Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-09
Evidence Differs Regarding
AIInutt's Mental Condition.
CHARGE OF KILLING SISTER
Plea of Insanity Supported by Bal
timore Alienist.
OTHERS GIVE OPPOSITE VIEW
Case May Go to Jury Monday
Evening-Six Attorneys to
Make Addresses,
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The star
ROCKVILLE Md. December S-from
the progress of the trial TO-DAY the ihoi-
cations are the Allnutt murder case VIII
NOT reach the jury before Monday even
IT, Tn. testimony was heard today by
Judges 'I-rner and Peter. Judge Mot'er
b...tnr- hecn called off the bench yester-
dax Afternoon by the death ot rela-
tive at Frederick.
inc proceedings this morning were
taken ND with the testimony OF aiiehiH'H
resy,sjinx~the mental eondulon OF ftch-
araW. Allnutt, whose princ'pdi oei0ise
20 the charge of numbering ms s's'cf =
INSANITY
Dr. Arthur T. Herring nj Baltimore
secretary of the state lunacy board tes'l-
red hc had examined Allnutt III jan
shorty after the alleged commission VI
the crime and had found him III fuii pos
session of his mental faculties re
further testified that Allnutt Is peIfee'iH
sarc at the present time. His teStlmonS
was ccrroborated by pr Ernest H. bu'-
lard. head of the Rockville Sanator'um'
Evidence at Variance.
Then evidence was at direct variance
with that of Dr. Charles q. Hill, the
noted Baltimore aiienist. who testified
10 I've a paranoiac. Several local phys'-
clans will he called TO the stand this
afternoon and there will then remain six
g.'dre.-sc:, To the jury 10 be made by coun-
sci .
Suhstantiation of tho testimony of All
rutt's mother To tic effect that he was
saoe at tie time of he alleged murder
vps given this aftcr!N on by EDWARD -hii-
Mt brother IF the defendant. ana oy
Mrs lawrence Allnut- tho prisoner
y
his wife boarded for several months
pr;or TO the commission of the crime
wv, Of these address es. il is thought,
WI 70 made before ADJOURNMENT tohlsn',
and the remaining four MONDAY, alter
witch the case will bc given into the
hands OF the jury.
Defense Rests Case"
At . o'clock last night the defense an
nounced its case closed, and court au-
iouJned until Az o'clock this morning
when the prosccn ton began to present its
rehuttal testimony
The most impcC, ant witness placed on
the stand ves;erttaT afternoon by the de-
Tense was DR. Cha .les g. Hill of Baltimore,
an sIienist Since Ailnutts incarceration In
iail Dr. Hill has observed him Closely
and from the besinUrng of the triai hearo
all of the testimony. in addition TO care
fully watching the piiSohei "oi'e ''s
proceedings in court
When asked by Arthur Peter OF coun
sci for the defense to state, judging from
; all he had observed and otherwise learned
about the defendant. what was the men
tai condition of Allnutt AETch IA last tne
day of the crime, DIR. His unhesitat1ngly
rep2fed that he was .fnsarse, and, declared
him to have been suffering from form
of insanity known paraHoA- When
further questioned along that line. the
tufo cd
suffering from paranoia at the time he
killed his sister, but that he was a para
noiac several weeks prior thereto, and Is
now.
gnder Observation Last March.
Dr~Hm testified that he first saw All
mutt in the Jail at Rockville March 19
last. which was few days after the
tragedy He examined him carefully and
tonversed with .him at considerable length.
The defendant. .he said, seemed to have
no conception of the enormity Of the act
lie had committed. He would not discuss
me tragedy. and This mind appeared 20
Cwell upon his grievances against others
lie told DR. Hill that he had no idea why
10 rad Killed his=sister.
DrritfH stated that number Of Incl
Cents@is which. as shown by the testi-
.slony illnutt had figured. only confirm
cd the opinion he had previously formed
rs TO his mental condition. The witness
referred. with other things, to his flying
MO d rassion and leaving home simply
Eecausc some one had misplaced razor
belonging to him: to his attempt to set
IRE 10 the old nome in the bungling man
rer explained. which, had it succeeded
would have done him more harm than
any one else the attack upon his sister,
Who had always been his most devoted
~clative. and thats4Ipon his aged mother
and the tact that he seems to feel that
Inc wrongs done him are greater than
anything ne has been guilty OF. not even
CsCepting the murder.
Does Not Know Right From Wrong.
Dr. Hill declared that ne does not be-
lieYe the defendant knows right from
wrong. or that he realizes the conse-
quences of wrong doing. The witness
also said the fact that the defendant Is
a son Of first cousins may have predis-
posed him to a development Of the men.
tai disorder with which he Is suffering
He declared that the tragedy hnr which
A1nutt 10 being tried was not a crimA
but the act OF an insane man.
DR.. Edward Anderson of Rockville, 10,
twenty-five years In charge Of the paupe,
insane o. Montgomery county. testifed
thu be bad examined Aflnutt and had
he'd ID the testimony in the case, and wa
convinced that the defendant waa MOI
only insane when he attacked his sister
out that he Is Of unsound onind now