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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1987.

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Criminals We

The

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T

By TANGYE LEAN

"A girl of even was left in charge of her little sister, aged two and a half. Presently the younger, playing on the floor, upsol some water. Her sister scolded her severely, and threat- ened to tell the mother when she

THE good-looking and intelligent young man faced the Fire Marshal of Harlem, New York, and made a moving statement. He was charged with in- cendiarism, the purposeful immediately caught up a long firing of buildings. He knife und "atruck her sister a said:

returned,

"This child of two and a half

violent blow on the side of the chest. The knife penetrated the "Cigarettes have brought me underclothes, the skin, and the

of the ribs. It was the 'bone which turned the blow."

Hongkong Hotel to this. Ever since I was a boy subcutaneous tissue around one

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1937.

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These cases are recalled by a distinguished criminologist in a new book, "The Criminals We where he expounds Deserve,"

I was

crazy for

them. And with this craving there came that other passion, which I can- not understand-an overwhelm- ing impulse to act fire to some- thing-and I was forced to obey it. If I see an engine I chase the view that crime is not the result of arbitrary or voluntary after it, no matter how far. I wickedness but is determined by never can stop till I get to the the kind of society in which it

exists. fire,

There are few people who "I am a pyromaniac. It is a would diagnose the child's as- disease for which I need medi- sault on her sister as anything

This is the famous prison painting by Vincent van Gogh. Dutch Impressionist paintor, 1853-1890

That happened in 1910, and if "But there was one thing the

cal attention. I cannot help it. but the symptom of an obscure it happened again to-day it priest did not know. That man form. had grown up in part of the I am guilty of all the, crimes psychological tangle in which would be in a modified Great thinkers of this genera-charged against me (he had-fired the experience of thirty months Those hard-faced men, who ad- slums of New Town, where for

tion warn that the world may nine buildings), but I ought not be approaching another Dark to go to prison. I can get a doc-

tor's care and no cigarettes." Age, and; truly, in the present

He was sentenced to a long period of imprisonment.

Here is another true story:

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In an Old Cathedral Town.

**The

Criminals We

There are

had forcibly involved her.

minister the Inw know

more

They would see that there about documents than the hu- sister to be pregnant by brother man mind, but slowly the more or daughter by father was hard- was only one solution for society obvious facts about it do pene ly more remarked than the death and herself: the skilful unravel-

ling of the tangle. They would not, because the situation is so clear, prescribe revenge; the birch, imprisonment.

old workbox mother.

trate

haviour.

and modify their be- of a child from under-nourish-

ment."

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A few offences, when no other Always, if we search back far solution seems possible, are re- enough, we will find in the his- But another child grows up cognised as being beyond the tory of a criminal that at some with less obvious troubles. Per control of the man who practises point he was the victim of his De- haps when he was four he went them and the proper subject for environment. It may be that from birth he was forced to of charity and the quality of serve," By Henry T. F. Rhodes, to the boxroom and set fire to an scientific treatment.

belonging to his

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tinction between the baby who brutalised

five parents and gree, there is still hope for

The thing was dismissed as stabs her sister and the adult brothers and sisters. civilisation, No-one will deny sistance, and they must not be ness-which it was not, but the tain that it is logical or expedent an inexplicable piece of naughti- victim of pyromania, are wo cer- that nationalism has brought | denied.

clear expression of certain un- to distinguish between them and

wishes, normal in the rest of the criminal world? It may be that he goes into a mankind to a dangerous pass.

conscious three charities childhood, abnormal in an adult. This heavily documented book blind alley job, knowing that at Greed and avarice, frequently which, at this time of the year, He grows up and the thing suggests that it is not.

the end there can be no outlet the motivating power behind make special appeal. They are sticks. He is intelligent and

"I remember hearing some for his energics and ambition. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.

Benevolent Society, the

trics to explain his reasons to imperial ambition,-ride-hard the

the official, But he can't ex--years ago_a_priest_in_Birming. It may be that he is given an ham declaiming against what he education which instills him York Building

Chater Road. together down the road of time; Street Sleepers Shelter Society plain, he can only describe.

called the deadly sin of incest, with tastes that society will not and the Sheklung Lepers' nor has the greater enlighten-

"When I set fires," he stam and it happened that I knew of allow him to satisfy.

But the point is that his the Benevolent Society is well property and see the tenants their pace one jot. Nations,

"A father still young had gone crimes do not rise spontaneously known, and the Street Sleepers' and the engines and enjoy the through a form of marriage with from his soul; they are forced being human, have all the frail-fund is usually well supported. excitement." He perceives that his eldest daughter. Five child on him by an infection from ties of the average man. It is But possibly because of the he is really ill. a medical case, ren resulted from the union. without as certainly as typhoid not reasonable to suppose that pressing new demands upon the and says Ro. But justice is un- This seemed to him like unmiti- or infantile paralysis.

interested in medicine, and sen- gated iniquity. It was no chance they will represent a higher public the response this year is tences him to a fierce term of association forced by economic

circumstances. idealism than that manifested not quite so ready. It would be imprisonment..

in pity indeed if these organisa- by their component parts, men

tions should fall short of their and women in whom the instinct

objective. of self-preservation is still up- permost. But that there are

Whether you live

VANJENA PRZEZment of our generation glowed Christmas Fund. The work of mers, "I simply want to destroy the case he had in mind.

UP THE PEAK

DOWN A CREEK

OR ON THE CREST OF A WAVE,

Why not

DINE FIRST?

or have a cold supper

DANCE AFTER?

or go to bed early.

REMEMBERING THAT WHATEVER YOU DO YOU MUST

BE AT THE CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE AT 9.15 ON WEDNESDAY, 22ND OR THURSDAY, 23RD DECEMBER

to

see

HULLO HONG

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NOT ONLY BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS GOING BUT, BECAUSE IT IS THE MOST DIVINE SHOW OF THE SEASON

and think how inexpensive it is

$3, 2, 1 and 50 conts.

Mosar. Moutrio or the Ship's Office, H.M.S. Westcott would be delighted to self you tickets and wo'd adoro the pleasure of playing to you;

The third appeal, on behalf of the Sheklung Lepers, is in

曙

among all peoples individuals class by itself. These un-

In our own small sphere we

run. I want to see the flames

MOTORING LAUGHS

After stumbling over the kerb-stone

a loud

the

And society, having by its sins made the criminal, proceeds in the interest of its own safety to hunt him down. Crime detec- tion costs this country £24,000,- 000 a year, and the hunt describ- ed by Henry Rhodes in this book is a mad, fantastic business.

With plaster casts made from tooth-marks, with the micro- a huge limousine was, street while looking up at an aero camera

and its attendant whose lives are dedicated to the fortunate people, many of them A MAN in

following a 7 h.p. car going at plane overhead. Three buses shaved service not only of their country from Hongkong, have little fuil tilt along a country road. Every him so closely that his beard didn't sciences of "Poroscopy" and and then the little car gave appear again for a week, the wind inger-print detection, with wire- but of mankind, gives reason enough in life to make it bear-urch and the back wheels rose right from six passing cars raised the nap less and fast cars and

In the past their Christ-off the ground. Finally the owner of on his last year's suit, one five-pas- speaker which detects erasures for hope that in the end suchable.

the limousine drew alongside the baby senger car removed the shine from the mas season has been brightened car and told the driver politely that back of his left shoe, and the drivers on documents by its sensitivity cause will triumph.

by something special in the way he was bound to break his back axle of seven other asserted makes, while to the resistance of paper, with If he went on as he was doing. stripping their gears in an effort to ultra-violet rays and expert ad- of food, some little delicacy, and "Good heavens, man," replied the avold him, also stripped their vocabu-vocates, society fights are not lacking in this quality of perhaps some small gift, in the owner of the "infant," "can I not have laries of every known high-powered disease which it has engendered.

an attack of hiccough without your adjective. charity. Times without num-form of coloured cloth, gener-interfering?

A burly lorry driver was cranking on the farther side of the road, the ber Hongkong's people have res-ally. Approximately $700 is

up his engine vigorously, but was pedestrian was heard to murmur, "My Christmas not meeting with much success. A gracious, those aviators lead dan

And having got its man, ponded generously to appeals of required for this

girl at the wheel an ultra modern; gerous lives."

justice instead of trying to un- one sort or another, from Poppy treat, or roughly a dollar for sports car stopped beside him, put a

derstand him in the light of the each one of the sufferers. Thus match to her cigarette, and blandly

Two little lads saw an expensive total surrounding circumstances Day to the tag day for preven-

remarked:"Perhaps it would be

car going down the High Street with. tion of cruelty to animals. Much for only $198 has been collected. better if you cut off your air."

the letters "GB" on the back. The (because it lacks the time and When it is realised what the The perspiring driver looked up and youngest asked, "Whit's the G B fur?" cannot occupy itself with any of this charitable effort is

replied. "Look ere, mies, an Eton "Ach," said the elder, "ya ken how thing but the immediate busi- donation of even one dollar crop may suit your style of beauty, learner has 'L' at the back. Well, mo- directed abroad. At the

means to them, there can be no but you can keep your personal re- yon's pit on later the mean 'Gettin' ness) tries to leolate the infec

to yourself."

better.

tion by locking him up with ment Hongkong is pouring a

Mrs. Binks was out with her hus-others suffering from different stream of money and goods into doubt that the public will res-

The Magistrato was questioning a band for the first time at the wheel. diseases, Chins for the assistance of pond with generosity and cager girl who had been injured. And, They were driving along a country

While the only justice which up F telegraph pole. the wounded and the destitude; ness. All through the months Just where did the car hit you?" road and she saw two Post Office

"Well," she responded, "If I had been engineere left homeless and penniless by these 700 afflicted people have wearing a number plate it would have "Fools," she exclaimed, you would was not a lunatle mockery would

bren badly damaged."

think that I didn't know how to drive, try to heal him of his illness and The same Magistrate was question-a car."

romove the conditions that gave witness in another case, "Pardon me," he sold to the old rise to it from the world. serving of the loyalest support Christmas, the brightest day of ing

"Chauffeur, my friend, chauffeur," woman who answered his knock, "do their year. Their disappoint corrected the legal worthy, "you by any chance posscas some lubri- and enthusiasm. But it must

oli?" The old woman shook ment would be a tragedy that chiffonier, you know, is an ornamental care. Any oil will do, he con- nightmare revelations of this not be forgotten that there are

does not bear consideration. If "Oh, well," Interrupted the witness, tinued hopefully, "castor oil, if you book seems like the prelude to problems of a pressing nature charities of this gort should fall with a noil in the direction of the have it." "I hinna got any," said the madness. We get the criminals chauffeur, "call him what you like, old woman regretfully, "but I could we deserve, and we deserve them

B. T.

war. All such works are de-

looked forward to another

| in this very Colony. There are the Dark Age' would be near En acores of cases deserving of as- Indeed.

marks

wooden

•

I guess I was pretty near the mark." x you up with a dose of salts." all.

A pedestrian crossed a traffic-filled

But to look logically at the