Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-26

lieve she was capable of choosing right
from wrong"
Insane Persons Are Cunning.
On cross-examining the witness United
State Attorney Baker Jumped from point
to point in the life Of the Hypothetical
person. and asked:
Would you say the incident at Ogden.
Utah. when the person abandoned a trip
to the west and came on to Washington
to accomplish. given object. indicated
mental confusion"'
ut would be impossible to say from an
isolated instance whether the person was
Suppose she intended to fool the SEN
ator's secretary, and accepted a ticket
to Los Angeles with the intention to ex-
change that for ticket to Washington
AN insane person Is almost always
more cunning In setting up ways and
means to accomplish given object than
sane person..
when would you o. say the insanity in
VERY likely the alteration was set up
very soon after. or at the time OF the birth
Of the last child, early In 1905"
DR.. Hill said he did not see any direct
connection between the insanity in the
aunts and in 1.-The person." but ne added
there Is not necessarily any direct con-
nection in the form Of insanity.
with what form of insanity would you
say the person here described was suf-
fering?" Mr.. Baker continued.
1T is difficult to say. All specialists IN
nervous diseases have their own cassifi-
cations and designations. but do not
think there can be a doubt that this was
a form of toxic insanity"
Alcoholism, the delirium Of typhoid
fever, ETC., Dr. Hill said, were toxic
cases. The witness said he believed the
confinement of the person" in jail with
the accompanying relief from stress and
mental storms would have tended to I'M
prove her condition. DR.. Hill was re-
quired to examine several letters written
BY the defendant and state whether in
his opinion they were written by sane
or an insane person.
Lack Of Continuity Of Purpose.
While an insane person might have
written the letters. DR.. Hill said. 1t might
easily have been possible for an insane
person to have written still better letters.
Witness added that here Is nothing In
the letters alone to indicate insanity. but
he based his conclusion in the present
case upon all related facts, as set out In
the hypothetical question. DR.. Hill said.
however, that the tearing UP OF the letters
would indicate lack of continuity Of pur-
pose-itself an indication OF insanity.
United States Attorney Baker directed
ness. which went upon the assumption
that a person should follow another from
Salt Lake City to Washington and should
there shoot and kill the other. having pre-
and that afterward she sh ,uld give an ap-
parently rational statement Of the shoot
ing and declare 1t was justified.
DR.. Hill declared that sequence Of cir
cumstances by itself would be an indica-
ton OF neither sanity nor insanity.
DR.. Brftton D. Evans. superintendent Of
the New Jersey State Asylum for the In
sane at Morris Plains, N. J., was sworn
and qualified as an expert by stating his
long. experience as a specialist in the
long connection with institutions for the
treatment of the insane.
Judge Powers added the statement Of
Mrs. Bradley's peculiar actions in the
ton for DR. Evans benefit, and then put
the same series Of questions regarding
the sanity and ability to choose between
right and wrong on part OF the person"
II would say she was insane" DR..
choose the right
Asked to state the reasons for his belief,
DR.. Evans declared the life Of "the per-
son" had been crowded with shocks to the
predlsposition toward insanity. The wit
ness reviewed in detail the events Of Mrs.
Bradley's life from the blow on the head
received in early childhood.
History Of Hereditary Taint.
an the beginning there IL the history
Of q hereditary taint," DR.. Evans said, "a
paternal grandfather insane and two ma
ternal aunts also insane-a direct connec-
ton In the blood Of p,eiisposition toward
mental instability. In early child.uod
there was the formative injury to the
head, which would constitute a natural
culture bed, In which, under strain or
stress Of anxiety, mental alteration would
show itself.
Then there were the chronic headaches
which continued 10 to the age Of sixteen
years, when the person suffered smallpox
and pneumonia. Her married life was
unhappy, and she separated from her
husband. She met q man Of strong per-
sonality, who. we find. soon dominated
every act and thought of the subject.
Through this man and particularly
through the operations performed upon
her by him, the persons whole system
was poisoned, the septic material being
carried in the circulation to every por-
ton of her body.
"The man was continually building up
the hope of the subject. only to destroy 1t.
Continually making promises, only to
break them-in fact. striking at the very
foundation Of the natural instincts Of the