The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-16

The HissOm case was comparatively
tame yesterday from the spectators
! section in the circuit court and there
were no features bordering on The dra-
matte or sensational. There are yet
about seventy witnesses to be examine
d. including a number Of physicians.
ana as each witness is questioned min
uteiy. the end Of this famous case will
hardly come in February.
The first witness yesterday VASE. w.
pwInr who was recalled from the pre-
vious day. and he was on the stand
nearly all forenoon. He was asked 10
state the amount of the financial com
pensatlon received for his services as
Attorney for ]. R. HisSom. which to-
,taled sils. He had paid some bus Of
exnense occurred in the prosecution Of
M lunacy case for ]. R. Hlssoni,
among them one of 81 IS to the chief OF
notice for arrestIng DR., Hlssom, which
item was In excess Of the charges ac-
eording TO the statute, asserted Attor-
new Hubbard, who croSs-examined Mr.
Ewing to finish. Mr.. Ewing said
thai Mr.. Hissom thought that the chief
and the souires were entitled to addi-
tIonal compensation. The witness was
taken over much Of the same stony
q. On wednesday afternoon,
Harry Nelson and William Hubbard
sons-In-law of the defendant, gave tes-
tInony OF the violent actions of the
nlSintih, which led to the belief in his
;n.anity. The last witness was Or. E.
q MYERS, Of the Island, the elder His
SONS family physician, who was one Of
the physicians that examined Or. His
som as to his sanity. The ground
traversed in his testimony, was as
usual, gone over In the cross-examlna-
tIon.
/. aHistory of the Case
DR. Myers was cross-examined by
Mr. schuck ON "the history of the
case" as pertaining to conversations
with Mr.. ana Mrs. j. r. Hissom and
Whitten Hissom. The sanity Of the
doctor was discussed With the witness
by all the relatives named, but prlncI-
pally BY the defendant AS to whItten.
the witness wouldn'tundertake to quote
him. but he thought his statements
were confrmatory of the fathers yet
was unable to separate them from the
general history of the case. William
Hubbard, a son-in-law of ]. II. Hissom,
mentioned the matter of the plaintiff $
having come to the house with u re-
voiver and threatening to kill Mrs.
Hlssom III she stood by his father."
The witness couldn't recall anything
said by William Hubbard other than
that.
Up to the time OF DR.. Hissom's arrest
the witness couldn't recall having talk
cd with Written Elissom. He thought
he had talked with Hubbard previous
10 the arrest, but wasn't positive. The
witness said he expressed his opinion
that DR.. Hissom was suffering from
deiusions, after conversing with the
young manls father. The witness said
that he discovered no direct symptoms
Of insanity when hs called on the plain
I'm, and admitted that before Squire
Greer he had said that the plaintiff
would change the subject when he
sought to draw him out in conversa-
tion: and witness had testified before
the justice that Dr. Hlssom was suffer-
ing from decisions. one OF the most
dangerous forms Of insanity, The JUS
tees transcript made the witness say
"delusIon OF insanity" instead OF de-
iusinnai insanity. DR.. Myers said the
opinion he gave to j r.. Hissom in
January, 1899, WIS that Or. Hissom
was probably insane. The witness
would not be positive about the date,
and said " slstersvlllc trip OF the
plaintIfr. which occurred in February,
was mentioned in the January CONVEX
sation. the witness was COMPOUNDED by
the occurrences. since many had been
related to him BY ] II. Hissom, and
witness had kept no record of the dates
Of the conversation. From the same
source came the reports of the plain