262 lierrii mid /iHcliner: 



().*5 per (.ciit. fall altojL^etlicr liehiiid llie lowest uf ihc several learned 

 groups. Ill view of the severity of the eomparisou established by 

 this table, the result is a surjuisin^- one, and seems to furnish one 

 more additional jiniof of the truth of the statement that in the 

 ease of elasses tlieie is an undoulited eoirelatiiui hetween size of 

 head and intelligenee. 



In view of the fact that the table is headed liy six criminals, we 

 tlutught it advisalile to seareh the eriminal reeoids in order to 

 aseei'tain, if possiiile. if these six had been <j;uilty of crimes display- 

 in<;- in tlu'ir coiniiiiti al an unusual degree of intelligcme. For this 

 permission we have to thank Mr. An<lerson. Secretary of tlie Crown 

 Law Department (d' \ ictoria. We eannot. however, add tliat our 

 investigation of the criminal records throws inucli li^dit ujtoii the 

 degiiH- of intelligence or otherwise of the few criminals who head 

 the list. 



Of Freeland .Morrell. who actually appears al the loji of the list 

 with a corrt'cted cubic ca])acity of 1()4!).7 <«•.. we can oljtain but 

 meagre information. lb' was an .\iiiericaii seaman who was 

 hanu'ed for the minder hv stahbing of the second mate of the boat 

 upon which lie was employed. He died " wiili a sneer on his lips," 

 and the words. " I'll show you how an .\merican can dii'." 



Charles John Hall owed his downfall to alcohol. ;iiid to sexual 

 excesses, and was hanged for the' murder of his wife at the i-arly 

 age of 22. 



David ^"ouiig is a relic of the days of the transportation of con- 

 victs from I'ln^jland to .\ust ralasia. He was an lOnirlish eriminal 

 who arrived in Tasmania in IS.'iO, under sentence of ten years" 

 i ranspiu'tation U>v liurglary. His retord is ;i black (Uie, and his 

 ti'eatment of women, children and dumb animals was particularly 

 diabolical. Like Hall, he was hanged for the murder of his wife, 

 and like Hall he was an alcoholic and a sexual maniac. 



Charles liushbee, dims " Uaker, " closely resembles ^'oung. There 

 call be no doubt from his record that he was an alcoholic and a 

 sexual maniac. The most surprising thing about IJushbee is that, at 

 the tiini' of his trial, any medical man could be found, as actually 

 occurred, who could enter a witness box and testify to the man s 

 sanity, for here is his record prior to tiie crime U^v which he was 

 hanged. On the Tlh Octobei'. I.'^TT. he attempted suicide by drown- 

 ing at Sandhurst, having been " liisaiiiiointed in love." Vov this 

 lie was arrested and conmiitted to Kew Lunatic .\syhun. On his 

 diseliargc from the asvluni he was lost sigiit of for some time, but 

 siibse(pien(ly reajipears in the records of Vent ridge (Jaol. Here 

 are recoriled against him manv ((Uiviotioiis for passing wm-thless 



