The Female Offender 12+

📗 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...figure in society: and Plancher murdered her brother-in-law because he was rich and respected while she and her husband were poor. Naturally these sentiments of hatred are most ferocious when excited by an offence to the feelings which are strongest in women and represent their worst passions. If sexuality comes to complicate jealousy and vengeance these manifest themselves under a more terrible aspect than usual. M for instance, poisoned a friend, a member of the demimonde, because of her beauty and social success. Sometimes the hatred which fills these women has no cause whatever, and springs from blind and innate perversity. Many adulteresses, many poisoners commit perfectly uncalled-for crimes. Imperious and violent, they dominate the weak husbands, who, out of fear of the consequences ot any attempt at control, leave them free to go their own way, and thus generate towards themselves a hatred in inverse proportion to the indulgence they have exhibited. The elderly husband of Madame Fraikin shut his eyes to her profligacy; he was ill and had but a few months to live; yet she had not the patience to await his death, but murdered him. Madame Simon's case is identical. Madame Moulins had been married against her will to a rough but excellent man, wh...