The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-15
BoYAJIAN INSANE AT
SHOOTING IS CLAIMED
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known better than to have given ut.
terance TO the additional conclusion.
Wellman then went ON and explain
ed that the doctor appeared pale and
his salt Was unsteady when he came
into court, and added that he was per-
apirlng aud his eyes were glaring i'm
mediately after the first shot was
fred. The witness said he saw Boya.
I jlan get up from his seat and walk
over TO within 1--WE feet OF Gostanian
and start firing. He saw Ave shots
| fired. he said
In cross-examining Wellman. the
prosecutor produced the witness court
record, showing he had been convict
ed and sentenced on charges OF dis
turbing the peace, assault and battery.
and once for simple larceny. Wenman
admitted that the record was correct.
BY Deputy Sheriff Ralph Owen,
color ed, the defense planned TO show
that DIR. Boyajian acted I'm wild sort
OF way after being taken into the
county jail, following the shooting.
Owen said that the doctor leaned"
J his head against the wall and turned
his eyes toward the ceiling. Mr..
Hunt intimated that the doctor
bumped" his head against the wall,
and the witness agreed that bumr-
ing" was correct. owen also related
that the doctor placed his head In
his hands and moaned while sitting
in chair in the Office of the Jail; al
SO that the doctor fell out OF the
chair. The witness also said that the
doctors face was 30 distorted that he
didn't recognize him for some time.
although he had heard him lecture
some six years previously and hat
met him once or twice a year after
that.
What do you say as TO the doctor
being rational or irrational at the
time he was in the jall?" Mr.. Hunt
asked owen.
The prosecutor objected TO an an
swer, declaring that Owens acquaint-
ance with the doctor was not wide
enough to allow him 10 give the opin-
ion sought
! The court sustained the objection.
In the cross-examination OF Owen.
the prosecution sought to find out
what DR.. Boyajian was lecturing on
when owen heard him and what kind
of performance he gave.
Attorney Bumps offered an objec-
ton, contending that the doctor was
being tried for murder. and that II
was prejudiclal to his interests to go
into AN occurrence OF some six years
ago.
The court overruled the objection,
saying that the prosecution had
right to go into the doctors history,
I ID. ..I. ll,,.. huA Int
ed in his opening address to the jury.
Tuesday. that the defense would Of
fer testimony bearing on the mental
condition OF at least one of the doc
tors ancestors.
Owen then explained that the doc
tor lectured on the massacre OF the
Armenians. and that he showed how
the Mohammedans prayed by swing.
ing the head. He negatively answer
ed questions as to whether the doc
tor showed excitement during his lee
ture and IL he had said that he was
the only one who escaped from the
massacre he was talking about.
These questions drew forth smile
from the doctor.
Juror Moshier asked the witness IL
the doctor really bumped his head
against the wall I'm the jail. and Owen
replied that he could not say wheth-
er the doctors head touched the wall
or not
Col f. II. Sellers also testified re.
garding the conduct OF DIR. Boyajian.
when the latter was first brought in
to the jail. The colonel said that the
doctor was shouting and raving
The prosecutor objected to the use
of the term ''raving," contending that
the witness only concluded that the
doctor was raving. The objection was
sustained.
The colonel then testified that the
doctor was making incoherent ex.
CARNATIONS. such as, "Oh. my home"
and "Oh. my country" lie was also
moaning and his eyes were wild and
CLASSY" the colonel added.
Cross-examined, the colonel admit
ted that the doctor took cigar from
his pocket and placed it in his mouth
during the period OF excitement
Marker Hagopian, Armenian, was
en- the stand at the noon adjourn
ment. He said that he and two other
fellow countrymen sought to talk with
the doctor soon after the shooting,
WHtH ut was III DOltt
but that they could get no satisfac
ton from him. He denied to As
sistant Prosecutor Jasnowsh that
Boyajian told them 10 tell DR.. Walk
err TO let Gostanian die.
Simon Blumberg. deputy sheriff,
testified, Tuesday afternoon, or the
incidents related by Deputy Owen and
Col. Sellers regarding the doctors
conduct and appearance on his first
coming into the jail. and also said that
he went to the doctors cell one night
In response to shrieking on the part
of the doctor, to find him throwing
things at an imaginary object, ex.
claiming wildly, Take 'em away.
Take 'em away" He was quieted
with difficulty. Blumber said.
Blumberg was asked IL he thought
Boyajian was in his right mind at the
time of the cell episode and he re-
piled in the. negative. He was allow.