Trials of Passion (61 page)

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von

Psychopathia Sexualis
(1886), 2, 250, 287, 324

Textbook of Insanity (1905), 330

Labori, Fernand, 242, 245-6

Lacan, Jacques, 64, 171

Lacassagne, Alexandre, 217, 220

Lachaud, Charles, 178-9, 180, 190-2, 193, 202

lactation, 50, 183

Lafarge, Marie, 178

Lamb, Charles (author), 1

Lamb, Charles (lawyer), 25, 27, 28, 29, 36-7, 77, 123

Lamb, Mary, 1, 92

Lane, Dr Edward, 60-1, 64

L'Angelier, Pierre Émile, 39-40

Lasdun, James, Give Me Everything You Have, 393

Lasègue, Charles, 169, 183

Le Bon, Gustave, 163

Leak, Roy D., 366

Letherby, Professor, 33, 34

Lewes County Prison, 66-7, 82, 102, 116-17, 118, 119-20, 125, 127, 129

Liddell, A. J. O., 126

Liébault, Ambroise, 211

Liégeois, Jules, 210, 216, 230, 231, 232-3

Lincoln, Abraham, 312

literature, 2-3, 76

feuilletons
in France, 173

French, 139, 140, 173, 174, 182

popular, 23, 28, 39, 74-5, 173

Littleton, Martin W., 348, 350, 351, 352, 358

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

Lombroso, Cesare, 71, 161, 163, 217, 300

Lourdes, 208

Lunacy Act (1845), 45, 126

Lutes, Jean Marie,
Front-Page Girls,
341

Lyndhurst, Lord, 99

Lyon school of criminology, 217

Mabon, William, 329

MacDonald, Carlos F., 312, 329-30

Madison Square Garden, New York, 255-6, 257-8, 260

murder of Stanford White at, 258, 260-3, 264-5

White's apartment at, 257-8, 265, 269, 278, 281

White's luminous Diana at, 258, 260

madness
see
insanity

Magna Carta, 360

Magnan, Valentin,
Délire Chronique
(1890), 324

magnetizers, animal, 208

Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, 51

Malvern water cure, 56, 61, 62

Manhattan State Hospital, 312

manic depressive psychosis, 6, 332, 354, 355-6, 357-8, 364

Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, 93-4

manslaughter, 113, 115

Marc, Charles Chrétien Henri, De la Folie dans ses rapports avec les questions médico-legales (1840), 98

Margate, Kent, 16, 31, 36, 40-2, 45, 46, 74

marriage, 7, 107

in
belle époque
France, 139, 140, 152, 167, 168, 174, 180, 203

divorce legislation in France (1884), 203

idealized space of the home, 114-15, 251, 306, 336

spousal murders by men, 9, 25, 114, 187, 194, 200

spousal murders by women, 9, 25, 65, 69, 114, 187

unhappy, 47, 53, 59, 60, 62, 251, 392

Marriott, Frederick, 267-8

Marsh, James, 40

Martin, judge Mr Baron Samuel, 76, 102, 104-5, 106-7

letter to Home Secretary, 111-12, 116

masturbation, 50, 53, 54, 62, 183

medical, 56

Matteawan State Hospital for the criminally insane, 303, 358-9, 360, 361, 363, 365, 366-7, 368, 369

Maudsley, Dr Henry, 83-4, 86-7, 89-90, 92, 94, 161, 249-50, 310

Maule, Justice, 105

de Maupassant, Guy, 182

Maybrick, Mrs, 14

Maynard's (Brighton confectioner), 14, 15, 19, 27, 29, 32, 33, 35-6, 80, 104, 122

McAlpin Hotel, New York, 371-2

McEwan, reverend W. L., 266

McKenzie, May, 265, 302

McKinley, President, assassination of, 274, 275, 312

Medico-Psychological Association, 83

melancholia, 118, 215, 326, 329, 354

Menninger, Karl A., 376, 377

menopause, 50, 60, 61, 81-2, 111

menstruation, 49, 50, 172, 183, 204, 225

Merrifield, F., 25

Merrill, Susie, 285-6, 362, 364

mesmerists, 208, 232

Meyer, Adolf, 309, 354-5, 363

Mill, John Stuart, 24-5

Miller, Charles David, 33

mind-doctors

1900s period as exciting moment, 308-9

aspiration to scientific exactitude, 88

belief in importance of work, 43

buying of favourable opinions by attorneys, 310, 344, 375

calls for impartial experts after Thaw trial, 344, 347, 377

capital punishment and, 397

expansion of profession, 5-6, 9-10

fall-out from Thaw trial, 344-7

forensic psychiatry, 2, 10, 250, 311, 381

French, 8, 63-4, 98, 121, 134, 167, 168-72, 181-8, 204-5, 224-31, 246, 251, 310

French judicial system and, 160, 168-9, 170-2, 181-8, 204-5, 224-7, 230-1, 310

gendered diagnoses, 1, 6, 49-50, 61, 63-4, 81-2, 83-4, 119, 172, 183, 250-1

impact of Christiana Edmunds's case, 120-1

male passions and, 251

malign experience of the Thaw trials, 375-8

medical appraisal of Edmunds for Home Secretary, 117-19

medical confidentiality and, 367, 383, 384, 385- 6

medicalization of sexuality, 249

misogyny and, 83-4

need to be distinct from law enforcers, 398

passion as explanatory category in France, 168-70, 171-2

psychological shock of migration and, 167

remuneration for medico-legal work, 186

Ruth Ellis case and, 380

term ‘alienist', 2

term ‘psychiatrist', 2

term ‘psychologist', 64

uses of psychiatry in USSR, 378

see also
expert psychiatric witnesses

misogyny, 83-4, 373

mistresses, 54, 137, 140, 156-7, 158, 199, 202, 237, 239-40, 241

Mitchell, Price, 349

M'Naghten, Daniel, 95-9, 103, 118

M'Naghten rules, 100-1, 105, 307, 333, 357, 388

the mob, phenomenon of, 207, 217

Moll, Albert, 233

Monash University in Australia, 393

Monk Eastman gang, 299, 322

monomania, 168, 169

Monro, John, 4

Monroe, Marilyn, 258

Moore, Lawrence, 384

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

Mordaunt divorce trial (1870), 77

Morris Plains, New Jersey State Asylum, 311, 320

Motet, Auguste, 182-5, 186, 189, 204, 224, 226

motherhood, 139, 141, 161, 177, 188, 194, 199, 201

idealized in
belle époque
France, 198, 241

maternal love, 153, 158, 168, 184-5, 186, 190-1, 193, 202

Mullen, Paul E., 393

Muller, Franz, 77-8

Miinsterberg, Hugo, 208

Musil, Robert, The Man Without Qualities, 2-3

Muybridge, Eadweard, 306-7

Naquet, Alfred, 203

narcissistic disorder, 322, 324, 389

National Stalking Clinic, London, 395

de Nerval, Gérard, 181-2

Nesbit, Evelyn

allows Thaw to regain access, 297-8

arrival in Manhattan, 271, 273

avoids Thaw, 296-7

biographical details, 258, 271-82

birth of son (October 1910), 359, 365

death of (1967), 373

dental work suggested by White, 276-7, 299

divorce and remarriage, 371

evades reporters after murder, 265

files for annulment of marriage to Thaw, 361

first months of marriage in Pittsburgh, 298-9

friendship with Flint, 367-8

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955 film about), 258, 373

hold over White wanes, 296-7

John Barrymore proposes marriage, 281-2

later life of, 373

lives at Wellington Hotel, 277-8

marriage to Thaw, 266-7, 298

medical emergency in New Jersey, 290, 319, 325, 343

meets Stanford White, 274-7

meets Thaw, 282, 283-4

morphine and alcohol addiction, 373

Mrs Thaw and, 262, 266-7, 297, 298, 304, 372

murder of Stanford White and, 261-3

in musical
Floradora,
257, 266, 274-5, 282

photogenic appeal of, 257, 258, 259, 276, 339

press attitudes to, 339, 340, 341-3

‘recuperative' trip to Europe, 290-6, 337

return to New York from Europe, 296

return to the stage, 365, 369

schooldays diary of, 326, 342-3

at second trial of Thaw, 348, 351-3

sent to boarding school in New Jersey, 282, 289- 90

small inheritance from Thaw, 374

The Story of My Life by Evelyn Thaw
(1914 memoir), 262, 284, 292-3, 326, 327

Thaw at Matteawan and, 358, 359, 360

Thaw threatens life of, 361, 368

on Thaw's appearance and character, 283-4

Thaw's obsession with White and, 267, 270

Thaw's pursuit of, 289-91

Thaw's sexual brutality towards, 294-5, 301, 329, 339, 341, 343, 355

treatment of by Thaw family after trials, 361

trial testimony, 279-80, 300, 301-2, 317-18, 325-6, 339, 341-3, 363

Untold Story
(Prodigal Days
in US) (1934), 262, 373

as vixen or victim, 340-2

White arranges photographs of, 278-9

White as patron of, 280-1

at White's Garden apartment, 257-8, 278, 281

White's statutory rape of, 279-80, 292-3, 294-5, 301, 306, 317, 325, 341, 342, 343

in
The Wild Rose,
280-1, 282, 324

work posing for artists and photographers, 272-4, 276

Nesbit, Florence MacKenzie, 271-2, 274, 275, 276-7, 278, 281, 282, 293, 326, 365

absent from Thaw trial, 302

becomes daughter Evelyn's manager, 272-3

dislike of Thaw, 289, 291, 292, 296

Evelyn's ‘recuperative' trip to Europe and, 290- 1

Nesbit, Howard, 271, 277, 278, 291, 302, 326

Nesbit, Winfield Scott, 271

Network for Surviving Stalking, 395

neurological sphere, 7, 88, 208-9, 250-1, 308, 309, 310-11, 312, 376

hysteria and, 51-2, 53-4, 55, 209-10, 225

neuro-criminologists, 389-90

New York

corruption in, 255, 304

Gilded Age architecture, 256-8

laws on insanity in, 307, 313, 314-15

Nesbit's arrival in Manhattan, 271, 273

NYU School of Medicine, 310-11

Pathological Institute, 309

social class in, 255, 256-8, 260, 263, 265-6, 286-7

Supreme Court of, 301

the ‘Tenderloin' area, 255, 263-4, 285, 336, 337

New York Psychiatric Institute, 355

New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, 258, 268-9, 275

New York State Commission in Lunacy, 312, 331

Newgate Prison, 66-7, 82, 84, 109, 116

Nice, Théâtre Français, 197

Nightingale, Florence, 61

nitrate of silver, 55

Northampton asylum for the criminally insane, 92 Norway, 381

nymphomania, 6, 50-1, 52, 61, 63, 64

Oakley, Violet, 272

Obscene Publications Act, 19

obsessional love, 7, 63-5, 119, 121-2, 124, 382-3

Edmunds' for Beard, 18-19, 35, 37, 53-4, 57, 59, 78-9, 103, 105-7, 110-11, 116-17, 122, 249, 387

John Hinckley Jr case, 388-91

social class and, 386-7

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

see also
stalking

occult forces, belief in, 208

Offences Against the Person Acts (1828, 1837), 113

Oge, Marie, 267-8

Old Bailey trial of Christiana Edmunds, 44, 45, 66, 68, 69-72, 74, 75-7, 78-87, 117, 123

defendant's claim of pregnancy, 108-11, 123

demeanour and appearance of defendant, 69-72, 80, 85, 105-6, 108, 122

Dr Beard as witness, 72, 80

insanity defence, 81-7, 102-5, 111

jury of matrons at, 108-10

medico-legal expert witnesses, 82-7, 102, 103

mother of defendant as witness, 42, 57, 81-2

significance of defendant's age, 40, 81-2, 111

sister Mary at, 48

summary remarks and judge's summing up, 102-5

verdict and death sentence, 105-8, 115

Onslow, Lord, 90-1

Orange, Dr William, 117, 118, 119, 125-6, 127, 128, 129

O'Reilly, Daniel, 358

d'Orsay, Hôtel, Paris, 350, 352

Oudinet, Monsieur, 154, 155-6, 189

Over, Alice, 82

paedophilia, 8

Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service, 392

Palmer's Act (Central Criminal Court Act, 1856), 66

Palmerston, Lord, 54

Papin sisters, 387

paranoia, 6, 64, 313

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

Kraepelin and, 355-6

WHO classification, 323-4

Paris

Asile Sainte-Anne in, 171, 233

Bière-Gentien tryst (16 October 1877), 142, 143, 164, 176

Commune, 169

Conservatoire, 138, 141, 175

Cour d'Assises (Central Criminal Court), 174, 194

Exposition Universelle (1889), 219

Fete des Inondations de Maresie, 158

Gentien's absences from, 144-5, 148-9

Marie Bière moves to, 141, 167

Marie's returns to from Brussels, 146

migration to, 167

Montmartre, 149, 165, 181, 182, 189

Opéra Comique, 179

police medical post, 170-1

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

shooting of Robert Gentien in, 137-8, 139, 158-9, 175, 189-90

Théâtre-Italien, 179

Parry, Serjeant John Humffreys, 68, 77, 78, 80-1, 82, 85, 102

passions

in
belle époque
France, 167, 168-70, 188

crime passionnel
in France, 36, 111, 134, 186-8, 193-4, 198, 199, 200, 201-5, 218, 235-6, 242, 245-6

criminal trials as new arena for, 9

divorce courts and, 17-18, 60-1

erotomania, 5, 6, 8, 23, 61, 63-4, 65, 386-7, 393

excess in very nature of, 7, 119

as explanatory category in France, 168-70, 171-2, 184-8, 193-4, 235-6

French mind-doctors and, 63-4, 98, 134, 168-70, 171-2, 184-8

hatred, 7, 8, 106, 151, 154, 184, 288, 300, 357, 384-5, 393

honour and ‘the unwritten law' in USA, 267-8, 292, 304, 305-7, 336, 348

honour as mitigating factor, 191-3, 199, 202, 235, 239-40, 241, 242, 243-6, 397

jealousy, 2, 4, 7, 36, 114, 170, 187, 239-40, 250, 299, 315, 341, 386

Lombroso's view of the criminal woman, 161

maternal love, 153, 158, 168, 184-5, 186, 190-1, 193, 202