The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-28
klPPIE HAD ANOTHER FIT.
HE FINISHED YEsrERDAY THIR-
 TEEN HOURS oNTaE STAND.

Deposition of Isabelle wiiroy, n Sister of '"e Mnrderer-Testimony by Dr. Ham m"nd''a Medical Expert-ae Says Ripple was Insane.
 me Ripple trial was resumed yester- day morning at 10 o'clock, the testimo- ny or the prisoner being resumed at that time. The chief incident of the forenoon occurred at 11I5 Mr Win Hams had produced letter written by Nipple to his sister, February i, 1896. The letter was as follows:
 Dear Annie: I suppose am mur- derer in your eyes and in everybodys else, l wish I could see you and have talk with you. Send me my comb and brush, necktie, collars and shirts. can't write any more. Good by.
 "P. s. My backing brush and daub- CT. You know how l feel"
 The cross examination which had lasted more than thirteen hours closed at 11:45.
 MT. Futile then read a letter Ripple had written to his wife from Detroit, urging her to join him there. It was full of endearing terms, and Ripple burst out crying and his sobs at times drowned MT. Tuttle's voice. The iden- tiflcation of the letter ended the re- direct examination, and Kippe's sister Ellen Calhoun of Avon, Conn.,, was called, while Kippe was led into the ,N,xSen 1t,,o tion brought out family characteristics The father and mother and the witness herself were subject to fits and had them with alarming frequency.
 Describe the fits; how do they come on, and how you feel" said MT. Tut tie.
 1T can't tell. All know is that had sore arms, and people told me that they were sore from fits"
 Mir. Williams then began to cross ex- anime and asked the witness to name a gle person who told her of the fits. She replied that she could not remember. Also that she had not been to church for fourteen or fifteen years, that she left the church in 8 huff and said she would never go back.
 Mrs Calhoun said that she did not live with anyone; that she had not seen her husband for a good many years; that she left the church in curb around the we'll where her mother fell in; that there might have been ice about the we'll and that her mother was drunk on that night
 John Wrinn, saloonkeeper at l27 Lib erty street, testified to having sold Ripple liuuor and that he was always nervous and s11aky when he came In there. and that he did not know wheth- CT he was drunk or crazy Ripple was the only man who ever looked to him like crazy man.
 The deposition of Mrs. Isabelle Will roy of 109 Lafayette street, sister of Kippie's whose tendency towards enilepsy was so great that she could not be taken into court was next read.
 The defence then offered the testimo- nv of Isabelle willroy, taken by agree ment by F. H. Coggswell as a magis- trate. She did not know her own sis ters and brothers except Tom and An drew. Her brother, Eddie, she had not seen since he was a child. She would mt know him if she saw him. Her health was DTOkel Uy 1lCiNouo Pio'eiN" ton and fits, which came on years ago. She described the fits as follows:
 ~ don't know nothing in them; they take me and go out, and don't know anything at all about it until I come to and somebody will tell me. am just as if I was asleep. When l come out of them to know anything think am sleeping, and the minute get out or them want water. I may have them often. and I may not have them It IS according to excitement and trouble and worrinlent
 She said she could remember Tom when he was crazy. Maybe it was the drinking she said. Well, he would get those spells on him and go around like a ma dman, or crazy man, or some thing else He would go to Work ana Everybody would have to keep out of his way. He was very fighty, as If he would kill them or something. They would have to get away from him. 1 have seen him come into my house and he would fly out like a. crazy man out of the house. have seen him do that when he was out; he would come in and look for his wife, and if she wasn't there he would fly out, and you would see he was mad, crazy or something else have seen him often taken that way. but I wouldn't see him again, n,aybe. until afterwards when would find him, or he would come in, or seme- thing"
 She did not remember having had fit in the court room last Wednesday.
 Dr. Graem M. Hammond Of New York. son of Dr. William A. Ham mond of New York, was the first medi- cal expert called. He testified that he obtained his education at the New York university and at the Post-Gradu- ate hospital; that he now holds char at the Post Graduate hospital; that his speciality was nervous and mental dis eases: that in conjunction with his father. pr. w. A. Hammond, had writ ten a text book on mental or nervous diseases; that he had testified in the Marie Barberi and Mrs. Fleming cases within the past year, and that he had previously testified in one or two other criminal cases a year or two before; that he treated about 1000 cases of ner- yous diseases during the year and about 90 per cent. personally He tes- tified that he had examined Thomas F. Kippie at the jail three times. The first time was in spring and he had .;thar baan nresent during the trial or