. The criminal classes, causes and cures. mother; and that almostuniversally his expressed wishes were unhesitatinglygranted. On that fatal morning, however, of the day whichbrought to his home unremitting gloom, and stamped himas a monstrosity, his father had kindly but firmly declineda demand which he made. At this he became insolent andangTy, and his mother tenderly rebuked him, and sus-tained the decision of his father. This seemed to stirwithin him a slumbering abnormal nature and arousewithin him anomalous criminal propensities, which im-mediately broke over bounds and led to the assassi
. The criminal classes, causes and cures. mother; and that almostuniversally his expressed wishes were unhesitatinglygranted. On that fatal morning, however, of the day whichbrought to his home unremitting gloom, and stamped himas a monstrosity, his father had kindly but firmly declineda demand which he made. At this he became insolent andangTy, and his mother tenderly rebuked him, and sus-tained the decision of his father. This seemed to stirwithin him a slumbering abnormal nature and arousewithin him anomalous criminal propensities, which im-mediately broke over bounds and led to the assassinationof his mother, in the absence of his sister and father. A study of this case leads to the opinion that, thoughhis intellectual faculties regarding other affairs may havebeen normal, with regard to moral conduct there arestrong indications of a ])roken or missing link lietweon thebrain tissues and the moral monitor. In company and inconversation with him, it has seemed impossible to discoverin hini a sinolo sian of A -MOi;.\L IAKALYllC C^i) Causes and Cures 23 A ]SroTOEious Ocean Pirate. His Parents—•When a Boy—A Caj)tain of a Pirate Vessel—Noth-ing in Him to Admire—Not a Single Virtue. James J). Jeffries, alias Charles Biggs, was born inProvidence, Ehode Island, about 1790. History says: Against this mans parents no chargesof crime were ever made, yet it was generally believedthat they were without methods of training.^^ This chiefof criminals from his childhood lived a life of self-indulgence. When but a boy, through fear of arrest for a robberyin which he had taken part, he fled to Xew Orleans, thenceto Europe, where he soon became the leader of a gang ofpirates, and, for criminal purposes, studied marine delighted in exciting mutiny among the crews of ves-sels. As captain of piratical vessels, he directed in thecapture and robbery of forty vessels upon the high seas,and the murder of the entire crews of two. His last crimewas committ
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