New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-09
LAW LVIELLIGEWOE.
TRIAL OF JOHN N. +. TUCKER FOR THE
MURDER OF HIS CHILD.

KINGS COUNTY OYER AND TERMINER-DEc. Q.
Before Judge STRONG presdiusjse MoohE, and Justices
STILwGLL and STRYKER
THIRD DAY.
The Court assembled at the usual hour yesterday
morning, and the def. nse brought for ward number
Of witnesses to prove that the defendant was insane,
and had been of unsound mind since his youth.
David Even, OF Phenxville, Pa testified to the
fact that Tucker bad charge of Baptist congrega-
ton near that village in l55l-si he purchased pho'
1hate cordial from witness, who Is druggist, Tor
chronic disrIhea, ~ which prisoner was subject no
used some nine or ten dozen bottles; he delivered
lecture ON Odd-Feno~ ship there in which he said
chat il was a pos erful aojunCt TO Christianity, and
further Oh. that Christianity did not equal it,
Nathan L. McNeagh, from the same village, test.
fed 10 the fact that one Occas0u Fucker proposed
70 him oeliver lecture upon any subject aoy lady
in The auOieIce might name; ho delivered lecture
on the subject of setee in the room before wi mess
did not think his conduct was proper
james Boyle, practiciDg pnysclan in Newly ork,
testified TO the strangeness OF fuckers conduct IN
Meridian, Wayne County, n. Y ON the occasion Of
religious revivals in thar place in le3l-32
james G. Stewart, of Syracuse, testlael that be-
tween 1874 ana le4s witness came 10 hum IN great
state OF excitement and expressed the fear that some
one inienoed to murder his wife, she sick at the
tiIse; his appearance and manner was singular.
ROdman EDDY, brOiher-ip-law Of prisoner, who
resides m MicbgaO testified 10 his strange condact Ia
Syracuse on occasion when GayazzI lectured
there; he imagined every stranger TO be- an Irish
man, Who HAD a design TO murder HIM he showed
ether evidences Of alteration.
Nancy V. COlvin, tisteT- inaw of prisoner, who re
sioes in Adrian Michigan testified to his unsettled
and insane state of mind while residing IN C,zenovia
in this State iD ls&s. He imagined the distliors in
tended to XIII him.
Jonathan D. Gaze, q physician residing in Albany
attended upon prisoner professionally. He was labor
ing under chronic diarrhea the last time he say hln
was at the depot in Albany, previous 10 coming I,
Brooklyn, when by his eonduct and conversation he
eonvinc. him that he was OF unsound mind.
Dr. John ii. Driscoll, OF New-York, testified IN Al
he had been acquainted with defendant since May
last when he saw him 10 the Office Of the Prison As
sociaiion convinced that he is man OF ausouud
mind; insane, Incompetent 10 take care OF himself
and unfit 10 be at large.
DIR. Charles Rowland, Of Brooklyn testified to the
extraordinary conduct of prisoner ON the occasion o.
several interviews with hun.
Van Buren, LockrOw, q praciicing physician of AL
bany, testified TO the straose conduct of prisoner
number Of occasions showing an unsound mind.
Pb9be NJ kinley testified to his ST ahge deportmen
m July last when be called at the house occupied
The Hon. John A. Cross testified to tue exirsoTdi
nary department of prisoner on an occasion in Albany
ana at another time subsequent III Brooklyn, show
that all was not right with MIN.
John A. Hull and Richard b. Briggs, of Albany
tstied 10 selling prisoner Fosgate cordial numbs
Of tines
Herman Camp druggist in Brooklyn testified t,
fuckers coming TO his store in wild state OF excite
meDt on the evening of the 2i Of August last sn.
get some brandy, he said, for cholera IA bis family
he pointed pistol at witness when be came into tn,
store; thought him drunk; aferward though, hin
ceraDget.
The Court then adjourned till tomorrow this
morning at TO- clock.