LATENT CRIMINAL TENDENCIES.
PROFESSOR CESARE LOMBROSO, of Italy, who is perhaps the greatest living authority on criminology, recently had an opportunity to test scientifically the effect of alcohol in developing latent criminal tendencies. The subject of his experiments was a man who had surrendered himself to the police with the avowal that anarchists wished to make him their instrument for assassinating the king of Italy. The man seemed sane, but no corroboration of his story could be obtained. Unexpectedly, after drinking wine, he broke out into anarchistic threats. Acting upon this hint, Professor Lombroso administered alcohol to him in carefully measured quantities, and discovered that after he had drunk a certain amount he developed violent criminal tendencies, all recollections of which appeared to have vanished from his mind when the effects of alcohol had passed off.