Weekly journal-miner., 1921-05-25
.lLENISTS DISPUTE SANITY MRS. HOPKINS
(From Thursdays Daily) Anna Irene Hopkins is sane.

which the defendant in the acid throwing case was declared to have entertained, were merely the logical conclusions of normal woman, ever-ready to safeguard her family and to keep a strict watch upon the honor and conduct Of her husband.
 If there were false ideas concern ing the desire of clique of Jerome people to injure her and her family, these ideas had some foundation in fact, and were not the whole-cloth manufactures of a disordcred brain.
 Those were high spots in the case made out yesterday afternoon by the prosecution, seeking to impose the penalty of the law upon Mrs. Hop kins for the assault by throwing acid, which she perpetrated upon the person of Lucille Gallagher last March. They were brought out by means of cross-exanination and by the testimony of Win Wylie of Phoe- nix, declared to be student of med ical jurisprudence.
 Tense lines were drawn about the discussion by several medical men of the case of Mrs. Hopkins at yes terday's trial, and this portion of the case was most interesting to the again crowded court room, but the sensation to the majority of listen CTS came when the state introduced correspondence between Robert E. Tally, assistant general manager of the United Verde Copper company and Mir. Hopkins relative to the po- litical aspirations in 1920 of the de- lfendant. The position of the chief of the copper company and ring Header of the clique which the de- fense contended existed only in the mind of the accused, was set forth in the one letter which Special Prose cutor McMurchie read:
 It purported to reveal the opposi- ton of Tally to Mrs. Hopkins can didacy for a position on the school board, his desire that she withdraw so as not to take votes away from MT. Moore and thus permit MT. | Wyckoff, whom Tally seemed to oppose, to benefit possibly to the extent of securing the position. Quickly following the introduction of this letter, the defense recalled Hopkins and the husband of the ac- cused denied that he regarded the letter as expressing opposition to Mrs. Hopkins. He said Tally had talked the matter over with him at Jerome prior to the witness depar- ture for Gallup where he had re- ceived the letter At that time, Tal- ly's attitude was that if Mrs. Hop kins was going to leave Jerome, as she had declared her intention of doing, she should withdraw from the race for the trusteeship so as not to muddy the waters. It was apparent, of course, that Tally desired the cleo ton of Moore, according to Hop kins' testimony, but that he had not sought the defeat or withdrawal of l Mrs. Hopkins for any reason of an- tagonism.
 McMurchie introduced the letter, he told Judge Jenckes during short argument over its admissibility, in order to prove that Mrs. Hopkins did not necessarily entertain pure delusion regarding Tally's antagonis- tic attitude, that her feeling she was being opposed did not arise from a weakened mental state but was founded on fact that would impress sane or normal person. It was this declaration that drew fire from the defense in the recalling of Hop kins.
 Medical experts, qualified to pass opinions on matters of mental dis ability wtre found diametrically op- posed when the state at the very last of its case placed Dr. Wylie ot Phoenix on the stand. His unquali- 1 fled and so far as crosS-examination was concerned, unchallenged state ment was that Mrs. Hopkins was entirely free from mental disorder on the date of her alleged assault on Miss Gallagher. After having brought out the qualifications of the witness, MT. McMurchie commenced a piece meal recitation of allegations of the defense touching upon irregularities in the mental disposition of the ac- cused Sketching each of a half score of instances which the defense had introduced to support the con- tention of insanity, the prosecutor asked if they constituted evidence Of mental imbalance. To each question, Dr. Wylie replied in the negative. He occasionally qualified his statement by putting it in an affirmative form such as: 5"Merely jealousy; the evil dence of a normal mind"
 All these instances were connected with the subject of alleged resent ment of Mrs. Hopkins toward her husband and other women. The prosecution then changed the sub feet and asked if MT. Hopkins as- sertion that he found his wife chron- ically unable to tell the truth was an evidence of insanity. To this, the witness replied: Lack of moral edu- cation.
 CT did mt hear a single instance