The Washington times., 1919-04-03
COuIdn't Meet sYsar Test.


Although Ralph easily passed the
test for the three-year-old mentality,
he was unable to meet the require
ments for an eight-year-old child
When asked to describe the difference
between wood and glass. his only
answer was that wood was wood and
glass was glass. The other answers
showed q similar lack Of perception.
Ask to give the days of the week.
ne gave them backward and left out
Sunday.
That the State intends to hght every
men OF the ground OF the insanity
oefense was evident the moment that
Dr. Charles G. Hill. Of Mont Hope Re-
treat was put on the witness E:And.
Dr. Hill Is a veteran Of many n dFdeF
trials, including the Thaw Watts,
lshida, and Webster cases.
states Attorney BouIc started In
To heckle the doctor about his fire.
quent appearance at murder trials
for the defense and tried 70 introduce
the question OF how fat q feet insan-
ity experts get
Aside from admitting that he is
paid for his attendance at the trial,
the court ruled that no mention OF
money could be introduced.
Attended Boys FOrebeaPH-
DR.. Hill made a most interesting
witness because OF the fact that as
head Of Mount Hope Retreat In Bal
timore he attended both the grand
mother and mother Of the defendant
during attacks OF insanity.
He told OF the boys grandmother
being sent to his institution suffer
ing from Oppressive mania. She died |
while an inmate OF the asylum. He |
told OF the boys mother being
brought there as a young woman, !
her attempt suicide by |
and how he had treated |
her for three months for acute mel |
ancholy. He gave also the opinion
that the prisoner was q defective /
from birth. that the murder was the /
result OF an acute outbreak OF in
sanity, and that he was not a fit
person to be at large.
Sessions Far Into Night.
The jury is one Of the most over
worked panels on record, the court |
sessions lasting from 10 o'clock inthe |
til o'clock at night in order |
10 expedite the trial. Because there |
Is only one hotel in the village OF /
Rockville, and because there is only /.
one dining room in that hotel the /
Jury goes into pseudo seclusion at
meal time behind a bed quilt OF dis
tinctIy cubist design, strung on a
clothes line across the dining room.
Turner ". Welch, the busiest man 81 /
The trial who has charge OF the jury, |
stands on guard. and peers wisel''
over the top OF the beduilt to max"
sure that the jury does not catch any
stray remark from the judges, alien
SITS. lawyers and witnesses, seated on
he other side OF the blanket.
Five verdicts are talkoble in the
Ease, the jury having a choice OF find
ing Bowling guilty of murder in the
first degree, or guilty in the second
degree, or guilty OF manslaughter. vi
fthey fnd him not guilty because of
insanity or simply not guilty. The
last mentioned verdict Is hardly ex-
pected even by the defense.
Presenting a puzzling problem.
positive enigma, to the doctors and
lawyers and spectators who have /
.hronged the courtroom since the |
rial began, the boy seems not to
are what Is done with him II he
,An only be allowed to get out OF the
From the quiet lad OF the irst day
II the trial. he had now developed
rto q reckless, hdgety. mumbling
'reature. who resembles nothing In
he world so much as a Gagged animal
He does not sit still for more than
wo minutes at q time, but IL con-
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