The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-05
FATHER WILL SPEAK
WILL PRESENT SONS CAUSE TO
 JURY.
Government Introduces Witnesses I'm RebuttaI To Prove That Alex Chis- hoIu, Is a Sane Man--Testimony
 Closed.

Birmingham, May 4-(Special )--The government took up the better portion of the day In presenting testimony in rebuttal in the trial of Alexander B :. Chisolm, former paying teller Of tho First National Bank. charged with misappropriating and embedding funds of the bank. amounting to something like '$100,00o.
 The testimony was all in reference to the sanity of the defendant, physicians being given a hypothetical question:
 Before the hour of taking recess for dinner, announcement was made mat when the argument had been conclud- ed, the court will present a written charge to the jury This was pleasing to both sides, the line of the charge to be fully stated by the court. It was also announced that there would be two speakers on each side In the arguments in addition to Capt Frank s. White. Col. Robert Chisolm. fatl-er of the de- fendant, to speak The government Will be represented in the argument py DE
 trict Attorney Roulhac and Lee C. Bradley. who has been assisting.
 Dr. w. D. Partlow, senior physi- clan of the Bryce Hospital at ldsca- loosa, was on the stand for more than two hours today. He stated that he was at the asylum when the de- fendant was there for while. He ex-
 pressed the opinion that the defen- dant was not suffering from paresis.
 He said that from all his inVestlga
 tions he considered the defendant sane Many hypothetical questions
 were nut to this physician. Julian Dixon and Albert Morton, paymasters
 for large corporations here, took the
 stand and told of transactions at the
 bank with the defendant and both sta
 ted that they had not noticed any
 change in him prior to the dime that the dedication was discovered. pr: Joseph Leland. who Is physician at the Tuscaloosa insane asylum. told or observations on the defendant while
 the latter was at the asylum. He did not believe the defendant Ia insane
 Hypothetical questions were placed before this witness also, covering every fact in the case and an answer was given Dr. F. P. Riggs of Birmins- ham was called to the stand by the government. Dr. Cunningham, deputy marshals who were with Chisolm after his arrest and the United States Com : missioner, who were fin the case at | preliminary hearings, were caued py 1 the government.
 An opinion was expressed this after noon that the case could go to the jury l by Monday afternoon or evening. 1 As on previous days of the trial, the | father, mother, sisters and brothers of
 the defendant were in the court today 1 and listened intently to every word | spoken by the witnesses. The defend | ant Is looking well but keeps his eyes | riveted to one spot, apparently not con- cerned in the least in the testimony | that Is being offered His father and | brother. who are attorneys, are taking 1 notes on the testimony being onered and making preparations for the argu- | ments which will follow the closing or | testimony taking.
 The taking of testimony in the
 Chisholm case was concluded this af-
 ternoon and the argument begins Mon
 day morning. It is believed each side
 will take up from two to three hours
 The case will hardly go to the Jury un- l til Monday night.