New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-20
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
TO INVESTIGATE DOUGHERIl'>s SANITY.
HE SAYS THAT MARY ANDERSON MIGHT HAVE
AIDED HIM IN HIS TRIAL.

HE SAYS THAT MARY ANDERSON MIGHT HAVE
AIDED HIM IN HIS TRIAL.
A commission in lunacy was appointed yesterday
nv Judcc Bartlett to examine the mental cohd!uoh OF
lanes Doughcrty the murderer of DR.. Lloyd
Donclery was convicted of murder In the second de-
gree last week lie acted much more insaney in the
court room when brought up for sentence yesterday
than he did while the trial was In progress. The
prisoner was asked lie had legal reason TO urge
why judgment shOnld not DC pronounced against i'i'
In replying he said
"Owtnc to nv environments ] have been unable to
proye nv assertions have not had my statements
rebutted except by the opinion OF few men. Miss
Anderson, now Mrs. Navarro, is living.
and her evidence could have been got to
prove that She was in Washington when
said she was there Ny letters intercepted. the
newspapers refused to publish my statements ana
was thrown into jail. Miss Anderson has never de-
MED what claim. DR.. Shaws testimony is the only
evidence worth anything in this case and he Is wrong
so far Justice Lawrence is concerned The jury
found guilty OF murder in the second degree IhcS
have brought me In sane and insane. They should
have brought In insane and therefore elltless OF
guilty of murder in the first degree or else of justablo
homicide | was morally right in what | did, but
legally wrong 50 John Brown, George Washington
and Patrick Henry were legally wrong but morally
right. ] morally right and JUSTIFIED III my act
] am a citizen, and l want fair trial want
chance 10 bring my Witnesses, anu uoH want W e' "
the Penitcntary OH other mems opinions
Foster L. Bacias asked that his client should DC
placed in "a unatc asylum rather than STATE prlSo
and that a commission be appointed to pass on the
question of his insanity that If insane he mleh'
be sent to the state asylum for insane criminals.
Judge Bartlett said that he had no doubt last week
that the defendant far from being 80 insane as
TO be Incapable Of making Il defence. But via. Nv
lad said in court this morning had caused n
doubt As whether he understood what was going Oh
about him. The judge then appointed as the .ph
arder j. c. skene, Edwin y. Lewis and Lahdoh carter
Gray.
EXPERTS DECLARED TIE WILL \ FORGERY.
The trial of the Myra Clark Gaines Will case WAS con-
.nrod Yesterday before surrogate Abbott. Jnetta Per
kjns and Marie p Evans are seeking 10 have The hOlo
graphic will dated January 1850. the day before
Mrs. Cianes's death. admitted TO probate william H.
Wilder the executor under the will OF January ., 1851
and the children of William W. Whitney and James l.
Chri .tian ask for the probate of the latter WILL
Marie T. Evans. the cXccutriX OF the hoioslaPhio
will was the only witness examined Yesterday ohc
testified that the will delivered TO her by Leuta
Bradley the nurse Of Mrs Gaines. on the day IL was
made She was not permitted to see Mrs. Games
That side of The case then rested and the report Oh
commission APPOINTED 10 take expert testimony III
New Orleans wa, read The experts testified mat the
photographic will was a forgery The case has ALREADY
lecn tried i'm Louisiana and neither VIII Was Ill"
United 70 probate. the Photographic one belhs pro-
nCunced a forgery and the other lrcSIar: IL, vi,
rernlar according to the laws of Nowlork, IN winch
Stat. Mr. Gaines lived. LeGatccs under INC hoiD
eraphic will now try to prove GENUINE lilInEn IN Sn
discovered testimony. The trial Will probably he I'M
ished today.