Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-10
TIE ANDERSON FINALE; ID GO
 ID ASYLUM
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

l Bernice Wiley Anderson, nurse
 "war-bride," slayer of her admirer, Jack Wilson, subject of two trials for murder and numerous inquiries into her sanity, is a person mentally un- suited to be at large, dangerous to | herself and to others, in the opinion of a lunacy commission convened by Superior Judge John J. Sweeney yes terday. On the findings of the doc tors, Mrs Anderson will be commit ted to the care of mental disease specialists at the Arizona Hospital for the Insane at Phoenix
 Another chapter, not necessarily the sequel in a legal way. of the slay- ing of Jack Wilson on May 2, last, was written in the sensational history of the nurse yesterday, when she ap- peared before Drs. L. P. Kaull of Jerome, w.. \. Burdick of Prescott and Elton Charvau of Humboldt, in the judges chambers. Quite num- Der of witnesses appeared in the hear ing, which was held on a complaint of lunaCy, signed on December 5, by Mrs. Jack Leavel, of Walnut Grove, an aunt of the defendant. MT. and Mrs. C. c. Riebeling both testified that they believed Mrs. Anderson sane, and would, if i'll, employ her to nurse them. LeRoy Anderson, coun- sel for Mrs. Anderson ill her two murder trials, sworn both as a private citizen and as all officer of the court, testified that in his belief, Mrs. An dersoa was mentally irresponsible, and should be incarcerated. Mrs. Leavel expressed the belief that Der nice was unbalanced.
 The defendant appeared and was described as having been calm and collected, mentally alert, and, it was said, improved as to her mental con- dition by her stay in the woman's ward of the county jail. It was brought out (adding to the informa ton elicited at all previous proceed ings) that Mrs. Anderson was addict ed to alcoholic drink when obtainable and that she indulged in excessive cigarette smoking. In the jail, it was said she has been using tobacco con stantly These facts, added to her admitted attempts at self destruction together with records of insanity on the part of her mother, and the homi- cidal mania which she testified having experienced toward a reputed affinity of Wilson's were all considered by the commission in its findings that Mrs. Anderson IS a person of un- doubted mental imbalance, obsessed when aroused as she was Ill the Will son case by jealousy, with both homi- Cidal and suicidal mania.
 The most Comprehensible descrip- ton Of her condition was that of one of the medical men, who stated he believed she possessed an undercur- rent of responsibility, that, with proper emotional stimulus would come to the surface and manifest it. self in acts dangerous either to her self or to others, or to both.
 It is the purpose to have her sub jected to the scrutiny of experts al the hospital, who, after having had sufficient time to acQuaint themselves with her condition, can determine whether she is to be held or dis charged. It was said by one in touch with the legal phases of the case, that the present hearing has no legal con nection with previous proceedings The first trial was interrupted by hearing to determine the sanity al that time of the defendant. A jury found her sane, and owing to the fact that the defense was on the grounds of insanity at the time of the homi- eide, the trial jury disagreed A sec ond trial on the murder charge brought a verdict of acquittal on the grounds of insanity on May ,. The hearing yesterday was to discover whether or not the subject was sane at this time.