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q j 1 have read with some care the A ! principal evidence in the Daughterly trial, as reported in the pa-j per?, together with the hypotheti-‘ i cal case put to the doctors, andI .I: their answers, and had I been an e 1 expert, I would have said then, as £ I say now, that I believe Daughertyrwas iusfc as sane when lie killedG ’ I il5 i‘Vsm Iiorn as he ever was in all his 111 is life.e ! There is not. in my humble opin-i #' ion, a shadow of evidence to the »• ; 'j contrarv ; and while I entertain theII - 'i highest respect lor those of my i professional brethren who thought : differently, I confess that it. is a ‘ matter of astonishment to me howi• ! and by what process of reasoning 1 thev managed to reach such an un-I V o! warrantable conclusion.is |lm !• The attorneys presented to the ; medical experts an hypothetical ; case, of which the following is anV .1 extract, the whole case being too• * . . ^| lengthy to copy in full:Suppose it be shown that the do-1- ! fendant had all his lifetime been a good boy, fondly attached to his home; that while in the army, he | often spoke with keenest scnsibilily of his regard for his sisters, keeping their pictures with him, and longing to see them; that he had come home, met his mother at Indianapolis, and there barely learned from her that his sister had been slandered by Van Horn; that nothing more was said about the nature ofi-iss.Sx-1le : the slander until the next day, Nov.P.e.0afnl-V,!d18, lbOD, about one o’clock p. in., when he asked his mother what Van Horn had said about his sister, k i and she told him he had said one of the girls had had a negro young one; that ho then changed color, becoming first pale then red in the face, his eyes protruding; Unit he left the house then, walked up town to £he Sherman House, found Van Horn, and told him he had been slandering his sister, and must retract or take the consequences; that when Van Horn said he had not slandered his sister and had nothing to take back, Daugherty reached for his pistol, and shot and killed Van Horn. “ What is your judgment as to his sanity at the time he did the act And to this question, based upon the above hypothesis, I blush to say that two of our respected physicians did deelaie they believed him iamne at the thne he did the act. i Just at that lime, not ten minutesV before nor ten after! Who ever before heard of so short-lived in* sunitv. Those doctors must haveV taken it u on the wing,” for it was j not settled long enough for any onew olse lo discover its presence.i Hut let us see what there is in the»lb i hypothesis. It represents Daugh-tee,njr: ?r I;hyey
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Lebanon Boone County Pioneer
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 09, 1870
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WA, USA 05 Aug 2017
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