The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-15
No insanity. Says Expert,

No insanity. Says Expert.
Il do not ina sufhcient evidence 10
warrant me In saying Dr. Royajian
was insane when he shot Aartoon Cos
tanian. II seemed 10 mo that tho
shooting was the deliberate execution
or deliberate plan"
This was Dr. Charles w. Hitch.
cocks answer TO Prosecutor Vaa
Ziles long hypothetical question, SCI.
ing forth the circumstances leading up
! TO the shooting OF young Gostanian IN
police court. April 80, fo~ which DR..
BoyaJian Is now on trial. II 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
theE the defense was not satisfied and
o5je cted TO the amended question. The
codrt allowed an exception and IN
s,ructed the doctor 10 answer.
Telling OF the examination he and
DIR. j. e. Emerson had made OF the
defendant, DR.. Hitchcock said that in
the first interview, May q. DR.. Boya-
Jan told them he had been q normal.
healthy boy, that be had had no DIS
ease OF any consequence and tina:
there had been no nervous or mental
trouble In the family. there vera
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 read the
notes ! had taken on our first inter-
view and DR.. Boyajian at once said he
had some corrections to make. He
then said that his father had been
epileDtic for % years; that his aunt
had been afflicted with softening of
the brain and had been insane for sew
en- years before her death | 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 a 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 IL was in splendid English, proved
most interesting. II was almost like
listening to 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 box of medicine bearing
Gostanian's handwriting.
DR.. Royajian. in this interview, said
he recalled nothing of the tragedy,
that he aid not come to his senses
until o'clock that night (April 30),
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 IL with any in
tention 70 killing his nephew.
5oysJian once Arrested.
1t developed that Boyajian had once
been arrested in Adana, in the orien.
and had been imprisoned in Mersins
for a 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
| jams measured SO 1-2 centimeters
around and DR.. Clark's, 81 1-2 cent?
meters