Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-24

he thought from the looks of things that she
had had beer enough. I think he referred to
the glasses on the table. Cannot say whether
she appeared to be under the influence of
liquor. When she sat on his lap and was
talking to him, she seemed to be sort of fool.
ing. When she was trying to get him to
come and live with her, she laughed some
of the time and then would cry. She was
DESTROYS, | think, for him to come back !;
she begged pretty good. l think George was
| dead when the last shot was fired. She
looked calm when she shot him the last time
Question-Yo said at the inquest, did you
not, that Mrs. Hamilton was lying and
rolling on the lounge, g she acted strange or
a little crazy?" Answer-Yes; l said that.
/ Q-tow did her eyes leok-Etrange any !!
| Ayes think they did.
/ Odd they look CLASSY any? A.-Yes,
1 think they did
Re-examination-C Gould not say how many
| glasses of beer Mrs. Hamilton drank She
would fill up the glass and drink it up, and
then fill up again. She drank considerable
Q-Haye you had a conversation with the
counsel from the defense in the case?
A.-Yes, sir; Mr.. White told me he
wanted or would like to see me- and I went
| to his Office.
F! lObjection was made by defendants counsel
to his giving the conversation which occurred
on that occasion, and the objection was sus-
tained.l
OFFICER FREDERIcKs TESTIFIED
At the time Mr.. Hamilton was killed, l was
there soon after the affair. Mrs Hamilton
had been taken down town. l found a re.
volver lying on the wash-stand in the bed
room off the sitting-room. 1t was self
cooking five-shooter pistol There were shells
in ali the chambers. but the loads had been
discharged cut Of two Of them, and the 9th
ers were still loaded. | saw the two glasses
and pitcher on the sitting room table. There
was glass or more of beer in the pitcher.
GEORGE A. BAsLER, SWORN.
Was not acquainted with Mr.. Hamilton nor
his wife, prior to this homicide About half
| past O'Clock on the 1st day of October last
| was passing their house, on l street, with
horse and buggy, and saw Mrs. Hamilton and
her little girl walking back and forth on the
porch much excited, and the girl kept telling
| her, '.Oh, mamma, you have killed papa |
| went in, and as / entered the hall where her
husband was lying | asked her what was the
matter, and she replied, 81 shot him." A
moment afterwards she looked down upon
him as he lay dead, and, wringing her hands
and crying, said. 6 Oh. darling, 1 love you;
but rather than have anyone else have you /
shot you" | said to her, g l suppose you know
what you will have to do" and she replied,
81 am willing to do anything; | am satisfied
now. | suppose [ viii have TO go to jail.
| She then got her cloak and 1 took her down
to jail. On the way down she said, Take
me to the County Jail. I don't want to go
to the police station have been there
once" She requested that l should go to
Mr.. Hyman's and get breast-pin that was
| left there and take it TO her daughter. She
wanted me to get it from MIR. Hymap before
| he heard of the shooting, for fear he
would not afterwards let the little girl
| have it. At the house, before we
came away, the little girl said to
her mamma, sob, what will l do?' Her
mother replied, "Oh, you will be well taken
care OF, )" and spoke about having her sent to
her grandparents at the East. The girl ssid,
Oh, ma, you will die, too. You have taken
poison" Her mother replied, "Oh, that's all
right" While at the house walked into the
| bedroom next to the sitting room, and there
saw revolver upon washstand, and also
little bottle labeled "poison.
DAVID F. GREER, CALLED
| And testified: Am locomotive fireman. I
was going past where Mrs. Hamilton lived,
on the day of the murder. The little girl
came running out as reached that point. and
said her mother had killed her father I went
| in. Mrs Hamilton was on the porch, but
went in when did. Her husband was lying
dead in the back part of the hall. Mrs.
Hamilton was running about screaming aud
making considerable of a fuss, but | didn't
see any tears. When she came up near where
! her husband lay she said, ''Oh, George /
! loved you. and sooner than see any one else
| get you, L killed you" I only remained
moment, and then went away.
Gross examination-l did not hear defend
ant say much while l was there-only about
what have stated She acted different from
a person who had not done such an act, but
could not say whether she acted as if she was
insane.
JAMES COFFEE TESTIFIED:
Have known Mr.. Hamilton 10 or II years
was not personally acquainted with Mrs.
Hamilton. / remember the time that Mrs.
| Hamilton killed her husband. | heard her
threaten his life previous to that time. One
time was when she was arrested for shooting
at the Winklepleck girl on K street. She
then said that if she knew positively that he
had had any thing to do with that girl she
would kill him At subsequent time | met
her at the corner Of Third and j streets. She
asked me if had seen Mr. Hamilton, and |
told her had not She replied what l
want to do is to catch him with another wo-
man and l will kill him."
Cross,examined-I did not state upon the
previous trial for shooting at that girl |
thought Mrs. Hamilton was crazy. What |
| did state was that was not an expert in
| that line but that some of her actions were
similar to those of others which / had seen,
and who were afterwards declared insane.
That is my memory of my testimony at that
time. On one other occasion beside that
| which I have given | met Mrs. Hamilton
down town, and she asked me if / knew
whether her husband was running with a
certain woman, and [ told her l knew moth
ing about it.
The prosecution here rested their case.
The Defense.
| Mr.. White, counsel for the defense, in ad-
dressing the jury at the opening of his case,
called their attention to the fact that the
counsel for the State had stated to them that
they would show that the shooting was a
willful, deliberate and premeditated muir
der, and claimed that they had not done So.
He also stated that he should show to the
satisfaction of the jury that from the time
the defendant was child she had been SUBJ
iect to peculiar actions, which could not be
| accounted for upon any other theory than
that she was at those times not right in her
mind also that similar peculiarities existed
in her mother before her.
The testimony of the defense was then en-
tered upon, and Win. J. Davis, official Court
reporter, was sworn. Referring to his notes
taken upon the trial of defendant for shoot
ing Miss Winklepleck, he stated that upon
that occasion James Coffee testified that he
thought Mrs. Hamilton was crazy when she
shot that woman, and that he told her so at
the time.
DIR. 1. E. oATMAN
Testified: Have practiced medicine since
1915; was one of the examiners of the insane
in this county FIVE years. Persons are FIRE.
quently sane upon ali subjects but one, arc
upon that insane. In determining such cases
the temperament is taken into consideration
We more often find such state of mind in
persons OF sanguine, nervous and bilious tenn
peraments, but it is not confined to these
classes. If the parent has been insane the
child is more liable to be, and the probability
of unsound mind would be still stronger
if the grand parents were also insane,
More cases of mental arrangement occur in
females than in males, and this is because Of
their different organism, and largely from
local causes peculiar to the sex. Insane per
sons will often understand and know wha,
they do as well as if they were sane. In
cases of mono-mania the mental arrangement
is often greater than indicated.