The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-13

/ of the boy was IAN insane act but
| the doctor would not say from the
! hypothetical question that johnson
l'nas an insane man.
There was an almost unintermirtent
sDuerer OF technical fireworks during
/ he conclusion Of the Attorney Gen
/ erals cross-exauina ard az OF --lr-
/ Ezarzisoa-s redirect exar1iaaIlor.. Judge
! Robinson smut down Oh both SIDES
many times
That matter has been gone into
! again and agafn' the court said ia
! sustaining an objection To Dir. Peters
! question. what was the form Of the
| Insanity" as it also sustained an OBJ
! lection 10 the query. Was il melan-
cnolfa ," An objection was overruled
| to the question Can you name the
| form OF insanity The insanity in
question was predicated on a possibil-
iity. not any positive statement tha
| defendant was insane.
| DR.. Mcdonald said he could only re-
peat his answer of the previoUs day,
| THAT it was some form Of mania.
! Loss of flesh was a symptom OF ma
niI but it was not in the Hypothetical
| question. Depression was another
| symptom and, asked if he found de-
| preston in the Hypothetical question,
said not with the exception OF john
| sons coming to breakfast on the morn
| ing vi January 3 and saying nothing
| aeyond -lrur:irs where the boss was.
Tbls culsGuct might indicate that he
| was downhearted. 1t did not 'neces-
| sariIy Indicate sadness or depression.
but it MAS suggestive of such An
outbreak of mania might be preceded
| by melancholia.
Are you an expert?" Mr.. Peters de-
| rnanded.
Judge Robinson cut this question Off
| saying: 1.-The doctor has already an.
swered the question, saying he did not
claim 10 be an expert"
Then all your evience has been mere
guesswork?" the Attorney General
tainted witness.
Il will not admit that a single, an
swer 1 have given has been guess
| work the doctor responded
The court of it's own motion stopped
fresh inquiry into DIR. Mcdonald
postgraduate studies in New York,
when the Attorney General had asked
him il the sole purpose of his studying
there was not to fit himself for the
position he now NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
the Board of Health.
Mr.. Peters then said he would turn
witness over to the tender mercies OF
counsel for defendant.
Mr.. Harrison proceeded with redi-
rect examination. Immediately OBJ
jections came thick and fast, a large
proportion being sustained on the
ground that the questions We're not
proper for redirect examination. Some
he dasfG
Side remarks by Messrs. Peters and
Prosser both were frowned upon by
the court, the jury being instructed to
disregard all such byplay
Mr.. Peters intimated that the pres
ident of the Board of Health was anx-
iousIy waiting for DIR. Mcdonald OH
important business. He suggested a
cutting short of the doctors further
attendance, on which Mr.. Harrison
tainted him with having unduly pro-
longed the cross-examination Mr.
Peters then said counsel could go
ahead and he would make no further
| objections. The running fight on ques-
lions. however, was soon resumed ana
waged more fierceIy than ever.
DR.. McDonald's redirect evidence, 50
| far as allowed run in substance as
| follows: From the time that Johnson
| wanted a gallon of wine brought to
Wharton's house, which was Christ
mas, until January 3, Johnson's con-
duct was an indication of melancholia-
He would consider the symptoms very
| suggestive of melancholia preceding
| mania.
| "Homicidal mania" was a very old
| fashioned term. Ut was on this state
| rnent that the prosecuting attorneys
/ ma 10 ba aY1t hat he
the jury to disregard) The term
| homicidal mania formerly included any
| disposition on the part of the subject
| to kill. They did not find it in the new
| books. What he meant by grave
| doubts of the subjects sanity was that
he thought possibly the man was in
sane
Objections were sustained to ques-
tons of defendants motive in multi
ating the remains of his victim There
was a laugh over the flavor of an an
cient chestnut in ruled-out question
as to the doctors experience in bury
ing people" Inflammation of the brain,
supposing that is what caused dila-
ton of the subjects pupil, would be
predisposing cause of mania.
over objection by the prosecution,
Mr.. Harrison read the context of a
passage from book which the Attor-
ney General had Incorporated in
question 1t was transitory frenzy
and witness said the part now read
was as true as what had formerly |
been read. The part first read said |
that the subject of transitory frenzy |
would not remember after it passed |
what he had done when under it's in |
f1uence. What was now read said that |
h. oierhf how Srn L
remembrance of the most important |
facts of his seizure by the malady. A |
person taken with alcoholic mania be- |
came dangerous, he was liable to kill |
somebody. The objective symptoms Of |
alcoholic mania resembled those of Or
binary mania. Symptoms of mania |
might easily be mistaken for alcohol
ism.
Mr.. Peters. in recross-e examination, !
asked witness what was the legal def
milton of insanity DIR. Mcdonald re-