The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-17

sisting chiefly on an answer to this
question: What right have you to
believe everything DR.. Waysou says
and to disbelieve everything that
say?" 1t was explained by the wit
nesses that such was not the attitude
with which they approached the ex-
animation; they judged by the symp-
toms of the state Of the mind of the
subject of examination, by what he
had said to them and by the answers
he had given to the questions asked
him.
An article in the Advertiser was in
troduced wherein, over his own sigma
ture, the doctor had painstakingly
described the methods he imagined or
believed to be used to prosecute him,
how that men in the conspiracy were
stationed at intervals hidden in the
sewers, also manipulating ghostly
telephone, for the express purpose of
having him and him alone to hear
hlasphemous, obscene, profane and
threatening language against himself.
The doctors declared that Atcherley
had admitted writing the most of the
article in question, but had stated that
he had not intended all of it to ap-
pear in print. The questions and an
swers between the testifying physi-
clans and the defendant were largely
dealing with amounts of doses Of
IN MI hot
tending that the doctors were deliber-
ately trying to railroad him to the
insane asylum, that they had on 4
previous occasion given their opinions
in regard to him and would perjure
themselves this time sooner than
change their previous opinions, that
they were jumping At conclusions, that
Wayson had perjured himself in a de-
sire to get him out of the way so
that his leprosy cure secret might not
be known, and that it was unfair to
suppose that because he used NOR
phine and cocaine that he was crazy.
The physicians. however, were not
/ basing their opinions on any one symp-
tom, but on all taken as a whole.
In the court room, evidently with
the intention of using it as part of
his own defense, Dr. Atcherley still
! seemed to maintain that It was a fact
that his house in Kalihi had been fixed
up by the conspirators" in such a
way as to torment him with the sounds
OF the voices Of DR.. Wayson, Chester
Doyle and others he claims to be his
enemies. He wanted TO know by what
right the doctors denied these things
/ without themselves having visited his
house in Kalihi to investigate, and he
/ cited using story in the Advertiser
| to back his argument, the case of a
Rouse on Punchbowl where certain
ghostly and mysterious things we're
alleged to have occurred some time
ago; where dishes and furniture flew
about and people there were excited to
the extent that crowds were gathered
to see what was the matter. He de-
manded if the reporters who wrote OF
these facts were to be considered in
sane for the reason that they had so
written. He demanded to be inform
ed why, if such things had occurred
in the Punchbowl house, they could
rot occur in his house in Kalihi.
And then he made the most sensa-
tional statement Of the trial which
was to the effect that the very same
people who had been haunting his
house in Kalihi were responsible for
the mysterious tricks at the PunchbowI
house.
They were trying out their voices
in the sewers to get the right range
declared Atcherley, they were trying
their tricks on the Punchbowl house
to get in practice so that they could
do the same thing on me-"
In other words, in police court, DR.
Atcherley repeated and insisted on the
very diffusion of concerted persecu.
ton which is the chief count against
his sanity.
His conduct in court, in defending
himself, was sane except for the mat
ter OF the tricks he insists were pIav
ed ON him in his Kalihi house. and hi,
description of the same, which show
ed the paranoeic condition plainly.