Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1906 — Crimp from Study of Crime. [ARTICLE]

Crimp from Study of Crime.

Dr. William J. Patterson of Denver, Colo., who was an exuert in criminology and a university gnu mate, has been arrested for issuing a fraudulent S2O ch-tclc, and is now in the city jail, a physical and mental wreck. Ur. Patterson says that his only excuse is that his long study of crime developed the criminal instinct within himself. ‘‘l’m a living example,” he says, "of a man with criminal instincts highly developed. I could not be straight if I wanted to, and would defraud people at times when 1 did not need the money and had no possible reason for talcing it. Nearly all men who are convicted* of crimes are criminals by nature, and their nature will come out iu any environment, whereas, if a man is naturally right his environment is not going to make any difference." Dr. Patterson had previously been committed for forgery. lie has wealthy parents and a wife and two children.’ - -