The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-08

was not Larkin demented in October,
1892
He was not" was the answer of the
| witness.
Assume that in June, 1898, friend
of Larkn's said to him that he was
| going prospecting and that Larkin ad-
| vised him to go around Whitehall and
look around and that in September,
| 1893 after his return, Larkin asked him
what he had done at Whitehall and the
| friend reported his results, was or was
not Larkn demented in September,
| 1892
He was not"
On re-cross-exam ton, Mr.. Corbett
asked the witness the following ques-
ton:
"If person should put a man to
work to dig for $4,000 which, without
any reason therefor he supposed was
buried by some other party, and should
employ two men to dig for the money
for a period of over two weeks and
should closely guard the place where
the digging was going on, and when
the men were discharged should pay
them in full and subsequently, that is
to say a week or two after take the
men to store where his money was
kept and offer to pay them again, and
did not recall that he had paid them
until they reminded him of the fact,
and that such person should, about
a year thereafter show the symptoms
and condition which DR.. Wells testified
Larkin exhibited. When he went to the
hospital, in June, 1894, what would you
say as to the mental condition of the
man al the time he caused the digging
to be done?"
Il should believe that man who
without reason for assuming that the
money was there, and offered to pay
the men twice, suffered from loss of
memory at the time and from a lack
of judgment"
"Some mental disturbance, possibly?"
suggested Mr.. Corbett.
Yes, sir"
There are thousands of insane peo-
pie who are not demented, are there
not. doctor?"
yes"
'Dementia is not even usual form
of insanity"
''It is one of the most numerous"
When you said, in answer to Mr..
Harneys questions. that Larkin was
not demented, you did not mean to say
that he was not insane at all?'
No, sir"
You did not include in your answer
all forms of insanity"
"Only dementia."
you said that some of Larkins acts
related to you were the acts of drunk
en- man: now if the proof should show
that he was not drunk at all, would
you then conclude that he was in
sane?"
Yes; but there is evidence that he
was drunk
That concluded the testimony of DR..
Eskridee and the examination was adj
journed for the noon recess.
At the afternoon session DR.. H. T.
Pershing testified, the direct examina-
ton being conducted by Attorney L. o.
Evans. For the past 10 years DR..
Pershine has been a resident of Den
Yer. having been connected with the
large hospitals there: has had charge
of nervous and mentally deranged pa
TENTS in hospitals; two years in charge
of the general wards of the Arapahoe
county insane asylum; connected with
medical schools and institutions in that
city; professor Of nervous and mental
diseases in the University of Denver;
member of national medical institu-
tons; author of treaties booked in en-
cyclopaedeas of national repute; as
physician of renown and regarded as
an authorize all over the world
DIR. Pershing had read the testimony
of Drs. wells. Sheerin, Siever and
Warren relating to the autopsy per-
formed on Larkin. From this testi-
mony, witness concluded that Larkin
had been in state of dementa. due
to softening of the brain. He explained
the distinction between dementia ard
other forms of insanity. The loss of
memory, he said. is the most distinctive
sign of dementia. In cases of melan-
choia the memory is not necessarily
impaired.
What is there in the testimony of
Drs. Wells, Siever and Sheerin to in
dictate that Larkin was dement,"
Attorney Corbett, for the interveners,
objected to this question on the grounds
that the pleadings in the case did not
charge that Larkin was demented. It
was their contention That ne was in
sane when the transfer of property in
volved was made, not demented
The doctor answered that The testi-
mony went to show that Larkin had
suffered from softenins Of the brain,
symptoms of which he explained at
length. There was nothing in the evil
dence to show when the softening pro-
cess began, it might have been of long
standing or it might have been of short
duration. The witness then went into
a treatise of chronic and acute cases of
dementia.
Then Attorney Evans reviewed the
testimonyn the case where it related to
acts and conversations of Larkin from
the nineties up to the fall of 1894, so as
to present them in group, as it We're,
that the witness might draw from them
an opinion of his mental condition.
The doctor said that there was moth
ing in his acts or conversation to indi-
cate dementia.
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