Evening star., 1933-02-19
TRIAL Of zANGARA
OPENS TOMORROW
Sanity Commission Pro-
nounces Assassin a "Psy-
copathic Personality"
By the Associated Press.


MIAMI, Fla, February 18.-Giuseppe
Zangara, the man who tried to kill
President-elect Roosevelt, is a psyche
pathic personality one of those
whose pet schemes and morbid emo
tions run in conflict with the estab-
lished order of society" sanity COM
mission reported tonight.
The report, issued while two of the
persons Zangara wounded were still in
critical condition, did not state def
nitely whether he was sane, and de-
fense attorneys declined to confirm re-
ports that he would plead insanity.
The assaSsin'S trial was set today for
Monday and prosecutors said they be-
1ieved he would either plead guilty or
mot guilty by reasons of insanity to
charges Of attempting to kill the Presi-
dent-elect and wounding three persons.
zangara previously had told County
Solicitor Charles A. Moorehead:
I'm Not Crazy"
I'm not crazy There was no need
of that doctor asking me all those ques-
tions"
The doctor-Dan Hardie, jr-ex-
sane. So did DR.. E. c. Thomas, county
physician, the first to examine the as
sassin. But the examinations were in
dependent of the sanity commissions
inquiry. Its report, signed by I. H.
AgoS and T. Earl Moore, Miami pSychi-
artists, was as follows:
1.-The examination of this individual
reveals a perverse character wilfully
wrong, remorseless and expressing con-
tempt for the opinions of others. While
his intelligence is not necessarily in
ferior, his distorted judgment and tenn
perment is incapable of adjustment to
the average social standards.
He is inherently suspicious and anti
social Such i'll balanced erratic types
are classified as psychopathic per-
sonality. From this class are recruited
the criminals and cranks' whose pet
schemes and morbid emotions run in
conflict with the established order of
society"
DR.. Agos, commenting on the report,
said "the question of applying the term
sane or insane to such misfts is
purely a matter of legal Interpretation
or expediency, which the courts are
privileged to decide.
such types as zangara are an old
social problem" he said. 1T is mat
society, to be managed as best our
iegal and social systems permit"
Cermak Improving.
Physicians attending Mayor Anton
Cermak of Chicago, shot during the
attempt on Roosevelt's life, issued a
bulletin late tonight which said:
Mayor Cermak is steadily lmprov-
ing. The possibility of complications
appears remote. His general condition
is satisfactory
Mrs. Joe H. Gill of Miami, who was
wounded at the same time, was said TO
be holding her own.
From Los Angeles came report that
Zangara went to that city in 1881 to
reorganize an extreme anarchist group
known as L'Era Nuova. Zangara has
insisted here he is not an anarchist, but
lust a sick man with pains in his stom-
ech who thinks he would kill all Presi-
dents and Kings.
Plot Against Hoover Hinted.
Capt. William Hynes of the Los An
geles intelligence unit said that back
of the reorganization plan Of the rad
ical unit apparently lay a plot to assas-
sinate President Hoover II he went TO
the Olympic Games.
The police investigator said Zangara
Is believed to have left the contemplated
assassination to others and left Los
Angeles in a huff when he lost his
temper and threatened to shoot the
Rev. r. B. Griffith while the evangelist
was preaching.
The evangelist had asked his listen
ers not to blame President Hoover with
the depression.
Down with Hoover" Zangara shout
ed, the evangelist reported. An argu-
ment ensued and Zangara-so says the
minister-reached toward his hip pocket,
but fed when bystanders started toward
him
The evangelist identified zangara by
photographs.
The L'Era Nuova group was broken
up in 1922 by Federal agents, Capt.
Haynes said.
:. At jacksonville, DR.. Ralph N. Greene,
former chief OF the medical staff of
the State Hospital for the Insane, ex-
planned F7oridas laws concerning in
sanity, in relation to its possible use
as a defense for Zangara.
The theory of an insane, irresistible
impulse cannot rest in Florida courts,
the physician said "The theory Of an
Insane, irresistible impulse may be Of
6ered as a defense in the Federal courts.
Under the Florida law. insanity is
not of itself an excuse for crime. In
order for the defense Of insanity to
successfully rest in criminal matters in
Florida, one must demonstrate the
burden of proof resting upon the de-
fendant, that insanity exists to such
degree that the accused is incapable Of
differentiating between right and wrong,
that his conduct was motivated by his
delusions, that he was incapable of a
proper understanding of the difference
between right and wrong. and that he
could not, because of insanity, have
properly understood the nature and
quality of his act, nor have had a
realization of the probable punishment
therefore"
PUBLIC FEAR SUBSIDING.