The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-11

not clear their client, is Colonel George
Ritter Burnett L. S. A, the university
commandment The clerk of the court is I
Ralph a. Durham Of Manchester.
TWO Juries. /
The jury will be chosen from the MEM t
bers Of the junior law class. 1t Is probable !
that two j,lries will be chosen and that !
they will deliberate after the evidence
and Instructions of the court are re- |
ceived in different jury rooms. In order
to compensa tie the defendant for the lapse /
Of time since the commission OF his Of I
fcnse, making it more difficult to obtain
witnesses of the happening in his behalf, |
the court will probably refuse to pro-
nounce sentence upon hamlet unless both
iurics agree in returning a verdict of ,
guilty.
The stories of the witnesses must be
based upon the report of the case given
by Shakspere. but any justiflable reading
into the lines of Shakspere's report which
may occur to the witnesses will be per-
mittcG and encouraged.
Old Dodge OF Insanity.
The defense Of EIamlet's attorneys will
be insanity. They will rely upon Ham
let's acts. his wild talk. the trca tnnent of
Ophelia by him and the tremendous strain
put upon his mind by the discovery Of the
relations Of his mother and his uncle
which lead to the murder of his father
to make out their defense of insanity. !
1t is the intention of the defense to
read the solioQuies of Hamlet to the jury,
/ especially the one beginning
To he not to be~-that is the question.
expecting to receive favorable result
from submitting it to the jury that such
utterances are evidences of disordercd
mind. Witnesses who We're with Hamlet
1I,1,a 70 o1,,r
entire period Of his habit Of seeing things
when they could see nothing. look how
| hard they might. will be introduced to
testify to these things before the jury and
| to give their opinion as to his sanity
! based upon their observation of Hamlet
! Etamlet's talk to Laertes will be intro
duced to show his own contension Of in
| sanity The defense will contend that
when the prisoner said to Laertes-
| You must needs have heard
How ain punished with sore distraction.
| What I have done.
| That might your nature. honor and exception
! Roughly awake. | here proclaim was madness.
| Vast Hamletwronged T.aertes? Never Hamlet:
| If Hamlet from himself was ta'en away.
And when he's not himself does wrong I'aertes.
Then Hamlet does It not. Hamlet denies it.
Who. does it. then: His madness. 1T be so.
| Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged;
Ills madness is poor Hamets enemy.
1.-The Woman in the Case
! A sensation which is expected is the
testimony of the woman in the case. the
| fair Ophelia. There is but one coed in
| the college law, Miss Carrie Grosenbaum
| of Da yton. She is in the senior class. but
| the attorneys for the defense will appeal
! to the faculty of the college for a writ Of
eXtradition to allow her to be brought
| into the Junior classroom to testify. The
prosecution will resist an attempt to intro
duce Ophelia into the case on the ground
that the undisputed evidence of Claudus
! Polonus, Hamlet's mother and the en-
| tire cast is that Ophelia was insane and
therefore inca pable of understanding the
| nature Of oath.
| The; witnesses for the defense will be-:
! Emil A. Schiefebein of Hudson Harry F.
! kuhlemeir of Burlington, Oliver Tongue
vile Of Dubuque. f. Fl. Mccoy of Du-
mont and A. B. Kendrick of Iowa City.
| Expert witnesses from the college of medi-
cine will be introduced by both sides on
| the question Of insanity.
'"Method In His Madness"
The state will endeavor to prove that
Hamlet was not insane so far as not to
understand the difference between right
and wrong and as to be inca pable of do
ing the right. Occasional lapses into
madness may be admitted, but the pur-
suit Of his plans for murder during his
lucid intervals will be insisted upon by the
Stdte DIS SllOWlIS llldI f1dHllel was III the
possession of his faculties at the time he
murdered Claudius.
!, His previous attempt to murder the king
in his mothers closet. when as matter
of fact Polonius was killed instead of the
king by mistake. will be shown, and the
defense will be asked how an insane mar
could pursue for long time the object
:: Of his murderous plans and continue then
until at second homicide the man he
wanted was killed.