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of Harry Thaw, 287-8, 299, 303, 310, 318, 320, 322-4, 326-7, 329, 332-3, 334, 355, 364-8
Kraepelin and, 355-6
WHO classification, 323-4
Paris
Asile Sainte-Anne in, 171, 233
Bière-Gentien tryst (16 October 1877), 142, 143, 164, 176
Commune, 169
Conservatoire, 138, 141, 175
Cour d’Assises (Central Criminal Court), 174, 194
Exposition Universelle (1889), 219
Fete des Inondations de Maresie, 158
Gentien’s absences from, 144-5, 148-9
Marie Bière moves to, 141, 167
Marie’s returns to from Brussels, 146
migration to, 167
Montmartre, 149, 165, 181, 182, 189
Opéra Comique, 179
police medical post, 170-1
Salpêtrière hospital in, 55, 208-9, 214, 225, 226, 233
shooting of Robert Gentien in, 137-8, 139, 158-9, 175, 189-90
Théâtre-Italien, 179
Parry, Serjeant John Humffreys, 68, 77, 78, 80-1, 82, 85, 102
passions
in belle époque France, 167, 168-70, 188
crime passionnel in France, 36, 111, 134, 186-8, 193-4, 198, 199, 200, 201-5, 218, 235-6, 242, 245-6
criminal trials as new arena for, 9
divorce courts and, 17-18, 60-1
erotomania, 5, 6, 8, 23, 61, 63-4, 65, 386-7, 393
excess in very nature of, 7, 119
as explanatory category in France, 168-70, 171-2, 184-8, 193-4, 235-6
French mind-doctors and, 63-4, 98, 134, 168-70, 171-2, 184-8
hatred, 7, 8, 106, 151, 154, 184, 288, 300, 357, 384-5, 393
honour and ‘the unwritten law’ in USA, 267-8, 292, 304, 305-7, 336, 348
honour as mitigating factor, 191-3, 199, 202, 235, 239-40, 241, 242, 243-6, 397
jealousy, 2, 4, 7, 36, 114, 170, 187, 239-40, 250, 299, 315, 341, 386
Lombroso’s view of the criminal woman, 161
maternal love, 153, 158, 168, 184-5, 186, 190-1, 193, 202
moral insanity, 5, 83-4, 86, 87
morbid obsessional qualities, 383-95
neurology of, 250-1
no easy solutions to love gone awry, 397-8
repressed, 52, 53
romantic love, 7-8, 64, 119, 140, 157, 386
secret, 124
sense of ‘specialness’ of criminals, 396-7
Thaw’s obsession with White, 267, 268, 269, 270, 286-8, 291, 292-3, 294-5, 296, 299, 322-3
les vitrioleuses in France, 199-200, 201-5
see also delusion; obsessional love; sexuality
Passy asylum, 181, 182
Pasteur, Louis, 185, 204
Pathological Institute, New York Hospital, 309
Peckham House asylum, 45
Peel, Robert, 96, 113
Pennsylvania State Hospital in Philadelphia, 372
Perceval, Spencer, 92-3, 95
Perry, Dr Frederick, 40
personality disorders, 6, 7, 86, 99, 323, 389, 394
perversions, 6, 9, 183, 287, 339, 380
Pétain, Maréchal, 247
Peters, Reverend Madison C., 325-6
Philadelphia, 272, 273, 372
Phillips, Ryland, 273
philosophes, eighteenth-century, 168
Phipps Clinic, 363
phrenology, 71-2, 156
physiognomy, 71-2, 83, 300
Picart, Dr, 201-2
Pilgrim, Charles W., 310, 331
Pinel, Philippe, 182
Pinker, Steven, The Better Angels of Our Nature, 396
Pitcairn, Dr J. J., 249-50
Pittsburgh, 261-2, 263, 265, 266-7, 271, 285, 287, 297, 298-9, 327-8, 371
Poddar, Prosenjit, 383-4, 385, 386, 387
poison, 14-15, 19
arsenic, 14, 25-6, 27, 28, 33, 36, 39, 40, 74
Arsenic Act (1851), 14
strychnine, 15, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36, 66, 74, 104
tests for detecting, 19, 40
poisoning
as crime beloved of the Victorian press, 25, 69
as crime with feminine stamp, 25, 69, 114, 199
Florence Bravo case, 61, 62-3
French criminal code and, 170
Madeleine Smith case, 39-40
Marie Lafarge case, 178
Mrs Maybrick case, 14
William Palmer case, 66
see also Chocolate Cream Murders; Edmunds, Christiana
Portman Clinic, 382
potassium bromide, 55
press, popular, 2, 17-18, 63, 66, 67-8, 69-72, 75, 108, 109, 120, 235, 387
absence of libel laws in France, 243
reporting of White murder case, 262, 265-6, 300, 301-2, 304, 307, 324, 327, 339-43
in Third Republic France, 173-4, 193, 196-7, 198, 199, 207, 208, 235, 237, 238-40, 241, 242-4, 245, 246, 247
women reporters, 301, 307, 325, 339-42, 343
Prével, Jules, 197
Prince of Wales, 15, 24, 77, 118
Prison Act, 125
Pritchard, Dr James, On the Different Forms of Insanity in Relation to Jurisprudence (1842), 97
Pritchard, Dr William, 329
prostitution, 114, 139, 157, 163, 167, 241, 268, 285-6
Protection of Freedoms Act (2012), 394-5
Proust, Marcel, 139
psychoanalysis, 59, 309, 311, 382
see also Freud, Sigmund
psychodynamic ideas, 309, 311
psychologists see mind-doctors psychosomatic illness, 183
Putzel, Leopold, 334, 335
racism, 311
Ray, Dr Isaac, Treatise on the Medical
Jurisprudence of Insanity (1838), 97-8
Reagan, Ronald, 389, 390
religion, 250, 301-2, 313
Catholic Church in France, 134, 167, 171, 194, 203, 238, 240-1
Presbyterianism, 261-2, 266, 267, 287, 298
Ricardo, Alexander, 62
Richard III, Shakespeare’s, 396-7
Robben Island, 47, 128
Robertson, Dr Charles Lockhart, 83, 85-6, 87, 103
Robertson, George, 356
Robinson, Isabella, 60-1, 64, 65, 77, 95, 156, 229
romantic love, 7-8, 64, 119, 140, 157, 386
Romantic movement, 168, 215
Roosevelt, Theodore, 275, 302
Rouch, Dr, 148, 165, 176, 177-8, 180
Royan (Atlantic coast resort), 156, 198
Ruskin, John, 72-3
Fors Clavigera, 73-4, 78
Russian Revolution, 247
Ryley, Dr Beresford, 109-10
Sacreste, Dr, 223-4
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 258
Saint-Lazare women’s prison, 159, 163-4, 183, 204
Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, 55, 208-9, 214, 225, 226, 233
Sanglé, Amélie, 203-4
schizophrenia, 6, 99, 332, 384, 389-90
Scotland, 60-1, 77, 95-7
second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw, 262, 285-6, 380
Evelyn’s appearances at, 348, 351-3
expert psychiatric witnesses, 348-9, 354
hearings following, 356
mother Mrs Thaw’s testimony, 349-50
press coverage of, 348, 351
prosecution case, 356-7
simple insanity plea, 348-52, 354, 355-7
Thaw’s demeanour during, 348, 349, 356
verdict of not guilty due to insanity, 357-8, 360
self-defence mitigation, 101, 187, 242, 305, 337, 386
sexuality
abstinence, 52, 53, 54, 61
in belle époque France, 133-4, 167-8, 188
courtly code of the homme galant, 143-4, 151-2, 155, 168, 180, 190, 191, 193, 387
demi-monde decadence in France, 140
The Elements of Social Science (Drysdale, 1861), 52, 53-4
female desire as aberrant, 34, 50, 51, 59, 61, 71, 107, 250, 251, 339
greater openness in twentieth-century, 386-7
hidden/secret, 9, 1
7-18, 54, 72, 110-11, 122, 124, 130, 143, 144, 149
hysteria and, 6, 52, 53, 61, 62
illicit passions for doctors, 56-7, 59-61, 62, 65
Krafft-Ebing on, 250
masturbation, 50, 53, 62, 183
medicalization of, 249
in popular literature, 74-5
sexualized female badness, 74-5, 77
transgressive, 2-3, 5, 8, 183, 215
Victorian restrictions on female desire, 52, 53, 54, 59-60, 61, 63, 72
see also obsessional love; passions
sexually transmitted diseases, 44, 139, 182
Shaw, George Bernard, Mrs Warren’s Profession, 268
Sherbrooke, Canada, 369
Sickles, Daniel, 306
sleepwalking states see hypnotic states
Smith, Lorna, 394
Smith, Madeleine, 39-40
Smith, Perry, 378
social class
Aileen Wuornos case and, 380-1
anxieties about hypnotism and, 231
in belle époque France, 134, 167-8, 188, 203-4
Brighton and, 24
Christiana Edmunds and, 45, 54, 64, 66-8, 75, 128
class fluidity in twentieth-century, 386-7
courtesans in belle epoque France, 139-40
courtly code of the homme galant, 143-4, 151-2, 155, 168, 180, 190, 191, 193, 387
the criminally insane and, 126, 131
duelling and, 242, 243, 244
high society doctors, 117-18
judicial murder and, 113
middle class women, 9, 32, 40, 48, 59, 75, 113, 114, 194-5
in New York, 255, 256-8, 260, 263, 265-6, 286-7
obsessional love and, 386-7
petty-bourgeois values, 144, 180, 387
in Pittsburgh, 261-2, 266-7
prostitution and, 167
Ruth Ellis case and, 380
Stockwell murderer and, 68, 113
upper class women, 5, 52
social media, 392
solar eclipse (January 1872), 68
Solnit, Albert, 382
somnambulism see hypnotic states
Southall Park Asylum, 43-4
Special Committee on the Commitment and Discharge of the Criminal Insane (1910), 375
spectroscope, 19
speculums, 60
Spencer, Herbert, 83
Spielrein, Sabina, 59
St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics in London, 83
stalking, 6, 8, 28, 383, 386
British and EU legislation, 394-5
cyber-world and, 392-3
gender statistics, 387-8
of Gentien by Bière, 137, 157, 158, 175
John Hinckley Jr case, 388-91
prior relationship and, 392, 393, 394
Tarasoff case (1969), 383-4, 385, 386, 387
therapeutic jurisprudence and, 395
typology of, 393-4
by women, 65, 388, 393-4
Stanton, Edwin M., 306
Stedman, Dr, 347
Steinheil, Madame, 162
Steward, Dr J.B., 44, 81
Stockwell murderer, 68-9, 87, 120
Stone, Mrs, 30-1 Storm, John, 272
strychnine, 15, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36, 66, 74, 104
Stuckey, Mr (lawyer), 25, 28, 35
suffrage for women campaigns, 68, 200-1
Summerscale, Kate, 60
Sussex County Asylum, 83
Sweden, 381
syphilis, tertiary, 44, 182
Tarasoff, Tatiana, 383-4, 385, 386, 387
Tarde, Gabriel, 216-17, 218, 243
Tarentum, Pennsylvania, 271, 272
Tatham, G., 15
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976), 388
Texas, 305-6
Thaw, Harry Kendall
agitated and frantic states, 267, 269, 270, 292-3, 299, 316, 320, 322, 328, 349, 350, 364
alcohol and gambling, 263, 283, 285
allowance from mother, 263, 266
Anthony Comstock and, 268-70, 287, 299, 351
arrest and charging of, 262-4
battles with courts over ‘insanity’ ruling, 360
bellhop incident, 286, 291-2, 295
biographical details, 261-2, 263, 266-7, 284-6
bizarre letters to Evelyn, 318, 365-6
‘bulging’ and ‘glaring’ eyes, 264, 283, 294, 320, 322, 349, 355, 362
childhood, 284-5, 316, 319, 349, 350
cocaine and morphine use, 286, 296
comparisons with John Hinckley Jr case, 388, 389, 391
death of (1947), 373-4
death of mother (1927), 372-3
dislike of Mrs Nesbit, 291, 292, 293
divorce from Evelyn, 371
escape from Matteawan, 369
Evelyn avoids, 296-7
Evelyn on appearance and character of, 283-4
Evelyn’s ‘recuperative’ trip to Europe and, 290-6, 337
Evelyn’s resistance to, 289, 291-2
extradited to New York, 370
family’s wealth and influence, 262, 265, 266, 285, 304, 310, 340, 361, 362-3, 368, 375, 378, 380
found sane at July 1915 hearing, 370-1
Gump sadistic scandal, 371-2
habeas corpus writ applications, 360, 361-8
has Evelyn photographed, 299 as ‘heroic rescuer’, 268, 269, 301, 327, 334, 336, 380, 383, 387
inherited component of mental condition, 305, 319, 332-3, 349, 350
interest in Truxtun Beale case, 267-8
in jail between trials, 344
judged insane (1917), 372
learns of White’s deflowering of Evelyn, 292-3, 294-5, 317, 325
‘logorrhea’ of, 285, 321, 349, 354, 355
manic depressive psychosis, 355, 357-8, 364
marriage to Evelyn, 266-7, 298
at Matteawan State Hospital for the criminally insane, 358, 359, 360, 361, 363, 365, 366-7, 368, 369
meets and pursues Evelyn, 282, 283-4, 289-92
narcissistic disorder, 320-1, 322
obsession with virginity, 291, 293, 294, 296, 298
obsession with White, 267, 268, 269, 270, 286-8, 291, 292-3, 294-5, 296, 299, 322-3
as ‘odd’ character, 262, 263, 284-5
paranoia of, 287-8, 299, 303, 310, 318, 320, 322-4, 326-7, 329, 332-3, 334, 355, 364-8
penchant for boys, 286, 290, 291-2, 294, 350, 371-2
popularity with romantic women, 340, 341
rages and wild behaviour, 263, 266, 286, 295, 314
regains access to Evelyn, 297-8
returns home to mother, 371
sadistic orgies and brutal behaviour, 285-6, 291- 2, 294-5, 301, 328, 329, 339, 341, 343, 350, 355, 362, 371-2, 380
sent to hospital for the criminally insane, 358-9, 360
shoots Stanford White, 260-3
suicide attempts, 350, 352, 372
The Traitor (memoir, 1926), 262, 283, 291, 293, 296, 302-3
twitching movements of, 262, 284, 349, 364
ultimate release of (1924), 372, 378
The Unwritten Law (Edison Studios film, 1907), 262
use of Thaw money to influence case, 304, 310, 340, 344, 362-3, 364, 365, 367, 368, 375, 378
will document, 318, 324
‘zigzag’ walk and agitated pacing, 285, 292, 293
see also first trial of Harry Kendall Thaw; second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw
Thaw, Mrs William (Mary Sibbet Copley), 261-2, 263, 266-7, 284, 297-8, 302, 304, 363, 364, 378
death of (1927), 372-3
declares Thaw insane, 372
first trial testimony, 327-8, 350
Harry’s allowance and, 263, 266
second trial testimony, 349-50
Thaw, William, 284
therapeutic jurisprudence, 381-2, 395
Thompson, Edith, 64-5
de Tilly, Comtesse, 202-3
de la Tourette, Gilles, 211, 227, 233-4
Tracy, Mr Justice, 90-1
Trarieux, Ludovic, 213-14
Trélat,
Ulysse, 170
trials, criminal, 2, 9
Amélie Sanglé case, 203-4
Chambige case, 212-18
Comtesse de Tilly case, 202-3
Daniel M’Naghten case, 95-9, 103
Earl Ferrers case, 3-4
Edward Arnold case, 90-1, 97
Eyraud-Bompard case, 219, 223-7, 230-2
French procedure, 175
Hélène Dumaire case, 201-2
Henriette Caillaux case, 236, 240-1, 242-7, 250, 251
Henriette Cornier case, 168-9
James Hadfield (or Hatfield) case, 91-2
John Bellingham case, 92-5, 97
John Hinckley Jr case, 389-91
Madeleine Smith case, 40
of Marie Biere (April 1880), 142-3, 144, 167-8, 174-80, 181-8, 189-93
memory trials in US (1990s), 229
press reporting in Third Republic France, 173-4
public outcries over not-guilty verdicts, 99
railway murder trial (1864), 77-8
Reverend Watson case, 68-9, 113
see also first trial of Harry Kendall Thaw; Old Bailey trial of Christiana Edmunds; second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw
trials, divorce, 17-18, 19, 50, 60-1, 77
Trollope, Anthony, Orley Farm, 76
tuberculosis, 118
Tuke, William, 43
Turner, Richard, 127
Tustal, Chateau de (the Gironde), 141
Union League Club of New York, 286
United States of America, 68, 173, 229, 251, 256
Gilded Age, 255-7, 340, 379
honour in pre-WW 1 era, 267-8, 292, 336, 339
see also judicial and legal system, US; New York
Uruburu, Paula, 258
USSR, 378
Vanderbilt family, 257, 286
Verdi, Giuseppe, La Traviata, 139
de Vigny, Alfred, ‘Les Amants de Montmorency’, 216
virginity, 291, 293, 294, 296, 298, 388, 389
vitriol, 140, 199, 202, 203
les vitrioleuses in France, 199-200, 201-5
Wagner, Charles G., 310, 318-20, 322, 323, 324, 327, 354
Wakefield Asylum, 43
Waldorf Hotel, New York, 348, 352
Watson, Reverend John, 68-9, 87, 113, 120
Waxman, Claire, 392
Welles, Orson, Citizen Kane, 372
Wellington Hotel, New York, 277-8
West Riding Asylum, 49
Whist Club, Manhattan, 349
Whistler, James McNeill, 78
White, Chief Constable George, 15
White, Lawrence, 260, 264-5
White, Mrs Stanford, 302
White, Stanford, 256-8, 259, 260, 290, 298, 337, 373
Anthony Comstock and, 258, 268-9, 287, 299, 351
The Architect of Desire (1996 book about), 374
arranges photographs of Evelyn Nesbit, 278-9
Evelyn Nesbit and, 259, 274-82, 289-90, 292- 3, 294-5, 296-7, 301, 306, 317, 325, 341, 342, 343
Garden apartment, 257-8, 265, 269, 278, 281
moves Nesbit family to Wellington Hotel, 277-8