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YKACl'SB. N. YV. WEDNESDAY EVENING. APWL 2 1WAS BAUKKIt INSANE?(AtUlr#rtl£$1J*£Q£k'r IE THE COUTC* i-sjcusic-VAr.fedCtfITktt»•iuI*MiHM'tum *m*t Sir tkiml UthiMMDi* U'jj 4*1 Uittd—Xr*.iUrkvr’t ^iButiviiil Ww «f W*r litaiMMMi by il*r UuImiuI.AlmudvTOo CuUw^ctr «fIiittfttkl vtis eailtd Hi a wiUttasj by to* At Um Barker tmi ininUI-tur.4**1m1inlolt;rU*-w**;:iMi*4*6*’H*»*4'4 ** lt;■*laJlSCw1*41*4istie«34atar-n-Jr.1.ie,dr□i!*•l-»:5yer702LUIfcIt.ilt;5W.erXI™rll~■3’Mida*I©mJ-jrMl3-iehdei-HTflitdtfI-B-ridisdT■e31ietfU4 Court of Hnwfcif mi UhUj. Ikrkaf, U Mud, bd entUd upui uiia li Sekwl Com-uibiuuor And laqairwl vtwlbr Airs, B*r-kt*r bid *pplkd to him fur a asUrnchut. bring Atniweral iu tik affirmative U mmI tooth*didn’t «tui bur to gotA Utuitioii and bar rtdativa* Ink*care of bar. or lour cuouUM alter*ward bo called again, and was iidonoed Ibl MTiii£«m«flU bad b**m uuuld to giro Lk wild employment as a tuppiy tancbr. Barker prutokil, but gut no haiiilactioii 1 rum tbd Cumiuwuoucr. I i« call**! a third luue, and a as then tidd that Mr*. Barker’s jirupecU for getting a regular pusd-tiuy wcru good. Mr. Von Latidberg thought that Barker acted iu a rational maimer.“I«i he gire you any reason for not wanting bis wife to get a podium! asked Mr. Hyjt ou the mha-et-imimitiuu.“Hu gave mo oue rawm,” Mr. Vou Laudberg replie-i.“What was itP“Ud*iud that during-her4 confinement she hid a diamond ring that he had given her, and when she recovered the ring again made its nprearam*u on b^r finger. That waa bemuse she didn’t want him to have it. he sutd. She was a mean woman, he further said, and he meant to do ail be could to bother her.“And 3*ou thought him rational in that!”*ir uxiv sacalled by the prosecution. He had examined Barker, he said, and in his opinion the man was sane.“What sort of examination did you maker asked Air. Hoyt in cross-examining.“I asked him first where he got the horse and sleigh that he used on the day of the shooting. He said at first he got them in West street. I told him he was mistaken, Then, alter a little, be said tbat he got them at the comer of Jefferson and Clinton streets.”“Well, now right here. Doctor. I want to ask you whether loss of memory isn’t an indication and a very prominent indication of Insanity T*“Yes, of one form of insanity.55“Well, what further test did yon makef5“X asked him what begot the horse and sleigh for. He said to take his wife end baby out riding. I asked him if he did take them. He said he had. He bad left bis wife at Bassett school, he said, and had lost the baby.”Referring to his memoranda the Doctor said Barker told him that he thought be drove to James ville and fed his horse there. “He denied tbat he had gone to Cortlandville. Poropey, Tally or Otisco. I asked him if he had met anybody on the route, ana if so, what he haul said to them. He replied that he had met several Deo pie and that he inquired of them whether they had seen the baby* I hero told him that I was making the examination for the purpose of ascertaining his mental condition, and be then told mo that his mind had be^noll wrong*€or two or three mouths.”To a hypothetical question covering the evidence fa the case about Barkers conduct before the shooting, the Doctor answered tbat he saw nothing In the roan1* conduct to indicate irrationality.To the District Attorney the Doctor said that he discovered no signs of monomania in the prisoner.Chief of Police Wright took the witness stand after Doctor Benedict left ft He was asked by the District Attorney what conversations be bad with Barker at-Poiiee headquarters The defence objected, but tb© C-onrl ruled against them. Answering tbs question, the Chief said that the first conversation was in relation to Barker’s breakfast on the morning after the arrest. Another was In regard to school methods now and at the time when they were children. On a third occasion he asked the Chief to bay a pair of shoes for one of his children. After being arraigned and committed be inquired vary particularly about the regulations at the Penitentiary *nd the liberties allowed to jail prisoners. During his detention at Police headquarters he acted throughout in a rational manner, the Chief said.The revolver with which the shooting was done was here produced and identified.Edward C. Wright, president of tha Board of Education and School Commissioner of the Sixth ward, said that Barker came to him and, after learning that his wife bad applied for a position as teacher, said tbat she was not a fit person to be in a school. He accused her of not being a decent woman. He acted rationally, Mr, TVright thought.School Commission era Giles H_ S til well of the Tenth ward and John A, Tboleas of the Eighth ward and Superintendent of Schools Blodgett testified to similar effect and characterised Barkers conduct in thewme way.George S. Simp said that he met Barker In the Vanderbilt htmm the week before the shooting. After some general talk he asked him whether lucre were any prospects of his wife’s coming to live with him again, and he said; N’a, I wouldn’t live with ber again if she was an angel from heaven.” The witness character*red the conversation on Barker’s part as rational.H. C. Hammond met Barker in East Fayette street on the morning of the shooting. They had a talk on matters connect* ed with the sale of charts. Barter asked the witness to go across the street to a grocery and see if Mrs. Milne was there, Xiammond did so reluctantly, not knowing the woman, and when be came oat to report that she was not there be saw Barker some distance away with a horao and buggy. He went to him and told him Mix Milne was not In the store. Thera was some further talk and then Barker drove away. The witness thought he was rational In what he said and did.Jon 3L Carpenter, an insurance and raid estate agent, when called to the wit-nesfl stand made affirmation with uplifted band instead of taking the maxi mih vji the Bible. Mr. Carpenter had charge of the house In which the Mlines lived in East Fayette street When they were going to more In Barker came to him and asked him If be knew wbom HUne bad married. The witness replied in the negative, and Barter then made statements reflecting on Miss Milne. He acted in a rational way, Mr. Carpenter said.Mias Badw, one of the teachers at Bassett school, was recalled by the prcseca-tion at this stage. When be came to Use school he first said something about the shooting that she didn’t recollect Upon her telling him to leave he told her to ret out of the Way, that he didn’t care for her.“How do you characterise what be did acd atidr asked the District Attorney. ••Wa* it rational or irrationslf1 Rational, perfectly rational*Idkm Thomm* colored, who worked for the Miha said that he saw Barker ou the monOa* of the sfcootia* cosine eat of Be*monOag of the shooting coming eat of Be* seam* —loon aear Malberry street. Barter had ptwhnlf promised Ha a“Did you regard him as a practical, c onimuu sens* xuau F “I regarded him as a very mean and bpileful num.” nnW hat did he say at the last eo nversa-tionf”“He said ho understood Mrs. Barker had been given a permanent position in Bo3-seti school I told him no. that sho was there only as supply teacher. He then said tbat sf she did get a permanent position she would never enter the school,r Dr. A. C. Benedict was die next witnessrigar aikl l*c gave it to him lt;m thatUUL“■How do youcharactortm hia*.*/f intUwuiifIf A ***** ^*1*1 tbrtl tww»* au*d |*yi it 1 «y hr* tMaul,” rvphtd lbu ***** awn gvutr*! i*tA'btrr.John an «aplof** of St* briery whtre Rafter gut th* M'y? *url j tMgfc ou tii* uiOrmn£of |b*An **a i1 lla! he Aik**! for * bor» tb*t -uui i .bui without tatefcing. 11* WAUU-2 * hat the charge would hl-i 2 t-.bafcMt school a ad back, mu: withat u oouli lo llWhe mkii *: uiudi, au4 got itdcllar. Mr. CaUtius tban*t*r ** i b» said and did as rmiiutiaL lira. Kn* Vouk ithwM Mr? l-irk-rr in her wetowKtil cad tiept wilh r- r. Ah ulfrt*T*I1live day* alter the baby was Ha: icrtold ber to U»p in Auuthur r ih*t night. Koia* lisne af tor goia^ -v *-i tL* bwtl Barker scream Hftd t nVii. ing to bn* fotmd h©r in grsva*. 3 i-rUr*. Coon wautnri to sead \but Barker said It wAtn’twuoien who iivwl up «4i« dvwnairi alwo Euggustwd aeodk^ fsr * doctor, tmt liarkor again rr! u-.-t \*j Ut any tody go. On another »uofound Mns. Itorker vainly try.^ v, mm over in UJ, toiuf very weak ai« i fe-rM-t. Barker wbw iu ihu ruoui, and I* 3 :t.*zMr», Barker wasthe i fvJof a woman h© ever saw. Aauii a!urr ti. it; AStIt*j hi*Ur; f ai(WI ’J ; 8».i£bvi taij ou*jTh j Ti»he wnt away, and before *’-#? -r *ui•c-i tutthat there was' tiuuir and p -* ;» bouse and b© didn’t want aj.v irected during his mbteuce. Msv lt;thought that Barkis was ration:u •;*« *;ry-iningihe saw biia do or sity.Ai itift opening of the aftarn^.^ District Attorney Hancock 2sr:*i-. that he had iuteudfci to tnll Mr. Md: ho w-juI j now refrain from do: ::g * to Mr. Hoyifs concfcssiou tha; said against ilra. Nlilud was uu'.ri-.“i concede it,” said Mr. lioyi Jeuuie Dyke, who worked in ih- Barker family in IbSU, said she reu.-.-,utrr—i an occasion when Mk, Barker or ifr-.-1 «^«i-s groceries, nud Mr. Barker w«j:t out inio tite yard and told the grocery L-^y not u bring out thing frum. :Le ato At another tiiue Mr* Barker kjuzk-I :-j go out right after dinner. Mr. ilirk-r told her she couldn’t go unit*--: he ctid so. iiuc ktpL putting ou uer uini Mr.Barker gut it butcher knife eu.i toil her he’d use it if necessary. rr-fjueutiyf*Jtheliehvtutrm.Itit* 2 H ! thew.lFa;- 1“pretty near as often os he’d would say to ber tbat she cam* frers nothing but a damned Scotch-Irkh crowd.”Mrs. Barker was recaUel *f\ tbe evening before her child was bm ^i:e ;ok a ride with a lady friend, sb* .-aid, and when she got back t«r husband for a long time r*to let her in. j$b« traa ricibetween 3 and 5 o’clock in tlr moming. She tnniie her condition knows :• ii-rk-r. but he refused to do anything for h*^r. At S o’clock he relented and wen; ivr u doctor and a nurse.Mrs. Barker corroborat-^i Mrs. Cook's testimony this morning as to whet lt;c-curred four or five days after birth o£ the child. Sbe was seized with spasm, she 3aidt and endured great pam. When she asked Barker to go for a d«:or he Only cursed her and called her viia nameswMru osfc you here,* said Mr. Hancock* “whether you have ever be«n Improperly Intimate with any man?”“Never in sny life,” was the reply.Barker, speakiugcjf his second wife, used often to say, Mrs. Barker that hewished she was in hell, and that the Lord would keep her there, because she had left ^ her money to the children and notto him.' On sera*n! oc^ri«rLc. sh.t csti.Barker dragged her over the floor, put her out of the house, and, locking the door, told her to go away and stay away. One day after the separation he followed her all the way from the house where she was staying to Bassett, school, telling her she was “a disgrace to him and to humanity,” and that b* would more heaven and earth to get herjmntion taken from her.At 3:20 o’clock this afternoon the evidence was all in and ex-District Attorney Hoyt began to sum up for the defence., lt\ ami Tu. ! lire ■ in l»ui“Fd»wil1tt*tb«j^tiDotooc*^tncorCkN.Hi:tinjStAGu«evwit1Sytenoff:lt;5Coi.—JYesterday afternoon Mrs. Aima Fi?h of Albion, sisterof the prisoner, testified to insanity in the family. A relative of her father had died in an asylum at Kalamazoo, Mich. One of her own brothers* living in Jefferson county, had been crazy, but was now better, and a cousin had also suffered from insanity.Mrs. A man ilia Kenyon* another sister of the prisoner and the one wuh wbom he was living at. the time of the shooting, testified that Barker would go without food for days, that he would ait in the house for hours without speaking and that she frequently found him wandering around the yarn in bis night clothes.R. R Tousley. tbe lawyer, testified tbat Barker told him the reason iii wife left him was because her sister had premised her a trip to Europeif she woihd do so.M. F. Lolly, another lawyer, said that Barker had retained him to recu -vr a diamond ring that be had given to his wife as a wedding present. The ring had been bought at Bairs jewelry store for .sixty-five dollars, and there was thirty -fire dollars still due on it. Barker didn't want to pay the balance if his wife wasn't going to live with him. Mrs. Barker told Lsfiy she didn’t want the ring if it was noz paid for. She asked him to call again, and when he did she informed him that she had sold the ring several months before to a commercial traveller. LalJy :bought that Barker was not in his right mini.Clarence Barker, the prisoner* four-teen-year-old son, testified that he bad several times seen his father g: re hi* stepmother ten dollars, and ou o::e occasion twenty dollars, thus contrad]cling Mrs. Barkers testimony^The case for the defence wof closed here except that the right to call twu witnesses At another stage of the trial was reserved.The prosecution then began the introduction of expert testimony. Dr. Ib AL Totnuui, toe first witness, said that he examined Barker the day after the shooting and that he thought; him sane, in an -ewer to Mr. Hoyt’s hypothetical question based on toe evidence m tbe case m relation to Barkers doings and saying* after the separation from his wife, the Doctor said be would not Undertake to say whether tbe man wai sane or insane. To too District Attorney he expressed the opinion that Barker bad shammed insanity at the Ponce headquarter?.Dr. A. D. Head said that be examined Barker two days after tbe shooting and found no sign of insanity. Dr, K. C. Me-Lenneui testified to tbe san effect.Dr. Frederick W. Sean, Penitentiary Fhjsjfian,sftia that he hod nu ie no special examioadoQ and would not, from his knowledge of Barker’s condtticru, ska a certificate that be was *iuier sane or insane.Fpo= ?ri d;t: exi in i ClconJl*tictintheiu,parSulfctniiTh-©rl hi: be h$i ffUl-~~A}bygerthgforofSoctur of: pi U theOriirissbaralsbaall***uotmirpre«Strl n Eoia y WrHo:AdiIt~TtAdiSnrprUed HlA.IndionwoHs JrownfiLMrs. Tnckwlre-'^). there woa an awful time this afternoon in toe bou^e next door. They quarrelled until be put ber out of tbe bouse and tout tbe door in ber face.Mr. Fickwire—-You doa'nsayj I did not suppose tbe door la that vlt;n^*a face ever could be shut.”Positively HilfrHc*Forty-deveo Imported redbj and bitters bought at 50 cents on tbe dollar. A good time to get a *20.00 Jacket for $10.00, a $10.00 one for $5. Nothin? like them la town. See ibem at Wrifh'g Coil House, 118 and 120 Fast Geucace street.-Adc-Opening.Bee Snsneisttt’f spring cpmtrr? announcement on fifth page this issue.—AOxlAinrimenta to let. Fnessr Woek.—AdaPKRSONALA. C. Manriuy of Ifroolrfyn. brother of Mn. G. F. Comfort, M. R died ou Mondxy of pneatnonte, a sequel of tbe crip, alter an fllomofifev day*.James X Egan and Michael X Hogan left on Saturday for the Sast to attend ibe wed-dtmroftbetr ccwte. Mm B*la T. Bgan of Nawburgb. who has been A frequent visitor totWsdiy. fiorof tbatr absence they will Tltt Nif Iwk JcxacgCXriind Brooklyn,T50lt;eveSITCnot;TopcStTpooABkrrunMdot5UKWPOTTCOTAmtbeJlt;awla t bat refetl^oGof InuChitbeDixto*iXtheto 1 quti ceit offIOBsit*Cfctltbai«bHW
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Syracuse Evening Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Wed, Apr 22, 1891
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