TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 160, 15 August 1866, Page 2

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Sir — It is evident that some of the worst of felons from the prisons of Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales, have been let loose to perpetrate their deeds of unparalleled murder in this hitherto crimeless colony. Under these circumstances, may I suggest thao ie is a Bubjeco worthy of the consideration of the most wisely reflective men, to inquire into the organic and circumstantial causes of crime, with a view to amendment, and, more especially at thiß crisis, with regard to the imperative necessity of keeping in safe custody for life those terrible assassins whose antecedents and whose villainous organisations prove them to be unfitted for liberty. The soul-harrowing revulsion of feeling and sentiment under which society labors at present by the bloody atrocities of Burgess, Sullivan, Kelly, and Levy, should awaken an interest in the public mind in the science of phrenology, the practical principles of which clearly unfold the connection which subsists between the type of brain of the murderer and the character by which he is known to himself and to society. This

evening, at the Chid Fellows' Hall, I will give your Legislature, your administrators of the iaw, officers of justice, and the public in general, a practical lesson on the natural type of the ruffian and the murderer, by the exhibition of five skulls of murderers belonging to oiher colonies. On the " dome of thought mid palace of the soul" is elearl.v written the natural character of man The Father's name of Wisdom and Love is indicated on the broad, deep, and lofty development of the intellectual and moral faculties, and the head that is villainously km- in these is as easily recognised in the types of Kelly, Burgess, Sullivan, and Levy. More, sir, on this subject to-night, and more, with your permission, on a future occasion. Yours faithfully, A. 8. Hamilton.