The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-02
Many Witnesses Testify That
Former Bank Teller Is
Insane.
JUDGE ARMSTRONG ORDERS
INQUEST IN LUNACY
This Hearing viii Be Had
December II; Sentence viii
Then Be Passed.

That Arthur Brown, the former bank
| teller who was convicted last month OF
| forgery, is insane, or at least mentally
deranged. was testified to by about
dozen of his friends in a hearing before
Judge Armstrong In the District court
yesterday afternoon, AT the conclu-
sion of the hearing Judge Armstrong
declared that he would empancl jury
TO pass upon the question Of Brown s
sanity before passing sentence upon
him. The jury will hear the case on
Dee. II.
Those who testified to indications and
signs that Brown is insane included AS
sistant County Attorney Willard Han
son. William Igleheart, manager of the
Salt Lake Herald; Miss Fanny Brown,
a sister of the defendants; A. H Crabbe,
a merchant; Harry Cuching, of the pas
seuger department of the Rio Grande
Western; Gideon Snyder of the Salt
Lake Public Service corporation; Har-
vey Jones, Judge J. D. Pardee, Deputy
County Clerk, Howard King, ". Fl,
Brown the defendant s brother. and
F. NJ. Orem, a brother of the prosecut-
ing witness in the forgery case against
Brown.
Gave Away His Money.
Miss Fanny Brown. the defendant 8
sister, declared that her brother has
been showing signs of mental derange
ment for several years; that he was
formerly kind and considerate in his
treatment of his relatives, and that his
disposition in that regard has changed.
She said that one time he gave away
$l700 TO stranger when his family
needed the money.
Harry Cushing testified that he had
known Brown for about fifteen years.
A year ago, he said, Brown quit attend
ing the Masonic lodge, of which he
and Mr.. Cushing are members, and
when Mr.. Gushing asked him the reason
for his nonattendance, he replied:
81 m making too much money! He
said that Brown 8 mind seemed to run
on the question of money entirely, so
much SO that he seemed TO have a
mania on the subject, He said that on
one occasion Brown had come TO his
(Cushing 50 house. in his absence, and
frightened his family by his erratic
talk. He wasn't Z allowed TO tell what
Brown said because he was not present
when he said it,
Had Visions of Wealth.
A. II. Crabbe declared that Brown
was unbalanced on the subject of
money. On one occasion, he declared,
Brown had told him that he expected to
make $20.000.O00 in a year. On an
other occasion Brown said, according
to the witness. that he expected to diet
himself and become one of the strong
est men in the world
DR.. Snyder testified to an intimate
acquaintance with Brown. and ex-
pressed the opinion that he is perfectly
honest, ''but innocent,' meaning Gin
nocent'' in the sense of being derauped
or unbalanced. He said that Brown
would frequently break in upon him
when he was busy, and insist on dis
cussing hypnotism, theosophy and other
such subjects.
Harvey Jones testified to a change in
Browns disposition in the past few
years, and Judge Pardee told of
Brown g unruffled and Indifferent man
ner when he heard in court for the
first time that plea of insanity was
TO be interposed in his behalf.
That s2o,ooo,ooo Again.
William H. Brown, brother Of the
defendant, said that he first noticed his
brothers. changed mental condition
when he began TO subsist on rice as a
food, remarking that japanese and
Chinese, by living on rice. make of
themselves the strongest men in the
world, and that he proposed to do like
wise, The brother also testified that
Brown told him he proposed to make