The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-06-08
GIRL SUBJECTED TO
SCIENTIFIC TORTURE:
Josephine Terranova on Her
Knees Pleads That Cruelty
Cease.
ELECTRIC TESTS OF SANITY
Girl Whose Grievous Wrongs Drove
Hsr to Murder of Her Uncle and
Aunt Declares She Never
t'as Been Crazy.

New York. June Josephine Terra
nova, whose remarkable trial has ocen
continued until tomorrow. was again
put on the lunacy rack and underwent
a series of tests at the hands of the
district attorneys experts which Will
hardly find a parallel outside the tales
Of the mqusiton in the dark ages.
For two hours and half the girl,
bravely submitted as high-voltage cleo.
trio currents were shot through her
body, needles jabbed into her cheeks.
pieces of sharp steel struck against her
ankles and stones dropped on her toes.
At last. however, when human endur-
ance could bear no more and the-e
seemed TO be no let up to the enthusi--
asm of the medical expert. she revosted
and turned on the prosecuting attorney
with IL cry of anguish and a plea FIR
mercy.
At first her tone was Historically de-
tlant. She jumped from her seat and
cried:
I'm tired: you must stop! You Try
for two weeks to see IL l am insane.
Two weeks ago, when the doctors ?:st
examine me. they almost laugh. Today
they are cross and stern. i think shcy
never tell anything about It,.
Then realizing the defiance of her
speech. the girl dropped to her knees
and pleaded for mercy.
Pleads to Go Back to Prison.
Let me go back to the Tombs.'' she
begged. II am not crazy and am not
afraid. want the good Judge men who
heard my story to say what they shall
do with me"
The ordeal through which the girl
went yesterday was the most trying
to which she has been subjected during
1.-The months that have elapsed since sne
took the law in her own hands and
avenged years or mistreatment by Kill
ing her aunt and uncle.
The session began III the chambers
of Justice Scott at 1 o'clock. 1t was u
secret proceeding and the only ones adj
mitted to the room We're DIR. Allen Nc
Lean Hamilton. the districts attorneys
expert, who made the tests; DIR. l..
Pierce Clarke. the expert employed by
the defense; Judge Palmieri, the girls
| attorney: Assistant District Attorney
Appleton. stenographer. and a prison
guard, who had charge of the girl.
DR.. Hamilton began the examination
b. asking the Terranova girl this ques-
ton:
Are you crazy today
No"
Were you crazy at the time you
killed your aunt and uncle?
| mo, DeCauSe Il ODeyeu Tie GoiHlIaTu
| OF the Lord" was the answer.
Says Girl IL shammins.
The commission appointed to ascer-
| tain whether Mrs. Terranova liz insane
reported to the court that while the
! girl formerly had Authorizations as to
her conduct in killing her uncle and
aunt and still has them, she Is able in
their opinion to consult and advise with
| her counsel as to the conduct of her
tr,ol a zuch a condition, ga tiaf1ed the
requirements of the law the trial pro-.
ceeded
When asked about the alleged hall
fluctuations of the prisoners, DR. Austin
Flint said that In his opinion her state
ments about them were false and that
she was shamming. After testifying
for the prosecution the witness was
cross examined by Mr.. Palmieri and
once more repeated as his opinion that
1.-THE prisoner was not insane. but was
overcome with the eagerness for no.
toriety by the stories she was going
70 tell