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Interesting Paper by Dr. Wm, A.
Ellison Read Before Georgia
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By long continued and careful study
and research of the types, which I* might
call the common insane and criminal in
sane, I want to present you statistics, and
facts to show the detrimental influences,
which the criminal insane have upon the
common types, and urge your support of
a plan to isolate, colonize and maintain
| a separate institution for the care and
treatment of the criminal type. The state
has ample ground for the erection of
such an institution or colonies at the
State Farm at Milledgeville, Ga.
It has been my opportunity for the past
several years to make a study of crimi
nals of all grades ranging from those
charged with petty misdemeanors to
those that have besn found guilty of the
most attrocious crimes of murder and it
has been my observation that the natural
instinct of the crimial is to exercise a
maiiclous or criminal influence over hi9
feilow associates, creating disturbances,
demoralizing the order of things) and in
citing it possible an ineurrection.
A criminal with a diseased mind is a
demoralizing agent, thoroughly destruct
ive in his methods, tearing down what we
are trying to build up. And when this
type is intermingled with the common
type they exercise their influence over
their associates, interfering with our
methods, creating disturbaaces among
them, and I might say worst of all hinder,
ing a favorable prognosis. They interfere >
I dare say, wifh a large per cent, of
recoveries in patients who, if left alone,
and taken away from this demoraliOing
influence would make rapid strides to
wards recoveiy, or remain in a condition
of easy control and management.
So much for the demoralizing influence
and now tor a few words upon the pos
sible lessening of the plea of insanity in
the criminal courts of Georgia. In these
next few words don’t mistake me as cen
suring the courts of Georgia, or implying
that they err in their judgment of a man’s
sanity or insanity to a great degree. But
you know as well as I that the opinions
of medical experts are far apart from each
other. And right here I might make a
plea for a better court of commitment,
for eliminating the ten days notice, and
for the treatment cf one.pf diseased mind
more as a sick man than as a criminal to
be shunned, thrown in prison and held
for trial by a jury the majority of whom
are laymen; knowing no more about the
diseased mind than they do of the dis
eased body. If you will pardon me from
erring I will now get back to the right
track.
The first possible impulse of the crimi
nal when he sees conviction staring him
in the face is to feign insanity and put
such a plea into the courts. Whereby he
may possibly be sent to the Stete Sani
tarium, enjoying the hospitality of the
State, doing nothing and exerting his
criminal influence over those about him,
instead perhaps of serving a just sentence
in the prison. The average criminal does
not cars about being locked up as a crazy
man. But even as a criminal he abhors
the idea of being confined in a prison or
criminal institution.
The shameless exhibition of insanity
pushed as a mode of defending crime to
be followed soon after by the indignant
efforts of the accused to be adjudged sane,
so soon as his insanity plea fulfills its mis
sion, should make us more cautious, and
the erection of such colonies for the crimi
nal in my opinion would lessen such pleas
upon the side of the criminal.
I think the function of the jury is to
determine whether there is a crime com
mitted, then the individual subjected to
such observations as to determine what
manner of man he is, and placed in such
institutions as the State provides. If crim
inally insane then let him be put in the
institution for the criminal insane where
no further depredations on society can
take place. If he can be cured; cure him.
If not let him serve his penal sentence in
the criminal institution set aside for this
class.
In regard to the study of criminology
as associated with insanity we may divide
it into two classes; insanity as a actuating
factor in the production of crime; crime
as a actuating factor in the production of
insanity. Under the first head I might
call your attention to crime as a product
prompted by a delusion of persecution or
an illusion, or an hallucination. The in
dividual is brought to a high tension of
fear and his crime is a mode of defense
from imaginary foes, as in the Thaw case.
And again it may be the production of au
imbecile order of intelligence, whereby
the individual knows no difference of
right or wrong, therefore crimes, from pet
ty larceny to murder, are committed with
no sense of shame or realization of crime.
And again I point out to you crimes
actuated by the perverted sexual psycho-
pathias such as sadism. In these the in
dividual under the excitement of his per
version, recognizing no moral or civil
rights,of society, satisfies his. perverted
sexual passion upon some innocent be
ing. Soon i^Jer he awakens to himself
in amazement at the magnitude of. his
crime, only to repeat it later.
Under this same head I call your at
tention to the recurrent manias of the
genius type. 1 recall such a case as I
write, where the individual recognizes his
condition as that of an insane man, studies
out some crime or mode of revenge upon
some enemy, only to shield his crime be
hind the cloak of insanity.
Under the head of crime as a causative
factor in the production of insanity, I call
your attention to the banker who has been
stealing the people’s money and suddenly
awakens to his crime, seeing ruin, deg
radation, starvation, or perhaps the peni
tentiary staring him in the face; may sud
denly t>e bereft of his reason, and while
suffering under this mental abberation,
crimes may be committed, even murder
or self destruction.
Gentlerften, my idea of such an institu
tion or colony is to isolate it from the
present institution for the insane with its
own superintendant and corps of assist
ants, to place it under the direct manage
ment of a separate board of trustees, or
directly under the management of the
Prison Commission. There must be suf
ficient land tor the able bodied to be put
to work, to develop their bodies and if
possible their minds, and divert them
from criminal channels and to my mind
to remove an obstacle detrimental to the
other type.
. I make this plea in'behalf of those poor
unfortunate being9, bereft of their reason,
formerly of a high bred, refined people,
incarcerated, shut off from the world and
reason, that they may have, more refined
surroundings and that every obstacle be
removed from their path of recovery, that
they may come back into the world as
citizens bearing no stigma of criminal as
sociation, You would not like to be
thrown in contact with a malicious indi
vidual, exerting his malicious will over
you, and probablj^shutting you off for
ever from a return of your mind. The in
sane mind is peculiarly susceptible to f-uch
influence. As physicians we should come
together and urge upon the State the iso
lation of this class. There are already a
number of states with their institutions
for the criminal iasahe. They have long
ago recognized the necessity of separating
this class, and the trial has proven suc
cessful.
Among the many hundreds of patients
now confined in the Georgia State Sani
tarium there is a great number who are
high bred and of a delicate nervous tem
perament, and the State should not force
them to be confined or to intermingle
with those of the criminal type.
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DISCUSSION ON DR. ELLISON’S
PAPER.
Dr. R. I. Daly, Atlanta: I have had
two and a half years experience in the
Mattewan Hospital, New York. There
is something peculiar about the criminal
insane which differs from what is found
in an ordinary individual; this manifests
itself in the power of combining. In the
Utica State Hsopital I had no concern
regarding bodily fear; I did not care there
how much a patient might rave so far as
personal harm was concerned. At Mat
tewan, aa a rule, the doctors had an at'
tendant who had nothing to do but to
stand behind. The fear of personal harm
in these institutions I think interferes
very much with the work of the doctor.
It interfere* very much with the work of
tke doctor on some delicate man who is
not criminally insane. At the same time
these patients will combine. Take a man,
for instance, who has been sent to prison
for from five to ten years; he is sent to
an asylum and he is treated as are the
other inmates. He is throwi^ into asso
ciation with all kinds of insanities. He
thinks that he is a menace to all other
persons there. In these asylums there
should be a man who was an expert in
this particular li le and proper protection
should be afforded in these cases, those
patiepts who are not criminally insane.
We should go back to the courts. There
should not be such nonsense as is shown
by thfc interference of the judges in these
cases.
Dr, W. A. Ellison, Milledgeville
Closing the discussion. Physicians should
be given an opportunity to examine these
patients to determine the character of
their insanity; the proper treatment of
these cases should not be interfered with.
The physicians should be on guard at all
times when they are brought in contact
with these patients, but they should not
be in great fear of any personal injury
from them.
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