Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-17

Other experts, equally well known. give it as
their opinion that Schneider was malingering,
and that he was as sane at the time of the recent
hearing Us he was when he committed the two
murders. or at the time when he tried for
the murder OF his wife. One set Of men or the
other was In the wrong.
LITTLE INTEREST IN HIS SURROUNDINGS.
At any rate, in his bearing and attitude
throughout his confinement in the District Jail
that lasted for over a year he has shown less
interest in his case and less appreciation for
his condition than one would suppose to be
possible under the circumstances. For
months past he has been morose. gloomy and
sullen. taking but little interest in his sur
rOupdings or In what went on about him All
efforts on the part of the Jail officials the men,
bers OF his family and the ministers who have
interested themselves in him TO bring him to a
fruitless. He had shown up to the last not the
slightest care for himself. apparently not
the least feeling or interest whether he
lived or died. Yesterday DR.. Parson called
at the jail to see him and endeavored to awaken
him to a sense Of the future. He was unable
to obtain any signs of recognition from the
condemned man, who even seemed unable to
tell the day OF the week or to understand that
SO far as he knew or had any reason TO believe
it was hrs last day on earth. DR.. Parson told
him that today would be Friday, and that to-
day he would be hung by q rope until dead,
and that there would he no more days for hun
IN this life. This swesome statement had not
the slightest effect upon Schneider and all that
he woald saw something about believing
that they were going to kill him. This he said
IN a much less interested way than one would
have spoken OF the death OF a stranger.
Throughout his long confinemert. with the
exception OF one or two outbreaks OF violence
on his part. Schneider's actions were those Of a
model prisoner lie gaze but little trouble 70
The keepers and no annoyance. For the n ost
/ part be would sit il mis- cell smoking and ap
( parently lost in b>own study. For hours at a
\ time he would sat the edge OF his CO.
was he without a pipe or cigar in
his mouth Until the time Of the in
sanity hearing he was allowed II practically
J unlimited supply OF tobacco. and this fact was
{ brought forward to show that it might have
/ had some influence upon his mental condition.
I After the hearing tine supply was somewhat cur
tailed, and Schneider seemed to feel the differ
ence.
| HIS EMOTION At FIRST.
Directly after the shooting. when Schneider
was first lodged in Jail he seemed to be over
come by his feelings and wept much of the
time. After the death OF his wife. on the Sat-
| urday following the sunday on which the shoot
| ing occurred. The death" one of the judges
| expressed IL. 'of the most important witness
| against him. he seemed to lose something of
1 the poignancy of his gIief. and then began that
| long period OF time IN which he appeared to be
utterly indifferent 10 everything. Later in the
| summer he began to have dreams or halluci-
| nations, protesting again and again that he was
4 the inventor OF wonderful machine that
| could be used for separating poisons from food
| and that the benefits from this invention
| were being stolen from him. He also ex-
/ pressed the belief that poisons were being
| thrown over his hands and he objected to
eating the prison food on the ground that he
believed it to be poisoned. As rule he
] would eat nothing but the food that was
brought to him At the jail by his mother, who