The Indianapolis journal., 1903-06-10
PROVING HIS DEMENTIA
WITNESSES TESTIFY AS TO CONDI-
TION OF YOUNG CHASE.
Dementia and Mania Differentiated by
Experts-Evidenceso IF Degeneracy
in M. F. Chase's Conduct.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 9-Moses Fow-
Ter Chase will not be taken to Indianapolis,
as has been reported. and attorneys at
Fowler to-day said there was no intention
OF removing the boy at present. Fred s.
Chase, his father, said Young Chase would
remain In Fowler. The boys condition i'm
proved to-day.
A large number of witnesses were SUBJ
poenaed to-day and they went from this
city to Fowler this morning. DR.. David
son, OF Lafayette, was recalled to the
stand the first thing this morning and his
evidence treated of the mental condition
of young Chase. Technical testimony con-
sumed three hours of the morning session.
Dr. M. M. Larry was called and one Of his
important statements rescued from the
meshes of complicated query and answer
was that the boy had suffered from de-
mentia and not mania since April 16; that
this dementia has existed in a greater or
less degree since adolescence. which in the
case of males was from sixteen to eighteen
years of age; that he had not been insane
all the time since 1898; that he has been of
unsound mind since September, 1898, when
he suffered a stroke of acute mania; that
he has been incapable of forming an inten-
tion and executing 1T since that period:
that authors differ on the question of
recovery from acute mania. The searching
cross-examination of DR.. Larry developed
little.
DR.. Albert E. Sterne. of Indianapolis
chief consulting physician on mental dis
eases to the Central Insane Asylum at In
dianapolis. then took the stand. He said
that during the acute maniacal period from
November, 1898. to August, 1899, the boy
could not have been of sound mind He
examined young Chase yesterday and
found him incoherent and demented He
found lack of symmetry in the body in
the palate and found the ears irregular
and deformed. one side of the head being
evidences OF the presence OF degenerative
stagmata. He said the condition of Young
Chase might have lasted for period of
to the inception of the present demented
condition.
Mrs. e. C. Monyhan. of Lafayette. took
the stand at 1l:30 and testified to Moses
Fowler Chase going to her house on
Nov. 2. 1899. Mrs Monyhan lives near the
Chase homestead on South street. The boy
asked an insulting and lewd question and
persisted in il several times testing every
door in the house. <Cross-examination
elected the fact that Moses Fowler Chase
tried to break down the doors. which Mrs
Monyhan had locked. John McGrath and
Samuel Emdee testified that they saw many
peculiarities in Moses F. Chase in the fail
of 1899. Mr.. Emdee said he saw the boy try
ing TO play football without a ball and that
young Chase would frequently stop and
give nine 'rahs for Moses Fowler Chase
John E. Bixler testified that in the fall
of 1900 young Chase bought a chld's air
gun from him and j. ID. Bartlett local
druggist. said the boy went into his store
often, but never alone William Mount
sheriff of Benton county, was a tenant on
one of young Chase's farms in 1899. He
said he talked to the boy concerning repairs
that the house needed and young Chase
paid no heed TO the conversation DR. J.
ID. Hills. Dr. II. B. Wetherhill. DR. W. s.
Walker. DR.. G. F. Beasley md Dr. w. w
Vinnedge were put on the stand this after
noon 10 testify TO the mental condition of
young Chase at different periods in his life.
Nearly all said the boy was grossly incom-
petent. DR.. Wetherill examined him at
Flint. Mich, and In Cincinnati in 1899 and
said he was then OF sound mind He did
degenerate. but learned so later Mrs
George Kessler and Frank ]. Sheehan. who
lived near the Chase residence testified To
improper actions OF the boy in the fan of
1899