New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1929, Page 13

nalyzingthe hild ind " ehind e . Scientists Trace the Strange “Retardations” of California’s Mail-Order-Bride and Tell Why She Killed in a Primitive Way to Gain Her Freed From Marriage. s ) Mrs. Rablen Carried a Cup of Poisoned Coffee to Her Husband, Who Sat in an Automobile Quiside the Dance Z 22 e i Z i e Tz winy 7 it NI IR G P A AR AN AR AN 1180 e e e it o I A IO AN NN NN 4 ing War Veteran, " Cup of Given to Him by £ 7 5 3 1 - Outside the er?z,'i':rlr o . : . % & g % : e nee Hall, Inteliigent k A 3 Face of Albert Lee, Eva Rablen's 11-year-old Son. Mental Tests Showed He Rated As Highly As His Mother. A 7 A A AN NI AR I U AN A I TR p % s I " A NI 0 2 R CURIOUS fl i : e A aaat et When One Clown Slams Another—Hlustrating the Cruelty Element in Childish U G T T e Humor, Enjoyed by Youngsters, and by Adults Said to Be 5 1 scientific study of 1 stionally Retarded. Psychologists Link Similar Reactions on the emotional development — ently art_of Such “Juvenile Minded™ Adults as M solved for the State of California one Failure to Realize the Cruelty and Wrongness of Ce cf its most baffling murder my Forms of Crime. and saved from the gallows a woman who confessed to killing her husband. recognized On the night of April 26, while a 2 gay dance was in progr in the li town of Tuttletown, in 0 r i to go back, as the the Mother Lode countr 3 2 than t ! : At Rablen, 34-year-old war v : \ . Albert Lee e S a cup of coffee in which It a 2 it i a previc ¥ deadly dose of strychnine, ty- 1 five minutes later died in agony. veloped 11-y » *Within a week g : Lupon opist ‘Ern Rab. She ansieren an v ertins AT 1 R AN 1 BRI RIAA AP BRI P 5 A AR rints A AT NI science and crir was th 1an, of Ken , Cecil Van- e, Mahan boy c quarrels and the father-in-la ay irritat and’s life insurar sh Va n a mphatic dismissa benefits Eva remained obdurate v n s he first o Eva wen But before the day sct for her trial down a v i 1 poured Lode country and wa events moved with such r e little b and on the night of April 2( on the very day the case was m 2 Wi L d to i dance in the Tuttletown sc to court, Mrs. Rablen passed bch a rof but the case she was one of the gaye the gray walls of San Quentin prison as ¢ | merrymakers. All this time there to spend the remainder of hc y admitted by psychol- derous plot was in her mind, life. For quite as unexpectedly as her cgists that ¢ nd sometimes was happy! Her husband, be husband had died, Mrs. Rablen sud- tends tows ne 2 lightly deaf and did nc denly confessed that she had served though i} t r preferred to remain out him the poisoned coffe h ove of violence an c-in his automobile. Late in the evening, Why her sudden confession? For in tacles is well known unde B e S e e spite of the mass of evidence against Most adults h how children My ried a plate r, the murder of her and m are thrown have been completely solved. and-Judy was at this point that scientists dis- Judy, or at a ¢ R covered the flaw in her mind, for it be- falls and appear e, came thro 1t IS ¢ ) nee 5 The came apparent that she was like a explained by scientist Sudd TR 5 i 1 : Mo Re bl child who, overcome by vezue super- i SiEaedihy it o Ralic it : . t t : ates stitions and fears, finally broke down t t \ and confessed. In the oll cried The gallows might have been her sisted that she and her husban i " His m doom had not a psychologist, Dr. . entered into a cide pact, At ping back to boyhood. Harris, of the College of the P: the last moment she had lost her nc o b r—bitter!” who studied her case, declared that sh But psychologists, reasoning as had the mentality of a child and was did in the case of t x-year-old F not fully capable of realizing the decided that the child mind of Mrs ic rthed a number erormity of the crime of killing her i longing for escape from u t ed the child ht L S r Sl B age that irked her, could think f Warne, in sentencing her to life im- only of her freedom. So she moved in 3 prisonment, recommended that she a direct, primitive and c like way the dregs the cup and never be given parole and that her to remove the obstacle to her freedom stomach revealed the pre gentence never be commuted her husband. poison. Then on May 1 the st This solved for the authorities the As will be seen in a study of her Tuolumne County found in strange case of Mrs. Eva Rablen, but crime, she displayed a certain maturity grass only a few feet from it merely added new incentive and con q ng in planning and carrying where Rablen’s automobile had st jecture to psychologists, criminologists e poisoning of her husband. But a bottle containing the c and psychiatrists in their untiring ef- ists sa juvenile cun The bottle forts to probe the mysteries and de and that while she showed re- store in neart ficiencies of the human mind. Here <sponsibility in planning the crime she register bea correct was a case which symbolized in a tragic ~ displayed none in conceiving the con. purehace ! ] : ! e Setitie e form the results of arrested develop- sequences. Scientists are beginning i A ot tional o~ s b oo i Lol ment, to trace many of these defects in i ; ; Both scientists and civil authorities nking and emotional reactions to 2000 L% T Bunmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmns: S ———————————— A I I A A SRR 7 / p——wy ) § | | ! N § § § it it asked the young widow to acc