St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-30
He TIPS HIS HAND.
Attorney Erwin May Try to
Prove Hereditary In
sanity.
STILL ONE VACANT CHAIR.
One More Juror Is Necessary
to Make an Even
Dozen.
STILL ONE VACANT CHAIR.
FLOUR CITY NEWS BUDGET.
Woes OF the W. C. T. U.--Penny
Press Is Legally In
viewed.

The defense in the Hayward muir
der trial yesterday made known it's
intention of keeping the insanity
plea we'll in mind. About II o'clock
Mr.. Erwin, in behalf of his client,
stated his desire to present a mo-
ton permitting the taking of depo-
sitions in Illinois relating to the eX-
istence of insanity in the Hayward
family. Judge Smith replied that he
did not care to entertain the motion
at that time, but would hear it
later in the day. Shortly before
court adjourned the motion was
granted. The attempt to introduce
this motion was the first actual evil
dence of what the defense intends
to plead. Nothing up to this time
had been offered to show that the
plea of insanity would be made, and,
in fact, it has been quite generally
believed that the defense had a card
up it's sleeve. 1t is not, however, be-
lieved that Mr.. Erwin intends to
rely upon the insanity plea alone,
but that the dispositions and wit
nesses, capable of proving a hered-
itary faint of insanity in the Hay
ward family, will be kept for use in
case they become necessary. Fol
lowing is the motion:
The faint.
"The petition of Harry T. Hay
ward, defendant in the case above
entitled, respectfully shows to the
court: That certain persons resid-
ing outside the state of Minnesota,
to wit, J. F. Mckenzie, residing at
Jacksonville, Morgan county, Ill; S.
V. Keller, of Medora, Macoupin
county, H.. Mrs. Mary A. Williams,
and Mrs. Sarah A. Phipps, residing
at Nation, Coles county, Ill, and
DR.. Samuel Vanmeter, residing at
Charleston, Coles county, Ill, are
necessary and material witnesses in
behalf of the said defendant on the
trial of the above entitled action,
without whose testimony he cannot
proceed to trial therein, as he is
advised by his counsel and verify
believes.
THAT the facts he expects to
prove by said witnesses are:
by the witness, J. f. Mckenzie,
that he is superintendent of Illinois
central hospital for the insane,
directed and maintained by the state
of Illinois, under the laws thereof,
and is the custodian of its records.
That it appears by the records OF
said hospital for the insane that
John Hedges Keller was patient
therein from July %, 1860, to April
16. 1861; from Jan. 81, 1868, to Nov.
ID, 1868; from Dec. s, 1874, to Sept
20, 1879; and from Dec. 80, 1879, to
July 20, 1882, and that said John
Hedges Keller was during said pc
riod an insane person; and further,
that it appears from said record
that July 5, 1852, George *. Vanme-
ter, of Coles county, Ill, was adj
mitted to said hospital and was
then an insane person, and his in
sanity had then existed for eight
years, and defendant expects to
produce as a part of the deposition
and testimony of said J. F. McKen-
Zie, copies of all official records of
said hospital for the insane relating
to the said John Hedges Keller and
George K. Vanmeter.
by the witnesses, S. V. Keller,
Mrs. Susan Lopez, Mrs. Mary A.
Williams, Mrs. Sarah Phipps and
DR.. Samuel Vanmeter, that they
and each of them are related to the
defendant as follows: S. V. Keller,
of defendant; Mrs. Susan
Lopez, paternal grandmother of
defendant; Mrs. Mary A. Williams,
Mrs. Sarah Phipps and DR.. Samuel
Vanmeter, first cousins of the ma
ternal grandmother Of defendant.
THAT Zillah Vanmeter Keller was
the maternal great-grandmother of
the defendant; that John Hedges
Keller was maternal grand-uncle
of the defendant; that Moses Van
meter was uncle of the maternal
! at-grandmOther of defendant;
that George K. Vanmeter was first
cousin of the maternal grandmother
! Of defendant; that said Zillah Van
| meter Keller was in her lifetime
three times insane, once in her early
married life in Charlottesville, Ind.
! second at Chesterfield, Ill, when
about forty-eight years of age, at
which time she was insane about
two years, during which time she
| had suicidal tendencies and had to
! be closely watched and third at
! Chesterfield, Ill, when about sew
! enty-fve years old, at which time
| she endeavored to kill her daugh-
ter, and failing in this she commit
ted suicide by starvation, refusing
all food.
THAT said John Hedges Keller
was insane at intervals between
1910, when he was about thirty years
of age, and his death, in 1882. His
insanity between 1860 and 1882 being
of a dangerous type.
THAT said Moses Vanmeter be-
came violently insane when a young
| iiielllJ anu Nv GU " dl SIuNdnC6QN age,
becoming sane only few days be-
| fore his death.
THAT said George K. Vanmete1
became violently insane in 1S43 when
a young man, and remained so until
he was lost during the War of the
Rebellion, when he wandered away
and was never heard of again; that
he was frequently confined in jails
and insane asylums on account OF
his said insanity.
THAT defendant further expects
to prove by the testimony of each OF
the said witnesses the particulars OF
the conduct of each of said insane
| persons, while so insane, and the
symptoms and manifestations OF
their said insanity, of all of which
particulars defendant is now ignor-
ant and cannot state the same more
fully than as hereinbefore set forth
THAT defendant is informed and
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