The daily gazette., 1878-05-11

"ehceu 10 drink also he drunk on Sat
urday, on Sunday, on Monday, on Tues
you. His wife was away, only to return
and snatch away the hard-earned wages
le1t 10 feed the little ones of the family.
Cn Thursday he was in delirium treme7as,
his mind was seized by that disease that
follows intemperance; like ship at sea
without rudder or compass he was
whoIiy at the sport of the wind and wave
On friday his physician thought him
Much better and granted him permission
10 60 to work in the afternoon. At din
ner time his hands trembled with all the
signs OF that disease upon him which had
80 Frustrated him the day before. As the
day advanced he became worse We
Will follow him to that shop wherein he
was working we will give you evidence
as to his condition-that his appearance
demeanor, actions and words were all
Wild and in coherent, noting as strongly
as anything possibly could, the unsuitable
condition of the man; they will tell you
the impression made upon the minds of
the workmen if their Honors will per-
init.
We follow him to his home; he reaches;
you have heard what was done there,
heard the witness speak of his mutt er-
1ngs ana strange actions, all testifying in
PROOF stronger than words of the appear
ance of the disease that had fastened
upon his brain. When he went up stairs
THIS disease kept increasing unit it finally
culminated in this act of Staying his wife
and cutting his own throat.
We will give their opinion to you and
In addition those of persons who saw
him after he was taken to the Hall after
he was brought to this prison so that 1
believe, Notwithstanding what was the
impulse OF the community of honest
minded men to denounce the man in
horror at the act, that you sitting here
divested Of passion as you are bound to
be, sitting here between that man and
his Maker, you will be driven to the con-
clusion that the terrible deed was the off
spring of an unsound and disordered
mind.
At the conclusion of the able argu-
ment Mr.. Thos. johnson was called to
stand ON the part of the defence.
Mr.. johnson, sworn: Know the pris-
oner; was one of my workman, at Har-
Ian & Hollingsworth Company's works;
was one of my best workman; on Thurs
day afternoon he came to work; / went
to him, looked at him and thought he
had been drinking; said to him "Thom-
as old boy am glad you have come to
work." it was Friday at dinner time; his
usual manner of speaking is "good morn
was mighty glad he had GOMEZ" but he
made no reply. He looked wild and
glary and thought something was work
ing in him at the time. About $50
O'Clock in the afternoon / went around
through the shops with Mr.. Harlan, and
thought / would pay Thomas another
visit. i said to him by way of encourage
ment "What difference there is be-
tween Mr.. Harlan now and what he was
a few years ago. saw he handled the
iron he was working on in rather loose
manner; told him | would give him a
man helper; he said in a strange way
"you're coddin me-" sent in another
man.
Upon the question as to the mental
condition of Mr.. Thomas being raised by
the defense, the State objected-Ths
Court overruled the objectors, taking as
criterion the testimony in the Windsor
case in which evidence was given by
those not experts.
Upon cross examination the witness
revealed nothing beyond the expression
Of the opinion that the prisoner "was
crazy"
John Edwards, VIM. Boney and
Michael Connel three fellow workman,
also testified as to the strange actions of
the man upon the afternoon in question,
and spoke of his leaving his work abrupt
ly in the middle of the afternoon, going
out the backway in the direction of
home with his coat and with his work
ing clothes on. They severally expressed
an opinion that he was out of his mind.
Henry Pratt and Michael Connel testi-
fled as to seeing Mr.. Thomas walking
out in the direction of his home about
five o'clock on Friday afternoon. He
was walking hurrledly and seemed very
much excited.
Dr.Simeon l.. West attended Mr.. Thom-
as while he had the means, and had at
tended him on Thursday when he was
attacked by this disease. He described
the symptoms, and gave positive testi-
nony that Wm. Thomas was in all the
horrors of mania pOtu, when he commit
ted the awful deed.
DIR. Ogle, attending physician at The in
sane asylum, corro liberated the testimo .
ny OF DR.. West, desert bed ny ymptoms such
as had come under his own observation, ,
that had parallel case in the state of
mind under which Thomas labored, and
gave In evidence pertaining to his pro-
fessional services at the hall and prisoD.
DR.. Kane having sworn, testified as to
the unsoundness Of the mind of the pris-
oner at the time of the murder, Judging
from the evidence adduced from the wit
ness stand.
DIR. Draper was being examined whom
train left for Wilmington; and was to be
followed by other experts, the burden of
hose evidence, as far as we can learn,
substantiated the evidence given by pre-
ceding physicians.
Court was still in session at Clio.