New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-16
THE COURTS.
WAS Jesse HoYT INsANEi

d
-, IT. HAMILTON's oPINIoN-soME
IcAL QUESTIONS
uonrv r. Dixey wandered from the Supreme
- chambers. yesterday into the surrogate's Court
IA rent his eyes fastened upon General Benjamin e.
p,,ar FOR forty-ave minutes He studied the "srrior
.,urss caught his left eye and made mental hs'cs
49,, gestures and his pecuartes 1t Is Whispered an"'
general Butler will succeed MI irving al 'ho D"oS
onsra House. Yesterday the General was en-
80 On tho Hoyt will case surro-
80 Rollins began the hearing at
n and announced that he would sit until p III.
and possbly until midnight He desircd 10 se' fio "
this year-old contest ,
DR. Frank H. Hamilton testified that he had conVorseo
tbin week with Miss Mary Irene Hoyt and founo ner
"a sornd They had talked on many common topics
,o,rdino music The witness had especially prlcEed
xfs Uovts sensibites" the subject OF her iather
and her incarceration In Friends Asylum In oroer
70 test her emotional nature. He had fonha her on'
condition normal. She had considerable temper
General Butler-Are delusions by themselves
Indicative of Insanity A.-By no means. o'her"i'o
one-half the world would be insane CHRISTIANS anu
Mohanmeaus have beliefs and one or the other
ara under delusion but cannot say that they are IN
sane ...,.,
General Butler asked overwhelming hypothotieai
question, TO which Mr.. sChoate made oo)ecUon Ai'o'
was made the Surrogate took an hours recess
r and finally admitted the question WIN
scht notifications In reply Dr. Hamilton sara tha' he
consered that Jesse Hoyt during the time he made an
ened his i'll was of uusound mind for
From June 90 1.-THE will signed on June 20 nnt tne
to'e of his death he was labOrng under chronic brghI
disease whose effect would be to weaken inc wnole
Sody aud the mind proportonately as ms eonui.,on
While this also would not necessarily produce
mental alteration. there was complication Oh use e
which brou ght about this result There was uro"
poisoning from the effect OF which the MIND Iinate5
canes Mr. Hoyt died OF this poisoning as was s
nv the fact that ncoherent in his IDEAS lor i
~ five DAYS before his death and was unconscious io
thirty hours before he died. . -, ,,,,,,,.rs
comnllaation of opinions the part OF the lawyers
rerarling the scope insanity led Senator Evarts 70
cxcI.im eve shall all be crazy before we gei
tbrough He asked physician II he had ever cureu
any case of insanity. DR.. Hamilton could hot say
whether he had cured his patient or whether the patent
had recovered spontaneously . ..No,,or
lyon don't know them" said the Senator, "hether
ne cot we'll Notwithstanding your assistancef
"No," was the answer - - =, oo,-. ororrd
A hypothetcal person was set up in court. around
which Generals Butler and Pryor and senator ENar.s
and Mr. Choae carried on Hypothetical war IN sup
Coslflfious language until supposed state OF antIs
ayisted which Exhausted the alleged imagination OF an
nresent AS 1t was getting dark when the hght was
wariug CAPTAIN McIntre got n real I'VE lamphsnterr
Tor actual rSe when the hearing adjourned unyil
Ia n ms al the Court House At o'clock TINS morning
the hypothetical war will be waged around the rea peg
of An actual physician, Dr. l.. A. eayre VINO Is cohnheu
10 his house because OF vorscously actual Ieeches