The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-17
I'LL Be ACQUITTED
NEXT Time, Says
BOYAJ|AN
Very Cheerful Over Disagreement q
Jury, Which Stood Eight to Fcar
for Conviction, and Was Finally
Discharged.
Doctor Insists That Wife's Story on
Stand Was Absolute Truth, But Can
not Explain Causing Her Arrest.

Next time | will De acquitted"
This was the prediction made by Dr..
GaraDed *. Boyajian as he stood, smil.
ing ana confident. in a steel-ribbed
cell block In the county Jail, Saturday
morning. he shook hands warmly
with his early morning visitor. He
mad slept scarcely at all during the
night, until after the jury that tried
him on a murder charge had been dts
charged without reaching an agree
ment, but he looked fresh and hopeful,
better, III fact than It any time since
mis- trial started mere than three
weeks ago.
Yes, | will be acquitted next
time" he went on. Il am sure OF 1t.
am sorry II couldn't have been an
&cquittal this time, SO the suspense
would have been over for all time. But
disagree ement Is the next best thing"
The prospect of spending thte sum-
mer in Jail does not seem TO bother
DR.. BoyaJlan. The hope of ultimate
freedom buoys him up.
Il notice the papers say the jury
stood eight to four for conviction.
the doctor went on. Il do not believe
1t. | asked several OF the jurors how
they stood and they told me 1t was
just the other way about, eight to four
for acquittal. Still, il is possible that
was misinformed. But I'm any event
am glad that there are some who
believe in lie and my defense. For l
say now, as | have said right along,
adm | swear TO II before God, that |
have no more recollection Of that ira
gedy In the police court than | have
or the day or my birth. Ali know
about it is what | have read in the
papers AMI have heard from the wit
ness stand.
The prosecutor laughed at the in
sanity defense. To me 1t Is no laugh
ing matter. He called it rage, passion
nnrestrained, a hrainstorm. and insist
ed that there is no such affection as
traumatic delirium. He is mistaken.
IL had ever abused my wife. II had
ever been mixed up in saloon brawls
and gained reputation as brutal,
| irritable man who was in the habit
of flying into a rage on the slightest
provocation, then there might be some
excuse for the prosecutions effort TO
show that | was simply mad with
rage when | shot Gostanian. But
when you compare IL years of pure
! life in this country, II years without
single display of rage or anger with
those two days following my wife's
confession, is there anything unreason.
able in my claim that | was not In my
right senses!
Says Wife's Story Is True.
And as to my wife's story. which
the prosecutor attacked SO viciously,
II was an absolute fact. That was tho
stefy- She told Arst to me and the
story she mas repeated ever since, and
believe she told the absolute. un-
vanished truth. Why did | have her
arrested? did not want to have her
arrested To tell you the truth
myself did not know very much about
VIVA | did the morning Of April 29,
when the warrants were sworn out.
and | didn't know then that man
who had taken advantage of a married
woman eould be charged with crim-
inal assault But that is not the real
reason why my wife was also named
in the warrant. | will not tell that
until after | am acquitted. But | say
emphatically that | did not want my
wife arrested and Capt. Mcdonnell
himself testified on the stand that
wanted to take her home with me
from the station. | believed In my
wife then md | still believe in her"
What are your plans II you are
finally acquitted" was asked.
Il will remain in Detroit and re-
sumo the practice OF medicine"