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M0E.15 INSANITY.The Da«2hcrty-Tan r*om MnrdnrThe young man, Lieutenant Daugherty, of Kew-port Barracks, who shot Vuu Horn. the slanderer of Ills yioter, at KoKomo, IihJ_7 last, wmterT la now on. trial at Tipton, Iult;l, From tins lesLinieny taken on { the third day of the trial we extract the following, it win be seen from the testimony of Dr, WwiJen that an attempt will he made to ahow that Dungli-erty was labonug under temporary Insanity at ibe lime of me commission of the murder:—Tins friends and associates or Lieutenant Dangli-ercy m the army testified to his good cbaraclor. and that he was a brave oittcer smil good Do ills soldiers.The evidence of Mr, Dnugneriy, Hie lathee of the defendant, and the mother, Mrs. Daugherty, as also of .Mi^a i*nuik Daugherty, Uls sister; Bridget, a lured girl, ami Mr. Aaroa Lindsay. may lie Hummcii up in the IoHowidk brief way:—Die u ten a at Daugherty. uu lu.s way home, t,is met at imuau-apoiw by Ida mother, who liau been down to attend uiu tuuerui «.u a brotucr-in-law, and met mm m the Union depuL blie tola laid that. Vnu Horn Lad been sundering ms siller. Mo nue^ciona were ankcd asllt;j (iiJt: muuic ur nnt oy . U'ftcj-wttnt to Kokomo on mo nudmgbt ualu, and aiier a tune the iintiiiy ret z red. The next moral tig ilie Lieutenant and ins JaiHer took a walk 10 their larm, some distance lmui Kokomo, and returned about noonaud loand Aaron Luidsay at Mr. DstugherLy’s.The Lieutenant *\ii by cucatovc ;u«lt;l dried maieen (there was a little snow on the ground), ami after dinner Mr. Lindsay proposed some two or three limes that they should walk: up town, Dp to lius time the aiauUcr reierretl Do by lu* muther Hie mglit DLiore had not been meniioned, neither by cue lata ei* in inenMvaik to the larm, nor oy auy ol tao *a:mJy at l-Jie house. ,!use before starling me Lieutenant went jiu« me kitchen where Ins mother, JiLs sister Frank: auU the hired girl were, and .said to hi* motner, Mother, want was cliuD Van Huru said about FrtiUK?11ULs motner replied that be had said r.hat she had had a negro young one. On hearing clus Lieu-tarmac Daugtieny suddenly changed color, ins lace becoming livid or purpic. Hi* oyes became changed, i thrust out. as U surtnig Jl iiiu incur aoeketn, and he asked, “Arc you sure lie said misv” Air*. Daugherty replied, '*1 suppose there can be m doubt of It.” Thereupon he suued utiim me house, Mr. Lmdaoy gttuig iviu Him. At tuc doar tuc hither asked If lie hjiouui ui:oo in puny them, lo ivmcii PauRlierty made no j cpSyj uur, ;.ir. Limlsuy invited luiu to do so. The father walked some llttlu ditLauce behind mein, arid cuLcred die aour or tun Guerman House just j as Daugherly approached Van Horn, and r heard Uuu say, “lou have been shunlernig 1 • my gii,Eer, and rmmt refract or take Lite ! i coiiseuutnices.*1 Vim Atom told him, “l gueysnot.J, I CL \ DaugiiuiTy repeated, *litfcu have uecu shmder.ng my | tr i SiSier; you must retract, give your author or take jtttJStd«WP«wfure2tlatPiintrue coribCiiueLiccsJ’ Van ilorn mssmnnd a defiant * attitude, saving to turn, ul have not slandered your j 1 1SC01', and you caunot rnuko mo retract it, usidyou itmtd not uoinft Wu.sienng abvui me Cliat way, young man.” uatighcrty smlucuiy reached lor Ujs pisLol.Van Horn soiled hold upon him and rushed him back upon some barrels; the pp Eoi went oir, firing into me aoor, when they tunning separated, Huugh-: erLy paasmg irotn the place wuere lie was up towarua I um con liter. Vau iioru, runuiug around me screen j uad meeting him m auoihor purD of cue roum, seized ♦ si j hmi by tUeshouiaer non cluicned for his revolver.In she scuille Daugherty shot, mm twice, me third shot proving ro be cue isital oae.Dr. iX* V. Woollen was callou to the stand mid tes* tided as lollows:—Am a graduate of the Jietlevue Muspual college; have bent infmuueiy associated I with LseiiCetunt Daugherty since spring of lbtio,; except n ^uun- time wne.i lie was ab»ont lii a diner-■ ent coiitmaiiih lie spoke in the lugnest cerrns of ills 1 cuarucDur; with the exception, pernaps, of lus brollies he knew kirn outer taau any other Lvi ng xuau; wai n surgeon m theXwciicv-aeveziuh iHdmuu; treated (tint prmesaionaliy ui the whiter *r tyoi; at oue uitic tte lud an attack of congestion, seenilzigvlt;alhitliwfr«otto impncuie ilu? bram ami uervons system; at me * ^Tlasadi!time observed in him a tendency to violence; had disease would orduiarily be termed inatunai cou-ge^itou. We meet it m cliuereutiorois, sumoiung m/I'erezit oi-gaus, zu hid case actacking me brant aad spumi cord. With a sbon neck, a, lurge brum, ana an active jtcrvous temueiaineac, ms lie has, a disease , * of that kind womrl develop cougesiion of the brain aud nervous centrea more than of other organa. In \ 18 the army Ueutenant Jaugherty often complained of ’ vertigo irom Lurmug around and performing sorno of tms evolutions made 211 drilimg tuat required tree aim rapid changing of the position of me body.Thai it gave him clLszdness. This is caused by a too free rush, of blood u 1 hu brain.i\ w.~lt;j)auhherij was acquitted. Upon the rendition of the verdlctj Mrs. Van Horn attempted to snoot Daugherty.dedcclcdcinCO
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Mon, Nov 14, 1870
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