The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-07
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BURET FOUND GUILTY
The Frenchmdn Who Shot
His Wife Booked for a
Long Term in Jail.
INSANITY THEORY RlDIeULED.
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Desperate 8o1Abginthe DebaucheS
tffe bTaGSa GiIo
Proyen-Glosing Pleas of
Counsel.
INSANITY THEORY RIDIeULED.

After recess yesterday Judge Huds-
peth directed the lawyers employed to de-
fend Ellie Buret, on trialfor shooting his wife,
to proceed as rapidly as possible.
Mrs. George, a sister of Buret, informed
the jury that her brothers habits were
familiar to her, and that he had been a very
hard drinker for three or four years. On
many occasions she had seen Buret drunk.
She related to he jury some of the peculi-
arities of Buret, one of which was that he
would often pass her on the street without
speaking to her.
She said that at the age of eight years he
was struck ON the head with a stone. Mrs.
George also testified that Buret's father
also drank to excess, and that he attempted
TO hang himself from two hooks he had
placed in a ceiling for that purpose. At an
other time the father gave Buret's mother
q knife and begged her to kill him.
AN ABSINTHE VICTIM.
Carmine George, the brother-in-law of
Buret and hhsbShdfof the previous witness,
corroborated the testimony of his wife, and
William Dresher, a liquor dealer testified to
Buret's heavy drinking OF late years. He
declared that he had reached the conclusion
that Buret was insane before the shooting
took place Hefefused TO sell Buret liquors..
Dresher sM6fe that Buret would drink a
bottle of absinJhe a dayyif he could get it.
Dir. White testified that Buret was very
violent before he was taken to Christ Hos
pital and he was given one-fourth OF a grain
of morphine to quiet him, but the drug had
no effect. 1t required five men to bold him.
Deputy Sheriff Edward Scault, who
watched Buret in the hospital, testified that
he was very violent at tunes and that he
threatened to kill his wife, her sister and
himself. He also said he wished he was on
some high buiidlng so that he could jump off
anu break 1auo one thousand pieces.
THE OTHER SIDE.
Dr. Rector gave some expert testimony,
and Police Sergeant Usher, recalled by Mr..
Winfield, said that he saw Buret daily for
three months and never saw him intoxl-
Gated. The Sergeant had believed Buret to
be a very clever and shrewd business man,
and never suspected him of being insane. g
Williame Dane knew Buret for eight
or ten years. aud never noticed any peculi-
arities about him, except that he frequently
got trunk.
Deputy Warden Joseph Birmingham of the
County Jail said that while Buret had been
in the Jail he had never noticed anything
about him that indicated insanity. The
Deputy Warden had seen Burist daily.
euDr. Gonyerseatestified he hal seen Buret
seven or eight times. and had examined
him and had not noticed anything unusual
about fims The bullet that Buret shot into
his head could cause MN 10 nave a cOnVul-
sion such as he had at the hospital when it
required five men TO hold him.
ToDAYis
Senator DAILY and Counsellor Dixon made
this morning able pleas for Buret, claiming
that he was insane when he shot his wife
and himseifg and Prosecutor Winfield ridi-
culed this theory. He claimed that the fact
: tina Buret attempted to kill himself under
the conviction that he had murdered his
wife was the best of proof of his sanity. 1t
was better to die thus than by the hands of a
hangman, and Buret knew this when he at
tempted suicide The Prosecutor in no gen
tie manner dissected the evidence of Doctors
Dickinson ndsReetor; and sarcastically re-
ferred to the great experience DR.. Rector
must have in insanity, he having practiced
but one year and one month. ynt
Court adjourned at the conclusion of the
the Prosecutors speech, and this morning
Judge Hudspeth in al g0impartial charge
directed the jury tIatbefore it could acquit
Buret. it must be convinced that he was too
insane to know what he was doing, and the
differenceAb between right and wrong. The
jury found a verdict after considering the
evidence aforty=fve minutes of guilty as
charged. The maximum punishment for
Buret's crime is ten years at hard labor in
Sfafa PRISON