The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-05

by melancholia, depression, and q
complete mental breakdown.
PhychiatristS have interpreted this
as being a form of depressed in
sanity which would make her only
partly responsible for her acts,
Ha2elton said.
Mrs. Margaret G. Gray, mother Of
Judd Gray, and Mrs. Margaret
Logan, sister of Gray, were late
comers, but seats we're found for
them in the rear of the chamber.
Gray's Case Cited
Il could not comment as forcibly
on this case at the trial as I can
now, were it not for the fact that
certain incidents have happened in
connection with the co-defendant,
Henry Judd Gray" Hazelton con-
tinued, "but I am going to ask you
into what kind Of class you are
going to place this woman.
She is not gunman: she is
not crook. She is not of the
criminal class. I am going to ask
you to confer with one who can
tell you where she belongs" He
then mentioned George v. Nc
Laughlin, New York City police
commissioner at the time of the
murder and one of the first to oues-
ton Mrs. Snyder.
Reverting to developments in the
case of Gray since conviction, Ha-
zelton said there had been an ex-
animation of him by four alienists,
two for the State and two for the
defense.
And they reported they found
him not insane" the attorney went
on. II ask you to note the equivo-
cal language. They did not say
they found him sane, but rather
that he was not insane"
Judgment Was Compromise
He quoted from the report of a
person whose identity he did not
reveal as saying:
81 have it on the highest author
ity that this verdict did not rep
resent their real medical judgment,
but was a compromise.
Or Cusak, one of the examining
physicians, told me that although
Gray legally and pSychiatrically was
sane, he was in such doubt as to
his absolute sponSibility that he
went to his church and prayed on
his knees to his God for two hours
to guide him in signing this report.
''Dr. Jewett, States aIenist, told
me personally that to fully de-
termine Gray'S pSychosiS, it would
be necessary to examine Mrs.
Snyder to determine their influence
on each other, but that he did not
have the opportunity.
Mrs. Snyder is a pathological
case, have been advised by my
alieniSt."
Capital Punishment
In closing his argument, Hazel.
ton said that capital punishment is
on the wane in this State, saying
that this case itself has been di-
rectly responsible for creating new
adverse sentiment.
Dana Wallace, associate of Hazel
ton, then took up the plea, stress
ing the fact that most of the pros
pective jurors for the trial admitted
that they had an opinion. And
only after they had told Justice
Scudder, who presided, that they
could lay aside that opinion and
judge the case solely on the merits,
was it possible to obtain a jury.
1--WE all know what that opinion
was, I think. But how shall we
know that they laid it aside when
they went into the jury room? he
asked.
Half dozen members of the State
crime commission attended the
hearing.
OSSINING, N. Y, Jan. 5.-Mrs.
Ruth Snyder, having made will
disposing of her property and the
$4,000 insurance on the husband
she murdered, awaited her fate in
the death cell at Sing Sing today.
The will was made and Witnessed
yesterday by Joseph Lonardo and
Frank Brambara of her counsel. Her
mother, Mrs. Josephine Brown, who
also visited her, was provided for,
but most OF the property went to
her 9-year-qld daughter. Lorraine.