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tioi:tioiismaminearly all of the brave young nieh j who marched to the field in defense i To of their country, were fearfully in- j sane. You could scarcely find a young man who had not the pictures of a fond mother, and loved sisters, and who was as much at- J pa tached to Jtin home and sisters as j pro Daugherty was to hIs. But were any of them declared insane on that account? For a man who loved his sisters so devotedly as Daugherty is represented to have done, I think he took it very coolly when his mother told him, at lnditnapolis, that Van Horn had been slandering iiis sister. lie did not even show interest enough iirthe statement to ask the nature o£ tfie slander until the next day. He don’t seem to have been wrought up to a very high pitch of fury on first hearing that iiis sister had been slandered. And the only changes from his apparent unconcern about the statement are those spoken ofjust an hour before lie committed j tinthe murderous act, when his moth- kn/er told him the nature of the slan-, (;1‘ der. Then lie changed color, Ac.. and showed the common signs of anger. But lias it come to pass! that every person wiio gets mad is I wi to be adjudged insane? As soon . to as his mother told him the nature l' of the slander, Daugherty straight- \ l9way left the house, walked quietly up to the Sherman House, found Van Ilorn and shot him dead.Now, in every step and act, Daugherty acted the part of a perfectly sane man. There was a perfect adaptation of means to ends. The whole thing was done in a quiet, business-like way. His sister had been slandered; his anger was aroused, and lie resolved on terrible1 ^redress. Taylor, in his jurispru-i j deuce, says that “ violence of tetn- i t\ per must not be taken as a proof of H insanity;'’ and that l,tlie great fca-is :Hist.\utogfro:sprtheon]litis iawewilI’n\v;iCOl;i IOCIwewereianwisfnBa ip:iSidieidilure of insanity is change of character.” Was Daugherty’s character at all changed ?•Slik
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Lebanon Boone County Pioneer
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 09, 1870
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Connie D.
WA, USA 05 Aug 2017
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