Doctor Emanuel Doremus, the Chief Medical Examiner. ↩
Sibella was here referring to Tobias Greene’s will, which stipulated not only that the Greene mansion should be maintained intact for twenty-five years, but that the legatees should live on the estate during that time or become disinherited. ↩
E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie., Paris, 1893. ↩
Inspector William M. Moran, who died last summer, had been the commanding officer of the Detective Bureau for eight years. He was a man of rare and unusual qualities, and with his death the New York Police Department lost one of its most efficient and trustworthy officials. He had formerly been a well-known upstate banker who had been forced to close his doors during the 1907 panic. ↩
Captain Anthony P. Jerym was one of the shrewdest and most painstaking criminologists of the New York Police Department. Though he had begun his career as an expert in the Bertillon system of measurements, he had later specialized in footprints—a subject which he had helped to elevate to an elaborate and complicated science. He had spent several years in Vienna studying Austrian methods, and had developed a means of scientific photography for footprints which gave him rank with such men as Londe, Burais, and Reiss. ↩
I remember, back in the nineties, when I was a schoolboy, hearing my father allude to certain picturesque tales of Tobias Greene’s escapades. ↩
Captain Hagedorn was the expert who supplied Vance with the technical data in the Benson murder case, which made it possible for him to establish the height of the murderer. ↩
It was Inspector Brenner who examined and reported on the chiselled jewel-box in the “Canary” murder case. ↩
Among the famous cases mentioned as being in some manner comparable to the Greene shootings were the mass murders of Landru, Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, Fritz Haarmann, and Mrs. Belle Gunness; the tavern murders of the Benders; the Van der Linden poisonings in Holland; the Bela Kiss tin-cask stranglings; the Rugeley murders of Doctor William Palmer; and the beating to death of Benjamin Nathan. ↩
The famous impure-milk scandal was then to the fore, and the cases were just appearing on the court calendar. Also, at that time, there was an anti-gambling campaign in progress in New York; and the District Attorney’s office had charge of all the prosecutions. ↩
The Modern Gallery was then under the direction of Marius de Zayas, whose collection of African statuette-fetishes was perhaps the finest in America. ↩
Colonel Benjamin Hanlon, one of the Department’s greatest authorities on extradition, was then the commanding officer of the Detective Division attached to the District Attorney’s office, with quarters in the Criminal Courts Building. ↩
Among the volumes of Tobias Greene’s library I may mention the following as typical of the entire collection: Heinroth’s De morborum animi et pathematum animi differentia, Hoh’s De maniae pathologia, P. S. Knight’s Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Derangement of the Mind, Krafft-Ebing’s Grundzüge der Kriminal-Psychologie, Bailey’s Diary of a Resurrectionist, Lange’s Om Arvelighedens Inflydelse i Sindssygedommene, Leuret’s Fragments psychologiques sur la folie, D’Aguanno’s Recensioni di antropologia giuridica, Amos’s Crime and Civilization, Andronico’s Studi clinici sul delitto, Lombroso’s Uomo Delinquente, de Aramburu’s La nueva ciencia penal, Bleakley’s Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold, Arenal’s Psychologie comparée du criminel, Aubry’s De l’homicide commis par la femme, Beccaria’s Crimes and Punishments, Benedikt’s Anatomical Studies Upon the Brains of Criminals, Bittinger’s Crimes of Passion and of Reflection, Bosselli’s Nuovi studi sul tatuaggio nei criminali, Favalli’s La delinquenza in rapporto alla civiltà, de Feyfer’s Verhandeling over den Kindermoord, Fuld’s Der Realismus und das Strafrecht, Hamilton’s Scientific Detection of Crime, von Holtzendorff’s Das Irische Gefängnissystem insbesondere die Zwischenanstalten vor der Entlassung der Sträflinge, Jardine’s Criminal Trials, Lacassagne’s L’homme criminel comparé à l’homme primitif, Llanos y Torriglia’s Ferri y su escuela, Owen Luke’s History of Crime in England, MacFarlane’s Lives and Exploits of Banditti, M’Levy’s Curiosities of Crime in Edinburgh, the Complete Newgate Calendar, Pomeroy’s German and French Criminal Procedure, Rizzone’s Delinquenza e punibilità, Rosenblatt’s Skizzen aus der Verbrecherwelt, Soury’s Le crime et les criminels, Wey’s Criminal Anthropology, Amadei’s Crani d’assassini, Benedikt’s Der Raubthiertypus am menschlichen Gehirne, Fasini’s Studi su delinquenti femmine, Mills’s Arrested and Aberrant Development and Gyres in the Brain of Paranoiacs and Criminals, de Paoli’s Quattro crani di delinquenti, Zuckerkandl’s Morphologie des Gesichtsschädels, Bergonzoli’s Sui pazzi criminali in Italia, Brierre de Boismont’s Rapports de la folie suicide avec la folie homicide, Buchnet’s The Relation of Madness to Crime, Calucci’s Il jure penale e la freniatria, Davey’s Insanity and Crime, Morel’s Le procès Chorinski, Parrot’s Sur la monomanie homicide, Savage’s Moral Insanity, Teed’s On Mind, Insanity, and Criminality, Worckmann’s On Crime and Insanity, Vaucher’s Système préventif des délits et des crimes, Thacker’s Psychology of Vice and Crime, Tarde’s La Criminalité Comparée, Tamassia’s Gli ultimi studi sulla criminalità, Sikes’s Studies of Assassination, Senior’s Remarkable Crimes and Trials
