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MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 191,
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H. A, JONES DIES
IN FLAMIES OF
OINAITD
Brother of Atlanta Motorist Sees
Fatal Accident When Car
Turned Turtle.
Friends and relatives of oA
Jones, of No. 582 Edgewood avenue,
learned Monday of his death near
Pelham Sunday afternoon, where ho
was crushed beneath an automobile
he was driving, and his body nearly
cremated when the car caught fire,
Jones and his brother, A. V. Jones,
were driving to Thomasville to de
liver two cars there for the Atlanta
Haynes agency. H. A. Jones was
driving ahead of his brother., Spead
ing down a hill, he struck a calf at the
bottom of it and the car turned turile,
It is believed death was instanta
neous. His brother saw the mishap
from the top of the hill, but before
he got to the bottom the car was in
flames and he was unable to render
any aid.
Jones' brother dreamed the night
before he would be killed in wn auto
mobile wreck Sunday, and cautioned
him to drive carefully. He paid littie
attention, however, and when this
brother’s machine was about a mile
ahead he sped the car to overtake him.
Just before they reached the crest as
the hill A, V., Jones saw his brother's
car pass him. When he reached :the
top of the hill he saw the car strike
the calf, turn a complete somersa 1t
and catch his brother beneath the
frame. Almost instantly the ‘gasoline
tank burst and the machine was cur
tained in flames,
A. V. Jones was a mechanie for the
Atlanta Haynes agency. His brother,
who was killed, was not connected
with the agency, but was considered a
good driver, and went with him to de.
liver the cars,
.
Intent to Rule in
New Motor Laws
Conflicting provisions of the motor
vehicle law passed by the General
Assembly at its recent extraordinary
session will not interfere with its en
forcement, Secretary of State Cook
has announced, after conferring with
Attorney General Walker,
The Attorney General ruled that
the Secretary of State might con
silrue such laws according to their
evident intent, provided his construe
tion were not unconstitutional, and
Secretary Cook will avoid the defects
of the act in that way,
The conflict in the law was believed
16 restrict the funds derived from
vehicle taxes which conld be used in
enforcing the new regulations,
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BABY BOLLINGER
By Harry J. Haiselden, M. D. - \
(Copyright, 1915, by Harry J. Haiselden.)
Dr. Haiselden to-day in this chapter of his remarkable book once
more takes his lesson [rom theé present. A new case of the danger of
the defective at liberty recently came to light in the slaying of a Chicago
Janitor. Read what he says of it in this new chapter,
] (Copyrigated, 1915, by Harry J. Hais.
| elden.)
| CHAPTER IX.
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The Defective Menace.
. I have been telling you of my own
especial experience in this matter of
defectives—the experienc of a medical
man particularly interested in this
Igreat problem.
1 did so in the hope that my read
|(»rs might in a measure understand
how it came about that I considered
myself a fit judge for Baby Bollinger.
I don’t want people to believe that I
condemned the child lightly.
In the smass of mail that has
reached me from all varts of the
United States and Durope since my
decision T have seen a hundred lead
ingg arguments against my course.
And I found them all old friends—
old argumeats that I have puzzled
over and found the answers to all
along during the twenty years of ex
perience 1 have just sketched.
l In the early part of my career you
could go forth in the city street and]
ask every man you et for the defi
nition of the word “defective” and
you would not get one satisfactory
reply. To-day the word is under
stood all too well, It is a word that
is upon every lip: you see it in the
headiines of the daily papers almost
every day: vou scan through the
story of some atrocious crime and the
first significant word you strike is
“defective,” .
“Army of the Unfit.”
We have been invaded. Our streets
are infested with an Army of the Un
fit—a dangerous, vicious army of
death and dread. We were invaded
while we slept. We awoke to find the
enemy here. He was all about us.
And only now a few are beginning to
awake to the danger.
Chicago should be the last city to
have to be warned against its defec
tive population.
When I walked to the corner a few
moments ago 1 saw a defective youth
wheeling a cart. His face was one
that wouid make you forget that the
sun was shining and that the day was
bright and glorious. He is only one
of the thousands of horrid things that |
drag themselves through our streetsl
by day and night.
As | am writing these words 1 nan]
hear the newsboys calling their “Ex- |
tras” telling of the latest crime of a
delective. A Persian boy it was, and‘
he stabbed his friend 29 times he-l
cause they had an argument about
putting paper in a furnace. Hang the!
boy or lock him up for life—you can
never bring that normal man back to
life again. '
Fancy Theories of Police.
In the last few.years the crime his
tory of (Chicago has been liberally be
spattered with the red deeds of the
unfit. A murder is committed; the
police indulge in a dGozen fancy the
ories, then some newspaper reporter
prod@ces some cringing, shivering
wretch from a nearby poolroom or
garage: the murderer hasn't even
thought ¢f running away. He ron-‘
fesses immediately—without pressure.
He tells of some little or fancied
grievance against the murdered man,
Then comes the trial. Sentimental
women come forward wailing that the
poor defective never had a chance,
and that mentally he i only 11 or 12
vears old, and that instead of being
hanged or imprisoned for life he
should be established in a nursery
with some brand new blocks and toys,
Can you recall the case of Roswell
C. F. Smith, the choir singer, who
strangled 4-year-old Hazel Wein-'
stein? That was shortly after "t'raz_\'!
Peter” Welter shot two women to
death, and while “Dickie” Schultz was
sitting in the county jail with a death
sentence upon him. Roswell Smith
was, | believe, defective—notoriously
<0 He killed the little child in a fit
of intoxication, which aroused the
beast that was always within him,
and always near the surface
The crime was one of the most
dreadful that has ever shocked the
city—the city immured to shocking
crime. Smith cgnfessed readily.
The next day the chief of police an
nouhced that he would call in all of
his ecaplains and have them round up
the half-wits or mentally deranged.
He did not say what he would do |
with them after he had rounded them
up There was nothing he could do.
Nothing was done
Went to Death Singing. !
Smith went to the gallows for lhnl
deed. He went singing psalms,
Listen to what Dr. William J. Hick- ‘
gon, chief of the Chicago Psychopath.
ie Bureau, had to say at the time of
the Roswell Smith affair: |
“All great cities should segregate
their defectives in order to prevent'
tuch crime a= the murder of the
Weinstein child by Roswell Smith.
These unfortunate persons do not
number more than 2 1-2 per cent of
Chicago's population. Fifty per cent
of the erimes committed {n Chicago
are the deeds of defectives, These
subtnormal persons should not be
lotked up in prisons or asylums, but
should be placed on a farm under the
care of competent persons, where
they might be as happy as possible,
and stiill no menace to the public at
large.”
It was shown that at that time
there were approx'mately 54,000 de.
fectives—potential slayers—in Chi- |
CARD ‘
With that number already here,
why should | have veed my surgical
skill to save the life of Baby Bol
linger and add him 16" that long and
ghastly line”
“Thou shalt not kil
Who killed Hazel Weinstein? \
defective—~a men who did not realize
what he was doing. Who permitted
that man to go abroad In the streets
to prey upon little girls? Whoever
yon are
“Thou shalt not kin: "
Those words have bheen 0 ing at me,
I Ning them back |
The life of n defective—what does
It mean? You'll find part of the an
swer here |
Cause of “Dickie” Schult, |
I have mentioned ¢Dickie” & hultz
He was ?lhor of the Army of the
' Unfit He killed Mrs. Elizabeth
Healy with a bread knife in her own
| Kitchen because “she spoke cross”
I He loafed up to the kitchen door and
lze-kr-d for work. Mrs. Healy refused
| Here was the way “Dickie” told the
police about it
‘ “She Jooked cross when | asked
|%O nice for work. | saw the bread
knife in her hand. 1 hit it. The bread
knife feil. I got trembling and sick|
all over | heard the dogs bark. So
T cut her Yes, | did cut her. didn*t
17 She ought not 1o be cross at me '
After the trial they sent “Dickie”
away 1o spend the rest of his life in
the penitentiary —<for doing what he
might have been expected to do, con.
§idering the sort of an animal he was.
Somewhere, sometime, someone
gave “Dickie” the heautiful gift of
life. TLook what he did with 1. /e
‘killed a 4 woman and now he is in a
prison cell.
i And he doesn't “even understand
Wby he is there,
. You've heard of Henry Spencer.
"l‘hey hange_d him for Kkilling Mrs.
iMi{dred Allison Rexroat. When the
‘police finally got their hands on him
he confessed to more than a dozen
'other crimes. Only one of them was
ever proven. That was enough. It
won the gallows for Spencer. He also
j went out sayving psalms
A Child of Dissipation.
It was beautiful life that was given
to Henry Spencer by his drunken
father and his drug-fiend mother.
Spencer was a defective in every
sense of the word. You could ‘see it
in the shape of his skull, in his va
cant eyes. His conversation and his
writing betrayved him at every turn.
They let him live. He killed. He
was hanged.
“Thou shalt not kill,”
Again [ fling those words back at
‘those who threw them at me.
Russell Pethrick, a grocery. deliv
‘er_v boy, was another defective. He
left groceries at the home of Mrs.
}Ella Coppersmith. There were some
words over change for a $lO bill. “The
'murderous impulse flared up. He
struck the woman down with a ham
‘mer and cut her throat with a knife.
'He crawled on his hands and knees
toward the baby. The child came
running toward him, clapping his
ihands in glee. He thought the strange
man was ‘“playing bear.” Pethrick
struck again. He cut the child's
throat. Then he went back to the
woman.
. The instingt to kill was always
‘there. The \'my went from door to
door. Day after day housewives
standing in their own doorways were
cheek by jowl with death, and they
idid not realize it.
~ Then when it came time to decide
‘what should be done with this mur
derous semi-man thev found out that
‘he was mentally only 7 vears old.
- Of course it is not usual for 7-vear
old boys to do the things that Pethrick
did—but they asked him certain ques
tions and subjected him to certain
tests, which indicated that in living
twenty-two vears he had in reality
lived only seven. So Perthrick in
stead of being put out of misery and
all future opportunity to deal in death,
was locked up for life. And the
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women who saved his life were wholly
pleased.
And Coppersmith, who saw a great
light, leaped at the heast-boy in the
courtroom and tried to throttle him
with his own hands.
The “beautiful life” of Russell Peth
rick has cost the world quite a lot in
trouble and suffering.
1 have told these little stories of
defective crime in Chicago in short
and brutal fashion to illustrate this
point: The life we are so careful to
give to the unfit quite often results in
something worse than death.
It would have bheen better had
“Dickie” Schulz died in his cradle
#han to have killed Mrs. Healy and
suffered in prison the rest of his days
for it.
It would have been better for Ros
well Smith had he never been born
than that he should have strangled to
death little Hazel Weinstein and been
strangled himself for punishment.
Henry Spencer didn't care for the life
that was his, and he said so. He
killed and went his way. It would
‘have been far better had Russell Peih
rick lived only six days, and then been
‘allowed to die. Then the happy young
‘\\‘mnzm and the fine little chap he
killed would be alive to-day. Instead
it is Pethrick who lives on—caged like
an animal.
Enough of that.
Increase of Defectives.
The evidence is not nice to see. hut
it shows, doesn’t it, that there is death
that is far better than life, and life
that is infinitely worse than death?
The increase of the defectives in
C‘hicago is one of the gravest dangers
that confronts us. Read this state
ment from a weport made by Harry
McCormick, secretary of the Depart
'ment of Outdoor Relief for Cook
County:
| “In January, 1893, Cook County “ad
‘ 2,331 insane persons or defectives held
as public charges either in Cook
County or State institutions, which
}vmu'd be one to each 702 of our pop
‘ulation at that period. In 1904 the
‘ number of insane or defectives in our
public institutions charged to Coox
}('nunty was 4,441, or one to each 450
of the total population, then about
2,100,000. Mark the increase in ten
‘ vears,
' “We all know that children are he
‘mg born every day deformed, dis
eased, ifflntm. feeble-minded. Who is
iresponmblei‘ This question must he
‘met squarely; there must be no faise
‘modesty to.interfere with the practi
cal solution.
“Official records will show that four
~out of five children in one family have
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these unfortunates, while not classed
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we have a right to make laws that
will prevent the hirth of any mentally
imperfect child, in Justite to the child
and the human race at large.”
Down to Baby Bollinger.
There you huve practically my
whole argument—what led me to the
unaiterable belief that Baby Bollhinger
would be better dead than alive.
We have considered what it wonuld
mean for the child tself if it had
been encouraged to live.
We hg\'e considered what it wouid
have meant to jts parents,
We have considered what it wouid
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aced already by a whole army of dan
gerous defectives,
We have looked even into the fu
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might have been the resulf had Bany
Bollinger been permitted to live—as
other men live,
And considering the question from
all of these important viewpoints, |
came to the uitimate conviction that
my little patient could go on dying
for aught of me.
Baby Bollinger was dying. BEach
short breath it took was bringing it
one breath nearer the hour when it
would breathe no more.
And I knew that it was well,
I wanted the child to die,
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