The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-08

ry and tried to hunt up some one to
marry him. I couldn't depend on him,
and couldn't sen him anywhere"
Did he ever speak Of his past life
and trouble?"
IL he could help it."
Did he seem to know h trouble
he had been iny"
"Yes, ne seemed to know that h had
been in some III OF trouble"
What did he say about it,"
II said II he had had his own way
he would have been all right"
Did he know he had been ~insane?'
He knows that ne has been i'm the
asylum"
did he say he was w~ronsfuliy
there?"
mo. SIR"
"who was Jacob Brandt?"
He was Mr. Brandt. a man from
Missouri"
How long have you known him."
For Is years"
did your brother know him?"
Yes"
How did he come here?"
He came with my brother"
did he know about Georges trou-
ble?"
Yes, SIR"
Did you ever know him to have any
words or trouble with George7"
mo sir"
In enumerating some other alleged
insane acts of his brother the witness
said he also wanted to Join the church.
did he ask you to join?"
Yes; but 1 paid no attention to
him."
What did you say to him.
II told him he had better not and
should not"
why did you tell him so?'
IT did not think it woul be good for
him."
did he ever Join the church,"
did he EVER attempt to do SOL"
Yes"
What church,"
1.-THE German Lutheran"
Were you present when your brother
killed Brandt"
mo, but ! got there right after 1t &C.
Cured"
Where vas your brother?"
II was sitting by Jake"
Did he say anything"
He said Jake called him a - ="
what else did he say?"
He said he hit him with a shovel"
How did he come to say that?"
II asked him what was the matter"
And all he said was that Jake called
hin a and that he struck him
with a shovel?'
Yes. SIR"
What did you say to him them
Il told him to go home"
Did he go?"
Yes"
The witness then told about the sher-
if coming to the house and finding
Baum in the cellar and about Baum
saying Brandt would be all right as he
had not hit him hard.
Were you ever convinced that he
was not responsible for that act?"
asked Mr.. Connolly.
Yes. i told the police at the time he
was arrested that he was insane and
should be in an asylum"
did you know he was in the cellar
when the sheriff was looking for him."
asked DIR. Gum.
mo, sir"
You did not secrete him there?"
No: l came to the house just as the
sheriff did"
In answer to several questions by DIR.
Mcdonald, the witness said there was
! four years difference between his age
and that of his brother. During boy
hood he had never noticed anything pc
culiar about his brother.
Did you him to come to
Butte?"
mo. sir"
do you know any special reason
why he was sent to the asylum" asked
| DIR. Bernheim.
The trouble with the girl"
What was that trouble
He carried the girl TO the minister
and the doctors declared him insane"
Were there any other actions that
indicated insanity?"
When he was arrested a gun was
pointed at him but he did not seem to
care. They could do nothing with him
and had to chain him."
For what reason did they send him
away from the asylum before he was
| cured?"
Because they thought he had been
done some good. but l dom know pos
| itively about that"
The witness said his folks sent his
brother to Montana with Brandt. with
the hope that the change would do him
good.
At this point OF the examination
Judge Lindsay ordered an adjournment
until 2 o'clock to-day. as one Of the
doctors had to cav town on a profess