious mind to become conserved In her unconscious uncon-scious mind. Conserved there, it became be-came a definite part of her personality personal-ity her soul, If you will. Thereafter There-after it was not necessary to remind re-mind herself that It was wrong to steal. She knew it was, without having hav-ing to think about it at all, and this unconscious knowledge was her protection pro-tection in the fleeting moment of temptation, aroused by her definite need and the knowledge that, lacking lack-ing money to buy the stockings, and faced with the absolute necessity of acquiring stockings, the sole alternative alter-native was to steal them. She got no further than that vague, conscious con-scious thought. Immediately the knowledge that it was immoral to steal that nothing could possibly excuse theft rose out of her unconscious un-conscious mind and became a dominating dom-inating conscious thought. Now, right there appeared the mental phenomenon known among psychiatrists psychi-atrists as a complex or conflict. In ill conflicts the stronger wins and in this particular mental conflict, ;he will not to steal won Instantly. !t was an older habit of thought. "This defendant, your honor, Is a leallhy girl as far as I can judge 3 SYNOPSIS u lecuheodore Gatlln adopts a baby I final effort to solve his. matri-llal matri-llal troubles. But his wife has er wanted her, and their affairs In the divorce court. Ten-year-"Penelope Is given Into the keep-of keep-of Mrs. Gatlln. At a baseball ) Aie a ball strikes Penelope on r-Hs nose and Mrs. Gatlln removes from tbe hospital and spirits (UM to Europe. Gatlln retires from Iness, wills Penelope all his ij ley, and Is about to begin a ch for his daughter when a mo-! mo-! A:accldent ends his life. Some ten str.rs later, In San Francisco, Steph-ma,Burt Steph-ma,Burt Is a rising young psychia-. psychia-. 't. Dan McNamara, chief of po-' po-' , brings him a patient Nance :r len, a girl whose terrible child-I child-I has left her with a dual per-at per-at llity, for which her "saddle nose" e in part responsible. McNamara Qpi not think she is a criminal. ip in ' ' Lli CHAPTER II Continued AM . V Mr, 4 ANTClss me again, please," Nance ""P' ijpered. And when Lanny had plied, the girl came around the g g1 to Stephen Burt. "I want you !ss me, too," she said. "You're t thank you a lot." thrhen Dan JlcXamara and his Marti"161" inc' departed, Lanny and hen looked at each other il awughout a long silence, which un'ny was first to break. . matj rom i.'hat girl's clean, Steve. Not a cd- h of the slattern about her. She eilcvt'' pass tlle lnet; Intelligence so fast she'd meet it on her - back. And she isn't tough at I She's only trying to be, and ;CGlfjnds it uphill work." ioden)efense mechanism largely," he craj!'. "Better go home, Lanny. Get italosiod night's s.leep and try to for-SCI10what for-SCI10what a sad world we live In." ait Lit'd he a d d sight sadder If "Nance Belden," the Judge queried, "have you anything to say as to why sentence should not be pronounced upon you?" "I've got a mouthpiece," the girl retorted. "Ask him !" From a chair beside the counsels' table a young man arose. "May it please the court, the public defender de-fender has withdrawn from this case and I am now counsel for the defendant. My name Is David Tyrrell. Tyr-rell. I am reliably informed, your honor, that, following a fair and impartial trial, this defendant has been convicted of the crime of which she stands accused and Is now before be-fore the court for sentence." "Mr. Tyrrell, your client Is now under a suspended sentence from the Superior court, for the crime of grand theft. She was there sentenced sen-tenced o two years in San Quentln penitentiary, but paroled for two years. Less than two months have passed since she was paroled, and today she stands before the court for sentence under a charge of petit larceny. The defendant evidently evi-dently Is Incorrigible, and I intend to remand her to the Superior court for commitment under the old charge of grand larceny." "I thank your honor. I have been retained in this apparently hopeless case for the purpose of adducing a sound reason why this defendant should be neither sentenced under the present charge nor remanded to the Superior court for commitment under the sentence for the former crime. To that end, your honor, 1 ask leave to present an expert witness wit-ness to testify to the mental lrre sponslbility of my client." "One moment, please, Mr. Tyrrell Your motion would be merely wast ing your time and that of the court I Khali remand the nrlsoner Imme- "Her Lawyer's Name Is Tyrrell and He'll Call You as an Expert Witness." Wit-ness." integration. The unconscious overwhelms over-whelms the conscious; the acquired Instincts of morality social usage drop out of the conscious Into the unconscious, and the thoughts and Impulses that have lain dormant and defeated In the unconscious are now In the saddle. Unfortunates who have acquired dual personalities personal-ities or a dissociated personality go from one personality Into the other and back again, with or without amnesia am-nesia for the preceding state. "At a time when Nance Beldan's second personality (B) ruled her, and she decided to steal those stockings, stock-ings, she was acting under the impulsion im-pulsion of an Idea that could not be combated. To steal had become an acquired Instinct, or at least a very strong Instinct. There may have been a certain amount of repression re-pression against the act at first, but it ' ' A I , 4 ' t'j ' f , ; A 9 f ' ' 1 - 1 f , i f dlun t live In It," she snapped. fachudcr stress of emotion, Lanny, Engine grew older, occasionally in-lmsm-Hl herself In a little mild pro-the pro-the y. Stephen didn't mind. Fie a wr she was disillusioned, middle- In point of years, but old with 40wl8(loln aQd sadness of the 'J, as only a doctor or a Jill (ed nurse can be; that she had f?nied ll0r PrivlleKes- Aa a sur-,illll sur-,illll nurse sne nncj been Bworn nt ah atoctors whose nerves grew taut lano wires, during a dangerous Upation, and she had learned to e to as good as she received where-time where-time the men of her world respect-to respect-to goer and liked her, for her cour-th. cour-th. and efficiency. ee to It that you're on hand wrivpurt tomorrow morning, Stevie, L ' a sweet line of scientific argu-,ter argu-,ter Col! t" bewilder that judge and the ber Dlct nttorney'" 8he charged a lit-ULL lit-ULL ,ater. "Good night, my dear iot r liJar 0,li I-annyl Once more had ? 3ijred to iier the miracle of love. anger a bit of flotsam and jet-tents jet-tents on the muddy sea of life had to n"d behind her brusque business-only business-only belligerent exterior and found e dev reat warm heart that yearned r affection and understanding. Zvun a strange nature. She was pu(rong, and so possessed of the to ehare her strength with lUCKS gho loved particularly If they a i,i,ed any affection for her, that is, forwll8 singularly democratic In nriin'10'09 of beneficiary. Nance who", m, like Stephen Burt, had np-comffl np-comffl t0 1,er tllwarted mother and nothing that the girl had .TCHEf nothing she might ever be, uto str'l alter Inny's opinion, formed Lnli'1. Instant's notice, that the girl nA m angel. A dark angel, per-01 per-01 re, and like Lucifer, fallen SliIgh place, but an angel, nev-Ycars nev-Ycars field t ' a well' Presence of Chief of Tollce man M'nmara cleared a lane years''1 tlle corridor of the Hall of -;e, in which the police courts ck win" Francisco are located. ;st 6i)- paused before the courtroom "coS' "lV;lnce ls ln there," he told r ."torj'rn- "ni nt go in with you. tnin l'' ve a week of rotten publicity Sain ? t,,e Pipe" If I appeared il re- Jj'e any special Interest In the , Her lawyer's name Is Tyr- . -nd he'll call you as an expert N.U. f's." rbor F CHAPTER II! HonirV ;iful in.MiKN elbowed his way Into tr0,1j. courtroom. Nance Belden nee '1"' nmi frmn bplllnl ,ho bllrs irvalls Pr's"c-r's dock she waved thick aud callcd cheerily: "Hello, 2 'ice you 1" the bailiff warned e Wh! ; onco te made a face nt hhn ; then, the WOS Stephen lay linger to Up )xy bu'lrnlng gesture, she tossed her , on tMted her chin and bent upon r. 'ge a cold and defiant stare, bailiff opened the door of th rs' dock and beckoned to hr. diately to the Superior court, with a request to the judge thereof that her case be taken up Immediately. I sentence tills prisoner to ninety days ln the county jail, but the sentence sen-tence will be suspended during her good behavior for one year from data A bailiff will conduct you, your expert witness and the defendant de-fendant at once to Department Number Six of the Superior court, and I will immediately telephone to the Judge and request that he listen lis-ten to your expert witness." As they entered the Superior court the judge glanced at a document doc-ument which evidently had reached him from the police magistrate's court. "Mr. Tyrrell, I understand you desire to present some expert testimony ln an effort to prove the mental Irresponsibility of this defendant, de-fendant, Nance Belden. I may state that I have already been In telephonic tele-phonic communication with Doctor Blethen, and have had a complete report from him on this case. You may proceed, however, to present your side of It. Who ls your witness?" wit-ness?" "Dr. Stephen Burt, your honor," and Tyrrell Indicated Stephen. "I know all about Doctor Burt," the judge said pleasantly. "I had him In my court a year ago as an expert witness In the matter of the Carter will case," he nodded to Stephen. "This court ls very much interested In getting at the facts ln this case and It Is obliged to you for your voluntary attendance. What is your professional opinion of this girl's mentality?" "I have not had a fair opportunity opportu-nity to study her, your honor," Stephen replied, "hence I am not ln a position to give the court more than a snap decision." "How long have you studied her?" "About thirty minutes, your honor." "H'm-m-m! Doctor Blethen examined exam-ined her on three different occasions, occa-sions, his examinations embodying a total of about six hours' time." "With all due deference to my distinguished colleague," .Stephen replied, with his singularly charming charm-ing smile, "six hours Is not usually usu-ally considered more than sufficient time to form an approximate opinion, opin-ion, which subsequent Investigations Investiga-tions may sot at variance. If this girl were to become a patient of mine today, I should devote many weeks to an effort to demonstrate that my original opinion regarding her was ln error." "Is she crazy, Doctor Burt?" "Not In the sense that we customarily custom-arily employ the term, your honor. I should say, rather, that her psychology psy-chology is abnormal, that she Is neither nei-ther moral nor Immoral, but unmoral. un-moral. For Instance, when I asked her why she stole silk stockings, she told me quite frankly that she did it because there were runs ln all her old stockings. That reply was very Illustrating. As I talked further fur-ther with her I noted her valiant moods and quickly came to the conclusion con-clusion that she Is suffering from dissociation hy reason of shock. In other words, this girl, who doubt- :r Days Possessed a Single Personal-as Personal-as Now Acquired a Secondary Per- gradually that repressive Instinct, I. e., her moral Instincts, once part of her conscious mind but now relegated rele-gated to her unconscious mind, grew weaker, until finally the stronger instinct won, and the result ls, we have Nance Belden up before your honor for commitment to San Quentln penitentiary on a suspended suspend-ed sentence for grand theft. "Look carefully at this defendant, your honor. You see a young woman wom-an about five feet five inches high normal height for a woman of her age, which I Imagine to be about tv'nty-one or twenty-two. How much do you welh, Miss Belden?" "A hundred nd twenty-eight, Steve." (TO BE CONTINUED.) "This Girl, Who Doubtless In Happle ity and That a Normal One, H onality." from outward appearances. But she Is what you often hear referred to as high-strung. And she is so unusually un-usually Intelligent that I readily realized there must have been a very potent reason for the commission commis-sion of such an unintelligent act as theft. So Immediately I commenced com-menced to question her as to her family, her past. "She could tell me nothing. She Is not at all sure that her name Is Nance Belden, and I am satisfied that her Inability to throw any light on her genesis was not born of a desire to withhold that information. I believe she has amnesia for a certain cer-tain period of her life, and we know that such a condition Is usually the result of a severe mental shock. In such cases the patient usually has an intense desire to forget absolutely absolute-ly the unhappy, unpleasant or terrifying terri-fying episode or person that produced pro-duced the shock, and so Intense ls the power of will in certain highly sensitive people, woman particularly, particular-ly, that not infrequently they succeed suc-ceed ! Thus amnesia is produced. It Is, In a sense, autohypnosls, and your honor undoubtedly Is aware that people who have been hypno- t |
