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FOUR YOUTHS GUILTY IN STREETCAR SLAYING

A Superior Court jury in San Francisco took a little more than two hours on September 8 to find four teenagers guilty of the streetcar murder of teacher William P. Hall. (See Mattachine REVIEW, June, 1961)

The verdict by the nine women and three men meant an automatic life sentence for the youths. Because of their age they were spared the possibility of the death sentence, since California State law bars execution of those under 18.

in the first degree and robbery in the sécond degree.

By their own admission the boys stripped the badly injured teacher of his wallet containing $2.25 before leaving him barely conscious beside the "J" car tracks at the edge of Dolores Park in the Mission District.

Within minutes a passing trolley passed over Hall's body, and he died of his injuries before rescuers could pull him free.

The youths admitted to police officers that they habitually engaged in what they described as "queer-hunting," and that they considered the beating-up of such persons a civic duty.

Said Judge Peery: "If I had known all the facts I never would have grant-

The verdict was two-fold: murder ed bail to these boys."

Son Like This Poses a Problem

MANY MOTHERS write

to ask me what they should do with a son who is feminine in many of his interests, and perhaps s living largely for music or art. He will seldom go out with a girl, and then he may go with a mannish girl who is a bit mixed-up, much as he is. What the mother wants to know

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The Family Doctor

is what she can or should do about the situation. Should she scold her son and perhaps ask the family doctor to scold him? I would say, "Most certainly not." The boy is probably very lonely and very un-

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happy about the situation, and there is nothing he can do to change it.

The mother wants to know if she should consult their minister, and I would say, "No." The problem, as I see it, is purely a medical one. While he was in the womb, something went decidedly wrong in the development of the boy's brain and, to some extent, his body. I do not imply that these lads are not bright; in any army study their intelligence and ability averages were found to be higher than normal.

That

Many a mother wants to know if she should scold. and raise cain when her son brings a close friend home with him; and again, I would say, "No." would be verey unkind and very stupid, and would only drive the son away from his family. The next question is, should the mother ry to get her son to marry a nice girl? My answer would be to leave that up to him; only he can know whether or not he could stand living every day with a woman; and only he can know if he can show her enough affection to keep her reasonably happy.

My feeling is that the girl ought to be told what she

is getting into. I have seen cases in which the young man did a very dirty trick to an affectionate girl by marrying her, just to get a housekeeper and a "front" to deflect suspicion from himself. Naturally, she soon was desperately unhappy.

The next big question the mother asks is, "Should I insist that my son take extensive treatment from a psychiatrist?" I would say "No" unless perhaps a kindly, old-type of psychiatrist could be found who would just talk to the lad and help him with his adjustments to an unhappy and lonely life. I agree with many of the psychiatric friends who tell me they do not believe that they can, change these lads, and really cure them.

So often the mother of the unusual son will say, "I guess he was born the way he is. I noticed that he was 'different' when he was little. He liked to play with dolls, and he never cared to go out with the boys to play sand-lot football." Yes; the mother is, right, her son is "different"; he was born that way, and the probabil ity is that he always will be that way.

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