Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-06

can't be beat when it comes to making
good soldiers. They go at things with
a vim. 1t would open the eyes of a
drill master in Europe to get hold of n
squad of our boys. He would then find
what stuff is in an American army"
FLANAGAN JUROR.INSANE.
The insanity of the juror, who was
one of the IL to pass judgment on Elan
aEan at his last trial. recalls the strong
peroration of Mr.. d. w. Rountree in
arguing the case.
Mr.. Rountree told the Jurors that II
they should convict Flanagan they
might realize their awful mistake and
lose their own mental equilibrium
Through horror. The attorney refuses
to discuss the case of the Juror or to
state what bearing, if any it will have
on the next trial, which is to take
place Monday.
ing Juror Lewis. the following extrac.
from Mr.. Rountrees argument will be
read with interest:
THE ATTORNEYS WORDS.
May 1t please your honor, that this
man is insane there can be no doubt.
IL appears from his ancestral history.
from that karma, to use the East In
dian phrase. with which he came into
the world. that he was endowed by he
reulty with tendency towards insan-
ity. We have shown by the old Justice
or the peace OF Kramer, Tennessee,
where this man spent his childhood
that his mother was an insane woman.
that she had mental obsessions OF such
character that she often failed to rec
ogniZe Fer children or to remember
their names; that she continued to
grow worse, and III her old age died of
the form OF degenerate insanity OF the
character set up in our plea; that at the
tit,aA t1,ak ty,s-
formed into human being she had one
of these peculiar spells or decisions
lasting for months.
His sister was n parandac. For 20
years she sat on the floor laboring I'M
der the delnsion that to sit ON n chair
would be fatal to her. She died before
her time under the cloud OF insanity.
THE very murders he committed
atrocious. without motive or reason or
justification most strongly argue his in
sanity.
THAT scientific and skillful expert in
brain disease-I refer to DR. Pinckney-
who has devoted his life to the expIo-
rations of mental mysteries and mala-
dies. has sworn to this jury that nv
client is irresponsible. and his convic-
tons have been corroborated by the
testimony of Drs. Bizzell and Purse
and other able and distinguished ply
sicians"
He then turned to the Jury and said:
MAY YOU FORGET"
II appeal to you. gentlemen OF the
jury. to send him to the asylum or to
the penitentiary Time proper food and
hysienic treatment will develop his
mental condition. If sane. bring him
back try him under the other indict-
ment and hang him: If insane. let him
receive that treatment which the law
OF God and man has provided for those
whose brain has fallen under the afnict-
ing hand of Providence.
Hang him! Hang an insane man.
and YOU commit a crime more heinous.
in my opinion than Flanagan's. Hang
him. If you please, but sincerely trust
that In after years YOU may never real
iZe the terrible mistake you have
made.
May you forget the frightful face Of
this poor degenerate; his unnatural
eyes and horrible expression. which
have been before you all during this
trial. May 1t pass from your memory
forever; may guardian angel keep
from you the picture OF that face as
the executioner places over It the black
cap or as the undertaken conveys the
corpse to the potter's field.
God grant. gentlemen of the jury,
that this face will not. like nm aveng-
ing nemesis. haunt you the balance of
your lives: that II may not come to
you in your dreams and destroy sleep,
and cause that horrible unrest which
will make your life he'll. have done
my duty. His life IS in your hands,"
THE LEOPARD AND THE PAN.
Good Words.
One day a worthy Kulu housewife
came out from her cooking. and, stand
ing on the ledge of rock at her door
emptied n pan OF boiling water into
the rank heritage growing below 1,
fell. splash. on the back of q sleeping
leopard. who jumped perpendicularly
into the air as high as tine roof of the
| hut. What might have happened nexti
| Who can say? But the astonished wo-
man dropped the pan with clang up,
OH the rock. and the leopard took one
| leap down Hill. The pan followed. and
| the lcopard's downward leaps became
| longer and swifter as the pan bounded
after It from rock to rock.
| When last seen the leopard had JUS
achieved n leap of about $50 feet to the
very bottom OF the ravine, thousand.
of feet below, and the pan had whirlet
about FOO feet over it on to the opposite
| side. The leopard would have eater
| the old woman with pleasure; but {
pan which first scalded half the hid,
| off him, and then bounded changing II
his wake from the top of the Himalay
as to the plains below was something
which he could not face,