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THE DRUG EVIL SEX MURDERS In May, 1935, to fght the drug evil, the govern- ment opened its frst U.S. Narcotic Farm, a Four that throughout the commission of this crime you in- Million Dollar Institution comprising.1,100 acres in dicated a cold indifference to the possible penalty of Lexington, Kentucky. It is administered by, the U. S. death in the electric chair. Health Service to restore the shattered health of Drug "Infliction of the death penalty and a swift execu- Addicts, who will be.treated as Medical Patients.. tion would be an anesthetic to your consciences, an Another is to be used in Fort Worth, Texas. Patients easy and painless passing from this existence. The who otherwise would be in Prisons, are cared for here, punishment the court will infict, will be a deterrent also volunteers who wish to undergo treatment. to crime,.an admonition to criminals that you are suf- This is considered an ideal. advance in the anti- 1 fering a living death, tortured by your consciences, narcotic movement for the prevention of crimes com- while at work at hard labor behind the grey walls of mitted by those under the influence of the poppy seed. the penitentiary, deprived of your liberty, for the bal- The murder of Ervin J. Lang may well be charged ance of your days." to the influence of drugs dulling to the brain. Mrs.. A series of "come-true"' night-mares in the murder Dunkel, Lang's mother-in-law, apparently became his field seemed to happen in the near Chicago zone just lover after the death of her daughter, Lang's wife. about at this same time. They were all classified by Her jealousy was aroused when Lang announced his Police under the newly titled "Sex Crimes." engagement to a young lady. Mrs. Dunkel' determined Because she resisted the advances of her young to kill him.. companion, a beautiful girl was strangled in a vacant Mrs. Evelyn Smith, a close friend, married to a lot and her body dropped through a sewer catch basin, Chinese Laundry Owner, was induced upon a promise later discovered by city repair men. of $500.00 never paid, to help her. Mrs. Smith finally A young man stabbed his sweetheart to death be- carried out the murder herself, carving off Lang's cause they were tired of life and swore it was a suicide legs to enable her to remove the body, in which she pact. "We went to the park to die. I frst stabbed. claimed she had the unwilling aid of her husband. her, then gave her the knife, but,she was so weak she Their casual matter of fact preparation for the could only cut my shirt with it.". crime confessed by them was cold-blooded and revolt- There was a revolting murder of a pretty night club. ing. Justice Harrington, in sentencing each to 180 entertainer, whose lover sent five bullets into her, as years imprisonment at hard labor, said, "It appears she lay in her bed dying, with his name on her lips. 1 The "Wolf of Peoria" had annoyed girls for seven 24 25