The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-02

mits an act of homicide. gets soout the deed in calm. cool. deliberate man ncr..
 He would not be calm and deliberate in the internal operations of his mind, said Dr. Evans. sOutwardly he might either be calm or excited. You might not tell from the mhnner of approach whether there was storm raging in his mind. Take for instance the prin- cipal character in Hugo's Les Miser- abies-g
 Hold on, doctor interrupted MT. Jerome. We've kept The suicide club out of the record and we'd better keep Les Miserables' out too"
 Dr. Evans in response to MT. Jeromes s quest ioning said he recalled one case of homocide during brin storm, the patient being at his institution.
 Tn fifteen years you have seen but one such case"
 cords l can find many. I remember one case we have of woman who killed her children and another who cut child's hand off
 During brain storms?'
 T believe SOL
 "As understand II, you say Thaw killed Stanford White while suffering { from a brain storm?" "You may call it a brain storm. or whatever you like; or case of mental excitement" long argument took place over brain storms between the prosecu ion and Dr. Evans. He did not know how many cases he had known and refused to give examples. The witness would If | desired bring the district attorney a manuscript of some of these cases, but not all of them, nor would he allow the | district attorney to send to the asylum and verify the transcriptions of the original records. They are not public records" he said. Tt is customary, doctor, for a per son committing homicide while suffer- l ing from brain storm, to be coo land | coltected?"
 T don't know that there is any GUS tom" MT. Jerome then read to the doctor that part of the hypothetical question describing the shooting | "Is there anything there that shows l a brain storm" "Yes; the manner in which edid it." l What thought did he have in mind when he turned and said to his wife, after killing White. I have probably saved your life 2" 1 q cannot say
 MT. Delmas objected to Mir. Jerome repeating questions and MT. Jerome said: | Just Getting Down. l But your honor, we are just getting down to 1t now
 We have been a long time at it," said Justice Fitzgerald. You don't think it's my fault, sir; you have heard the answer" replied Mir. Jerome, l T did not say whose fault 1t was: T said we had been long time about il" said the justice.
 Mir Jerome asked the witness If he knew of the famous cases of a person killing an enemy in brain storm. The witness cited General Daniel E. Sick1es, | who, he said, killed the defamer of his wife, the McFarfand- Richardson sace 1 "Is il not a fact that in the McFar- land and Sickies cases that the defense | was emotional insanity and not brain | storm?' asked Mir. Jerome. Mir Delmas objected and was sus- 1 tained.
 Have you ever known any person
 who killed in a brain storm to recov- | er?T 1 "Yes" Tn your own observationT 'Is paranoi curable?" Some forms of 1t, yes" 1 'Is the per centage smallr' "Yes."
 'Tn testifying in the case of the State
 against Grant didn't you say that para moi is, as a rule, chrontc?'
 "As I looked at it that tjme-ten l years ago--yes."
 And that paranoi cases rarely get | well?" | "Yes."
 And that 1t yields only slightly to | treatment?' l 'Yes." l And that some authorities go as
 low as per cent on recoveries7"
 "Yes" MT. Jerome asked pr. Evans if he
 agreed with certain medical author | ity who said ae had never seen a re- | covery in 1000 cases of paranoi. l Mir Jerome asked Dr. Evans if he | had read a paper by pr. Allan McLane
 Hamilton. l. Yes"