1958-10-06 — Page 4

MENDING

THE MIND OF A

MURDERER

BRIT

By MERRICK WINN

THE CHINA MATE,

RITAIN has quietly stepped ahead of the rest of the world by startling research into a problem all the world broods on, but has never tried to solve. The problem is murder. The research is starting at Broadmoor, the State hospital for the crimnal insane, and, so far as I know, is the first of its kind anywhere.

usually someone he loves, while caused by suffering delusions depression (old name: melan- chulin), one of the two main The groups of mental illness, ther is schizophrenia.

It sets out to answer two have ever met, commit one of uppalling crimes I question: Who commits murder? the most And why? So I went to Broad- have ever heard about?" Imer, on the whole a dishear Afty way she could not have tuning place, to be heartened by told me. ekber then or at the this new research, and to meet times when she is, as they put it

Sold Dr X: "The depresive some of the 900 patients for in Broadmoor. "not quite so well whom it comes too late. They fellay, Meaning she would kill murderer's hasir ahn is suicide, already committed their again in the same monstrous but he kills bis forally first Have

fashion, for ng other reason than because he feels it wicked to alek crlineS.

leave them behind.

of Aix

shock They are 700 non and 200 madness.

"Sometimes the Nor cadd Broadmoor's of three-quarters

releases

suicidal the Why does killing whip id psychiatrists tell me.

why does any nur phase and he no longer wants nu hang, beentise they were Maureen,

So he calls the police inne; who now hang about derer kill? No one really knows, to die.

There are many theories, few and comes to Broadmoor." forgotten Brondour,

Ly it

Hence the research.

All the same, nearly a third Public they

excital, acts,

The research team will study of all Britain's murderers do Insane murderers against commit suicide. In 1990; 41 out

tched Pra of (a) sane of 123. murderers

Women, them

inurderers,

and troubling no one's con- seictice but their own.

Likable people most of them,

murderers usually are Broudimoar psychiatrist Dr X,

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and (11) Insane people who are not murderers,

They will interview same

Masnational, told toe; "There's murderers in prison, and the

only one person Jiku."

SOOD meant.

Sadness

Most of the women in Brood-

new

here I don't Health Ministry 15 helping moor are depressive murderers. Women of great sadness. Most wirl he through the mental hospitals.

The research will take years of them killed their children."

All right, I hail the but will, almost certainly, yild new knowledge about erime and research, murde and, probably, about Kruse, but as a mental illness Loo,

Intelligent

as triumphant pro- slow and tiny that shoult have been It is still D Psychiatrist Dr X told me: taken years ago. "Nowhere in the world is there puny effort.

The research team consists of any psychiatric literature giving

bang cut their reporle one-fingered on a shared unrivalled opportunity."

It is a spare-time True, ever though some of typewriter. These people are simply ill,

inost valuable research, for they still have to always tragically. sometimes the selentielly

been lost to do their routine jobs. dangerously. People like murderers have

Bul this is all in line with research beenuse they

penny-pinched plight of harged-Christle, Heath, Haigh. the

psychiatric research,

Fow murderers are normally criminal, and hardly any in Broucmoor. And Dr X believes that average intelligence the facts about the psychology two paychiatrists--true, brilliant Proudmoor may be above that of murder, flere we have an men whe of the general population.

Mauren.

She is insane, a murderes, whispered puff. Ladylike.

were

Dr X said: "It might have British been a great help to have them and of our psychiatric services. Three-quarters our you doubt this you should

of

some of Broadingor's patients. Like this one-

How.

I asked: "Where did you get murderers are of a type we neet that sun-lan?" and she said: ready know i good deal about."

"I like sitting in the sun." Then Delusions

She smiled and added; Hive

had are sum than you have.

eis na amiable man, in his forties who talks with a clock- work trick of shaking his head, as- Yes, the depressive murderer, thoughtfully, DS Uloughi

lie kill tonished Lo Brui

3 murderer.

Though nearing 50 she is still the commonest of all. Gadly beautiful

himselt

He told me: "I had awful I asked her other small-talk • Most murderers--65 per cent

went lo my the questions but not

Dare lusane at the me of their headaches and question This: "Why did you. crime. Of the rest 25 per cent doctor, who said I should see a peychiatrist. He fixen up, one of the pleasantest women are in some way abnormal.

but I had to wait six weeks, and meanwhile it happened."

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What happened? He killed three people as a direct result of the condition which caused the headaches, Dr X told me: "There are a good many others who would not be here if they had had early treatment."

So crowded

Broadinoor itself is no worse than most mental hospitals, but It is at all. this is no praise nearly 100 years old and s0 overcrowded that some patients have to mooch all day because of the need for more workshops. And the furnishing of some of the men's blocks would shame Crewe station.

HOSTESSES

1

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1958.

THE SENIOR PARTNER

Cummings

"I can't understand, Mr. Macmillan, why you don't hold him back!"

ROUND-UP

UE Women's Voluntary Services have ar

ranged to send seven girls to join the Forces is to create a clubs in Germany. The idea home-from-home atmosphere in Ute clubs. The girls, whese former jobs ranged from pottery to All this is not good enough.tudio operator, start their new assignment soon, Broadmoor is not a prison. is a horpiini, with patients in- ocent of any conscious crime.

Even so, the place does preity well, 1t admits 70 new patients a year and discharges 39 per cent of them eventually.

To guarantee cure the patient must be observed for a long time after, in fact, he is cured.

Se many of Broadmont's patients

are now as anne as you

Among them are Rosemary Alcock, of Sheffield, who used to be a studio potter, and Jean Frith, of Falmouth, who worked in the Land Army during the war, and later joined the W.RNS. Norn Mitchell, of All Suretion, Shropshire, was wireless operator in the W.A.AF. during the war and Betty Roberts of Mapledene itoad. Hackney, served in France and Germany during the war,

IN OUTER SPACE

They walt, painfully. But HOW to live in outer space and other allied the caution is Necessary and problems are to be discussed by space- explains why no discharged medicine experts in the medical profession, the murderer has filed again since R.A.F. and the United States Office of Naval Broadmoor was opened in 1863. Research as well as other brdles. A special Still, many patients get aut space-medicine, aymposium, to be held at the Some of the London headquarters of the British Medical in seven years. women, depressive murderers, Association, is being organised by the British Interplanetary Society, with the co-operation of get out in two or three,

But there is a "permanent the RA.F. Iristitute of Aviation Medicine. Tho purpose is to bring together medical research population" of more than 400.

incurable workers in the fields of space and aviation- These ите mostly schizophrenic murderers, grey medicine designers of high-altitude aircraft and people whose ancient crimes are equipment, and scientists who are probing upper- extra-terrestrial conditions. long forgotten, who will now atmosphere and hount Broadinoor until they die. They will docus man's reactions to conditions to be encountered in space or on other planets; Treatment is as advanced as our psychiatric ignorance allows and the equipment that will be required It to be, or perhaps a shade more survival under such conditions. Another subject for discussion will be concentrated food supplies ndvanced in that Broadmoor at

for we in space vehicles, least bons the brain operation, leucotomy.

Dr X told me: "We have at least 12 patients who came here after having leucotomies in other. places."

The real task is to

the Tund murderer, him

his mudless

of

FASHION IN RINGS

for

DA

officiat FRIENDSHIP rings," before

engagement, are to be shown at the fourth International Watch and Jewellery Trade Fair tako at the Albert Hall, London. More than cure hundred leading firms, from home and abroad, Tho and will be showing their latest products. return him, like any other National Jewellers' Association any that the patient, to unreproaching."friendship rings" are similar in design to signot world.

rings. Some are set with small diamonde, All are cheap enough to put no serious strain on a young man's pocket. They can be bought in pairs so that both boy and girl can wear an

an

This Broadmoor is doing It is not Broadmoor's fault that i it does not do botter.

Frank and savage

it's Britain's first colour bar play

"In South Africa they have a better way. They say 'Keep off, black fella,' 'Walk in the gutter, nigger'- they put notices up all the time. Here-notices just the same, but more polite, mostly in your heads. We can tell. You smile at us-never with the eyes, only the muscles,”

SWIFTLY the theatre catches up with Notting Hill and Nottingham. That heart-cry quote from a West Indian is the key line in a new play; Hot Summer Night.

And when it begins it wil It is the make drama history. first British play about Britain's colour problems today.

Its author: The Tennessee Williams of Orpington, 40-year- old Ted Willis, son of on. Bast End bus driver, who wrote those tinement eples Woman in a Dressing Gown and No Trees in the Street,

Its setting: A backyard houRD against the tracery of dockland crapes in Wapping, E.

His play is a frank, savage ex-

by EDWARD CORING

Tell her, Jacko. It's what people say and do. They'll crucify her, Jacko.

Gives in

Jacko, who campaigns against

posure of racial prejudice-while colour prejudice on principle Ugainst black, bluck against weakens in practice.

white. The dialogue is tough. Kathie:

Ho tells

One character calls a apado a They look down on a white spade (slang term for coloured piri ipho marries one of their men).

chaps, and the same goes for What would

Jacko, trade union leader, is us-be realistic. 1.ghting colour bar at the your friends say?

The boy from Montego Bay, factory where the men threaten tt strike because a Jamaican is asks Jacko why he's against the

foreman. being made

The marriage; Jamaican's English wife, Judy, pleads for him:

He needs that job.... he just

ow

Give me a reason that don't have the word black in it.

Jacko shows Sonny the door: I see our Kathie in 10, mayda identical ring.

A wide variety of goods will needs it. Forfor his be on show at the Fair from the latest in self-respect. You know? It's 15 years when she's tired of medallions on a chain to a £5,300 diamond-hard, you nee. Because he's staring back at people and

coloured. They say it doesn't wants to hide her face..... studded watch.

matter.... but it does, it really Sonny gives in, gently tells Kathie of other mixed marri- docs.

Then the colour problem oges:

Black fella, white girl, Some comes home to Jacko-literally.

POLICEMAN COOK

J

Climax

POLICE Inspector Smith, of Amershani, is an

expert cook. Year after year he enters the daughter Kathie falls in of the results-they ain't pretty, cookery classes in local shows und he has just love with Sonny Lincoln from Kathic.

They want to wen second prize for u fruit cake in the Buck- Montego Bay. inghamshire Constabulary Show against two marry. dozen other competitors all women, and wives Her mother, Nell, goes into a of policemen. "Another dozen currants and 1 frenzy of hatred:

Black and white don't mix

Climax of the play is the would have had the first prize," he said. It is

hor his ambition to get a rst prize in this knnual ....they don't mix in that way. mother's attempt to stat

I mean, daughter and kill herself. competition. "I like beating the women at their They're different to us.

just the skelmother Then the first bremzo stire in own game," he said. When his wife was in—not hospital one year she came home to and that things habits, ways every the stiflingly hot summer night. the Christmas cake and the puddings wore all thing. You'll have children. It blows away the prejudices, made.

Black children, Piccaninnies frustrations and misunderstand

ingy, Jacko and Nell are close She turns to her husband for to each other for the first time

in 20 years.

TO SAXON WARRIOR

ASAXON warrior's skeleton unearthed in help:

Dunstable, Bedfordshire, had beside it two pots from which, it is thought, a votive offering of wine or mend was drunk at his burlai over twelve hundred years ago. The skeleton was found on the site of a Pagan Saxon cemetery, Next to the skull was the head of a small lance, and at waist was a knife still in its sheath.

FAME SPOILS

TWO months ago the village of Denton, which lies in beautiful countryside between Dover and Folkalone, was declared Kent's tidiest village. It took months of hard work and a strict curb en litter throwing to gain the award. But now villagers complain that their village is probably the worst kept in Kent as the village has become a "tourist" attraction, Village Councillor W. Gascoine sàya.that as a result of Denton's now found fame, "It is as much as the villagers can do to pick up all the cigarette cartons and ice-cream wrappers after our visitors leave each weekend."

"BLAST DEFLECTOR"

"BLAST deflector" to muffle the din trom jet aircraft on the ground has been made by a 38-year-old American master sergeant at Sulton Heath, USA.F. Btation, near Ipswich, Suffolk. Resembling an outsize Venetian blind, the ap paratus is claimed to cut noise from jote by 40 per cent. It is düft. wide and·15ft, ·high,.

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