The times., 1899-05-21

surgeons in this city. He stated that he
knew Horton and believed he was suffering
from love" melancholia. The witness
stated that he came 10 this conclusion
from what the defendant had told him and
from observation. Horizons condition, DR..
Strickler said, must necessarily end in
mental degeneracy.
Lucy Craig. colored, a servant in the
home of the defendant for five years i'm
mediately prior to the commission of the
crime of which Horton is accused, testified
that on one occasion she took Horton a
shirt and he snatched it from her hands
and tore it into shreds She also said that
on another occasion he fired pistol in the
house Speaking of the defendants moth
er, the witness said she often acted very
crazy" and would sew white clothes with
black cotton. Horton. too, she said acted
crazy like"
James S. W. Cotton, proprietor of the
Empire Steam Laundry, southeast was
next called and stated that formerly, he
was Horizons partner" on the Metropoi-
tan police force. On one occasion while
they were on duty they received informa-
tion that there was a woman in a house
at the corner Of Seventh Street and Vir-
ginia Avenue southeast, in a starving con-
dition.
The witness said that they went to the
house, and, although it was O'Clock in
the morning, Horton insisted on going out
and getting groceries and coal for the wo-
man. Cotton also said that Horton COM
planned often OF having pain in the back
Of his head. He saw Horton the morning
of the day on which the defendant killed
Mrs. Nicholson. He was standing under
some trees and said he was picking up
cherries. The trees under which Horton
was ~ nding were common shade trees.
The witness opinion was that Horton was
crazy.
William ]. Work, formerly member of
the Metropolitan Police, testified that he
was acquainted with the defendant, Hor-
ton. On one occasion. the witness said
he and Horton were detailed to watch a
house in which a corpse lay. AT that time
Horton insisted on staying in the same
room with the corpse.
Miss Florence Nally said she had known
the defendant for three years. She saw
him three weeks before he committed the
homicide. He came TO see her father and
remained about an hour, but only spoke
about half dozen words. He (HortonJ,
the witness said, was continually biting
his lips. Altogether she thought the de-
fendant acted queerly. Miss Nally said
Horton was a frequent visitor at her ia
! Tiers house during the three years prior
10 lne uealH OF jane .NtCHOiSOn. Ills eyes,
she said, were strange looking and he con-
! stantly gazed at the ceiling.
DR.. John F. Stratton, who resided in the
same house with Horton for four or five
years previous TO the killing of Mrs. Mich
olson. was called He said that for six
or eight months prior 20 the death of Mrs
Nicholson he had noticed many peculiari-
! ties of the defendant. He said that one,
the defendant told him he wished the car.
would run over him. Since he had know
Horton, the witness said, his mental condi,
tion had grown gradually worse His ac
tions were peculiar sometimes, but b,
never considered him insane in the genera
acceptation OF the term. The witness hac
seen Horton under the influence OF liquor
He visited Horton at the Sixth precinc
| stationhouse on the night of the murder
about an hour and half after he com
mitted the crime. On that OCCASION, he said
Horton conversed coherently concerning
the affair. He also visited him at the Jail
| and there Horton spoke nationally.
Eugene Carusi, President of the Distric
Title Company, and at one time a practic