The Sentinel=record., 1912-02-22
INSANITY IN
 A NEW FORM
AIlENlsT DESCRIBES CONDITION OF MRS. sNEEo AS A SORT OF
 MORAL INSANITY"
Attorney Suggests That Eve Suffered From Same Disease 5000 Years
 Ago-The Double Standard
 of Morality Quoted.

l Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 2l.-Tak- ing of testimony in the trial of John B. Sneed on charge os murder. was finished at 3:l0 o'clock this afternoon and less than 70 minutes later court was adjourned to convene at S:30 o'clock Thursday morning, At 9 o'clock Attorney Jordan Cummings will open the argument for the state, and the belief is that his speech will last about three hours, ending with the adjournment of court for lunch.
 Each side will be allowed nine hours for argument, and with sessions con- timing from o'clock in the morn ing until o'clock in the afternoon. with a two-hour intermission for luncheon. this will mean the ending of the arguments Saturday afternoon. Unless a night session of court is held before Saturday it is believed a night session will be held in order that the judge may read his charge to the jury and let the case go to them this week.
 Judge Swayne issued instructions just after court adjourned today for the sheriff to prepare thirty or forty seats for relatives of the defendant and Of Captain A. C. Boyce, who was slain by Sneed on the night of Jam ary 13. The judge also made state ment warning all those expecting to listen to the arguments to be in their seats by the time set for court to convene.
 The most interesting part Of the testimony today was that given by two physicians, expressing their opin- ions as 10 the mental condition Of Mrs. Sneed at the time Of her depart ure from Fort Worth with Al C. Boyce Jr.. an elopement or abduction that led to the killing of Captain Boyce by Sneed.
 The first of these physicians was Dr. c. l.. Gregory. of Greenville, Tex as, for four years head of the North Texas hospital for the insane. His testimony, based only on evidence giy- en in this case, was that the woman showed symptoms of moral insanity at the time she was brought to a Fort Worth sanitarium last autumn. Symp. toms of moral insanity, he said. were an abhorrence or dislike for those hitherto near and dear, and a liking for someone else. In the course of pr Gregory's cross-examination, Spe. eial Prosecutor Hanger asked the question
 This moral insanity started with an old lady who lived some sixty hun dred years ago, who ate some fruit. didn't it? Wasn't Eve morally in- sane?'
 'I could not judge about that" an. swered the witness. while the bailiff rapped for order. Dr. Gregory also declared the double standard Of morals had something 10 do with de. ciding whether a person was morally insane
 Under this double standard. then. sas9 Mir IYapCar sta .ua, v,o,,ar oO,,1d be morally insane, could he, doctor?"
 Yes, he could, but a man might be morally insane and not oe held re- sponsible for it in the same degree as would a woman"
 Senator Hanger then went on to question the witness ahont whether moral insanity grew more marked as the victim grew older and finally asked
 Doctor, did you ever hear of a man 90 years old that was morally insane?"
 Dr. Gregory admitted that he had not and the bainff again demanded that the crowd be more orderly.
 Dr. R. O. Brasweil, a member of the state board of medical examin. CTS for three terms. followed pr. Gregory on the witness stand. He was one of three physicians that examin- ed Mrs. sneed when attorneys sued out fl writ or habeas corpus asking an order for her release from the Fort Worth sanitariUm from sghich she ran away aady to which She was retueaed after she had been brought back from Canada hy her husband.
 This physician. in terms as posi- tive as were those of Dr. Gregorg de- ciared the woman was in no way in- sane, but on the other hand was m