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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. YOU CAN TAKE THAT VACATION IF YOU HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT Coprricl’.t 1909, brC. E. Zimmerman Co.--No. 53 How often a small addition- al expenditure on your vacation will double your pleasure. And what a difference it makes when you come back to and ^till have money in the bank. A bank account makes life’s walk easy, smoothes out the rough places, and makes the bright spots more,pleasant. You can’t imagine what a differ ence it makes until you try it. THE PROOF COSTS YOU NOTHING. MERCHANTS & FARMERS BANK MILLEDQEVILLE, GA. CAPITAL 40,000.00 SURPLUS 60,000.00 DEPOSITS 130.000.00 Officers President, JNO. T. ALLEN; Cashier. L. C. HALL; Assistant Cashier, JNO. T. DAY. Directors JNO. T. ALLEN, H. A. McCRAW, L. N.’CALLAWAY, JNO. T. DAY, CART. JAS. M. LITTLE. L. C DR/R. L. RAY HALL. (r 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. You judge » man not by what he promises to do, but by what lie has done, That is the only true test. Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy judged by its standard has no superior. People every where speak of it in the highest terms of praise. For sale by all dealers. COAL When you are offerred inferior coal at a lower price, please remember that it is just that slight dif ference in price that makes “DIXIE GEM” Quality, Preparation and Service Possible. F01ER-FLEKTER COAL CO. PHONE 152. W. C. WILLIS Contractor and Builder Jefferson, Ga. Jefferson, a., Sept. 25, 1911. Milledgeville Brick Works, Milledgeville, Ga. Dear Mr. Me:— Your favor of the 23rd to hand, in reply will say ship the Brick at once. I can buy the brick delivered for one dollar less than you price yours, but they are not as good as yours and I prefer using yours. Please put in a sample of your pressed brick. I am figuring on a job that requires a few pressed brick, and in case I get it will want them in the next car. Yours truly, W. C. WILLIS. I have many letters similar to this. — J. W. McM.