Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-11-28

he said, that $1,000 was put up to =
be split with outside parties to get
him implicated.
The defendant also testified to his
belief that the conspiracy included
involving him in the theft of
watch and also in bootlegging OPP
erations.
Other witnesses who testified re-<
lative to the peculiar antics and con-
versation of the defendant up to and
prior to the murder were the fol-
lowing; Carl A. Carlson, John
Gaines. ]. D. WhHson and w. e.
Minkler.
Memorandum we're made by the
defendant relative to the many con-.
versations which he had heard ands
movement which he interpreted as
tending to prove his undoing.
Expert advice, relative to mem
tai disease, was next given by DR.. j.
H. Cromwell, of Gooding. DR.. Crom-
well after qualifying as an expert
witness stated that he had known
the defendant while he was a resi-
dent of Gooding. The doctor was !.
asked for a definition of insanityv
which he characterized as ''home
made" He stated that insanity was
a disalter of the mind, characterized
by hallucinations, Illusions and de-
lusions The evidence showed that
on March 31st and prior to Taylor
had a fixed idea that he was being
prosecuted, watched and plottNsns
against by conspirators and enemies
and that idea could not be changed.
The physician said that if delusions
were fixed and permanent and on one
subject only, and construed against
the patient so that he acts and talks
and reasons on them, his mental con- !.
dition would be one of systemiZed
delusions If this condition existed
in the mind of Taylor several months q
prior to March 31st his condition
would be chronic. If the defendant
labored under the. decisions that a
gang of conspirators were seeking
to injure or destroy him and these
delusions were fixed and permanent
in his mind and he talked and COM
planned of them over a considerable
period of time he has a form of in
sanity known as paranoia, or some !.
times called mono-mania. A person =
inflicted with this disease can be
perfectly sane and rational on all :
subjects aside from the delusion. In
The first stages as long as the mind
is kept off the delusion the patient
may have a very active brain. The
)ersecutory type of paranoia, is
where the person has decisions that
every one is against him and is con-
Sidered as one of the most dangerous I
.ypes Of insanity to deal with, for
he reason that he is sane on all
,ther subjects makes him dangerous,
because he is not suspected. The
patient suffering from paranoia can
lot reason on the subject of his de-
usions or distinguish between right
md wrong. Paranoics reach a stage !.
when acts of violence are justifable
tets on their part, they figure they
ire doing humanity a good deed and
,ecome heroes in their own mind.
they could exhibit fair and good
memories of matters not connected
With their illusions in the early
tages of the disease. The doctor
aid that if a person hears a watch
licking in their office where none ex-
SITS, conversations that did not hap a
ZEN, his mail being opened, which is
lot true, people looking through
windows of his house and office,
when they were not there, a ten
thousand dollars reward to "get him"
air or foul, by prominent citizens of
God repute who were plotting ~
gainst him, which was not the case,
teps taken to disbar him, which was
OF true, expelled from a fraternal,
rder, which was not true, stolen
roperty planted by imaginary peo-
lie, search warrant issued against
i'm, that person, in his opinion is
isane, having a form of insanity as
possessing decisions of per-
ecution. In this witnesses opinion
lat on the day of the shooting Tay-
'r could not distinguish between
ght and wrong and was not re-
oonsible for the killing of Daniel
-cLaughlin. Other expert witnesses
no agreed with this physician were
r. o. p. Hamilton, DR.. T. E. Evans
nd DR.. Hoover, of the State Institu-
on at Blackfoot
Witnesses called by the state in
,buttal were: Oscar Pearson, Vic
II Rowett, H. H. Eaton, and Henry
title, after which the state rested.
The jury was excused for a few
oments, while the defense attor-
sys presented a motion providing
lat the judge instruct the jury to
ing in a verdict of acquittal on
e grounds of insanity, this how
er, was denied by the Presiding
ldge.
TIL eopening argument for the .
ate was handled by Attorney F. G.
hite and District Attorney Beck
it'll made the closing argument. At
rney James made the argument
r the defense and the case went to
e jury at nine thirty on Tuesday