Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-01-20
WOMAN GIVES TESTIMONY
ITCHING Oh CLOCk IN COURT
ROOM HEARD PLAINLY, 50
INTENSE WAS INTEREST
OF AUDITORS.
EVIDENCE SENSATION
Ih>clareS She Was Seized ~ Guards
and Irugged and Woke Hours
Afterward IN i,arren Room
In Sanitarinm.

Fort Worth. Tex, Jan. l9.-Mrs
Lena 4. Sneed was declared sane by
Judge Tom Simmons Of the Sixty
seventh district court at 2:l5 o'clock
this afternoon and ordered discharged
from the Arlington Heights Santa
rum. where she has been confined
since her return from Canada.
The habeas corpus hearing for the
release OF Snced on bond, pending
his trial ncXt Monday. for the alleged
killing Of Col. a. G. Royce, Sr.. was
made impossible because OF Mrs.
Sneeds hearing, and will be heard
at o'clock Saturday morning before
Judge simmons
Against the opinion OF Or. Allison
of the Sanitarium that Mrs. Sneed is
insane. the physicians who talked to
her for three quarters of an hour,
discussing the Sneed-Hoyce case, de
clared her sane. Two said she show
ed no signs OF insanity. though II
might he possible for person TO be
insane and require longer than that
to disos"or 4. nr r. O Btaswen
declared fatty SHE is NOT IN
SANE"
Mrs. Snecd took the stand in her
own behalf after the testimony of
the physicians Or Braswell in his
opinion flatly indicated that he did
not believe Mrs Sneed had Moral
Insanity The physicians said she
told them II was her purpose. II given
her liberty, to 90 TO relatives, and
tha, she never again expected TO see
4. g. Boyce. Jr.. with whom she went
10 Canada after her escape from the
Arlington Heights Sanitarium.
Moral insanity" vas DR. Wilmer
Anison's diagnosis OF Mrs Sneed' s
condition. based upon her desertion
Of her husband. James Real Sneed.
and her alleged statements to him
that sho feels no rcmorse for her
action.
In the court room the proceedings
were opened by Senator baltimore
who .unounccd that he was the rep
rcsentative of Mrs. Snecd at her re-
quest
~ understand that th' other side
is irving 70 induce her 10 withdraw
her application be said United
states District Attorney Atwei' said
that he had understood that Mrs.
Sneod wished TO withdraw the apnli-
cation and go with her family"
- have represented the husband
in the criminal and civil action from
the inception cf this MIR Atwell
said and ! desire an hour in which
10 confer with him promise that
testimony will be- brought out that
Mrs. Snced il morally insane that
she Is suffering from moral demen
tia, Mr.. AtWell said He was grant
ID an hour By the court
'Of course, the court will under
stand that person can't be locked
" for roral insanity In Texas Sen
ator baltimore. counsel COR Mrs
Sneed. iGtcrjectod. On motion OF Mr.
l.attim0re. medical experts summon
cd for the case by Mrs. Snecds NJ
torneys were allowed to converse with
her ir Judge Simmons office. Will,
:. y Sneed her husband was talking
10 his attorney In the court room
The neat move was the filing OF d
plea of intervention by III, husband
through his attorneys. Mclean, Scott
q Mclean The intervention ple9
signed by Sneed, recites that the two
were married on October II. 1900
and lived together until Nov. s, 1911
on which date Mrs. Sneed was ab
Quoted and carried away 20 Canada
tha, sneed had spent his time ant
money 20 bring her back. that n,
had pnt her In the care OF her father
that the conspirings OF the man who
had taken her and others 10 AGAR
nbduct her and the belief that sh'
IL insane had caused him 10 place hel
in n sanitarium. and that he now be
heved that II Is necessary for her 4
be confined In some good medical In