"WE FEEL THAT the person who committed the crime is abnormal," Knight said, "but not a sex maniac or degenerate."

Deviates were rounded up as police probed the slaying. This one facet of the case emphasized the potential of molestings, window peeping, exhibitionists, and homosexuals.

"I didn't realize, and I don't believe the homicide squad realized, how many people there are walking the streets with abnormal sex habits until we got into the Andrews case," Knight said.

Knight said that of about 2500 persons "thoroughly checked" as they became suspects in the murder, 500 are deviates.

THEY WERE known to police through past records and to individual members of the police division, or, ünder questioning, disclosed abnormalities.

Laws are inadequate to meet the problem they create, Knight said.

Most of the crimes they commit are misdemeanors in which the court is limited "as to what it can do 30 to 90 days," Knight, said.

"They (deviates) certainly need help. They realize they need help and many would like to have it. They need psychiatry and an institution for their care," Knight said.

"A lot know they are abnormal and don't want to do anything about it," he added.

IT IS POSSIBLE for a court

to work out a plan of psychiatric treatment, at expense of the person involved, as a part of probation, Knight said. While they come "from all walks of life," most are unable to pay for such treatment, he said.

"How are you going to keep them from walking the streets?" Knight said. "You can't arrest them and bring them into court unless they indulge in abnormal sex habits."

Families and relatives of such deviates "should take every step to help them," Knight said.

"If they don't they are only hurting themselves and the upeople they (they deviates) are associating with," Knight said. He added:

"THOSE WITH A low plane of moral thoughts or habitsand they know it should be doing something about it themselves."

Abnormal behavior has been a factor in other police cases Knight said, "but they have been solved and we did not have to dig as deep as we have in this case," Knight continued.

"In this case we would uncover more sex deviates than otherwise," he said. "Probably many are walking the streets we didn't pull in." Knight concluded:

"Probably more work has been done on the Andrews case than any other in the history of the police depart ment. We want to solve this case. We still believe we have a chance to solve it. It is not cold by any means."

mattachine REVIEW

The following is the second of two articles appearing in the Village Voice (New York). The first, "Politics: A Third Party for the Third Sex?" was reprinted in the December REVIEW,

the village VOICE, October 11, 1962

The Homosexual's Labyrinth

Of Law and Social Custom

by Stephanie Gervis

Just how gay is it to be gay?

How gay is it to be a sexual oddity, a social pariah, a moral "deviate," a menace to American youth, a lawbreaker, an unemployable, a threat to the morale and discipline of the United States

Armed Forces, and a security life in some-one Village homorisk to the nation?

sexual estimates that if a homo The indictment is staggering, sexual of 30 has committed an but according to law and folkaverage of one act of sodomy a lore it is the profile of a sizable week for ten years, his debt to segment of America's male popsociety amounts to 5117 years in ulation. Considering that after jail. What has he done to dethe third offense a homosexual serve it? How does he live in is liable to a maximum prison the face of it? Is there a final sentence-ten years in most solution to the homosexual quesstates, twenty in many others, tion?