The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder CasesGoddard, Henry Herbert
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The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder Cases
Goddard, Henry Herbert
Crime -- Case studies; Murder -- Case studies; Offenders with mental disabilities -- Case studies
_Q._ Stayed all night in Vancouver?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did you feel pretty nervous, knowing that you killed her?
_A._ Yes, I sat up. I didn't sit up; I laid awake. I didn't sleep at all.
_Q._ Where did you go when you left Vancouver?
_A._ Went right out the next morning, went right out the Pacific Highway.
_Q._ Why did you run away?
_A._ Well, I wanted to get the papers and see if I had killed her and then
I was going back and shoot myself at the same place I shot her. I didn't
want them to get me until after I went around another way and shot myself
down there.
_Q._ Did you intend to come back?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did you read the papers at Vancouver?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did you see in the papers that Miss Ulrich was dead?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Why did you keep going the other way?
_A._ Well, I didn't want to come back this way and run into the police. I
was going around Seattle and Tacoma and cross over and come back around.
_Q._ When you read in the papers that you had killed her, did you feel
satisfied?
_A._ Well, yes, but I was afraid there would be bloodhounds after me, and
I would get shot down in the road.
_Q._ You weren't worrying so much about her as you were afraid somebody
might do you an injury?
_A._ Well, I didn't want them to get me until the job was completed and I
had shot myself.
_Q._ Did you think there was somebody else interfering to keep her from
marrying you?
_A._ I guess there was.
_Q._ Did you have in mind to shoot any one else?
_A._ No.
_Q._ You knew she was engaged to marry another fellow?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Was that what made you decide to kill her?
_A._ I thought she gave him up. Well in a way I did and in another way I
thought it was a bluff.
_Q._ When did you make up your mind to get these guns--on the day of the
killing?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ You knew at the time what you were doing,--what you were getting the
guns for?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ You got the guns with the idea that if she refused to marry you why,
then, you would kill her?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ You knew what you were doing at that time?
_A._ Yes,--I don't think a man in his right mind would do it.
_Q._ You knew that it was wrong to kill her, didn't you?
_A._ Yes, but all I was thinking was about her.
_Q._ You knew it would be wrong to kill her?
_A._ That's what the law says.
_Q._ You realized that fact at the time?
_A._ Not as much as I do now.
_Q._ You were in possession of your senses and you knew it was wrong to
kill her?
_A._ Oh, yes, it was wrong to kill her--take her life.
_Q._ You know it is wrong to take that which you cannot give, and you knew
at the time that you were doing wrong, and you knew that when you went
over there to get guns?
_A._ I didn't take it very serious then like now.
_Q._ Did you ever drink liquor to the extent of getting drunk?
_A._ No.
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