HEREDITY OF CRIME.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 26, 31 January 1891, Page 3

HEREDITY OF CRIME.

CURIOUS PHASES AND THE DKiEFUL RESULTS OF INHERITED DISEASE. Doubtless crime is committed from the mere love of it. The identity of "Jack the ■Ripper " remains undiscovered, and so we do not know what impelled him to the commission of his atrocious crimes. Little doubt he was insane hiß actions controlled by an abnormal condition of the mind ; it is plain none of the ordinary reasons for crime prevailed m this case. He was, perhaps, a victim of some hereditary taint, which drove him to acts against which his will revolted, and from which m his rational moments his soul recoiled m horror. A French novelist of realism makes the hero of a late novel of such a character. He was a locomotive engineer a thoroughly competent and reliable man • but if he chanced to behold the white throat of a woman, a wild frenzy seized him- he could not control a desire to plunge a knife m it. He -was aware of his infirmity fought it with stubborn will, denied himself the society of women, and for years controlled himself. At last he meets his fate; finds pleasure m her society, with no return of bis old longing for blood, until he flatters himself he is safe. But one night Bhe meets him -with gleaming throat bare ; the uncontrolable impulse seizes him; he cannot resist; as she throws her_ loving arms about him, he thrusts the knife into her neck, and she falls a victim to the madness of tainted blood. Fortunately for the victims of ordinary forms of inherited disease they may protect themselves before it obtains dominance m the system. Inherited kidney disease ib especially dangerous, but may be successfully resisted. "In 1883 I was so near death's door with an inherited and . complicated case of Bright's disease," writes James H. Dove, 217 Baldwin Street, Alpena, Mich., August 11. 1890, " which bad baffled all remedies and medical assistance obtainable, that I was given np by friends and physicians as beyond all recovery. In thi3 extremity I was induced to try Warner's safe cure, which very soon gare me relief, and led me to persevere m its use, until I again became able to attend to my business. My case is well known m this community, and I feel fully warranted m recommending Warner's safe cure m cases of kidney disease, knowing full well that I would have long since been m my grave had it not been for the use of this remedy." Men and women inherit genuis, talent, all mental and physical qualities ; and it is now well established that all phases of physical as well as mental disease are transmissable.