Trials of Passion (62 page)

moral insanity, 5, 83-4, 86, 87

morbid obsessional qualities, 383-95

neurology of, 250-1

no easy solutions to love gone awry, 397-8

repressed, 52, 53

romantic love, 7-8, 64, 119, 140, 157, 386

secret, 124

sense of ‘specialness' of criminals, 396-7

Thaw's obsession with White, 267, 268, 269, 270, 286-8, 291, 292-3, 294-5, 296, 299, 322-3

les vitrioleuses
in France, 199-200, 201-5

see also
delusion; obsessional love; sexuality

Passy asylum, 181, 182

Pasteur, Louis, 185, 204

Pathological Institute, New York Hospital, 309

Peckham House asylum, 45

Peel, Robert, 96, 113

Pennsylvania State Hospital in Philadelphia, 372

Perceval, Spencer, 92-3, 95

Perry, Dr Frederick, 40

personality disorders, 6, 7, 86, 99, 323, 389, 394

perversions, 6, 9, 183, 287, 339, 380

Pétain, Maréchal, 247

Peters, Reverend Madison C., 325-6

Philadelphia, 272, 273, 372

Phillips, Ryland, 273

philosophes
, eighteenth-century, 168

Phipps Clinic, 363

phrenology, 71-2, 156

physiognomy, 71-2, 83, 300

Picart, Dr, 201-2

Pilgrim, Charles W., 310, 331

Pinel, Philippe, 182

Pinker, Steven, The Better Angels of Our Nature, 396

Pitcairn, Dr J. J., 249-50

Pittsburgh, 261-2, 263, 265, 266-7, 271, 285, 287, 297, 298-9, 327-8, 371

Poddar, Prosenjit, 383-4, 385, 386, 387

poison, 14-15, 19

arsenic, 14, 25-6, 27, 28, 33, 36, 39, 40, 74

Arsenic Act (1851), 14

strychnine, 15, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36, 66, 74, 104

tests for detecting, 19, 40

poisoning

as crime beloved of the Victorian press, 25, 69

as crime with feminine stamp, 25, 69, 114, 199

Florence Bravo case, 61, 62-3

French criminal code and, 170

Madeleine Smith case, 39-40

Marie Lafarge case, 178

Mrs Maybrick case, 14

William Palmer case, 66

see also
Chocolate Cream Murders; Edmunds, Christiana

Portman Clinic, 382

potassium bromide, 55

press, popular, 2, 17-18, 63, 66, 67-8, 69-72, 75, 108, 109, 120, 235, 387

absence of libel laws in France, 243

reporting of White murder case, 262, 265-6, 300, 301-2, 304, 307, 324, 327, 339-43

in Third Republic France, 173-4, 193, 196-7, 198, 199, 207, 208, 235, 237, 238-40, 241, 242-4, 245, 246, 247

women reporters, 301, 307, 325, 339-42, 343

Prével, Jules, 197

Prince of Wales, 15, 24, 77, 118

Prison Act, 125

Pritchard, Dr James, On the Different Forms of Insanity in Relation to Jurisprudence (1842), 97

Pritchard, Dr William, 329

prostitution, 114, 139, 157, 163, 167, 241, 268, 285-6

Protection of Freedoms Act (2012), 394-5

Proust, Marcel, 139

psychoanalysis, 59, 309, 311, 382

see also
Freud, Sigmund

psychodynamic ideas, 309, 311

psychologists
see
mind-doctors psychosomatic illness, 183

Putzel, Leopold, 334, 335

racism, 311

Ray, Dr Isaac, Treatise on the Medical

Jurisprudence of Insanity (1838), 97-8

Reagan, Ronald, 389, 390

religion, 250, 301-2, 313

Catholic Church in France, 134, 167, 171, 194, 203, 238, 240-1

Presbyterianism, 261-2, 266, 267, 287, 298

Ricardo, Alexander, 62

Richard III, Shakespeare's, 396-7

Robben Island, 47, 128

Robertson, Dr Charles Lockhart, 83, 85-6, 87, 103

Robertson, George, 356

Robinson, Isabella, 60-1, 64, 65, 77, 95, 156, 229

romantic love, 7-8, 64, 119, 140, 157, 386

Romantic movement, 168, 215

Roosevelt, Theodore, 275, 302

Rouch, Dr, 148, 165, 176, 177-8, 180

Royan (Atlantic coast resort), 156, 198

Ruskin, John, 72-3

Fors Clavigera, 73-4, 78

Russian Revolution, 247

Ryley, Dr Beresford, 109-10

Sacreste, Dr, 223-4

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 258

Saint-Lazare women's prison, 159, 163-4, 183, 204

Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, 55, 208-9, 214, 225, 226, 233

Sanglé, Amélie, 203-4

schizophrenia, 6, 99, 332, 384, 389-90

Scotland, 60-1, 77, 95-7

second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw, 262, 285-6, 380

Evelyn's appearances at, 348, 351-3

expert psychiatric witnesses, 348-9, 354

hearings following, 356

mother Mrs Thaw's testimony, 349-50

press coverage of, 348, 351

prosecution case, 356-7

simple insanity plea, 348-52, 354, 355-7

Thaw's demeanour during, 348, 349, 356

verdict of not guilty due to insanity, 357-8, 360

self-defence mitigation, 101, 187, 242, 305, 337, 386

sexuality

abstinence, 52, 53, 54, 61

in
belle époque
France, 133-4, 167-8, 188

courtly code of the
homme galant,
143-4, 151-2, 155, 168, 180, 190, 191, 193, 387

demi-monde decadence in France, 140

The Elements of Social Science (Drysdale, 1861), 52, 53-4

female desire as aberrant, 34, 50, 51, 59, 61, 71, 107, 250, 251, 339

greater openness in twentieth-century, 386-7

hidden/secret, 9, 17-18, 54, 72, 110-11, 122, 124, 130, 143, 144, 149

hysteria and, 6, 52, 53, 61, 62

illicit passions for doctors, 56-7, 59-61, 62, 65

Krafft-Ebing on, 250

masturbation, 50, 53, 62, 183

medicalization of, 249

in popular literature, 74-5

sexualized female badness, 74-5, 77

transgressive, 2-3, 5, 8, 183, 215

Victorian restrictions on female desire, 52, 53, 54, 59-60, 61, 63, 72

see also
obsessional love; passions

sexually transmitted diseases, 44, 139, 182

Shaw, George Bernard,
Mrs Warren's Profession,
268

Sherbrooke, Canada, 369

Sickles, Daniel, 306

sleepwalking states
see
hypnotic states

Smith, Lorna, 394

Smith, Madeleine, 39-40

Smith, Perry, 378

social class

Aileen Wuornos case and, 380-1

anxieties about hypnotism and, 231

in
belle époque
France, 134, 167-8, 188, 203-4

Brighton and, 24

Christiana Edmunds and, 45, 54, 64, 66-8, 75, 128

class fluidity in twentieth-century, 386-7

courtesans in
belle epoque
France, 139-40

courtly code of the
homme galant,
143-4, 151-2, 155, 168, 180, 190, 191, 193, 387

the criminally insane and, 126, 131

duelling and, 242, 243, 244

high society doctors, 117-18

judicial murder and, 113

middle class women, 9, 32, 40, 48, 59, 75, 113, 114, 194-5

in New York, 255, 256-8, 260, 263, 265-6, 286-7

obsessional love and, 386-7

petty-bourgeois values, 144, 180, 387

in Pittsburgh, 261-2, 266-7

prostitution and, 167

Ruth Ellis case and, 380

Stockwell murderer and, 68, 113

upper class women, 5, 52

social media, 392

solar eclipse (January 1872), 68

Solnit, Albert, 382

somnambulism
see
hypnotic states

Southall Park Asylum, 43-4

Special Committee on the Commitment and Discharge of the Criminal Insane (1910), 375

spectroscope, 19

speculums, 60

Spencer, Herbert, 83

Spielrein, Sabina, 59

St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, 83

stalking, 6, 8, 28, 383, 386

British and EU legislation, 394-5

cyber-world and, 392-3

gender statistics,
387-8

of Gentien by Bière, 137, 157, 158, 175

John Hinckley Jr case, 388-91

prior relationship and, 392, 393, 394

Tarasoff case (1969), 383-4, 385, 386, 387

therapeutic jurisprudence and, 395

typology of, 393-4

by women, 65, 388, 393-4

Stanton, Edwin M., 306

Stedman, Dr, 347

Steinheil, Madame, 162

Steward, Dr J.B., 44, 81

Stockwell murderer, 68-9, 87, 120

Stone, Mrs, 30-1 Storm, John, 272

strychnine, 15, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36, 66, 74, 104

Stuckey, Mr (lawyer), 25, 28, 35

suffrage for women campaigns, 68, 200-1

Summerscale, Kate, 60

Sussex County Asylum, 83

Sweden, 381

syphilis, tertiary, 44, 182

Tarasoff, Tatiana, 383-4, 385, 386, 387

Tarde, Gabriel, 216-17, 218, 243

Tarentum, Pennsylvania, 271, 272

Tatham, G., 15

Taxi Driver
(Martin Scorsese, 1976), 388

Texas, 305-6

Thaw, Harry Kendall

agitated and frantic states, 267, 269, 270, 292-3, 299, 316, 320, 322, 328, 349, 350, 364

alcohol and gambling, 263, 283, 285

allowance from mother, 263, 266

Anthony Comstock and, 268-70, 287, 299, 351

arrest and charging of, 262-4

battles with courts over ‘insanity' ruling, 360

bellhop incident, 286, 291-2, 295

biographical details, 261-2, 263, 266-7, 284-6

bizarre letters to Evelyn, 318, 365-6

‘bulging' and ‘glaring' eyes, 264, 283, 294, 320, 322, 349, 355, 362

childhood, 284-5, 316, 319, 349, 350

cocaine and morphine use, 286, 296

comparisons with John Hinckley Jr case, 388, 389, 391

death of (1947), 373-4

death of mother (1927), 372-3

dislike of Mrs Nesbit, 291, 292, 293

divorce from Evelyn, 371

escape from Matteawan, 369

Evelyn avoids, 296-7

Evelyn on appearance and character of, 283-4

Evelyn's ‘recuperative' trip to Europe and, 290-6, 337

Evelyn's resistance to, 289, 291-2

extradited to New York, 370

family's wealth and influence, 262, 265, 266, 285, 304, 310, 340, 361, 362-3, 368, 375, 378, 380

found sane at July 1915 hearing, 370-1

Gump sadistic scandal, 371-2

habeas corpus writ applications, 360, 361-8

has Evelyn photographed, 299 as ‘heroic rescuer', 268, 269, 301, 327, 334, 336, 380, 383, 387

inherited component of mental condition, 305, 319, 332-3, 349, 350

interest in Truxtun Beale case, 267-8

in jail between trials, 344

judged insane (1917), 372

learns of White's deflowering of Evelyn, 292-3, 294-5, 317, 325

‘logorrhea' of, 285, 321, 349, 354, 355

manic depressive psychosis, 355, 357-8, 364

marriage to Evelyn, 266-7, 298

at Matteawan State Hospital for the criminally insane, 358, 359, 360, 361, 363, 365, 366-7, 368, 369

meets and pursues Evelyn, 282, 283-4, 289-92

narcissistic disorder, 320-1, 322

obsession with virginity, 291, 293, 294, 296, 298

obsession with White, 267, 268, 269, 270, 286-8, 291, 292-3, 294-5, 296, 299, 322-3

as ‘odd' character, 262, 263, 284-5

paranoia of, 287-8, 299, 303, 310, 318, 320, 322-4, 326-7, 329, 332-3, 334, 355, 364-8

penchant for boys, 286, 290, 291-2, 294, 350, 371-2

popularity with romantic women, 340, 341

rages and wild behaviour, 263, 266, 286, 295, 314

regains access to Evelyn, 297-8

returns home to mother, 371

sadistic orgies and brutal behaviour, 285-6, 291- 2, 294-5, 301, 328, 329, 339, 341, 343, 350, 355, 362, 371-2, 380

sent to hospital for the criminally insane, 358-9, 360

shoots Stanford White, 260-3

suicide attempts, 350, 352, 372

The Traitor
(memoir, 1926), 262, 283, 291, 293, 296, 302-3

twitching movements of, 262, 284, 349, 364

ultimate release of (1924), 372, 378

The Unwritten Law
(Edison Studios film, 1907), 262

use of Thaw money to influence case, 304, 310, 340, 344, 362-3, 364, 365, 367, 368, 375, 378

will document, 318, 324

‘zigzag' walk and agitated pacing, 285, 292, 293

see also
first trial of Harry Kendall Thaw; second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw

Thaw, Mrs William (Mary Sibbet Copley), 261-2, 263, 266-7, 284, 297-8, 302, 304, 363, 364, 378

death of (1927), 372-3

declares Thaw insane, 372

first trial testimony, 327-8, 350

Harry's allowance and, 263, 266

second trial testimony, 349-50

Thaw, William, 284

therapeutic jurisprudence, 381-2, 395

Thompson, Edith, 64-5

de Tilly, Comtesse, 202-3

de la Tourette, Gilles, 211, 227, 233-4

Tracy, Mr Justice, 90-1

Trarieux, Ludovic, 213-14

Trélat, Ulysse, 170

trials, criminal, 2, 9

Amélie Sanglé case, 203-4

Chambige case, 212-18

Comtesse de Tilly case, 202-3

Daniel M'Naghten case, 95-9, 103

Earl Ferrers case, 3-4

Edward Arnold case, 90-1, 97

Eyraud-Bompard case, 219, 223-7, 230-2

French procedure, 175

Hélène Dumaire case, 201-2

Henriette Caillaux case, 236, 240-1, 242-7, 250, 251

Henriette Cornier case, 168-9

James Hadfield (or Hatfield) case, 91-2

John Bellingham case, 92-5, 97

John Hinckley Jr case, 389-91

Madeleine Smith case, 40

of Marie Biere (April 1880), 142-3, 144, 167-8, 174-80, 181-8, 189-93

memory trials in US (1990s), 229

press reporting in Third Republic France, 173-4

public outcries over not-guilty verdicts, 99

railway murder trial (1864), 77-8

Reverend Watson case, 68-9, 113

see also
first trial of Harry Kendall Thaw; Old Bailey trial of Christiana Edmunds; second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw

trials, divorce, 17-18, 19, 50, 60-1, 77

Trollope, Anthony,
Orley Farm,
76

tuberculosis, 118