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a helpless woman, that as for that, if she had been a child, but a 

 prince, he would have killed her all the same. At another time he 

 said, in a wild way : " I killed her because she did not work ; who- 

 ever does not work should not eat, and I was not going to work 

 for her " — a reason which would be as good for the slaughter of sev- 

 eral million persons. 



Curious and important is the remark of Luccheni that " Crispi 

 would not have killed her because he was a thief " ; an evident proof 

 of the complete lack of moral sense in anarchists,* who like primitive 

 men confound the crime with the deed, and regard criminality as a 

 sort of merit, a seal of fraternity; w^hich demonstrates that the anar- 

 chistic practice, if not its theory, is an equivalence of crimes. 



When asked if he had never committed blood-crimes, he replied 

 that he had never had anything to do with courts, not even as a 

 witness — which was found to be true — but " I entertained the idea 

 this time, and acted upon it." 



Luccheni is a man of medium stature, about 1.63 metre, with 

 very thick, light chestnut hair, stout, with dark-gray, half-closed eyes, 

 roundish ears, heavy eyebrows, voluminous cheek bones and jaw 

 prognatic, low forehead, very brachycephalic (cephalic index 88). He 

 has, therefore, a number of characteristics of degeneration common 

 to epileptics and insane criminals. On the other hand, his hand- 

 writing, with its minute characters, especially in the writing of past 

 years, indicates a mild feminine disposition, with little energy of char- 



Fig. 2.^Exti{act from a Letti;k hy Luccheni. 



acter. This is especially seen in an autograph of 1896, which was 

 procured for me by Dr. Guerini, who got it from his patient (see 

 Fig. 2). This characteristic, which was extremely conspicuous in 

 Caserio when he was near his crime, was also apparent in the assailant 

 of General Rocha. I have likewise observed it to be very conspicuous 

 in epileptics and hysterical persons; and it corresponds, according as 

 they are in their psychical spasm or out of it, with a real double per- 



* See my Delitto politico, Part III, and Gli Anarcici, second edition. 



