, 1894, Ferdinande
Enke.--VON LISZT, Schutz der Gesellschaft gegen Gemeingefaehrliche
(_Monatsschrift fuer Kriminalpsychologie und Strafrechtsreform_).--FOREL,
Die verminderte Zurechnungsfaehigkeit (_die Zukunft_, 1899, no 15), etc.

[9] "Die Zwiechungsfaehigkeit des normalen Menschen," Munich.

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIII

A MEDICO-LEGAL CASE

The following case occurred in 1904 in the Canton of St. Gall, in
Switzerland, and confirms my opinion:

Frieda Keller, born in 1879, was the daughter of honest parents. Her
mother was mild-mannered and sensible, her father loyal, but harsh and
sometimes violent. Frieda was the fifth of eleven brothers and
sisters. She was a model scholar. At the age of four years she had
meningitis which left her with frequent headaches. In 1896-97 she
learnt dressmaking and helped at home in the household work. When she
was free, she did embroidery to help her family. Afterwards she
obtained a situation in a dressmaker's shop at St. Gall, where she got
sixty francs a month.

To increase her income she worked on Sundays as a waitress at the Cafe
de la Poste. The proprietor, a married man, began to persecute her
with his affections, which she had great difficulty in avoiding. She
then entered another shop where she got eighty francs a month. One
day, in 1898, when she was then nineteen, the proprietor of the cafe
succeeded in seducing her, and on May 27, 1899, she gave birth to a
boy at the Maternity of St. Gall. She had confessed her misfortune to
her parents, and her mother had pity on her. Her mother had also been
seduced and rendered pregnant at the age of fifteen; abandoned by her
seducer she committed infanticide, and was sentenced to six years'
imprisonment; as she had always been well-behaved, the tribunal had
recognized that she acted "less by moral depravity than by false
sentiment of honor." Frieda, who was fond of her mother, knew nothing
of this history. The father was very hard toward his daughter and
refused her all help and pity. Twelve days after her confinement she
took her child to the Foundling Hospital at St. Gall.

Her seducer then promised to maintain the child, but never paid more
than eighty francs. After a time he left the town and was seen no
more. The circumstances under which Frieda became pregnant were not
fully inquired into and her seducer was ignored. It was not absolutely
a case of rape, but of taking a poor, weak and timid girl by surprise.

Fried