THE TYPES OF PERSONALITY 221 



" 'But anyone might have been puzzled by the queer antics of 

 the missiles from the pistol of South American manufacture that 

 the doctor used. If it had had any penetrating power — or rather 

 if the bullets that it sent out, had any real kick behind them — 

 the chances are that both "Miss Jackson" and Marti would be 

 dead now. 



" 'Two bullets, it will be remembered, entered the doctor's left 

 chest, quite close together. Well, one nicked the heart and lodged 

 between the lung and the heart. It didn't cause any more 

 damage than a mosquito bite. 



" 'The second bullet went through the soft flesh of the chest, but 

 it struck a rib and bounded back out again. That bullet was 

 picked up beside the body. 



" 'After these vain attempts to send a bullet through his body 

 to a fatal spot, the doctor apparently shifted the weapon to his 

 right temple and pulled the trigger for the fifth time. Then the 

 fifth bullet, driven likewise by a very weak charge of powder, 

 pierced the skull at a point where it was thin and tore into his 

 brain. Its lack of power, however, is shown by the fact that I 

 found it this morning in the brain tissue. 



" 'In all my experience I have never seen anything so queer. It 

 sounds almost like a dream — a man trying to kill with a pistol 

 that shoots bullets that either stop after striking soft flesh or 

 bound out of the body into which they are fired. But it is true; 

 I have had all of the bullets in my hand. 



" 'They are all accounted for. They are all of the same sort. 

 There is no reason to doubt that they are all from the same 

 weapon, an instrument without manufacturer's name, and of a 

 design that the police say is unfamiliar to them. 



" 'The dead doctor was a distinct type, and his tragic end was 

 one that should not surprise anyone who has any knowledge of 

 such cases. The courtroom was thronged with friends of the dead 

 physician-dentist, who not only is reported to be of a wealthy 

 family of Bogota, Colombia, but generally is credited with many 

 charitable works in the uptown Spanish colony here.' " 



The distinct type to which the first assistant to the chief 

 medical examiner of the city referred is the thymo-centric person- 

 ality (status lymphaticus is another technical name for it), we 

 have been considering. The persistence of the thymus after 

 adolescence makes for an arrest of masculinization or feminiza- 

 tion, the end-point arrived at by the processes of puberty. That 

 is, a partial castration takes place. Now, as the experiments 

 of Steinach upon the transplantation of ovaries into males de- 



