St. Paul daily globe., 1884-07-02
INSANE OR NOT INSANE.
James Renehine to be Examined by
the Doctors This Morning.
His Singular Behavior in Court Yesterday.
History of the Crime.
The Porter Murder Trial Put Over-Sev-
eral Sentences Passed.

Lawrence Troy plead guilty in the district
court yesterday to petit larceny, and was sen
fenced to the workhouse for ten days. Law
renee helped himself to a $50 overcoat and a
So revolver belonging to Walter Work, his
room mate, and SO pipe of E. T. Gray, re-
siding in the same hash house, on Feb. 80,
last.
Lloyd Porter on application of his counsel
for continuance of his trial to the fall term,
for killing John Thomas Nary on the even
ing of April 1st, for the purpose of obtaining
certain dispositions, had the same granted.
Martin Gunderson was arraigned for SEN
tence for manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree for the killing of Kiosk, and was given
two years at hard labor in the penitentiary
at Saltwater
In consideration of his youth, an attempt
Smith, the young forger, to have Judge Brill
remit his sentence of one year in the peni-
tentiary to term of imprisonment in the
Ramsey county jail.
The last criminal trial of the term was
taken up yesterday forenoon, it being that
OF James Renehine, of Minneapolis, for
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girl, Lizzie Gustafsen, on by-road within
the limits of Ramsey county, near the farm
of Stephen Deroyer in the neighborhood of
Midway, Oct. 81, 1888. The victim had
come from Wisconsin to ST. Paul to get work,
was in this city few weeks and went up to
Minneapolis on a similar errand. Here she
was met at the depot be Renehine,
who ran an express wagon, who took her
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ried but few months, to see if she did not
want her to help her at dress making. She
not wanting a girl, Lizzie staid there all
night, and Renehine took her in his wagon
next morning to drive her to the depot, but
instead took her to an unfrequented place
between the two cities and committed a
heinous crime. He brought her out of the
woods. and on seeing Officer Sullivan of the
st. Paul force she jumped from the wagon and
made her complaint of the outrage. At
tempts were made to settle for damages with
the girl, which were frustrated by Chief West.
of the Minneapolis police, the victim, after
all the injuries she had received, feeling such
sympathy with Renehine's injured wife, who
is pitifully broken down by the crime and ar
rest of her husband, that she could have been
persuaded to hush it up if the knowledge of
mother in Wisconsin.
Hon. j. j. Egan appeared for the state
and Col. Welch of Minneapolis and Thomas
Ryan, Esq, of this city, for the defendant.
The girl was placed on the stand and her tes-
timony was substantially the same as in the
facts above enumerated and Officer Sullivan
being next called corroberated her relative
to her complaint, etc. At about O'Clock the
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became evident that he was an adept at play
ing insanity or was in reality insane, ana
his counsel asked for an adjournment until
this morning which was granted by Judge
Brill, and the court adjourned to 10 a. m.
1t was then stated by the county attorney
to the judge that six weeks ago that on GER
tain facts furnished by Sheriff O'Gorman
he had filed information of insanity with the
probate court and that the prisoner
was arraigned and examined by Drs.
Newfoundland Quinn, and pronounced by
them to be sane. Col. Welch said that the
prisoner appeared well mentally that day,
and that since that they had not seen him
though Mrs. Renehine had constantly asserted
that ''Jim was crazy.n Col Welch stated
that he had known Renehine personally for
many years and that the prisoner yesterday
gave him no recognition at all and though sit
ting but few feet from his weeping wife in the
court room, and sister of his, who had come
on from Milwaukee, had given them no
heed, and evidently nothing else that was
going on in the court room. He said he had
not seen him for six weeks, and had no idea
of his mental condition now until he came
to place him on the stand. Had he known
it he should have called for an examination
by physicians before the jury was impaneled
in the case.
Sheriff O'Gorman said that since the ex-
animation for insanity the prisoner had been
gradually growing worse in the JAIL and for
the past ten days very perceptibly so and he
believed he had not been in his right mind
for two months. Mr.. Egan said that whether
he was insane or not it was evident that he
was broken down physically and that the
time Of his death was not far distant. Spec
tators remarked upon the stolid and vacant
expression on his face, during the whole day,
which they more particularly noticed while
his victim was giving her convicting testi-
mony which caused not the movement of q
muscle of his face or single intelligent look
from his eye.
1t was finally concluded by the court to
hold an examination of the prisoner this
morning before the opening of the court, to
test his sanity, Mr.. Egan naming DR.. Board
man for one of the physicians, and his coun-
sci preferring Drs. Mcdonald and Quinn,
who had made the previous examination, as
his associates. There is no question as to
his sanity at the time of the commitment of
the deed, but the test is to be of his present
mental condition, which seemed to be out
side the powers of human shamming when
he was placed in the witness box.
1t is thought, whether this case should 90
on or be declared off this morning, that the
court will adjourn sine die this afternoon,
the trial docket being exhausted with this
case.