The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-12-15
VAUGHN NOT
CRAZY SAYS DIR.
r. T. JENNINGS
Says That Former Orphanage
Superintendent is Taking In
sanity to Save Life.
tGreenville News.)

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"T. y. Vaughn is no more crazy
than l am" said DR.. r. r. Jennings.
surgeon Of the state penitentiary, yes
terday when asked by a Greenville
News reporter why he had not signed
the lunncy papers with the two other
physicians who signed the paper stat
Ing that Vaughan was crazy.
vaughan is now In the State peni-
tentiary where he Is being held pend
Ing an appeal to the United States
Supreme court. He was convicted in
q Greenville county court upon
charge OF having had criminal rela-
tons with some of the yong girl in
mates in the Odd Fellow Home and
sentenced to death. He escaped from
the county jail here, was later cap
tured and landed in the State peni-
tentiary. where he has been since.
For some time it has been reported
that Vaughan, an educated man, was
crazy and that he would in all proba-
bility be saved from tho electric chair
on this account. A lunacy commits
sion was appointed to examine into
his sanity and two Of the phyaicans
Of the three stated that he was crazy
and signed the papers TO that effect;
but DR.. Jennings would not sign the
papers. 80
DIR. Jennings stated yesterday that
whenever Vaughan thinks he is being
watched, he will go to his cell door
and pretend that he is pulling some
thing off his hands and will throw
It down as II he had cleaned come
thing OFT. He will walk around the
cell and repeat this. .t@
At night he will turn his clothing
wrong-side-out and then put them
on that way the following morning.
He will pretend that he does not hear
anything that is said to him and IL
an effort Is made to get him to say
anything by force he will pretend to
cry.
Ills physician and mental condi-
ton Is fine." was the way DR.. Jen-
nings summed the whole thing up.
DR.. Jennings stated that Vaughan
and that he had examined Vaughan's
eyes and,they bore none of the recog-
nized marks OF lunacy. He stated
that there are certain signs to the
medical profession which indica,e in-
sanity and that these signs have pro-
ven to be Trustworthy. He stated that
Vaughan exhibited not q single, sign
OF being anything but the keen man
that he is. .44...
DR.. Jennings was accompanied BY
Ills brother, ,Dr. W. D. Jennings, Jr,,
| surgeon OF the police department; OF
Augusta. stated That he, had seen.
Vaughan and that. Vaughan was do
Ing nice piece, OF iaking and that
be. had, n,,;:coached",, by. o master,
hand in the advice which "iIuff"- had
given him. ,.,.l.4ss s}i.s.r Z
The failure, of DIR. Jennings to- sign
the certificate Of Lunacy4 was not
accepted by the attorney generals
office and that office will demand that
r jury sit upon the case, ito decide.
whether or not Vaughan is crazy. D 4. :
The Drs. Jennings were In! the city
lsevcral hours yesterday on business
of private nature and left in the
afternoon for Spartanburg.
When told that the statement re-
gardIng Vaughan would be written
up DIR. II. r. Jennings stated that 1t
was all right. that those were his
sentiments; but he ASKED that the
story not be written in n sensational
vein A j.