◆ SpookStack

| ne ay Oe Mi MO peste: ahate, . : . : rs THE DRUG EVIL - In May, 1935, to fight the drug evil, the govern- ment opened its first U.S. Narcotic Farm, a Four Million Dollar Institution comprising 1,100 acres in Lexington, Kentucky. It is administered by, the U.S. Health Service to restore the shattered health of Drug Addicts, who will be: treated as Medical Patients. . Another is to be used in Fort Worth, Texas. Patients who otherwise would be in Prisons, are cared for here, also volunteers who wish to undergo treatment. This is considered an ideal. advance in the anti- narcotic movement for the prevention of crimes com- mitted by those under the influence of the poppy seed. The murder of Ervin J. Lang may well be charged to the influence of drugs dulling to the brain. Mrs. Dunkel, Lang’s mother-in-law, apparently became his -lover after the death of her daughter, Lang’s wife. Her jealousy was aroused when Lang announced his” engagement to a young lady. Mrs. Dunkel determined to kill him. . , Mrs. Evelyn Smith, a close friend, married to a Chinese Laundry Owner, was induced upon a promise - of $500.00 never paid, to help her. Mrs. Smith finally carried out the murder herself, carving off Lang’s legs to enable her to remove the body, in which she claimed she had the unwilling aid of her husband. Their. casual matter of fact preparation for the crime confessed by them was cold-blooded and revolt- ing. Justice Harrington, in sentencing each to 180 years imprisonment at hard labor, said, “It appears 24 ti ng ee Terry no RTT ge Ey meperidine ec eemen cs ee ee SEX MURDERS that throughout the commission of this crime you in- dicated a cold indifference to the possible penalty of death in the electric chair. “Infliction of the death penalty and a swift execu- tion would be an anesthetic to your consciences, an easy and painless passing from this existence. The punishment the court will inflict, will be a deterrent to crime, an admonition to criminals that you are suf- fering a living death, tortured by your consciences, ‘while at work at hard labor behind the grey walls of the penitentiary, deprived of your liberty, for the bal- ance of your days.” A series of “come-true” night-mares in the murder field seemed to happen in the near Chicago zone just about at this same time. They were all classified by Police under the newly titled “Sex Crimes.” Because she resisted the advances of her young companion, a beautiful girl was strangled in a vacant lot and her body dropped through a sewer catch basin, later discovered by city repair men. A young man stabbed his sweetheart to death be- cause they were tired of life and swore it was a suicide pact. “We went to the park to die. I first stabbed her, then gave her the knife, but she was so weak she could only cut my shirt with it.” There was a revolting murder of a pretty night club entertainer, whose lover sent five bullets into her, as ‘she lay in her bed dying, with his name on her lips. The “Wolf of Peoria” had annoyed girls for seven 25 See, ee