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In numerous examples of important political assassinations, we find that the murderer is Uranian, the blood-lust instinct perhaps being part of the perversity of his cruelty. Thus Santo, who stabbed the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, a few years ago, and Bresci the murderer of King Umberto of Italy, were similisexual men. The instinct as in mere coincidence to many special crimes—e. g. Manyek, the atrocious butcher of his whole family in Vienna, in 1901, also numerous wholesale English and French affairs—may be worth remarking, even if homosexual life and passion had have nothing to do with the obvious facts.

That murders are not rare in connection with soldierhomosexualism, military prostitution, etc., was mentioned in an earlier chapter. A special example of the soldier as murderer under homosexual circumstances—already included in our references when speaking of military life and uranianism—was the shocking "Studio Affair" in London, in 1906, where a young homosexual painter, A— W— who invited only soldiers to frequent him, was discovered in his apartments, naked and dead, one morning, with his head smashed by a hammer. The evidence at the inquest was so likely to raise an appalling