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PATHOLOGICAL LYING, ACCUSATION, AND SWINDLING A
STUDY IN FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
BY
WILLIAM HEALY, A.B., M.D.
DIRECTOR, PSYCHOPATHIC INSTITUTE, JUVENILE COURT,
CHICAGO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NERVOUS AND MENTAL
DISEASES CHICAGO POLICLINIC; AUTHOR OF ``THE
INDIVIDUAL DELINQUENT'' AND
MARY TENNEY HEALY, B.L.

TO MERRITT W. PINCKNEY JUDGE OF THE JUVENILE COURT
CHICAGO
``Bonus et sapiens et peritus utilitatis dignitatisque civilis.''

EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
This volume is one of a series of Monograph Supplements to the
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. The publication of the
Monographs is authorized by the American Institute of Criminal Law
and Criminology. Such a series has become necessary in America by
reason of the rapid development of criminological research in this
country since the organization of the Institute. Criminology draws upon
many independent branches of science, such as Psychology,
Anthropology, Neurology, Medicine, Education, Sociology, and Law.
These sciences contribute to our understanding of the nature of the
delinquent and to our knowledge of those conditions in home,
occupation, school, prison, etc., which are best adapted to elicit the
behavior that the race has learned to approve and cherish.
This series of Monographs, therefore, will include researches in each of
these departments of knowledge insofar as they meet our special
interest.
It is confidently anticipated that the series will stimulate the study of
the problems of delinquency, the State control of which commands as
great expenditure of human toil and treasure as does the control of
constructive public education.
ROBERT H. GAULT, Editor of the Journal of Criminal COMMITTEE
ON PUBLICATION Law and Criminology, OF THE Northwestern
University. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FREDERIC B. CROSSLEY,
OF CRIMINAL Northwestern University. LAW AND
CRIMINOLOGY. JAMES W. GARNER, University of Illinois.

PREFACE
Careful studies of offenders make group-types stand out with
distinctness. Very little advancement in the treatment of delinquents or
criminals can be expected if typical characteristics and their bearings
are not understood. The group that our present work concerns itself
with is comparatively little known, although cases belonging to it,
when met, attract much attention. It is to all who should be acquainted
with these striking mental and moral vagaries, particularly in their
forensic and psychological significances, that our essay is addressed. In
some cases vital for the administration of justice, an understanding of
the types of personality and of behavior here under discussion is a

prime necessity.
The whole study of characterology or the motivation of conduct is
extremely new, and there are many indications of immense values in
uncovered fields. Some appreciation of this fact may be gained from
the following pages which show the possibility of tracing one form of
behavior to its source.
We have laid under contribution practically the entire literature on the
subject, almost none of which is in English, and also the
thorough-going longitudinal case studies made by the Juvenile
Psychopathic Institute of Chicago. In the latter material there was
found much of value bearing upon the subject of lying, false accusation,
and swindling of pathological character.
Our institute, later taken over officially by the Juvenile Court of Cook
County, was for five years maintained upon a foundation provided by
Mrs. W. F. Dummer.
WILLIAM HEALY MARY TENNEY HEALY
WINNETKA, ILL. June, 1915.

CONTENTS


CHAPTER EDITORIAL
ANNOUNCEMENT PREFACE I. INTRODUCTION II. PREVIOUS
STUDIES III. CASES OF PATHOLOGICAL LYING AND
SWINDLING IV. CASES OF PATHOLOGICAL ACCUSATION V.
CASES OF PATHOLOGICAL LYING IN BORDER-LINE MENTAL
TYPES VI. CONCLUSIONS INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF
TOPICS

PATHOLOGICAL LYING, ACCUSATION, AND SWINDLING


CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

Through comparison of the literature on pathological lying with our
own extensive material we are led to perceive the insistent necessity for
closer definition of the subject than has been heretofore offered.
Reasons for excluding types earlier described as pathological liars will
be found throughout our work. Better definition goes hand in hand with
better understanding, and it is only natural that formal,