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THE AGONY
ABOUT OVER
DR.. Sinclair Says That
Johnson Was Not
insane.

son murder trial is now closed book.
Deputy Attorney General Prosser, at
BIAS p. NJ. yesterday, announced that
the prosecution rested its ease This
was upon the release of DIR. Sinclair in
rebuttal from the witness stand.
Mr.. Harrison said he would put on
some surrebuttal on a few points. Up
on demand of the Deputy Attorney
General, the defendant IS counsel said
he desired to testify himself from a
the victim of the homicide was buried.
The object was TO snow that mutilation
was not necessary for concealing the
body Also, he wished to testify of in
terviews he had held with the defen-
dant Moreover, he would like to call
one or two witnesses that it was i'm
possible for him TO obtain previously.
There was wrangle between counsel
as to evidence already given on the
soil question, which the court inter
rupted, saying, '.These are only side
remarks Judge Robinson said he
did not think Sheriff Brown said what
Mr.. Prosser quoted and went on to dis
countenance further prolongation of
the trial, saying:
fThere must be an end to this case
sometime, like to all litigation.
Mr.. Harrison put few questions in
cross examination, concluding by ask
ing DR.. Sinclair what fee he was going
to get as an expert and, when witness
said that was not yet settled, how
much he expected.
81 generally get from $25 to 800, :"
was the answer.
Mr.. Harrison then rested the defense,
subject to the court s ruling on the ad-
instability of his own proposed evil
dence.
The trial was then continued antil
10 o'clock this morning.
DR.. Moore IS cross-examination was
concluded yesterday morning. His an
swers but emphasized the direct evil
dence he had given that Johnson was
not insane. The theory he advanced
was that defendant had attempted or
accomplished an unnatural crime and
when the child cried johnson struck
and killed him. His conduct thereafter
showed a realization of consequences
and mental calculation of how to avoid
them.
DR.. A. n. Sinclair qualified showing
he had attended insanity cases here
and abroad. AS physician to Leah
Home here such eases occasionally came
TO his attention. Answering the by
pothetical question he said Johnson, on
January 5, was sane. From personal
visits to defendant in Jail he concluded
he was a man of poor education and
low intellectually, but he did not
lie
His theory of Johnson s conduct, re-
garding the homicide, correspondent
with that of DR.. Moore.
"'He was confronted with the two
propositions, whether to fly or to con-
ceal the body the witness said.
''While not suffering from insanity he
was sane when he committed the crime.
His actions did not show any particu-
lar form of insanity
There was a great deal in the by
pothetical question to show that he
was not afflicted with insanity.
Witness answered no to Mr.. Harri
son s question if defendant was sick
and silly without being drunk, so that
a very little drink would make him
sillier, did that indicate that he was
insane. AS to Johnson s saying he saw
his watch in the water, that was no
of delirium tremens, for
whenever he was told his watch was
in house he accepted the information. |
The alcoholism described was follow |
ed by deep sleep, as was also transit |
tory frenzy. johnson took breakfast |
that morning, but one having delirium !
tremens did not eat.
On. redirect examination DR.. Sinclair |
said the subject of the hypothetical |
question had no form of MANIA and |
no form of insanity, and was suffering |
from no form of mental arrangement. |
Recross-examined, he said the dilat-
ed eye of Johnson might have been the |
normal eye, the other one being con-
stricted by exposure to the early morn
ng light. There was a dispute here as
to whether DR.. Hubert Wood testified |
and the stenographer s notes
showed he said Johnson IS condition
was about the same on Dee. % as on
Dee 81
Witness said melancholia must not
De COMPOUNDED with a melancholy con-
lition. johnson had none of the car
linal symptoms of melancholia. On
he dav of the crime he was practically
formal.
If he only had the symptoms of the
question: witness said,
: would have been very much sur
,rised if he should have broken out in
lelirium tremens.
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