This miscreant
was arrested with the forearm of a missing child in his pocket,
and in his stove were found the head and entrails in a half-burnt
condition. Parts of the body were found in the water-closet, but
the genitals were missing; he was executed, although he made no
confession, saying the deed was an accident. Morbid changes were
found in his brain. Krafft-Ebing cites the case of Alton, a clerk
in England, who lured a child into a thicket, and after a time
returned to his office, where he made an entry in his note-book:
"Killed to-day a young girl; it was fine and hot." The child was
missed, searched for, and found cut into pieces. Many parts, and
among them the genitals, could not be found. Alton did not show
the slightest trace of emotion, and gave no explanation of the
motive or circumstances of his horrible deed; he was executed.
D'Amador tells of persons who went into slaughter-houses and
waste-places to dispute with wolves for the most revolting
carrion. It is also mentioned that patients in hospitals have
been detected in drinking the blood of patients after
venesections, and in other instances frequenting dead-houses and
sucking the blood of the recently deceased. Du Saulle quotes the
case of a chlorotic girl of fourteen who eagerly drank human
blood.
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