The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-20

days later the top OF the ,istVfh was
closed AMI Matted w aud the nandlc OF the
pump taken away. On the next day sitcr
the homicide to The casual observer, the
room where the children and the wife were
Killed presented no evidence Of the hoini-
eide. On that div the prisoner told tho
scrvnnt not TO uac the cistern wator Tor
broadcast On the same dav ho aold all
the house furnlturS and shippcd 10 Houston
three boxes containing a bloody natchct,
bloody clothing OF the wife and children
and many ariiclca stained With blood.
On the same day he accounted Tor the ABB
sence OF the wife and childron, making
di1crcnt statements about their where
,bouts, and late that nlght left the city on
a moth huund train.
4. The prisoner ut the limo Of the homi-
eide was greatly embarrassed for want
OF money; he had failed TO nav his house
he had promised 10 do on die lay sue
ceeding the homicidei IL does not appear
that Ne lad made amy arrangements FOR the
future OF his tnullly; he waB under indict-
monts Tor crimes and penal scryitude
seemed Il cortalnty unlcss he he'd the roun-
Try, This witness Minnie Sims ,estlhed that
she had served the family rs coax for some
months that she had never noticed any
OF his wife; that he was always aud Dni-
ferip2 kind TO hor that she took the chill :
drcn out for u walk on the day before
the homicide, starting AT about 2 o. 3
O'Clock y ni.. and kept them out until
between and y o'clock. that she loft Mrs.
Burt at tho house alone. that when she re-
turned the prisoner aud his wfo were ut
home together. that the prisoner got milk
for the youngest child aud carried The latter
upstairs To nut her TO bod that Mrs. Burt
said 70 her: Minnie, our liza viii stop
now, as We are going to take she Scott
house tomorrow that Mrs. burt seemed
very glad everything wns settled ,or noy-
Ing; that at that time all OF tho house
hold effects and everything had been
racised ready to be- moved except a were
needed for general use; that after The pris-
uncr wont ups;nirs with the baby sho
gave the other child 10 Mrs. Burt and that
was the last She saw OF Mrs. ,urt or the
children; that she went away from tho
house md returned In about an hour aud
\ half, that no lights were burning and she
went to bed that she heard no noiecs dur
ing tho night; that the prisoner called her
to yet up about 7. told her TO 20 TO market
and also told her ,ha, he had got into
trouble Tho night before and Gent HIS family
TO san Antonio on tho o'clock train.
A witness testified that some time after
Z O'clock on the evcring before the homi-
eide she passed the house ~ the prisoner
aud henrd worinns voice raised IN a
high key saying; III viii stand thls 20
longer" SO FAR as the evidence iIsclosca
tho prisoners treatment Of his wife and
child was that Of an afrectionate father
and be seems to have taken pleasure IN
their company.
3. Since tho homicide tine prisoner has
no signs OF repentance or re-
morse. He has meyer admitted his guilt
nor accounted for the murder. During the
tfi5l he snt quietly, apparently with stolid
rs the details were related BY
the many witnesses
G. DR.. D. n Wallace. n years old, q
for fcrty-hyc years, for ten years
in the management Of State In
for the insane and since 1891 |
making specially Of nervous diseases and |
was called ny the defense. He |
testified that he had examined the prisoner; |
hld seen him during the progress OF the
trial; had beard the testimony of Smoot |
and Tatley, and that his opinion was that |
the prisoner WAS not insane in the ordinary |
Of that term. but that he was
0. unsound mind, in that the considerations
" right and wrong did not have the same |
force Nth him as they had mon Il normal
mind. He regarded The prisoner "a degen-
crate or moral Dcryert, one who In not |
iaiunted Ly such motives as control 0rdi-
nary rn0rtals. This opinion was based upon |
he family history as related by Talley. In
,idebts IN the life OF the prisoner. his many |
,rlmes and tho Killing OF his wife and ell
lren. such an act as the brutal killing |
II wife and children. with or without Tea
ION. caiise or motive. would be In harmony
With moral peryert, and II he had mo-
I've IL would be with reason and II he did
1 with a motive he had the VIII power 70
-esist doing g. moral pervert has not
he normal amount OF moral senHibillties
hat other people POSSESS. THE defendant
turing the tftaI liz stimulating mot actlngl
or trying TO act part
rying TO simulate insanity" ~ the suppo-
Iition Of the witness The crime Was evil /
iently committed deliberately and after
II was not the result OF u
Iudden outburst The prisoner Ia as SEN
ible At one lime az snotber He has no
its, II
an my opinion. = continued the witncss
Eugene Burt on the night Of the homicide
the nature and character Of thel
ct H. was doing when he was doing II,
He knew that he was d0Ing wFong II
4 the time and he had the VIII power u
|esist from the communication Of the act affar
10 hai Determined 10 coinfnlt it, DR., II
yossham. for more than ive yeass IN
barge OF State asyluns for the iusAne.
iss called by the State and testtned thai