220 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



of blood vessels. Many of them are degenerate. Most of them 

 are criminals. All of them are liable to commit crimes of passion. 

 Among them are found a large pa of drug addicts. 



" 'Miss Jackson, in the hospital, confirmed my scientific theory 

 that the dead man was not normal. She was perfectly frank in 

 her statement. She said she had left her husband, Elmer Schultz, 

 an automobile salesman in Toledo, several months ago and had 

 come to New York. She said she had lived with the doctor for 

 some time. 



" 'About ten days ago she left him to live with Marti, a healthy, 

 normal lad. Before she went from the doctor's room she destroyed 

 those colored collars that were found beside the body. She cut 

 them with scissors. But that was after, so she states, the doctor 

 had destroyed stockings of hers by cutting them. 



" 'She told me in the hospital today, and with every appearance 

 of truth, that she had met Arenas in the subway at the station 

 on Seventy-second Street and Broadway on Friday night and 

 that she had asked him when she could come and get her clothes. 

 He said, according to her story: 



" 'Come to the house tomorrow afternoon — but come with 

 Marti.' 



" 'She said that she and Marti went there according to this 

 invitation: that first the doctor showed her the cut collars and 

 told her that she would get her clothes back in perfect condition, 

 and that the next thing she knew she had been shot. She couldn't 

 remember much after that. 



" 'I believe that both she and Marti have told a perf< 

 itzht forward story and the autopsy is proof of it. 



" 'There were six bullets in the doctor's pistol to 

 for. One, in an undischarged cartridge, still was in the weapon. 

 That leaves five. One struck M l toon" in the right < i 



squarely in front, and penetrated the flesh about one inch. If 



• all behind the missile it would b 

 gone right through, pierced a In: d I hemorrhage, and the 



that "IA kson" would have (lied, 



four bul 

 "'One more :ti in the left u; <. It passed 



nd then 

 bounced o\ le in front. It was a most 



bounding bullet I was partiouli 



I xaininintf its 0OC I was BU IS of 



> told by Marti and "Miss Jackson." No 



know they ai 



