Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-02-25

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TOT hin; ~ bushand - poos, b
worried - Hsahaa d Casr,s tanRio1
camp; b hsd ben these fer III % sieh
veehs; b. sefafpsd home SUNDAY hGfues
fnAehs31ytnG; be came ho0e N ~
eseoine: totd him veA& bad happsaed
q s.s Krsday eveeina. ! told my has
bad 9 q Cnossgue ba1 eoDe 20 cus
houss and mid ssss. b vas on hin vuy
- town, bat eoold nos 90 fsFshs4.
told bt0 Ue1ld give bin eoEs thank.
80 and sstd be eoold eisep IN houal
Rear By h which sheFs 49, some hsy,
Ccrassns aaked me u vss sleepy. HI
soca sftervsfd9 bisv out the light end
asnaoieed Ne. Afses I hid told my
husoand vhss had taken placs. be &C.
osms very maeh excited and sid -
ooui1 have revenge. He pounded the
well Of the ho1ss With nis fsss and
osde them bleed. He 10 of . very ex
elesbie 6spcsisien. BE tried 10 hang
hsmseif ous time; b wasted us both 70
ssks poison. He that night slept but
Iisfle. bos relied skeut In bed. The
Eexs day be vent 10 tosn. He returned
home. tack his ccn ard said be vss
going henstre. Tue next thine lizard
vaa thAs Cousigne had been kiiled."
OYo0 examiEasion-I didn's tell ny
knsband about 10 when be ara oaGe
boms, because Vss afraid be Voald
hill OonsiQne- I beeeed him 20 les me
70 home 20 my mother. I thooQhf b.
doing % that nsthiua more vsoid b
dsne about IT, TIE as0uit took place
ou November lob; my husband rs-
manned q home Saturday and Sunday;
be continued excited IN bis manner; be
" y~sSx &so SoSnok
The house; be friahsesed me nearly TO
death.
Lsousrd Hiek,in, the defendant,
swarn: Was born 10 Oregon; can't give
exact date Of my birth, bos an %
sears old; lived about Is milss from
Portland; vaa msrried in Vancouver;
sfser coming 20 King county lived
efst in Seattle, then on the farm; then
worked wherever ! could get vorh, I
Same home every onoe In While 70 Rse
my family something 20 eas sns 10 go
lhas they we're veil. Nj. Hiekliu said
sfser be came home on Thanksgiving
day thss bic wife cried about the house
Tor several days before she told him
shat troubled her. Mr.. hicklin then
recited What bic wife said TO him Sub
Itaustsily - appears IN her testimony.
the remainder OF bis testimony devei
,ped iittie, II anything. Of importance
3shsf than what vss already testified 10
By other witnesses.
Assistant Proseosiinc Attorney Piles
,soss examined Mr.. Hictlin at great
enQtb, in which his direct testimony
vss gone over 10 detail, but without
bringing out anything Of Importance,
.xcet ting 10 show that Mr.. hicklin's
memory vas very tenacious IS 10 some
aud foFResfui a. to many
,sbers. On redirect examination be
aid be believed what his wife had told
Tim about ConsiRne.
q. b. Husneil, sworn: live In Wash.
n0ton county, Oregon, about 10 miles
,outh Of Portland; am cQ1ainted With
be defendant, his father, mother and
,ther relatives.
Q. State to the jury the condition Of
hose relatives a. to sanity or insanity.
A. His mothes IL fanatic 10 re-
lei on.
Q. Do you know anything sbout his
l.ster!
A. She IL in an insane asylum.
Q. State what ycu know about Mr..
4. He had queer ways. but vas quite
hsrGless-
Q. Whs. did be do that was special
y observablef
A. He tried once to commit snicide.
q Whist 10 your spinion as TO sanity
Or insanity?
THIS question vas objected 10 because
be had nos testined to facts upon which
be could base soch a belief, or which
souid raise any prescriptions 40 TO
y b. Their he really csaid have formed
any intelligent opinion In the matter.
q. How long did his mother mani
fest tue peculiar deposition yoa have
SPOKEN Of
A. Ten or twelve years.
Mr.. Donovan Vas sworn ard testified
~ to The pccolisr disp 7s,tion Of the de-
fendant indicating tsAt his m;cd vas
nos msture. The court refused 70
allow the witness TO testify as TO bis
op.nion OF the defendsnt's sanity, be
cause the witness had not testified to
ans circomssaocss upon which suca an
opinion coeid be based.
Thomas z. Jones and w. +. McNstt
alec testified 20 the defendants disposi-
tioa being peculiar and bis conversation
and copcu,t immature.
Edsart Lindsay testified that be wss
10 Seattle on November % last, and.that
vhilc driving home the defendant got
into t6s wagon. His actions vsre DIFF
ferens from what he bad ever observed
in Hicklin before. He vas excited
aud nervous. HIS mind appeared 10
Dwell ogon one idea and that vss soUe
trouble which ct brss be did nos tell
me. I hept asking hin what his trouble
sss. He toij me. 1bs witness then
related wnat had taken plscc snostanti-
ally a. related BY Mrs. Hicklu. TEE
v tness sss or bis way 70 a powder
house for powder. While loading toe
posder, Hiekiin bfcu2hs oot me csns
Of posd g after witness had told hin
sooaep mad been placed In the wagon.
II. then took ths cans back aad IN fev
moments Hieklin vsut IN and bsoaehs
oct aposhes can The witness said thai
iu his opiniou Hickiin vss insane.
Mr., Green, . seamsscr, vas sworn.
II > related tsas lie bad seen hiesiin CD
see day Of tue SPECIAL election ~ No
vvnber iast, and tsss Hiesltn told tim
.boai bis troobies. Witness believs d
Hseaiip vss insane. Of least on that
point.
Mr.. Hood tesii6ei that Hisklin VA
dispose1 20 g. strange things. ODe
time be Offered g. rsds los covn =
chute for $40. he Gee line tors asened
10 throw ,ne siiasss sna Cosef OF 20
ice Marpey ,aroesh tue roof Of cab
IA in ct ics they vefe standing. Al
enotner tine he offered 10 remove Vile
of about seventy dive wagon iosas OF
manure foF tue use OF a vhesioATros
for q few days. Al another tue. wien
tue water on tae Sound vas very rouxb,
HsckIin offered for ki0 10 go acrgs,
soout three AID ons bali q lies 10 Wash
90 Island, ia q canoe. Witness Ia ushi
from these thing, foee her With tie