The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 63

THE f-'ALT LAKE I BUND, SUNDAY AiOKXIXd. Attil'ST it 1928. Probing the Complex Mind of a "Modern Medea." Who Plaved Wild Gvnsv Music After Strangling a tsaoy A' She Said She Vt Loved The child was Strangled by mean of a towel tied round bar throat. Then the little body wn placed between SISTER. Grace Janoschek, California University Student, Who It of the Happy, Fun-Loving Type, in Contrast to Her Younger Sister, Erna.

Photo Taken the INFANTICIDE. Serenteen-Year-Old Erna Janoschek, from Day After She Called Up the Oakland Police and Coolly Confessed Har Crime. Scientist Say She I Highly Intelligent, but Emotionally Deficient whispered, and I'll show you what I've done." They followed her to a bedroom, where she lifted a mattress. Under it was Thais Diana Lilliencrantz. dead.

The child had been strangled by means of a towel tied round her throat- Then the little body had been placed between two mattresses. Erna made no attempt to deny the deed or her responsibility. Despite repeated questionings she told the same story. "At first," she murmured, "I thought "EIRD strains of Bohemian gypsy encea by her stage portrayal "Medoa" of Eurinides. The of uie Play is music floated lightly from a cell in the Oakland, California, city VaaSk Xf founded on the legend of the Greek sorceress who revengefully strangled her own children.

Erna never saw her celebrated relative play this tragic role, yet she may have heard her father and mother discuss it. She was an omnivorous reader and she may have reaf the play herself. But the psychologists who questioned Erna daily 1 were unwilling to admit that the old legend suggested the crime to the schoolgirl. They say the reasons lie deeper. Before outlining these reasons, let us recount Erna's story, mostly as she told it to the police.

Her father and mother are separated and she was paying Her way through school by working as a nurse-maid. She chose that employment because she loved children, yet the idea of being a servant caused her many bitter moments. She had come to the Lilliencrantz family with good references, and had been with them three weeks when the terrible night of her black deed arrived. On that day, she told Captain of Inspectors Wallman, of the Oakland police, Mrs. Lilliencrantz had reproached her because the eldest of the children, Francora Lilliencrantz.

had cried while Erna was bathing her "I told Mrs. Lilliencrantz," said Erna, "that the work was too hard and that 1 was going 'o quit." That evening, as Mrs. Lilliencrantz was leaving for the theatre, she said to the girl "Well, Erna, even though you don't like me, I know you will be sweet to the children. You always are." An hour later the 'phone rang at the Oakland police headquarters. Erna's cool voice said, "The maid at 1109 Mandana rr prison, where a pretty seventeen-year-old girl sat with her violin tucked under her chin.

She drew the bow skilfully across the strings and a smile, almost tender and caressing, touched her lips. Yet only the night before, that girl, Erna Janoschek, had murdered another woman's baby in the most cold-blooded fashion. Why? Erna herself did not know. She had been employed as a maid by Mrs. Lillien-erantz, the wife of a young Oakland physician.

The Lilliencrantzes had gone to the theatre, leaving Erna charge of their two children, Francora, who is three years old, and Thais Diana, fifteen months old. While they were gone Erna snuffed out the life of little Thais Diana, whom she loved dearly. Then she called i in the police and confessed her terrible deed. When detectives pressed her for the motive, she said "I think I did it because 1 didn't like Mrs. Lilliencrantz." But that admission did not adequately explain the crime to the police or to psychiatrists who were called in to question Erna.

They began to probe deeper. They analyzed the "schoolgirl demon's" character and history, finding out strange things. At first they were amazed by her calmness after the killing. When she was not playing her violin she read poetry or sat down her cell, lost hersftlf in reverie, and wrote weird and little fragments of verse. But they were able to explain all that, too, later on.

One startling coincidence developed during the scientific analysis of Erna. Her father, said to be an introspective and scholarly genius of a violin, is a cousin of Fanny Janauschek, famous X7 MOTHER. Mrs. Edward Janoschek Told the Scientist of Her Daughter Erna' Strang Moodiness Since Early Childhood. It it sometime! hard to trace.

People of thia type are able to carry through the most terrible deeds without qualm. They may know they are doing wrong, but there it no recoil in their nature. Further investigation haa led scientists to believe that Erna is a victim of tchiiophremlo, an obscure disease, which often develops into dementia praecox iuvenile insanity. Erna smiled when she eard the long; scientific words the psychologists applied to her at her first hearing on the charge of murder. At the preliminary hearings Erna's attorney asked that she be committed to an asylum for the insane, but the prosecuting attorney demanded that she be tried for murder before the Superior Court The axttftcaxbo bMic.x."'.lr "rmi, wflitlKinu.

Wi rMLL-i)Li "Medea and the Argonaut," from a Painting by Feuerbach, of the Famous Greek Sorceress and St rangier. The Character Was flayed oa the Stage by trnti ramou Actresa-Kelative, Fanny Janauschek. I would kill Francora. But she was too Just finished reading a story of Diana's high for ber age. Her mind functioned big.

I hated to kill Diana, because she death. I really can't explain it But it with unusual raniditv. But when the was my favorite. Mrs. "Lilliencrantz had doesn't seem to bother me." tested ber emotional' she proved deff- oeen condescending toware me- tnew i hen this strange schoolgirl with the cient This accounted for her calm.

she loved Diana more than the other baby, Mona Lisa smile asked that her mother Criminologists have discovered, through Boulevard has strangled a baby to deatn Send your men." Then the receiver was so I knew it would hurt her more if I and sister visit her and insisted that they years of study, that such inhuman act Judge decided in favor of the prosecuting hungup. Killed uiana. be sure to bring her violin and books of are generally committed by persons who attorney's plea. The law must decide When the police arrived the slim, child- On the next day Erna said, "1 feel as poetry with them. are downright insane or emotionally de- whetherErna will finally be adjudged in- iike girl opened tne street ooor.

one was uiuugu woa ui i wno ajuea me oaoy. vvnen ine psycniatrisis gave erna m- ana unstable, mere is always a sane or wneiner sne wm Da let down as actress of former years. Once Fanny Janauschek won the applause of audi- weeping softly. "Come upstairs," tvsi vuvugu uu wctAiciiwo beau aiio mvcu ivo, LiiK.it is pufiicsj cause uc-nma mo conuiuont out wwubi iaoc How Helen's Tennis Mode Shocked French Modistes ffrjfj armholes, like a bathing suit It isn't chic." When Helen of America was told of the criticism she gave her faint, non-committal smile and said nothing. But she swept through the remain dwn moral, if any, to this story.

Helen designs ber own costumes, for freedom of movement They are cute costumes, too, but they could hardly be called dar ing. The other girls at v. ,4 4 WHEN pretty Helen Wills appeared on the tennis courts at Wimbledon, England, to battle for the women's championship of the world there were shocked cries of disapproval from the eminent Paris couturiers who create the styles in court costumes. "Her skirt is wide and three inches too lonirt" they ex aw 1 5 ing matches to win the world title without any difficulty. You may tag your the" world title with- out difficulty, You may tag your the Wimbledon tournament had selectecf the sheerest garments, dainty and ment had selected the sheerest garments, dainty and A "jy I A XJ YsS, 1 I ft vt I claimed.

"And her blouse la loose and comes over her shoulders, instead of being tight and cut out around the if i it witMtv- Jfe i mum Xvi w-x-i; rr-r ISS" Helen WilU a. She IV i Actio. Photo of I ii 'Vr-! i i Action Photo of Appeared Suaanne Lenglen, Who Created the Fal for Abbreviated Tennis Costumes. Revealing Skirts Like This Were the Rag at the Wimbledon Championship Match Thia Year. at Wimhledea, England, la Tenai CoRaaaa ef Har Own Deaigm.

Paris Ceatvrier Indignantly Called It Cartoef frosa British Periodical Con trading the Old-Fashioned, Long-Skirted Teaais Girl ef 1898 with the Modem Meandiag Queoa of the Graa Court. Kt Righti Lerraine Johasoa as the Tennis Girl of 189 with Long Skirt. Janet Hoffman, of Princeton, N. ie aa 1890 Skatiag Cestuate. Oanxa, US, uaaranal fm Snat antua Mm wi.