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THE OHEGON : SUNDAY; JOUBNAI POEINI), SIJNDA MOBKIKG, BECEIBEFi 31; 1922. '0 A -' v i Mm?'- V n " if 1 - .js : ... - s ; . ; The ' Strange CqlmidenieofMi Vompl&s Applicable. Even ? -v , ly immrs- and- Cashier m Ever man "Life ; y, Cray, f . ; , - th-, ;. vr.?;..; - Murdered ;a . Wis r - " r BankXlerk-'r'f ? y' 4 MIi Edith Ferguson, Whose Vavm for a. Humble Uank Clerk; ' ;: ; 4 Led to the Double Tragedy " Jrottr Idr Ted, Hue or frayt - ? .- - i Profound toHentittt interested i itvdtfittp tilt psychological lnfittecet ? .affftioti, entt rtitns$ mS variout other .manifestation of tKe human pa-;, tioni, have wccetdsd ih dividing fore int&tteie thrie cotor cwii. ' ' " , . A(t ntno, It ia declare; Red tovet 'tcatlei 'U not Xovt a oXtf Stud tovig ' : ptrfed and rtetproc&U- Gray I0f tftt noftle tacrificial bevotion ibklch gtve$ ftrst hi. consideration to the hapatne$ of Another.- y .. "",-'. " T&e iealost locer tcAo "Jtcet red" and kilU htt rivat, flerf, jperftft, f oo,' f laiy f I the eaiti ft 9if t tnlstateJi about beinf tn Xove, according tb iDr AhtoinB Coppe - ; and other tcientists cha are making an intensive of thB uhevt.? tn 6ther Jdrrf, t yed over" U the tUive of hit oxen egotistical and JealQM ditpatition, -A and the crime he comfnlt is prompted not by disappointei tote, but t an inferiority comple plus rank cotcardicelack of conA&enhe in-himself.' "-, J By a very strange coincidence, all these interesting, meiilff advances cl&lin of. tclentlflo thinkers teem to hate been substantiated by the insane Act of Lindsay : I XAndsey, cashier of a London ban&, mho "saw redr and slew the h&nble cterk, for . liohom the girl of Undsey't desire kad,shousn a vrtfereni&vn& the tndedl his ; oxen life. THE recent declarationi.' of Science exalted. If he suffers degression at all. I that "jealousy has no affinity Miih'i tterely,th reacUoa betweeft fiu f . T A W en proven true, 1 y the remarkable ante-mortem eonf etelon . irtery to te brain, frtiere it enter a ; tot an Englishman who committed murder whole network 6f smaller arteries that r and suicide because a pretty girl preferred run in and out and;everywhere thrdugh vulval . the brain' tissQft. His brain is congested ' - T. i . " . - , M . - " ith blood. Ho fsees red.'ylf hi reac-Vy , AdTaneed psychologist , And psycho- tions w sufficieliily violent he is impeUed ; Unrlists have persistently contended that to kilL - He mar kill the rival s he may kill Violent jealousy . is traceable to wholly 4 the sir! ; tie may kill both. He may kill Selfish and ogotistieal complexa' totally bilf',! , c : - i 1 5 v .. Archibald Gray and then blew out his own : a victim rather than ;a criminal ; rn rftnon money 1 "brains. ' . - ' - - : - And tht rnit have been-the. end important tha The' next" day the newspapers 'carried, it if ft hadn't beenfor th ante-rnorteUf There wasn't : Here is the way it works, theoretically, . according to Dr. Antoine Coppe, famous psychologist of the Sorbonne: 'A man believes he is in love with a certain girL Perhaps he is really in. love with her at first. But she prefers a rival suitor. If the first man is truly in love, and his love is strong enough to'x remain true, he puts her happiness first. He with draws in favor of the rival. He is sad, but not angry. He is depressed, rather . than violent. His heart is "heavy." , That . is. his ' heart-beats . are retarded.' ' His whole internal mechanism slows down. S"he arteries to the brain carry less blood. He sees .a 'gray". world," in which' he moves quietly, sadly, slowly. K This is true love, and jealousy cannot sprinjc from it, 'But . suppose the man's 'love is irally a ' selfish, egotistical - passion. Whetf' he discovers that the girl prefers . the rivals his vanity, his egotism,- his faith in his own superiority are offended. - lie1 devei about love or jealousy?" they say.v'Poets take a different view of it and criminal juries, too, ; for " that matter, Science should concern itself with its test-tubes and : chemicals, and let the emotions' of . love and jealousy alone. But science, once more, "has been vin- -dicated. It now has the documentary evi dence, based not on theory, but on fact. -It has the signed confession of a. man who: Bays: t , - .' ' ' - "I am a murderer and a suicide. I com mitted murder and suicide through jeal-. ousy. I speak now from the grave; There . is no use to conceal anything. , My emo tions were thus and so." '-- . ' And the extraordinary feature of this" confession from 'real life' is that it par allels, step ; by step and in - every detail, the theoretical findings of science. ' The man who made the confession was ' Lindsay Iindsey. cashier of the: King's : Bank, pall Mall, London. Approaching ons an inferiority Complex.' . He becomes middle aire.' he became attracted to and " .angry, and .his anger is directed toward . wished to- rnarry a pretty rdneteen-year-- those who have woemded Jiis vanity. He old typist in the same institution, vEdith t ."cannot bear to think of her in the arms - Ferguson by name. Miss Ferguson,- how- i of another.- He begins to hate tne rrvai. ever," preferred a handsome youth of her . . - He begins to hate the "object of hisaftec - own age' by the name of Archibald Gray, a Dirrm Stywins; How' Blood Is Pumped from - . tion, too -though he camouflages this hate who held an important clerical position m th Heart to tho- Brain, Superimposed on a Photo , , and perhaps even deludes himself about the bank, r l-V -i . i. ;;4v' " rsP"t-: graph of Lindsay Undy,Irdrer and Saicida, it by- calling It "intense love. fei " Discovering thatfhe had no chance; and, at Right, Sactional View of tte Haman Bis . . "Instead of being depressed, : as in the against hisyouhger rival. Iindy, finally.. - . : Showinz tha Extent of th -Arteri-3 CS ol trua tiwarted love, ae is agiuttedv salted; one -f i - I'DesdemonaVlDeferice by Hugo KonigJ Here Is iKe Most Pronounced Instance m the World of At - cepted Drama in Which the Author Framed Perfect Demonstration of the CoId-UIooded Analysis or Jealousy csiaDiisaea i voaj uy tJW6aw,;y.l-. r "I had pointed out to her that t mid liitcaaa w s 1 ssssw m. -- an he. J enjoyed good health. wonori triea ..- it if it hadn't bpfin ior tne anie-moneuT' mere wasn s an acne or pain in my uouy. ak. .tunit xfiianriir tnr nH ont oBatnn. At th ; coroner's inquest l was superior to this youngster. . i could "Driven to Desperation by Love, with sealed letter was opened and read, which notbear the fact that she preferred him. , v fey the day; he had deter- J" analysis of jealousy, exactly as science de- 'mined on the deed. bribed. Selfishness, v wounded vanity It was. according to the egotismhut an egotism with the "infer- ( .,.'- ui . . Inittr ftmTiI' thnwinp throuch. . coroner, wic ubmi xvuumk. , . .m. v i a n t twf ."He boasts of his superiority, but he . ' x J J : frnnur ia tha nt1i1 in nnrior in VOUth " , Human nature ever reui, m " " " w. , . " iany c6urt.i And when the Wd health and charm, so he disparages .-; letter had been 'read the him by calling him a "youngster." He is. 11 .jury brought in a report of r unhappy because he knows his neaitn ana , "WillUI-ana UnjUStlliea aurenjftn axo iiiietiu. i i murder. - . v . . ,. . , . . - Excerpts from this letter "I began to feel really iU and left rny v.... Am oflFieA an hour earlier than' usual. On the Ton rfkH thein. below vou 4 way I had an attack of vertigo. : I became. wiU be struck by the ;nai violently excited, and1 afterward felt that in .verification of everv I was about to faint"';- i. , f tha -: . There vou have. as precisely as IT Is-, analysis of what jealousy vrere described in a medical clinic, the aTiVi - . violent azitation. the increased heart The letter goes back - to peats, the rush of blood to the fram. a month betore the soiling, v Ana aa. a result, . witn, v - Lindsey as already -Tung an absolute parauei.witn uie , : make "Sunday engagements : ne continues ; .. : , with the cirl and she had v "It was difficult for me to see her daily : refused on various pre-' smiling at Gray, and the strain was ren T texts - v V v y - dered more difficult by his conduct. It v He wrote: " V '5 It. was one of the strongest forces which lfn ' . "T worried over tS situa-a pelled me to kill him."." ' tion very much, trying to' ; . Where, sav science, was the love7 Wot . tt. ' m tt.nn.rht rf th fnrl'a hsnmness. of her . faction .1 r 4nyself. But I Interest, of her nature. Nothing but his was confident that she and own passion and thwarted ego and selfish r.rav were trains to spend wounded vanity.' So now, poinung 10 xnis the afternoon together, and V confession, science asserts again, with re-; theHhought, was intolerable ; rewed' assurance, its conclusion t halt . -. . nntv liai no affinity With lOVCa - to me. 4