The herald., 1897-01-24
THE BARIH[LMAN CASE
A Hypothetical Question
That Covers All Points
PROPOUNDED 10 MEDICAL EXPERTS
Some Racy Disclosures in the
Spencer Case
OLD MANS MORPHINE HABIT
Peuniless, II. Was Compelled to Do the
Household Work
An Iucririuating Document, With Letters Ap.
pended, Disa. pears
OLD MANS MORPHINE HABIT
Peuniless, II. Was Compelled to Do the
Household Work
An Iucriminating Document, With Letters Ap.
pended, Dlsa, pears
The School Apportionment Made by the
County superintendent - Bud"
Prices Damage Suits-New
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Suits Filed-Notes
Instead of public interest In the Bar
thelman trial becoming blunted by re-
dundancy of evidence that. under ordi-
nary circumstances, could not attract
notice, the tendency seems the other
way.
Department one was again crowded
to the doors yesterday and-strange in
congruity-the women were out in
force.
The testimony yesterday was almost
entirely put forward by the prosecution
in rebuttal.
1t is seldom indeed, that a mans life
hangs in the balances of justice as
against one solitary question:; and yet
that is approximately-and one might
almost say actually-the case in the
Barthelman trial. The defence set up
is that of insanity and the witnesses for
the defence have testified to many
facts which will be arrayed by counsel,
in addressing the jury, in substantiation
of that hypothesis, But it is merely
an hypothesis which may turn to a verl
table truth. SO far as the jury is con-
cerned, II the testimony Of the medical
experts appears, in the light of the tes-
timony offered, to explain Barthelman's S
bloodthirsty deed.
AS a matter of fact, the expert testi
mony Is the key to the situation, and in
the one question put to these medical
gentleman the entire defence is en-
bodied. But that one question is a long
one, and outlines the entire life of the
defendant Inasmuch as it is of such
vast Importance and the other testimony
is merely subsidiary to it. is given in
full as propounded on Friday and again
yesterday as follows:
AN EXTENDED QUESTION.
"Dcctcr, assuming that q man on the
third day of November, 1896, commits an
act of homicide under the following
conditions: The subject of the hom-
eide is his wife, or former wife; the place
where the homicide is committed "a pub
lie highway in The city of Los Angeles,
and distant some rods erom the mouse
where the wife resides it is committed
at about half past six in the evening of
the day, and after dark, in the presence
of another person, friend of the Wife;
who is the company of man who
commits the homicide and the wife:
tina. the act of homicide is committed
by a pistol held in the hand of the one
committing 1t, and being discharged
against the person of the wife either
four or five times: that an hour or three
quarters of an hour previous to the
homicide the person committing It and
the wife meet upon the corner of Spring
and Second streets in the city of Les An
geles, there having a conversation con-
suming some ten minutes; that after
wards the wife, in company with her
female friend. boards car and rides
from that point to something like a mile
distant, and alight from the car at the
corner of Kern and First streets in this
city: that there they are Joined by the
person who commite the homicide, and
q conversation occurs between him and
his wife. the details of which are not
known, but which Is carried on in an
ordinary tore of voice. and in an ord.-
Eary manner: that the person commit
ting the homicide and the one upon
whom the homicide is committed, in
company of the friend walk side by side
proceeding from the place where they
alight from the car to- the place of the
homicide, some three or four hundred
feet distant
THE MURDER DEPICTED.
THAT upon approaching the scene of
the homicide the person committing il
asks, 'wiLl you give me the chiId?' Is
replied to by the person who is shot,
me the child?' the reply, no. again,
VIII you give me the child?' three times
no., and then drawing a pistol and
shooting that after the homicide is
committed the individual who commit.
ted 1t is next heard of between seven
and eight oclocl: going into the house Of
an acquaintance. sitting down a table
in the dining room OF the house in great
agitation and distress, weeping holding
ms mead in his hands. and leaning upon
the table; that upon inquiry by the lady
into whose house he had come, as to
what was the natter and interrogated
Tor some twenty minutes or half an hour,
makes replies to her questions as 20
what he had done. that he had met his
wife at the place l have mentioned.
rad ridden on the car with her to the
corner where they alighted, had there
gotten off the car, walked with her to the
place where the homicide is said to have
been committed, and had there drawn
pistol and shot.
A LAPSE OF MEMORY.
Being inquired of as to whether he
nau Killed MS wife, said, Il don't know.
1 shot stating that after the shot he
first recalled himself, or it came TO his
attention where he was, by finding him
self sitting on the curbstone at a point
something like half a mile distant from
the scene of the homicide. and, bv a child
saying to Elm, See the man with the
gum looking down at his hand and see
ing In 1t pistol and dropping it upon
the sidewalk, and after that coming
to the house, where he is inquired of
upon that subject. Leaving the house
of the person who makes the inquiry
and going out into the night and staying
somewhere all night, where it does not
appear by the testimony in the case:
ON the Following morning going into the
house of another friend, sitting down
in chair in great distress and agita-
ton, holding in his hands a newspaner
and turning 1t back and forth for a ne.
riod of about twenty minutes, and saw
ing nothing, although being interro-
gated by the people there present. maxi
ing no statement whatever in replies or
answers to any kind of questions. ta-
ken from that home by an officer of the
law and placed in the custody of the
proper authorities.
IIOODOOED IN EARLY LIFE
Assuming that this man was born
In Germany, and was nearly of the age
of 40 years; assuming that in his in
fancy and while an infant In arms he