Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-01
M'CORM|CK'S TRY
AT DEATH RELATED
MuItimiIIionaire Attempted to
Walk in Front of Train,
Says Witness.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SANTA BARBARA, Calf, November
S0.-An attempt of Stanley Mccormick
incompetent multimillionaire, to rush
in front of an oncoming freight train
while out on walk two years ago, was
described in Superior Court today in
the hearing of petition for the dis
continuance of McCormick's present
medical care and guardianship.
Kenneth McKillip, 196-pound Scotch
man who for 26 years has been chief
attendant to the patient, testified that
Mccormick was caught and held when
the freight locomotive was but few
feet from him. The witness related the
patient apparently was following dog,
with which he had made friends, but
that at the time there had been ques-
ton in his own mind as to the insane
mans intention when he rushed on the
track.
Court Is Adjourned.
At the end of the two-hour morning
session, Superior Judge William Deny
adjourned court until Thursday. Mex:
week he will sit in civil cases in his
own court in Inyo County.
The incident came out while Nc
Killip was under redirect examination
by oscar LAWYER chief counsel for
Harold F. Mccormick and Mrs. Anita
Mccormick Blaine, brother and sister
of the patient Ending Of their control
az the mans medical care and their
removal as guardians is being sought
by Mrs. Katherine Mccormick, STAN
ley's wife.
McKillip explained Stanleys habit,
while playing croquet, Of standing over
a fellow PLAYER with a mallet to insist
the game be played as he wanted IT,
Musical Enthusiast.
The witness then went into a de-
acription of grill work and mower
bank between the patient and orches-
tras called to entertain him. He said
that now the patient enters the room
where the orchestra is and talks TO the
leader on musical subjects.
Non-medical testimony that the men
tai condition of Mccormick showed
marked Improvement last June as COM
pared with 1918 was Nven by Robert
Hunter. former Chicagoan. who identi-
fed himself as former friend OF NC
Cormick.
Hunter said he and Mccormick we're
close friends from 1897 until 1904, when
their interests carried them apart. Nc
Cormick was declared incompetent in
1906 and his welfare entrusted to his
relatives.
Visit Is Described.
The witness came to California in
1918 to lecture at the State University,
and said he went at once to Santa
Barbara. He was not allowed to see
Mccormick at first because his physi-
clan was absent. but said Stanley saw
him at a window and exclaimed, "Oh.
Robert, don't go. I want to see you"
When he returned the following day.
however. Mccormick did not speak and
Hunter said there was no doubt of his
mind being unbalanced.
ct went away feeling that Stanley
was very, very much mentally de-
ranged" he explained.
Their second meeting, last June,
lasted more than an hour, Hunter said,
during which Stanley talked intelli-
gently and at times joked over cid
memories of their youthful days IN Chi
cago. when they were studying social
problems and Hunter was living at Hull
House. famous social settlement.
The meeting was remarkable for the
difference that had come over Stanley"
said Hunter. 81 had the feeling that
there was no mental arrangement what
ever"
Stanley is son of the late Cyrus H.
Mccormick, harvester magnats.