86 HEREDITY IN RELATION TO EUGENICS 



intelligent manner, has a fund of general information and is 

 very talkative. He is very cruel to younger children, has an 

 ungovernable temper, is an inciter of discontent and rebellion 

 among the other patients, lies maliciously, ingeniously and 

 convincingly, and steals inveterately and without motive. 

 This child, removed into an excellent school with the best 

 of surroundings, at the tender age of nine reveals striking 

 criminalistic traits which no care can correct. In this case 

 the hereditary history is unknown. In those that follow it 

 has been precisely ascertained. 



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Fig. 50 



3. Figure 50, III, 4 is an eleven year old boy who began to 

 steal at 3 years; at 4 set fire to a pantry resulting in an explo- 

 sion that caused his mother's death; and at 8 set fire to a 

 mattress. He is physically sound, able and well informed, 

 polite, gentlemanly and very smooth, but he is an inveterate 

 thief and has a court record. His older brother, 14, has been 

 full of deviltry, has stolen and set fires but is now settled 

 down and is earning a living. Their father is an unusually 

 fine, thoughtful intelligent man, a grocer, for a time sang on 

 the vaudeville stage; his mother, who died at 32, is said to 

 have been a normal woman of excellent character. There is 

 however a taint on both sides. The father's father was wild 

 and drank when young and had a brother who was an invet- 

 erate thief. The mother's father was alcoholic and when 



