The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-03
STATE ALIENIST
 IN B0NJON CASE
Dr. Mailhouse Believes He Was Not Insane When
 He Shot Walker.

Louis Bonjon at the time he shot Daniel E. Walker Sept. : last was not in his right mind and was not responsible, according to the opinion Of Dr. Max Mailhouse, aIienist for the state, In response to a hypoth- eticaI propounded to him by State Attorney Cummings, but is not in sane. In the opinion of pr. Mat house, Bonjon was suffering at the time from acute acoholism, drunk enness, caused by alcohol taken sl ortly before the commission of the crime.
 The hypothetical question of the state differed slightly from the one prcpounded to Dr. A. R. Diefendorf of the defense, but took about the same time to read. Dr. Mailhouse said that from observation he would say Bonjon is not insane, and is not a pathological drunkard, but that his condition is due to use of alcohol, and the so-called spells from which he suffered were caused by a larger quantity than he was used to taking at enc time.
 Dr. Mailhouse expressed the opin ion that had Bonjon not been drink iEg on the evening of the tragedy he would not have shot Walker and that he was drunk to such a degree that he was hallucinated, imagined he heard and saw things other than as they were, and that he lost com plete knowledge of what was trans piring.
 Tn the opinion of the witness it was a case of acute alcoholism, lrunken- ness caused by liquor taken before the crime.
 i Questioned as to Bonjon's expres- i sion of belief in telepathy Dr. Mall house said he would not consider that | evidence of insanity IS many persons considered sane hold a similar belief If there were attempt to carry out some of the beliefs, or to act upon 1 them. As to his vision of seeing l Walkers funeral the doctor said it i probably came from some incident re- lated to him, and he said Bonjon's re- | ligious fervor is not unusual in men of his age, and especially with men who are confined. He did not con- slider either of these events as testi- fled to as showing insanity. 1 Dr. Mailhouse was subjected to cross-examination by Judge W. H. | Comley for the defense.
 Dr. Max Mailhouse, of New Haven l alienist for the state, declared or | the witness stand yesterday afternoon l that in his opinion Louis E. Bonjon | was sane at the time he shot and | killed Daniel F. Walker, Sept [
 and that he believed the actions o1
 the accused were caused by alcohol
 ism. He had examined Bonjon, witt
 Dr. John c. Lynch and Dr. c. c. God ] frey, and they all agreed Bonjon i: 1 not insane. s | Several employees of the Remington
 shops where Bonjon was employed
 before the shooting said they saw
 him several times a day, and did no
 suspect he was insane, or that hi! l conduct was unusual.
 Dr. A. R. Diefendorf, who testified
 for the defense, was cross examine
 at some length by Attorney Cum
 mings. He said he had not seen any
 violence on the part of Bonjon sine,
 the shooting last September, but tha
 at different occasions the accused had been very irritable. He saiC
 even if Bonjon had not been drink
 ing the day of the shooting he migh
 have shot Walker.
 Examination of pr. Mailhouse hal
 not been concluded when court ad
 journed.