The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-14


| No. was the reply.
did you not say TO several persons
I'm Inlay City that you didn't know
what you were going TO do II the doc
I tor were convicted. now that poor
Harry Was dead and gomez"
Il did not. I deny that positively.
The defense then took the witness and
started out In an effort to establish
that Mrs. Boyajian had been advised
that she WAS choked. Several ques-
lions were ruled out. but Mrs. Boya-
jian insisted on answering In defiance
OF the court. until Judge Connolly lee
! tured her.
/ What did the attorney you con.
suited tell you to doy" was one or
, the questions.
Excluded" ruled Judge Connolly.
but Mia. -Boyajian. unheeding. went
! ON
He told me TO lie. but Mr.. Yerkes
/ told me to tell the truth"
Strike II out" ordered the court.
Did Mr.. Aldrich advise you 10 tell
that the doctor choked you?
II don't recollect.
Mrs. Boyajian stepped down and the
court declared an intermission. Fol-
! lowing Il. Detective Bcdinus took the
stand to testify that Mrs Boyajian i'm
mediately after the shooting. attempt
ed 10 see Gostanian. saying:
Il must see Harry. He's dying:
know he's dying and must see him."
did you restrain herr
Il did"
County Physician Crimes testified
substantially to the same effect. add.
ing that Mrs. Boyajian was calling
Harry, Harry and that he assisted
In restraining her from going into the
room where the wounded man lay.
Wife Said She Was Choksd.
Mrs. Alma Barringer. OF Inlay City.
testified that Mrs. Boyajian told her.
In Inlay City. about two weeks after
the shooting. that the doctor had
choked a confession out OF her, that
she was afraid her life would have
been I'm danger II she had not con-
fessed and that she had demonstrated
how the doctor had attacked her to
force the confession.
did she say she didn't know what
TO do II the doctor were convicted.
now that Harry was dead and gomez"
she did"
The defense was unable TO shake
her testimony.
Assistant Prosecutor Fred Aldrich
was put on to testify 10 the details
OF a telephone conversation with DR..
BoyaJian in the latter part OF April.
He did not know until afterwards, he
said, that the man who called him up
was DR.. Boyajian. and he got no i'm
preston. he said. that the doctor was
having any family trouble. His I'm
preston was, he said, that the doctor
was some man looking for lawyer TO
organize n corporation. He didn't
make any appointment. as he was
about TO leave for Lansing. The de-
Tense has been trying to establish that
Dr. Boyajian, following his wife's con-
fession, sought advice from the prose
cutor's Office and, getting no satisfac-
ton. called Attorney Bartlett.
Or. Hitchcock Testifies.
DR.. Charles w Hitchcock, one OF
the aliensts employed by the prose
cution, took the stand shortly before
IL O'Clock In answer 10 the prelimin-
airy questions, he said he graduated
from the Detroit College of Medicine
In 1885 and told OF his wide expert
ence with mental diseases. He has
been a lecturer on nervous diseases In
the Detroit College of Medicine for
the past 3 years and knew Dr. Boya-
jian as student. In conjunction with
Dr. j f. Emerson. he had made an
examination of the defendant at the
request Of the prosecutor. he said.
I'VE called to see him on April 49,"
he continued. He told us his attor-
ney. Mr. Bumps, had instructed him
not 10 talk, but he consented to tell
OF his family history.
AT this point an afternoon adjourn
ment was taken until 2 o'clock.
Mrs. lambert's Story.
That Mrs. Ethel Boyajian was
wont to call up Hartoon Gostaniap by
telephone SO frequently that Gostan-
ian was annoyed, that she visited him
! in his room and that these things con-
| tinued and became more noticeable
after Dr. Boyajian left the city on his
last lecture tour and even after the
time Mrs. Boyajian claims to have
been assaulted-this was the testi-
mony of Mrs. Seymour w. Lambert.
| No. 81 Montcalm-st. east, In the Boy
| allan trial Tuesday afternoon. She
was the first witness called by the
people I'm rebuttal and proved an i'm
portant one, as her testimony Is in d.
rect contradiction to Mrs. Boyajians
with regard to her attitude toward
Gostanian after the alleged assault.
Gostanian was rooming In Mrs.
| Eambert's home at lifetime OF his
arrest at the instance of the doctor.
Mrs. Boyajian had called frequently
to see the young man, she said
Did she come alone?" was asked.
Before the doctor left he came
with her, but after he went away she
came alone or with her daughter"
Did she always take her daughter
to Harry's room with herr"
Not always. The little girl often
remained outside and played with my
SON"
Mrs. Lambert said that Mrs. Boya.
Han called Harry On the phone on an
average OF once day and at times
called him as many as three times
a day. On the morning he was
arrested she called up threem
arrested she called up three times.
but was unable to get him. And ali
this time, according to Mrs. Boy
ajian's story. she loathed the young
man.
Gostanian Annoyed.
MI. Lambert said she had heard
Gostanian complain about being an.
noyed by the woman, but this testi.
mony was stricken from the record.
Witness declared that she had never
seen a weapon OF any kind In Cos.