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COLLEGE SLAYER COOLY WATCHED STIR AT SCENE (Continued from page 4) murderer "and stretch him to the nearest elevated railroad girder. In May, 1919, five months after the crime, when" the search for Hamby was almost given up as apparently hopeless, a clean-cut, well groomed, soft spoken young man in Tacoma, Wash., killed another man who had been his friend. There was no way the prisoner, who had given his name as Jay B. Allan, could avoid his punishment. He had been caught red handed, He pleaded self-defense, but he was convicted and found' guilty of murder in the second degree, the jury believing, evidently, that he had been to some extent justified. Just as he was about to be sentenced to the penitentiary for life he astounded his keepers by calmly announcing that "he guessed he wouldn't bother them by hanging around any longer. Notify New . York," he added, "that you have I the man who held up a Brooklyn bank and killed two men last December." j Thus Hamby, always cool, put ; himself into the hands of the New York authorities. He said later that the man he killed in Tacoma had been his partner here. To Detective Roddy, who brought him back, he-stalked freely. He had killed several men, he said. He had committed robberies in France Italy and England. He had not been home for several years, although, he said, his home had been a good one, and his family prosperous and well thought of. "Where are they?" Roddy asked. King's College Student. "Let us assume they are all dead," Hamby replied. And he would never say more than that. He told District Attorney Henry E. Lewis, now Supreme Court Justice, that he had gone to college. His manner and conversation proved this at once. It was not until after he had been electrocuted that it was learned that his alma mater was King's College. Former students recognized his portrait, printed during his trial, as that of a former classmate. Detective Roddy remembered he had mentioned Ontario and that he admitted his family had lived there. v When he passed sentence upon him the Judge in Kings County court said: "Hamby, beneath your exterior of refinement you are a fiendish spirit incarnate." The alienists who examined the prisoner after his sentence to death, reported to the court: "The mind of the defendant shows indisputable evidence of very forceful, clear and analytical development, evidencing complete education and wide social experience." These alienists. Dr. Anna M. Ralston and Dr. Cecil McCoy, both stated, apart from their report, that Haraby was undoubtedly a product of heredity, that in his blood there was a cruel, persistent criminal trait, that no veneer or breeding could eradicate. No nope of Reform. Even Hamby's own lawyer, Frank X. McCaffrey, refused to ask clemency for his client. He stated, in substance, that it was apparent that there was nothing in Hamby's character that could either excuse his crimes or promise reform if mercy were extended him. Many others of the world's famous criminals have been college men. The late Hugo Munsterberg, foremost" psychologist of his time, declared in an address delivered in New York in 1914 that he habitually suspected men of high education. He believed that if a man had criminal traits in his blood, education, refinement of breeding, cosmopolitan experience, nursed those traits and brought them out. A reformed criminal! Another study in crime. A true story of a crook who came clean will be presented in next Sunday's SUNDAY NEWS.

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