Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-16
ANSCHLAG'S SANITY.
A Special Jury to Inquire
Into It.
THE PHYSICIANS DOUBTFUL.
The Case Continued Until To- Nor
row Morning at 10
O'clock.

1t III 4. n. the Anschlag trial was re
suned before Judge Cheney. The defend
ant was suffering from q large tumor on
his neck and was muffied with bandages
after the calling OF the jury.
The District Attorney, Dupuy, asked that
Antonio Decker might be recalled for the
purpose OF further examination. Per-
nission las granted.
The first witness called In behalf OF the
defense was DR.. H. G. Brsinard who testified:
l am a practicing physician and have been
for many years. / have been connected
with the hospital for insane persons at Inde-
pendence. Iowa, for some ten years. have
made insanity special study. l made an
examination Of the defendant this morning.
was with him for about fifteen minutes
Drs. Maynard, Green and Schultz were pre-
sent. From my experience would say
that 1t would be almost impossible to judge
of the sanity OF person in so short time.
1 know OF many cases where with close
observation it took many days to detect
marked cases of insanity. One should
know something of the antecedents of
the patient From what / learned of the
defendant this morning, am unable to say
whether he ig of uns0und mind, but am
not prepared to say he Is sane.
found bis physical condition about nor
NAL, though possibly little emaciated in
desh. He is suffering from g
t1mor on the neck. He seemed
20 be under no nervous excitement
examined Anschlag's head, and found a
marked depression about the size of half
dollar. 1t Is on the upper part of the back
Of his head. 1t might be natural, or have
been caused by an accident; am not pre-
pared to ssy sy, which, @ II it was cause caused By
ally insanity i'm mmediately follows from hn
injury, but often the insanity is brought on
after years by the pressure of some bone on
the brain or other like cause. Insanity Is
supposed by many to be hereditary and
transmitted from generation to generation.
CrOes-examination-Id did not have suffi-
cient Opportunity to give decided opinion
on the defendants insanity. l would say,
however, that am not prepared to say that
Court-Q. Doctor, have you doubts of the
sanity of the defendant
A. Yes, sir.
9. Whstis the foundation of such doubts
ana the improbability of escaping detection
a. Do you base your opinion wholly on
the atroclty of the crime?
A. Yes. sir.
DR.. MAYNARD
Was next called and testified: have been
q practicing physician for twenty seven
years. have made the human. mind and
insanity study, but not specially. have
had an occasional case of insanity during
my professional career. saw the defen-
dant In the County Jail some ten days ago.
1 saw him for q few minutes this morning
and listened to brief examination. was
unable to form any opinion as to the sanity
of the defendant l did not consider the
opportunity ample to judge OF his sanity and
can only say have no opinion to express
one way or the other.
DIR. D. GREEN
Being called. stated 1 am praeticing ply
9ctan ana have been engaged In my profes-
sion for eight ears: Am q graduate OF the
Aedlc0 Institute Of Canada. have never
made insanity aepecialty, but have given 1t
considerable study. I examined the defen.
dant this morning, but on account Of the
United time az unable to give any opin-
Ion as 70 the sanity Of defendant.
Crom-examlnati0n: Q.-Have you any
reason to doubt the sanity OF the defendant?
Al don't know anything about It, not
navtng had sufficient time to investigate.
DB SCHULTZ.
I have bsen engaged in the practice OF
medicine, a. physician. for seven years.
the hospital in this city. 1 have occasion
ally had cases of insanity under my care.
I made an examination of the defendant
this morning, but, from the limited time, 1
am unable 70 express an opinion as to his
SION OF the back part of the skull but, as
Wa9 unable TO discover scar, ! could not
say whether II was caused by an accident or
whether he was born So. l noticed, when
ing Of the muscles Of the left shoulder, but
whether it was caused from cold am un-
able 70 say. cOnversed with the defendant
in German, but I noticed nothing which
would create suspicion in my mind as to
Cross-examination Q.-Did you. in your
interview, discover anything to cause you
TO doubt the sanity Of the defendant?
A. Well. really can't say. talked with
him but not long enough to say anything,
Juryman-Q. Did you converse with him
in Germsnf A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did he talk rational? A. Yes, sir,
but an insane person may often do that.
mind a. 70 the sanity % Of the the deiendantiy % y0a. AZ
Yes, sir have.
Q. why do you doubt it? A. On ac-
count Of the atrOcity of the crime and the
circumstances connected wit it.
At III A. n, the court gave the jury q re-
cess until 80 ?. NJ. and announced that
under section 1868 of the Penal Code, it be-
Same his duty to summons q jury to try the
sanity Of the defendant. 1t provided that
the sanity of the defendant arose, the judge
should at once proceed to impannel q jury
tdinquire into the condition of the prison
or. The court did not wish to allow the
question raised to go to the present jury, as
the whole trial would simply have to be
gone over again.
The attorneys for the defense objected to
suhpttting the question to new jury.
Their defense was insanity, but they felt
eae facts could not SO thoroughly be gone
into with different jury.
The. court ordered that the trial of the
cause be suspended until Friday. February
18th at 10 A. NJ, when jury would tie
present to inquire into the defendants
sanity
!. At 1:30 o'clock Judge Cheney dismissed
the jury until Saturday, the 18th, at 10
O'Clock.
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