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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for a story with the title 'The Sadist'.
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conversations.value: The Sadist
  To the prison chaplain Kürten said in his last days that he could not understand how he had been able to kill the child Albermann (Case 59). The child had been so sweet to him, and when he carried her, she put her little arms about his neck. In short, she was so trustful.
  Kürten thought a lot about himself and got to the point of some sort of self-recognition. He calls himself impetuous to the point of brutality; speaks often of his inclination to brag, of the megalomania which is inherited in his family. He is aware of his fatal sadistic propensity. All this, he explains, is due to heredity and his horrible youth.
  Ought one to accept Kürten's statements without critical examination? If so, then one should deny this in his case also, and question his responsibility. But I am of the opinion that the problem cannot be boiled down to so simple a formula as Hirschfeld does. And I think, too, the psychopathology and, indeed, the entire spiritual personality, and not only the instinctual life, must be taken into account.
  Kürten's sadistic urges did not permit pity to stand between him and his victims. Only once there seems to be a glimmer of it – when he said to Bell (Case 69), when she invited him to repeat the sexual act with her, that she was wasted on him as he was a bad man. One might think that Kürten, when for the last time he was together with his wife (Friday, 23.5.1930), broke down under the burden of remorse and that he craved freedom from this burden by a confession in some sort of mood of repentance. His wife shared this belief.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: The Sadist
  To the prison chaplain Kürten said in his last days that he could not understand how he had been able to kill the child Albermann (Case 59). The child had been so sweet to him, and when he carried her, she put her little arms about his neck. In short, she was so trustful.
  Kürten thought a lot about himself and got to the point of some sort of self-recognition. He calls himself impetuous to the point of brutality; speaks often of his inclination to brag, of the megalomania which is inherited in his family. He is aware of his fatal sadistic propensity. All this, he explains, is due to heredity and his horrible youth.
  Ought one to accept Kürten's statements without critical examination? If so, then one should deny this in his case also, and question his responsibility. But I am of the opinion that the problem cannot be boiled down to so simple a formula as Hirschfeld does. And I think, too, the psychopathology and, indeed, the entire spiritual personality, and not only the instinctual life, must be taken into account.
  Kürten's sadistic urges did not permit pity to stand between him and his victims. Only once there seems to be a glimmer of it – when he said to Bell (Case 69), when she invited him to repeat the sexual act with her, that she was wasted on him as he was a bad man. One might think that Kürten, when for the last time he was together with his wife (Friday, 23.5.1930), broke down under the burden of remorse and that he craved freedom from this burden by a confession in some sort of mood of repentance.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: We had experience of wounds caused by scissors used in the closed position; but it was something new to us that a criminal might use a scissors with the blades separated, and, therefore, such a possibility did not enter into our calculations.
  Later, by a series of experiments, I convinced myself that stabs from ordinary household scissors, one blade being used, leave not always, but generally, peculiar slits in the skin of the body, slits with a pointed end which corresponds to the edge of the blade. The other end, also pointed, has a slight twist that gives it the appearance of a beak. An illustration representing several wounds of entry which I have copied from the Albermann child's front breast wall, which is preserved at the Institute, shows that the left edge of each wound conforms to the shape of the scissors-blade back.
  From the foregoing considerations, it follows that a scissors blade can leave behind characteristic wounds of entry in the skin surface. But not all scissor blades give such peculiar, beak-like punctures.
  The most illuminating of all the sadistic proclivities of Kürten from the medico-legal point of view is the throttling. He used the throttling grip in a dual way.
  Either he gripped his victim suddenly by the throat in the middle of a conversation and throttled her, or he persuaded her to the sexual act and throttled her while performing it. According to his own statement and the evidence of the surviving victims, he throttled violently and persistently. His major purpose in doing this was to stimulate himself sexually to orgasm; but also to prevent the woman from shouting or running away. For these reasons the throttling grip had to be applied very firmly. Maria Maas, who was able to free herself very quickly from his throttling grip and run away, said: "For days one could see on my throat the five marks of his nails." He, himself, described his procedure thus:
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.. End with the sentence ' In the thirteen letters which he wrote to the relatives of his victims, he asked pardon and for their prayers, as he himself would pray for them in heaven.'.
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conversations.value: Kürten's hammer was about the same size as the one he used before and which broke in the Hofgarten. Although Ulrich had sustained a depression fracture on either side of the skull she remained unconscious for a short time only and then got up unaided to seek help.
  After a hearing lasting ten days the jury of the Düsseldorf Criminal Court found Kürten guilty of murder in nine cases. In addition, he was found guilty of attempted murder in seven cases. Despite Kürten's full confession, every crime was investigated by the calling of witnesses during the trial. Nothing beyond what I have set forth in the foregoing chapters was revealed during the trial.
  Kürten behaved quietly and in a dignified way. He did not challenge the death sentence, did not feign remorse – which, in any case, he was quite incapable of feeling – nor did he try to mitigate anything. But he noted every discrepancy in the accounts of the witnesses, and he also protested against the observations of the Public Prosecutor and of the experts when they were not, in his opinion, accurate. Most characteristic of all was his final address at the close of the trial.
  Kürten did not exercise his right of appeal, but he did put in a petition for pardon and thought that it would be successful, since the Minister of Justice then in office was an opponent of capital punishment. Towards the end of June I still found him full of hope for the pardon. Up to the last he always remained in his habitual mood, as is shown by the photograph which I took on the 18th of June in his cell. He expressed his joy in letters from his wife, and over the fact that four thousand marks of the reward offered for him had been paid to her. During the last month he made some response to the ministrations of the Church and he assured me that the waking fantasies, and the sadistic imagery of former times, had entirely vanished. He claimed that he was transformed into an entirely new being, although people outside might well not believe it.
  On the 1st of July he received composedly news of the failure of his petition for pardon. Asked for his last wish, he asked to see his Düsseldorf confessor and for permission to write farewell letters. In the thirteen letters which he wrote to the relatives of his victims, he asked pardon and for their prayers, as he himself would pray for them in heaven.