The Detroit times., 1909-07-15
.B0YAJ|AN SHOWED
NO EVIDENCE OF
INSANITY
DIR. c. w. HITCHCOCK
Shooting of Gostanian Was the De-
hberate Execution Of q Deliberate
Plan" Alienist Says, Answering
Prosecutors Question.
Clear-cut Analysis of the Defendant
BY Expert Seems To Greatly
Interest the Jury.

i do not find sufficient evidence to
warrant me In saying DR.. Poyajian
vas insane when he shot Hartoon Cog
tanian. II seemed to me that tho
shooting was the deliberate execution
OF deliberate plan"
This was DR.. Charles w. Hitch
cocks answer to Prosecutor Van
zile,s long hypothetical question, SET
Ing forth the circumstances leading up
to the shooting OF young Gostanian In
police court, April 80, for which DR..
Boyajian Is now on trial. 1t was late
Wednesday afternoon wnen the an
swer was finally given, considerable
time having been taken up In amend
Ing the question In conformity with
the objections of the defense. Even
then the defense was not satisfied and
objected to the amended question. The
court allowed an exception and in
structed the doctor to answer.
Telling OF the examination he and
Dr. j. e, Emerson had made OF the
defendant, DR.. Hitchcock said chat In
the first interview, May q. DR.. Boya-
jian told them he had been a normal,
healthy boy, that he had had no dis
ease OF any consequence and that
there had been no nervous or mental
trouble in the family. There were
some other things, he said, that he
preferred not to talk about unless his
attorney were present.
I'VE again saw him on June "a" the
doctor related. "Drs. Clark and Flint
| ermann were also present. I read the
notes | had taken on our first inter-
view and DR.. Boyajian at once said he
bad some corrections to make. He
then said that his father had been
epileptic for 25 years; that his aunt
had been afflicted with softening Of
the brain and had been insane for sew
Ell years before her death. I was sur
prised at this in view of his former
statement that there had been no
nervous or mental trouble in the fam
| lily.
| Had Suffered Sunstroke.
"The doctor also claimed he had
had a sunstroke and that his father
was emotional. When he was school
boy his teachers, he said. used to tell
his parents he was the brightest boy
in town.
Reading from the notes he made at
that time, DR.. Hitchcock traced Boya-
jams career from infancy up to the
present time and the recital. couched
as 1t was in splendid English, proved
most interesting. 1t was almost like
listening to a novel. He went into
the doctors discovery of his wife's
perfidy In great detail; told how the
revelation came to the trusting Ar
menian by degrees until the truth
finally dawned on him with the dis
covery OF a box OF medicine bearing
Gostanian's handwriting.
| Dr. Royajian. In this interview, said
he recalled nothing OF the tragedy.
that he did not come to his senses
until o'clock that night april 800.
while alone in his CELL and that he
first learned what he had done from
the papers the next day. He recalled
buying a revolver but insisted thar
he had not purchased 1t with any in
tention 70 killing his nephew.
BoyaJian Once Arrested.
It developed that Boyajian had once
been arrested in Adana, In the orien..
and had been imprisoned In Mersina
for brief period.
Measurements made OF the heads OF
Dr. Boyajian and DR.. Clark In the jail
showed that the formers was larger
by an inch, DR.. Hitchcock said. Boya-
jian's measured IS IL centimeters
around and DR.. Clarks, 81 IL cent?
meters.
Telling how he arrived at his con-
clusion that the defendant was sane
at the time OF the shooting, DR.. Hitch
cock gave an analysis OF the man that
caused the jurors to lean forward In
their seats and follow his every word.
II found in this man no mark OF de-
generation" he said. II found him a
good listener, paying close attention
during long interviews. His low brow
is no mark of degenefaey, nor IL his
defective eyesight. II it is, then the
same is true OF myself, for my eye.
sight is poor.
II have known this man for years
and am reasonably sharp observer, !
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