The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-25

 1 pr. A. A. McKittrick. was next call ed and asked as to his forty years ex- perience as a physician. which would .qualify him to judge of the sanity or insanity of person He gave 1t as his opinion as physician that ! Thompson was Insane. The prisoner, was. In the opinion of the witness,
 stupid. silly and illogical" The wit ness. declared, too. that the mind of 1 the prisoner was brutal On cross examination Solicitor I Bricken asked particularly about the eye sight of Dr. McKittrick, which the l witness said had been failing for the past year.
 Jack Thompson is insane is the op- inion of Sheriff J.'H. Hartley, of But Ter. in whose charge the prisoner has been in since September. The prisoner had q wild look out of his eyes" and he never talked correctly but jumped from one subject to another MT. Hart l ley testified.
 l He, too, was subjected to a. rigid eros examination by the Solicitor. | Similar testimony was given by $. | A. Lowry and Professor ]. D. Liner. At times Professor Liner thought Jack l Thompson was normal, but -at other times he was flighty and abnormal. He was easily excited and when ex- cited was apparently crazy. Dr. w. F. Betts was called to the i stand to give expert testimony on para noia The solicitor objected to the questions asked Dr. Betts and his tes- timony was brought out over the ob- jections of the solicitor. As to what paranoia was Dr. Betts said: Tt is usually a chronic form of insanity characterized by fixed and symstema- | tized and dominating deIusions." "Is it curable or incurable?" he was asked.
 True Paranoia Incurable. Temporary paranoia Is regarded as curable. True paranoia as incurable,'' was the answer.
 l He testified, too. that about 22S of the descendants of those who were | predisposed to paranoia, came to suf- fer from him.
 On cross examination Dr, Betts said that he was a member ot the board of physicians which examined him yesterday and recommended that he was able to stand trial. He was not able to say whether Thompson was sane or insane because he never knew the prisoner intimately or never exam ined him thoroughly. Here the defense rested and the State began its rebuttal of the insan- ity testimony, introduced in behalf of the prisoner.
 Captain Can't was recalled to the stand to testify to the sanity of Thomp- son. He had known the prisoner well, and had dealings with him. He. was of the opinion that Thompson was per- fectly sane. He had met last summer in Louisville a sister of Thompson and she had appeared intelligent and sane This part of the testimony was, how | ever. stricken out.
 A threat made by Thompson ten years ago against Mir. Cooper was tes- tified to by R. W. Nelson. The witness had bought a house from Thompson but found 1t belonged to the Cooper family and Mir. Cooper stopped the ! sale. Thompson came to the witness, I'll sell the house." Mir. Nelson swore that in his opinion Thompson was of unsound mind.
 Believed ThSmpson Sane. J. F. Amos and George Soweil, both of whom had opportunities of know ing Thompson 'well and who had had business dealings with him. swore that in his opinion Thompson was of sound mind.
 The testimony of J. F. Irwin. ex- Mayor of Evergreen was of the same nature. He believed firmly that Thompson was sane. MT. Irwin was asked about the efforts to raise a fund to help the prosecution. He de- nied that he bore i'll will to Thomp- son and said that he did not know that the presioner had been called around Evergreen, That fool, Jack Thompson"
 A. A. Williams swore that he was familiar with Thompson, having known him several years and having had business dealing with him. He was of the opinion that Thompson was of sound mind To the same effect A. D. Johns, who had known Thompson more than fifteen years testified.
 With this testimony the court ad- journed for dinner.
 The streams of witnesses to give tes- timony on the sanity or insanity of Thompson, continued throughout the afternoons The State was having it's inning The insanity witnesses at the afternoon session were old acquaint- ances of Jack Thompson. who swore that in their opinion Thompson was of sound mind.
 James Harrison, superintendent of the Evergreen light plant, told on the stand of renting house from and next door to Jack Thompson. In the opinion of the witness he was always of sound mind. He was good business man. He did not remember to have heard people call the prisoner That fool Jack Thompson"
 Saw Thompson Daily.
 sS. F. Deming also testified that Thompson was of sound mind He had roomed at the Cooper home and had seen Thompson daily He appeared normal and like other people. Thomp- son did not have a way of shooting at imaginary persons at night, but he had a way of shooting chickens needed for the table early in the mornings.
 That Thompson was of sound mind was testified to by Dr. II. B. William son, who had had some business deal-
 ngs with the prisoner Thompson wanted to sell some of the Cooper prop erty but he said Cooper was preventing this sale. Thompson told the witness, rive been locking for him to die for a long time. If he don't die soon I'll take something and kill him." L.. B. Chapman testified that he had known Thompson quite we'll, and that in his opinion Thompson was of sound mind The witness had taken the ac- acknowledgement of Thompson and his wife on deed and that his actions were normal and business-lil1e.
 A little later Thompson told him he wanted him to make another deed for piece of the Cooper property and lit- tie later he informed the witness that Mir Cooper had stopped the sale. He coupled this with 8 threat against MT. Cooper, but which did not go in as evil dence because the defense successfully privileged communication between client and his attorney.
 sam Dunn testified as to the time he had known Thompson. In that time he had never seen anything unusual In Thompson's behavior and he was of