The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24
DOCTORS SWEAR
TO HIS SANITY
Medical Men Say De LabrOusse,
Slayer of Miss Jordan, Was
Not Insane at Time of Crime
TESTIMONY Is ALL IN
District Attorney and Counsel
for Defense Close Cases and
Argument Begins To-Day

The trial of Edmond de Labrousse
for the murder of Miss Marie Jordan
was resumed in Superior Judge
DUNES court yesterday. The whole
Of the day was taken up by witnesses
called in rebuttal by District Attorney
Byington and Assistant District At
torney Whiting.
Evidence for the most part was
forthcoming to establish the san
ity Of the prisoner, the witnesses be
ing nurses and medical men that had
attended De Labrousse after the COM
mission Of the murder and policemen
that had guarded him.
Mrs Rose Kane. matron, Mrs w.
z. SWEET and Miss A. Hart, nurses at
the Central Emergency Hospital.
swOre that De Labrousse was rational
while under treatment in the hospital.
and neither of the witnesses had
heard him scream or cry, and there
was nothing that attracted their at
tention to his case more than any
other patient. When they passed the
time of day he would reply.
Miss Hart said that the prisoner
seemed TO her to be perfectly rational.
Policemen James Harrington, w.
Quarles, II. N. Owens, J. ]. Farrell, f..
J. Plume, P. Crowley, c. Francis,
John McGee and ?. J. O'Donnen tes-
tilted to having had the several
watches over the prisoner from the
time Of his admission to the hospital
until his removal to the City Prison
They swOre that De Labrousse was
rational and spoke not only to them
but also to the members of his family
while in the hospital. To the latter
the conversation was in French.
SAY HE WAS RATIONAL.
District Attorney Byington called
the medical men that attended the
prisoner during his confinement in the
Central Emergency Hospital, their
evidence being a direct contradiction
TO that given by DR.. Edwin Bunnell
and DR. Canac-Marquis.
DR.. w. p. Harvey, who was one of
the surgeons at the hospital. swore
that De Labrousse was perfectly ra-
tiOnal so far as he could see. He
never saw DR.. Bunnell present when
the wounds were being dressed. DR..
c. F. Miller testified to the prisoner
being rational while at the hospital.
Witness had never heard him scream
nor cry out.
Dr. Thomas T. Maher said that the
prisoner answered his questions CO.
herently when he saw him at the hos
pitaL
Charles c. Butcher. steward of the
Central Emergency Hospital. told of
having dressed the prisoners head
several times To the witness he ap-
peared rational. He was conscious
when taken to the hospital.
The District Attorney called DR..
Charles c. Wadsworth as an expert
and put a hypothetical question to the
witness, in which he reviewed some
Of the prisoners actions UP to the
time Of the murder.
In answer TO the question DR..
Wadsworth said. decisively. In my
opinion he was sane"
GIVE EXPERT TESTIMONY.
The District Attorney then asked
DR.. Wadsworth whether there was any
such term as 'madly insane" to which
the witness replied, There is no such
term"
Detective Reynolds was called and
swore that DR.. Bunnell stated to him
that it was a very serious wound, but
that De Labrousse did not feel it and
that he was unconscious when on the
table.
Dr. .. d. Lustig told of the years he
had devoted to insanity cases and of
his holding the position of examiner of
the insane. The same hypothetical
question as asked DR.. Wadsworth was
put to DR.. Lustig by the District At
torney. and in reply the witness said
firmly, In my opinion the prisoner was
sane" Witness said also that he had
never heard the term ''monomania mel
The District Attorney then read the
question Mr. Roche, coun-
sci for defendant, had asked DIR. Bun
nell and DR.. Canac-M Marquis, and in re-
ply DR.. Lustig said, In my opinion he
was sane and would know the differ
ance between right and wrong"
\ REMARKABLE ADMISSION.
DR.. c. F. Buckley was called by At
-orney Roche in sur-rebuttal, and in re-
ply to the question, Gould man at
-end to business of any kind while en-
-irely insane?" Dr.. Buckley answered
in the affirmative, and said further that
be knew q medical man that had at
ended TO his practice for year during
which time he was insane.
District Attorney Byington asked the
witness whether while insane a doctor
could practice medicine
DR.. Buckley replied, Yes. and prac-
ice law, too, and better than some that