The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-15

placed her under restriction
Mr.. Hammill said that for some time
prior to the shooting he had made up
his mind that she had lost her reason
of the case and her family trouble and
was not surprised at her changed con-
dition.
A person could see at glance that
she was crazy" said the witness.
What impression did she make on
you as to her sanity or insanity?'
My impression was that she was de-
cidedly insane"
Did you believe that her condition
was such that she might be apt to do
herself or some one else great violence. .
Yes. sir; / thought she might COM
nit suicide"
Did you inform anyone of your be-
lief?"
NO; there We're others to look after
her who were closer to her than l was. .
James b. Gallagher said he met Mrs.
Baptiste several times short while be-
fore the shooting. She stopped him on
the street and pleaded with him to go
to her husband and ask him to return
to her. She told him her troubles and
said that while she was away her hus-
band took up with another woman and
since she returned he refused to live
with his wife.
Did she say who the other woman
was?"
Yes; she said it was a woman from
the Casino theater, but / don't think she
mentioned her name"
Mr.. Gallagher said she stopped him
the second time and caught him by the
coat lapel and pleaded with him to see
her husband and arrange for meet
ing with her. Mr.. Gallagher did so.
he thought from the woman's action
that she might do something desperate.
went so far as to tell her husband
and warn him." said the witness. II
told him he had better look out"
You did not inform the authorities
that you believed she would do some
thing desperate?"
No. because / did not feel it my
DUTY. | thought that if reconciliation
between herself and husband were eff
fected the danger would be over"
E. j. Dougherty testified that he was
present when Mrs. Baptiste was ar
rested. He said she looked like a wild
person and he thought she was in
sane
Police Officer James Leyden testified
that in July of last year Mrs. Baptiste
came to him and asked him to go with
her to the Owsley block to get her hus-
band, who. she said, was living with
another woman. The officer went with
her, but he did not tell the result
of it.
w. T.. Wright, the next witness. tes-
tified that he had known Mrs. Baptiste
and her husband for number of years
he saw her on the day she returned
from Kansas City. She had just come
from the train and stopped him on the
street TO ask him if he knew where she
could find her husband He told her he
dld not know, though he had a strong
suspicion where he was. She talked
ABOUT her husbands conduct, and from
what she said Mr. Wright learned that
she was quite familiar with the fact
that Baptiste was living with another
woman. The witness saw her again
later on the same day and she told him
tnat she had learned that her husband
was living in room 10 of the old Owsley
block with another woman She had
called at the place, but the proprietor
OF the house would not let her go to
the room, but went himself and called
Baptiste. Mrs. Baptiste waited in the
office, but he left the building bv an
other way and she did not see him
Mrs. Baptiste asked Wright to plead
with her husband and to tell him she
would not say an angry word to him IL
ne would come back. Wright went to
the OWsley and learned that Baptiste
had gone out riding with the woman.
frankie Bell, and he returned to Mrs
Baptiste and told her her husband had
Il
question from Mrs. Baptiste he said he
dld not believe the other woman had
gone with her husband. Mr. Wright
saw Mrs. Baptiste again at night and
she asked him again to see her hus-
band. He finally found him and told
him what his wife had said. but Rap-
tiste refused to see her The witness
testified that during his conversations
with Mrs. Baptiste she talked discon-
nectedly and irrationally, and each
time ne saw her she appeared worse,
ana he was convinced the woman was
going insane, and he feared she would
do violence to some one. She once
told him that she was going crazy.
The court suggested that the defense
had enough testimony on the question
Of insanity, and several other lay wit
nesses on that point, who had been
We're not put on the stand.
but the defendants attorneys stated
that they had some medical testimony
which they desired to offer, and DR..
E. A. Brooke was called and testified
that as acting county physician during
The past two years, he had had con-
siderable experience with insane cases.
he first became acquainted with Mrs
Bapt1ste in 1893, when he performed an
operation on her at the request of an
other doctor. She had been suffering
for some time from chronic female
f1e ulu not see neF again
until the fall of 1896 and again saw her
Just as she was about to leave for
Kansas City for treatment from Il DR.
Miner. The next time DR. Brooke saw
her was when he was called to the
county jail to attend her few hours
after her arrest for killing her hus-
oand, on the night of the 10th of last
september. He found her in very
BADLY disturbed mental condition. He
las been attending her ever since The
ioctor said he had made a physical ex-
animation of her soon after he was
,alled to see her and found her suffer-
ng badly from her old disorder. He
also testified as to her disturbed men
al condition. which. he said, was due
% her physical condition. added to by
worry. The doctor said he did not con-
;ider that Mrs. Baptiste was a respon-
'ible or sane individual on the 10th of
asst September.
Attorney Lamb put Hypothetical
question to the witness. which EN-
1raced the story of the lives of the de-
endant and her husband, and told all
ibout her physical suffering and her
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