Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-23

DR.. George Wells, who had been the
Tyler family physician some years
| ago, was next sworn. He said that
Tyler had been a normal man up to a
few months ago, but that he had re.
Gently constantly sought out the wit
ness to tell Of his family troubles and
that on one occasion had expressed
the fear that unless they stopped their
treatment of him, they would make
him do something which he would re-
gret. On these occasions in the past
ten or twelve months, DIR. Wells said
Tyler had always been violent when
excited
Alexander Smith, who had known
the prisoner about ten or twelve
years, who was the next witness.
told of having observed change, too,
in Tyler's condition
Charles Williams told of Tyler's
excitable and unusual actions in the
little store he had been running at
Eastport; of his having given the
witness pair of knitted baby stock
ings when he had asked for pair of
gloves, and similar occurrences.
The defense then put Mrs. Laura
Williams. a near neighbor of the Ty-
lers, on the stand, who told of notic-
ing that the prisoner had changed re-
Gently, and of thinking this was to be
expected because of the continual
quarreling because of Mrs. Tyler's
jealousy. She cited one instance of
seeing Tyler come out in the yard
and with stick or something similar,
break up plates and other china; that
when she Went over and talked to him
the prisoner, placing his hands to his
head moaned MY head, oh nv head;
| fear me, Mrs. Williams, will lose
my mind; I'll go crazy if they don't
let me alone.
The bitterness of the feeling be-
tween the two factions of the strife
rent family was shown when Mrs.
Margaret Murphy. the favorite daugh-
ter OF the accused man, took the stand
Immediately before the noon recess.
She brought out nothing additional in
the family difficulties, but throughout
her tstimony showed great animus for
her sister, who was made a widow by
the shot of her father.
After the noon recess the defense
began the introduction of its expert
testimony when it put on the stand
DR.. Edwin M. Brush, of the Shepherl /
and Enoch Pratt Hospital for the In
sane in Baltimore. DIR. Brush testified
that from the evidence in the case to
which he had listened and from the
interview he had had with Tyler, he
thought it safe to assume that at the
time he did the shooting he had been
suffering for some time with serious
disease of the blood vessels, which
resulted in dizziness and vertigo.
Taking all things into considera-
tion, it seems doubtful that the ac-
cused was in complete control of him
self or was capable of realizing the
gravity Of his crime or its results, and
he also suffered in the lack of the de-
gree of self-control," said the spec
ialist.
Under cross-examin alton by Mr..
Green, however, DIR. Brush said he
did not feel justified in saying that
the man was insane in a medical or
legal expression when he committed
the crime. He further refused to say
positively that he was incapable of
realizing the gravity of his offense.
Taken altogether the testimony of
the expert did not apparently strength
en- the case of the defense.
Immediately after the physician
left the stand, Mr.. Green moved to
have stricken from the record all of
the testimony tending to show a
change in Tyler's mental condition in
the months preceding the crime,
which had been got from defense's
witnesses during the morning, and this
motion led to a long argument between
counsel which consmed much of the re-
mainder of the afternoon session.