The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-05-22
REPORT VAUCHAN'S
MENTAL CONDITION
HOSPITALS MEDICAL DIRECTOR
WRITES TO GOVERNOR.
Judgment Is Defective
Chief Executive to Refer Case to So
icitor Martin So That
Court May Act.

Columbia, May 17.-Tnat L. =.
Vaughan, former superintendent OF
the Odd Fellows Orphan Home, at
Greenville, S. c., who was confined
at the State Hospital for the Insane,
March %, 1916, for observation, ap-
parently iss suffering from dementia
praecox is the opinion of Dr~J. F.
Munnerlyn, medical director of the
hospital, in written report to Gov
ernor Cooper on Vaughan's mental
) condition, which was made public by
the governor tonight. While there
has been some Improvement since
Vaughan was placed in the asylum,
said the report, yet he now is sub
iect to hallucinations which are man
>ifested in, his continual announce
ment that he hears spirit voices talk
ing to him. He also shows defective
Judgment and has absolutely no in
sight into his condition, continued
the report. Governor Cooper stated
tonight that he intends to send all the
papers in the case to J. Henry Mar
tin, of Greenville, solicitor of the
Thirteenth judicial circuit, so that
the court may take action in the case
II It desires.
That Governor Cooper cannot
transfer T. U. Vaughan, former su-
perintendent of the Odd Fellows Or
phan Home at Greenville, from the
State Hospital of the Insane to the
State penitentiary should Vaughan be
declared sane developed here today
upon examination of the court records
on which he was committed to the
asylum.
Last Wednesday the grand lodge
of Odd Fellows, meeting here, adopt
ed resolutions calling upon the gov
ernor to have the mental. condition
OF Vaughan investigated, and, if he
proved to be sane, see that the man
date of the court is carried out: This
petition was fled with Governor
Cooper Friday afternoon:
Vaughan was convicted in the
Greenville county court in 1912 OF
having been guilty of statutory Grim
inal assault on the person Of one OF
the young girl inmates, while he was
superintendent of the orphanage: He
pleaded guilty He was sentenced to
be electrocuted and remanded to the
State penitentiary to await the exc
cution Of his sentence. Following the
refusal of the State supreme court
and that of the United States to in
terfere in the verdict, he was ordered
to be brought to Greenville to be re-
sentenced by Judge George E. Prince.
under, date of August 30, 1918.
When he was produced for re-sen-
tence, Vaughan's attorneys made a
motion that the alleged insanity OF
Vaughan be inquired into by the
court. Upon motion of Solicitor
Proctor A. Bonham, with the consent
of the defendants attorneys, he was
transferred from the penitentiary to
the asylum for observation.
The following is the order remand
ing Vaughan for resentence:
estate of South Carolina, County OF
Greenville- Court of General Ses-
sions. The State VS.. T. U. Vaughan,
Defendant.
"It appearing unto the court that
the Judgment of this court in the
above entitled matter has been af-
frmed by the supreme court of South
Carolina. and the supreme court Of
the United States, and the day set
for the execution having passed, and
Il appearing that the defendant is
confined in the State penitentiary at
Columbia for safe keeping;
'.Now, Therefore, it is ordered:
That the defendant, T. q. Vaughan,
be removed from the State peniten-
tiary and brought into this court at
Greenville, S. c., by the sheriff Of
Greenville county, there to receive
the Judgment and sentence of the
law.
(Signed.) GEO. E. PRINCE,
"Presiding Judge"
august 80, 1915"
The following is the order COM
mitting Vaughan to the State Hos
pital for the Insane:
estate of South Carolina, County of
.. Greenville-Court of General Ses-
sions. The State VS.. T. q. Vaughan,
Defendant. Order:
''The judgment of this court in the
above entitled matter having been
confirmed by the supreme court OF
South Carolina, and writ of error