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FRIDAY JUNE 20, 1924

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Duration of stay at Foochow 49-1 hours.

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IDIOCY AND CRIME,

FAMOUS JUDGE DISSECTS

INSANITY PLEA

(b) From knowing and appre- ciating that his act is wrong; DI

(c). From controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control is the direct and immediate consequence of his own default."

"UNCONTROLLABLE” IMPULSE.

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BAISING THE GERMANS AT SCATTŁOW.

The gigantic task of raising thơ Funken German fléet, sensationally settled in Sean Plow, is being declare undertaken by Messrs. Cox aud no act is a crime if the

of

Following an article on Capital Punishment, Lord Darling, who recently retired as Mr. Justice

Further, the British Medical Darling after a great career, has Association go on to Mr. Winston Churchill hus written this examination of the that

"irresistible impulse," person who does it is, at the Banks of London and Shefield, received an invitation from the plea of

time it is done, prevented, either It is hoped to bring to the sur` Royton Division Conservatives to says the Evening News..

about 2,250,000 | LOUN Many mental specialists are by defective mental power, or by fare stand as their candidate at the seriously arguing that as the any disease affecting the mind-saken vessels during the Text next election,

impulse to crime is irresistible in

(a) From either knowing or eight or nine years. These will certain cases the criminal being appreciating the nature and be sent to the firm's breaking up Grent suns were obtained what he is, he should not be held quality of his act, or the circum yard at Queenborough, the chief, trophies ini the responsible for his action. Swaything collection of Old

Lord Darling points out where lances in which it is done; or

(a) From either knowing or English silver soll recently, and the acceptance of such a plea in appreciating that the act is wrong the total of the two days renched the law of England would lead us or over 250,000.

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The Secretary for Scotland obtained leave to introduce a bill Lo bridge the interval until legis- lation of a permanent character could be passed in regard to the superannuation of teachers in

Scotland.

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A member of thà Brm told interviewer that £30,000 Ind been aid out as a first cost in providing chinery and plant to begin this The first hipload gigantic task,

Lawyers and doctors alike agree (c) From .controlling his that crimes may be committed by conduct, unless the absence of the those who are rightly called power of control is the direct and of appliances has reached Scupe insane." Some few persons, de immediate consequence of his own Flow, but actual work will not hegin until the arrival of ex- indeed vehemently proceed to default"

Now par. (c) would introduce a German submarine floating dredger contend that ho sane man can ever give way to a criminal act change in procedure at trials, and dock,

and this because in the long demands grave consideration.

This dock, which has been run, crime does not pay. But this We have now reached I think, argument may well involve the the point around which such future altered to meet the special reqnine

per contests as there may be will take ents of the undertaking, will st "The King and Queen paid a proposition that no, sane

Son will

gamble, or bet on place. Lord Justice Atkin's com-Scapa Flow be cut in two, auð a visit to the Empire Exhibition at

result not already known, to mittee have come to the conclusion all will be placed on ench side of Wembley, the Royal party also himself; and truly of this kind that there are cases of mental the first vessel to be raised. including the Duke and Duchess of, wise men I have sent to jail disorder where the impulse to a Fargo grappling hooka will be

some, although those who have criminal act recurs with increasing dropped over

a parallel line of wagered and most often lost have force

It is ia fact pulleys. These will grip the sube Il so far avoided the asylum,

uncontrollable, and they recom-arine's portholes or other co Diophon, owned by the Age would appear, then, that just as mend a declaration amounting

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the Two Thousandil y a fagots et fagots-there are to an alteration or extension of the renient parts, and, as the hauling Guineas at Newmarket by a head sane criminals and mad ones, and law in these terms:

machinery to be employed in "The suggested rule, however, rapable of raising "1,000 tons, the from Lord Astor's Bright Knight, also many honest 'madmen. In-

flub the sub- with Green Fire a neck away, deed, it may well be that most postulates mental disease; and firm anticipate third, and Tom Pinch favourite, madmen are indifferent honest, we think that it should be made virine will be brought to the most sane men are. So crime and clear that the law does recognise surface in a fortnight. Following fourth..

madness, together and separately, irresponsibility on the ground of this will come the raising of the

insanity where the act was con-Hindenburg, This battlesernikor, present many difficult problems.

mitted under an impulse which weighing 27,00) tons, lies in 36 SICK CRIMINALS.

the prisoner was, by mental

feet of water. It is hoped to For myself, I have no sympathy disease, in substance deprived of

bring her to the surfe by Christmas. with those who take all crime for any power to resist." disease made manifest, and who so

Every porthole, Intel, and would pardon all rogues. 1 will,

They proceed to point out that however, help them to an argu-"the question to be determined ther opening is to be sealed by ment; of which I fancy, they are should be, not whether the diver

Vertical strel tubes ex- none of them aware. Although

"By 101,001 votes to 13,462, the operatives in the building trades have rejected the terms offered by the employers. A majority recorded their votes in favour of further negotiations, and for a hould these strike abortive,

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years certain cases have come

SPECIFIC CONTROL.

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Late in his political life. Mr.they will look in vain for this in accused could control his conductedling from, the surface are to be Asquith stated, he had become their books of medical jurispru-enerally, but could control it in fixed, and down them will be convert to Proportional Repre-dence they will find it, should they reference to the particular act or lowered motors which will pump water from the sunken vessel; sentation as the result of observa-be sufficiently industrious, in the acts charged."

Some of our judges in recent which will then gradually lift. tion and experience. Machinery Reflexions Diverses of. M. le Duc was needed to secure that the de la Rochefoucauld. Yet, since ears, where cogent evidence hay tion and the conduct of the accused, actual majority of the electorate nothing obtained without labour is been given as to the mental condi should govern, and that no sub-worth the having, I will not more have admitted some extension of statitial majority should be left exactly indicate the place.

Within the last two or three the McNaughton rules in the same without representation.

sense as the recommendation of the the morsel of cheese which the Crowds thronged the space before our criminal courts which committee, And these judges have mouse was ecstatically nibbling. unconstruck a blow fit to fly and trollable impulse, dae to and around the cottage where Emily have led to much public discussion directed juries that an

mouse alike. Let no one suppose murdered, in concerning crimes and the respon directly arising out of mental that I think of a remedy which Beilby Kaye was

in would restrain

Broadmoor the hope of seeing the accused sibility of those who commit them; disease, may so operate as to nan when he was brought there and so the Lord Chancellor did, in relieve the accused from criminal genteel shop-lifters or pickpockets

insane enough to be caught i to attend the inquest, and some July, 1922, constitute a committee,, under the presidency of Lord

The existing rules are plain, and flagrante delicto. Fam content to shocking scenes were witnessed. Justice Atkin, to consider and

by accident; *moser fust motor-car people rushed after report upon what changes, if any. judges have found little difficulty say Fiat Justitia, even If this

are desirable in the existing law, in showing to juries how they happen it, many women going so far as practice and procedure relating apply the facts proved in evidence especially as certain scientific men to criminal trials in which the and to the opinion given by feel assured that the Univeme to spit upon the windows.

medical witnesses. If enacted, the itself had the same happy origio. plea of insanity as a

new rule must be expressed in To me it seems that since the Lord Arnold, while protesting raised, etc. Much evidence was clear and simple, languILS.

estion has been raised hy's against its language, answered a given by and on behalf of doctors already obtains in some parts of competent a pmmittee-It is not question by Lord Raglan as to the of medicine and others, especially the King's dominions, and it fair to leave the matter long in situation in. Transjordania and interested in the diagnosis and Palestine.

As he was. being removed in a

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responsibility.

The Government, he treatment of insanity, and the would. I think, allay the regrettas said, intended to pursue the policy inquiry resulted in a report which ble differences which have too long of their predecessors in Palestine, appears to me admirable for its existed between physicians and and, while he was not free from fulness of information and its jurists. anxiety as to Transjordania. there falroess of statement and argu was nothing to justify the lan-ment But one of its recommenda- tions must necessarily provoke guage of the question:

further discussion. hoped to have a friendly sion with the Amir.

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It was discus-

THE MODERN VIEW.'"

NOT LIMITED TO MURDER. Lord Justice Atkin's committee do indeed express the opinion following one of Mr. Justice Stephen as given in one of his books, but not acted 6 after he

doubt and suspense, for this will gravely embarrass the judges. Parliament should decide, and before this happens the whole question of Irresistible impulse will probably be debated.

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HARM BY STEALTH. Philosophers have not confoed

has."

called the látely

It is necessary to remember always that our law only excuses a criminal act should it be proved became a judge that the formula this doctrine of necessitated con Presiding at the annual demon-to be the consequence of a disease they suggest is already within the duet to the insane alone. The stration of the Primrose League, of the mind.. Now, two schools of existing law. They state, however physicians may have done so; but (The True Tonic Food the Marquis Curzon said the sum thought were represented by the that "there seem to be definite the metaphysicians have question-

of total

the Government's medical men who appeared before decisions of the Court of Appealed whether any man ever may do ably been drawn into the whirlpool,' contribution to the solution of the the committee-ic., the Council of the other way.". In a well-known as he would. Divines have inevit

case not long since decided unemployment problem was to add the British Medical Association; learned judge seems to have so and Scotland, especially.

disputes regarding the Medico-Psychological to unemployment by the ubolition and

In the Association. In the end the com- directed the jury as to raise this reveiled in of the McKenna duties.

be What may sphere of foreign affairs the only mittee practically, and essentially, question; but the Court of Criminal free-will and predestination.

old well-worn thing they had done was to sit adopt the views of the British Appeal had not the opportunity of

found that the man was not Insane reinforced the in friendly conference with repre- Medical Association. The differ deciding this point, for the jury Automatic School have sentatives of the cruellest and ences between the views of these when he committed the act, and arguments with a theory that man most bloody Government that had two associations are fundamental. against that finding he did not in has two minds, the conscious and the sub-conscious; and witnesses terms appeal. been known since the French

not hard to find who will · But gifts have often dangers in are Revolution.

In the report of the Medico themselves, and so it must never explain to any jury that it was the Psychological Association it is be forgotten when this matter is sub-conscious one alone which was stated that Unsoundness of mind discussed that the suggested new active when their protégé com is no longer regarded as in essence defence cannot be limited to mitted crime. May not one say of a disorder of the intellectual or murder, but is as good an answer such unfortunates that they cognitive faculties. The modern to any other criminal charge. At Do harm by stealth, view is that it is samething present the explanation offered by much more profoundly related a solicitor to a palico magistrate is the whole `organism-3 - that his rich didnt, discovered with morbid change in the emotional her muff full of lace and chocolate. and instinctive activities with the lawful property of Mr.inconsciously we may well sup or without Intellectual derange Selfridge or The Stores has lost pose that they may do right, and

deserve, o ment." "Now this definition was in war a dearly-loved cousin, or in then none should

either punishment c accepted by the witnesses for the Band Street a favourite dog, receive,

What a prospect that British Medical Association. and and, momentally, her memory reward. also by Lord Tustico Atkin's com- but this excuse is wearing out by opens before us of a world not mittee. Then from this the two lapse of time; just as in the disfigured by prisons nor adorned medical associations diverge,

United States the brave pension with Ordess, but plain, primæral, is stated by the committee that ers who served under General simplex munditiis. the Medico-Psychological Assosia Washington ore

last Although I have striven to be tion "give no alue to what they perhaps extinct. We must re-impartial I must conclude by say regard as the test of criminal member that a judge or magistrate log that, for myself, I think man responsibility... The substance must be guided by the evidence has his choice, except disease of of their evidence was that insanity before him and not by mere de the mind, deprive him of it. and iresponsibility were Coferance to the contention based have found in no text book, légal

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extensive the accused if insane as defined is upon it by the advocates. to be held immune from punish- ment for any act he might commit

HEAR AND HOUSE. So, should the defence of "irresistible impulse be allowed in violation of the criminal law.' by the law of England, many But the British Medical Asso-Impulsive sinners may regret ciation, on the other hand, to an asylum the days of prison-or expressly admit that "an act may fine. Some of those who may be a crime although the mind of hope to proft by solentille aug. the person who does it is affected, gestions of their own weakness of by disease, or defective power, if mind may be grateful to me for such disease or defect does not, in reminding them of the fable of the fact prevent hint,”

Bear and the Mouse, There It fa recorded that the bear, having constituted himself the friend and protector. of the mouse, and observing that a fly bad settled on

(a) From knowing and appre ciating the nature and quality of his act or the circumstances in which it is done; of..

And blush to find it crime.

MAN'S CHOICE. But if automata mny do wrong

or medical, words so good as there which Miton attributes to the Creator of all men-

"I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, thoughs

free to fall.

Freely they stood who stood, and

fell who foll.

Not free, what proof could they

have giv'n sincere,

Of true allegiance, constant

faith or love,

Where only what they needs

must do appear'd. Not what they would?What praise could they receive,”