Evening star., 1936-12-09
IMPULSE SLAYER
SANITY TEST
Michigan Judge Names
Board in Case of Girl
Who Shot Friend.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
EAST LANSING, Mich, December
s.-Judge Leland W. Carr Of Ingram
Circuit Court appointed q sanity COM
mission today to examine 25-year-old
Hope Morgan, East Lansing society
girl charged with first degree murder
in the impulse to kill Staying OF her
former college chum.
The girl stood mute at her arraign-
ment on a warrant charging she fired
five shots at Miss Elizabeth Giltner,
25-year-old bride-elect and daughter
of Michigan State College dean, as
they addressed wedding invitations in
the Giltner home yesterday.
Judge Carr directed plea of not
guilty. and appointed the sanity board.
Blamed Upon Impulse.
Lieut., Harold Mulbar, State police
detective who signed the murder war
rant, said Miss Morgan told him, Il
did 1t on impulse and can't explain
: why, but couldn't help myself. I
felt like killing some one"
Miss Giltner was to have been mar
ried Saturday to Capt. David S. Bab-
cock, instructor in the colleges Reserve
Oficers' Training Corps unit.
= A member of the Giltner family said
today the wedding would have left
Miss Morgan as the last unmarried
member of her social set, and said,
"She may have felt intensely alone"
- To DR.. Lemoyne M. Snyder, State
police medical adviser. Miss Morgan
told of having "a lust to kill since Oc-
tober of last year." and added that
sometimes she would carry her fathers
gun "all day, feeling sure I would
commit murder before I returned
home"
Whirlwind Courtship.
Miss Giltner was the daughter OF
DR.. Ward S. Giltner, dean of the
veterinary science department at Mich
igan State College. She met Capt.
cBabcock when he was assigned to the
college R. o. T. c. last September
and a whirlwind courtship followed.
Dean Giltner disclosed today that
Miss Morgan, a brilliant student at
the college until she quit to become a
social worker became i'll a week ago
from an overdose of se6ative.
- Mrs. Mabel A. Giltner, the dead
girls mother, said the two young wom-
en- we're addressing her daughters
wedding invitations when she went to
visit a neighbor. Her 12-year-old son,
David, returned from school about
two hours later and found his sisters
body crumpled on the floor.
Dean and Mrs. Giltner said their
daughter and Miss Morgan had been
childhood playmates and remained
close friends throughout high school
and college.
= The shooting occurred only a few
hours before Miss Morgan and another
friend, Mrs. Don H. Berles, were to
have been hostesses at a bridal shower
for the professors daughter.
Search for Miss Morgan.
City, State and college police, as
well as Mason County authorities, be-
gan a search for Miss Morgan after
learning she was the last person seen
with Miss Giltner before her death.
Found at the home of q friend, Miss
Morgan was taken to the State police
post for questioning and. Lieut.. Null
bar said, confessed readily. He said
she told him she had felt "a lust to
kill" for more than year.
The State police medical adviser,
DR.. Lemoine Snyder, interviewed Miss
ceiI chat cha hi
remorse and was definitely insane"
Prosecutor Dan Mccullough ordered
her transferred to the Jail at Mason,
the county seat. He said he will pre-
pare a murder charge against her and
request appointment Of sanity COM
mission at her arraignment, probably
today.
DR.. Snyder said Miss Morgan told
him 1--WE had the lust to kill since
October Of last year"
Mystery to Herself.
II couldn't understand myself" the
young woman's statement to the
doctor continued. I'D find myself
looking at some Of my friends, con-
scious Of a desire to kill them.
"Often went home and got my
fathers gun. Sometimes would
carry it around all day, feeling sure
I would commit murder before I re-
turned home. Something always hap
pened to prevent it-until today.
II had the gun when I went to
Bessie's house, but I seemed to feel
all right after I had been there a
while. Then suddenly looked up and
stared at Bessie. I don't know why.
Then that feeling came over me.
MY coat was hanging over the
back of my chair. I reached down
and pulled out the gun, stuck it right
up against Bessie and started shooting.
: Everything seems kind of hazy
now, but remember that I tried to
shoot myself. The gun wouldn't work.
II watched Bessie stand up, she
sort Of gasped. Then she fell.
II put my coat on and got into my
car and drove home. I put the gun
away and got in my car. I drove to
Kalamazoo, to Battle Creek and to
Portland. From Portland I called q
friend Of mine. He met me there,
and we came back to East Lansing"
Lieut.. Mulbar said Miss Morgan
told him that Miss Giltner, alone of
her friends, had offered to accom-
ipany her to Ann Arbor for q mental
after her wedding.
Friends Of the young woman said
she seemed to change after q series
of tragedies q few years ago. A
younger brother, Stuart, jr, died Of
q broken back after a fall from a
window. A year later her mother
died.
Dr. Snyder said that when he asked
her o routine test question last night:
what would you like to do now?" the
young woman answered:
II don't know, unless it would be
10 shoot you."
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