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Tia.LE of a Phyiclin TiA.LE OF A PHYIClIN: OR THE SEEDS AND FRUITS OF CRIME. IN THREE PARTS. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. BY ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS. "Truth is stranger than Fiction." SECOND THOUSAND. BOSTON: WILLIAM WHITE & COMPANY, BANNER OF LIGHT OFFICE 158 WASHINGTON STREET. NEW YORK AGENTS-AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY. 1869. APT NE. APH 1961 PLANTING THE 'SEEDS OF CRIME. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S09, by ANDEW JACKSON DAVIS, PAPT TWO. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of New Jersey. TREES OF CRIME IN FULL BLOOM. '?z 9) RANFT 'ITE, REAPING THE FRUITS OF CRIME. M( (vi:A & MI rLir', STE11411'.0TYER-A, lo G rcuno Street, -N. Y. INTRODUOTORY. ii THE following series of strange and startling and PART I. tragical events, which I am now called upon to make public for the first time, are, even to the minutest details, founded upon facts, with only a thin veil between the reader and the real characters whose temperaments, cir- cumstances, temptations, virtues, vices, and' crimes, are TALE OF A PHYSICIAN. herein truthfully recorded. The principal facts concerning the manifold causes which developed the "Mysterious Association of Crimi- nals " in New York and vicinity, came to my knowledge about twenty-five years ago. The investigating reader, CHAPTER I. who is curious to -know more on this interesting point, is referred to a volume by the author, entitled "The "The heart knoweth its own bitterness."--Bible. Present Age and Inner Life," pp. 259-265. The strange. FoR ages the office of the regularly graduated physician incident therein narrated will repay perusal. has been regarded with a profound degree of respect. In It is believed that so-long as mothers and daughters European countries, and in the plden time, his wisdom shall exist, such disclosures as are made in this volume and his public function were, regarded with reverence, can not but be productive of the best results. Not less which was freely accorded. .He is furnished with a are these fearful scenes important to fathers and sons. diploma of "doctor of medicine," and is thus dignified Because, if to be fore-warned is 'to be fore-armed, these and empowered by a law of the land to practice his pro- horrible and truthful pictures of the causes of crime, fession. He is supposed to be deeply versed in the laws and these faithful delineations of the ways of profession- of nature; to comprehend all the secret causes of human al criminals, will serve as beacon lights and guideboards suffering; to be, a perfect master in natural philosophy; by which maidenhood and manhood can avoid the evil and to judge-correctly of the physical condition, and even and choose the good. of the characters, of, individuals, 'by examination and A. J. D. observation of their pulsations, tongues, countenances, NEW YoRKi, April 20, 1869. gestures, and other external peculiarities. This unquestioning confidence, reposed in the office and wisdom of the medical man of science, is manifested in many ways. I' 'ii 6 TALE OF A PHYSICIAN. PLANTING THE SEEDS OF CRIME. One hundred years ago, the diplomatized and estab- usual remedies, the physician who saved the life of the lished physician frequently tookprecedence of-the vener- patient (whose name and condition will hereafter be iit ated priest in the confidence of the family. Confessions disclosed) employed the so-called potent influence of mag~ of sins and sufferings to the minister were almost uni- netism, by which her broken heart was empowered to formly of a negative character. In pious moments continue its pulsations, thus gradually restoring her especially, when the soul is overwhelmed with a sense of beautiful person to perfect health and its blessings, and its total and eternal dependence upon God, not un- eventually resulting in a wonderful career. Iii mingled with a deep realization of its vanities and It was during the slow.process of a recuperative con- unworthiness, the female heart, less worldly-minded and valescence that the physician deeply investigated the Ii less vainglorious than man's, confesseth freely and fully secret causes of certain crimes, which come forth, disap- to negative sins, such as repining thoughts, want of pear, and again reappear in families.- He was led to watchfulness, proud. feelings, unforgiving temper, foolish- observe how sudden mental emotions of the mother, imaginations, secret neglect of holy duties, hasty expres- ere her child had seen the light, either increased or sion of envious words, coldness in the affections toward diminished the molecular formation and development of heavenly things, and so on through the whole catalogue .the several portions of the cerebral structures in her of spiritual infirmities and concomitants with which our offspring. He demonstrated, to his own satisfaction at nature is said to abound. least, that the tendency of the vital forces to the brain, But in the 'privacy of the sick-chamber, when, the or to other parts of the organic structurewas determined stricken patient fears that the tide of life is fast ebbing- by the mother during the critical period of gestation; away, the physician often becomes the recipient of con- tI and, furthermore, that. such determination -was accom- fessions of vices, crimes, and misery, which the ear of the plished far tnore through the potent instrumentality of her revered priest has never been permitted to hear. Freely, thoughts and feelings- than by any peculiar condition or fully, and without so much as the shadow of the fear of abnormal predilections of the nerve-forces in her physical betrayal, the prostrated sufferer takes tl%first convenient' systein. opportunity of revealing in detail the corrupt workings Moreover, finally, and in short: he found that, by of that society, in which diseases more painful than any this mysterious and immutable law of phreno-electrotyp-. bodily affliction continually assail mankind. ing, so to call it, which is outwrought on the sensitive It is manifestly the first duty of the physician to study surfaces of, and by the means of the psycho-dynamical his patient's malady, and administer such'remedial agents forces at work- within the unborn brain, the offspring as will deaden and destroy suffering, and sustain the vital could, and absolutely does, mentally inherit a predisposi- principle, without diminishing the constitutional systolic tion to particular vices and crimes, as easily as to be born and diastolic movements of the heart. with cross-eyes, red-hair, far-sightedness, stammering, The author of the famous practice called mesmerism deafness and dumbness, cutaneous diseases, scrofula, and taught his proselytes to overcome disease by manipulation consumption. .On this principle he traced out the causes and the exercise of will. Instead of administering the why some children are born with finely molded limbs I 8 TALE OF A PHYSICIAN. PLANTING THE SEEDS OF CRIME. and attractive personal manners, while others come "into multiplying improvements in the Crescent City, by which this breathing world" replete with, every imaginable commerce and general prosperity acquired ,a new imx- physical imperfection. petus. Carondelet's administration was an unfailing And these observations and conclusions, combined topic of eloquent and vehement discourse with Captain with the earnest and inspiring solicitations of his es- Aragoni; and he never lost an opportunity of impressing teemed professional friends, have determined him to write all listeners with the clear and important fact that he out the following tale-which is far more wonderful than- was a near relative of that distinguished governor. fiction-illustrating (1.) the origin of the seeds of crime, Whether all this was true or not the ,writer does not (2.) the blossoming of crime's tree, and (3.) the harvest know. of whirlwinds which come as the fruits of crime. Although pardonably vain of his maternally Spanish and paternally French origin, on which relationship he based all his claims to promotion in the army, still Cap- tain Aragoni was, on his own merits, a gentleman of morg than ordinary personal beauty, intelligence, and military CHAPTER II- courage. While he was by mental inheritance jealous, irritable, impulsive, and even cruelly revengeful when "All before us lies the way; give the past unto the wind."-Old Play. under sufficient temptation; yet on the other side-that part of his character which he scrupulously presented to CAPTAIN JACQUEs DEL ARAGONI was of a noble family, his associates-he displayed the most agreeable gener- and had displayed great skill and courage in warfare. osity, and the most attractive deportment. One thing But he experienced exquisite pleasure in pursuing must not be overlooked. He was uniformly popular with genealogical studies. At least this was his profession. citizens, with companions -of equal rank, and with even He said he delighted more particularly in tracing out the his most inferior subordinates in the army. IX parental and maternal links in the chain of his own He could easily condescend to fellowship with persons origin. far below him in every walk of life. This was more With great apparent satisfaction he found himself remarked than any other trait in his character. Indeed maternally related to a distinguished, fearless Spanish this distinguishing peculiarity had been in former years a offlcer-the special favorite of Fernando Cortez-one source of deep concern-to the better class of his acquaint- Bernal Castillo, who accompanied the great chieftain's ances. expedition to South America in the sixteenth century; Although proud, even to vanity, of his ancestry, and and his enthusiasm was .not less when he found that his although reserved and dignified when commanding in blood was paternally derived from the noble families of the field, still at other times, and under different circum- which the latest distinguished member was Baron De stances and inducements, he would seek the society of Carondelet, who,-some ten years before the transfer of disreputable men, gamblers, and sailors; but notwith- Louisiana to the United States, had made his mark by standing the multifarious temptations which surrounded 1* TALE OF A PHYSICIAN.
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