The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-24
EXPERHS SAY GIRCS INSANE.
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there wna 4 towel on the vail, jCasphine
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sen her nncl- and aunt m tho wall. They
had asked hsr to forGivs them and she
put up tho towel 10 bids them Mrs Vesta
advised tho girl 10 forgive them and to
pray
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aaExa.l H.. gAaN NAZ Afei aalA that aba did
not return TO the roinbs for over . week..
Then rhe aw the girl again. Josephine
sta rod NJ her and she was unable 20 do
anything with her. The girl's mind Aeefned
to he gone. Mira. vesta told Mr.. Ely that
she believed the girl a crazy hut she
tried TO give her. religious instruction be-
cause u was her duty.
DR.. n. ". Tyson, an eye specia list, said
that he had examined the girl and that
her ayes twitched, ahe showed conditions
of hystsria and her condition was abnormal.
After him game the first insanity expert.
pr. Burton Evans. .uperiutendent Of The
New Jersey State Hospital. he n Mr..
Fly didn'. got along well together.
Mr.. Ely started on by telling him that
he was not to make speeches, and DIR, Evans
told him he wasn't there to be lectuTed.
He was quicker with his tongue than Mr..
Ely, who had TO retire because Justice Scott
decided that II any information was to be
obtained from the witness he would have
TO get 10 himself and he did. Before Mr..
Ely got through with the experts District
Attorney Jerome appeared and suggested
questions.
A long hypothetical question, embracing
everything In the case and taking about
fifty minutes TO fire of, was first asked
by Mr.. Palmieri. The doctor told about ex-
aiming the girl in the Tombs, investigating
her history and listening to her testimony
"a ~ Nws.l III .utI h. xgna tnaoe No ~hAn
she committed the murder. She showed
signs Of hysteria, and while she might have
lucid intervals her mind wasbadly d~eranged.
Was abe insane when she committed the
murder?' asked MIR. Ely.
DR.. Evans said he believed she was
Was she insane yesterday"
IF / ever saw an insane woman In my
life she was insane said DR.. Evans en-
phatioally.
els she inCurably i~nsare?'
'Ishould cay she is."
DIR. Evans said that she couldn't distin-
guish between right and wrong when she
Killed the Reggios. He said she suffered
from Authorizations both Of sight and hear
ing. IND described how he had pricked
her with pins aed touched her with hot
Of having felt them. Certain parts Of her
body and face were sus ceptible to pain,
he said, but Others were not.
DR.. L, Pierce Clark was the last witness
Examined yesterday. he SAID that ne 0hau
examined the girl and that while some
Of her organs were norma her heart wasn't.
do you believe that there was born in
this girl a hereditary basis for the develop
ment OF ~insanity2' be was asked.
Il think there was, he replied.
Would subsequent abuses tend to en-
courage the growth Of insanity?'
Undoubtedly, said DR., Clark.
DR.. Clark said that he thought the girl
was insane when she testified.