The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
BoYAJIAN HAD FIT IN
JAIL. SAYS ALIENlST
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Hunt said he was willing, whereupoh
the court advised that he be furnished
with a copy OF the revised statement
on the opening of court, Monday. The
Judge said that he thought there
should be a revision In regard TO the
statement concerning the reference
10 the doctors brothers eyes, and TO
the statement by Mr., Hunt 10 the Ell
feet that DR.. Boyajian was afnicted
with heart trouble. there being no
testimony relative TO the condition OF
the doctors heart. the court held.
Court adjourned after the report or
the prosecutor until IL o'clock Mon
Gay morning.
The defense will call two more
alienists, DR.. o. r. Long, OF the Iona
asylum for the criminal insane, and
DR.. David r. Clark. OF ST. Joseph
retreat, Dearborn DIR. Clark testified
for the defense in the first trial.
The prosecution Will also produce
number OF medical experts on insan-
| ity. They are DR.. c. W. Hitchcock,
Dr. j. f. Emerson. DR.. Charles Bah.
\ cock and Or. J. Is. Kennedy. all or
! Detroit. They will make an exam
ination of DR.. Boyajian this afternoon
Mrs. 6oyaJIan Tells Her story.
: Mrs. Ethyl Boyajian testified in the
| Friday afternoon session and re-
peated her story OF her relations
with Hartoon, as told by her in the
first trial. She related that her maid
en- name was Ethyl Yerkes, that she
met the doctor in her home town, I'm.
lay City, Mich, in 1901. when he was
on a lecture tour. and that they were
married few months later and came
/ TO Detroit 10 live.
| In telling OF her relations with Cos
tanian, Mrs Boyajian said that he at
! tackled her while she was making up
bed, and threatened 10 Kill her and
her husband il she informed on him
| He also attacked her on other oc
casions, she said each time threaten
| ing her IL she mentioned the matter
Gostanian had occasion to be at her
home a great deal, because the doc
tor was tutoring him in connection
, with his medical course The doctor
was out of town, on a lecture tour,
when Gostanian attacked her, and she
Immediately wrote her husband let
ter, asking him 10 come home. The
letter. a new bit of evidence, was pro-
duced II was not presented In the
first trial, the defense explaining that
il could not be found at that time.
The missive, addressed 10 the doctor
in Mexico, Mo. was rs follows:
Detroit. Mich, April 3, 1909.
My Dear Garabed.
am so nervous this morn
ing | can hardly write. Garabed.
am going to ask you to stop lee
turing. Come right home. | can
not explain why, but won't you
come? | did not sleep one wink
last night and | have been crying
in agony all morning for you.
wish you had never left home. 1t
seems life is not worth living
without you. Every time ! come
downstairs and open your Office
door and find YOU not there, all
things become dark and | almost
go crazy | feel more lonesome
now than the day YOU left De-
troit
II il is possible, come home as
soon as you receive this
Yours lovingly
ETHYL.
Kisses From Doctor.
The defense also offered another
letter in evidence, the doctors reply
TO his wife. IL showed much affection
on the part of the doctor. containing
number of crosses, which Mrs. Boy
allan said meant kisses. The letter
was read to the jury.
Mrs. Boyajian also told OF confess
sing to her husband, on his return
home, of her relations with Gostan-
ian. She also told him that Gostanian
had said that he was dub and
that he knew of tasteless poison
coffee &c kill him. Gostanian. she
said, suggested that they should get
married IL the doctor were out OF the
way He told her that he had de-
termined TO get her ever since be met
her in Kalamazoo where she and the
doctor lived for while before com
ing to Detroit.
The doctor, Mrs. Boyajian said,
acted as though he were crazy when
she made her confessions 10 him. He
declared that his home was ruined
and afterward swooned. Mrs. Boya-
jian said she later advised her hus-
band to arm himself with A revolver.
because Gostanian carried a weapon.
DR.. Boyajian groaned aloud while
his wife was reciting the details OF
her association with Gostanian.
Mrs. Boyajian also testified in re.
gard TO the meeting between GostaE-
ian and her husband in Capt. Melon.
nell's Office after the arrest OF Cos
tanian She said that Gostanian, in
the Armenian language, threatened
her husband, using a word which
means. Il will kill"
Prosecutor Probes Story.
In cross-examining Mrs. Boyajian,
Prosecutor Van Zile essayed to go In
TO minute details in regard to the re
lations between her and Gostanian.
To this. Ormond +. Hunt, for the de.
tense. interposed IN objection, saying
the prosecution should deal only with
the statements made by Mrs. Boya-
Jan TO her husband in the matter,
The Judge ruled in favor OF the prose
cutor. The same point came up in
the famous Thaw trial when the dis
trict attorney attempted to discredit
the story of the wife's disgrace.
Mrs. Boyajian admitted TO the prose
cutor that she told Chief Mcdonnell
that the doctor choked her TO make
her confess but she said that as a