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Show REGARDED HER AS SANE. Dr. Gibuey So Testifies Regarding Miss Bertha Dolbeer. NEW YORK. Nov. 1. Tho hearing beforo be-foro Commissioner Robert A Lee. appointed ap-pointed by tho courts of California to lako tho testimony of New York witnesses In tho suit brought In California to set aside tho will of Mrs. Bertha M Dolbeer, who was killed by falling from the ninth floor of the Waldorf-Astoria last July, was continued con-tinued hero today. Dr. Homer Glbney was the only witness. He testified that he was well acquainted with Miss Dolbeer, and also with Miss Warren, her friend, to whom Miss Dolbeer, Dol-beer, in her will, left a large part of her fortune. Ho said that he had known Miss Dolbeer two years intimately and had had letters from her, although not a regular regu-lar correspondent. He had been Introduced Intro-duced to her In 1902 at tho home of a mutual mu-tual friend In San Francisco. Thc acquaintance ac-quaintance beginning then continued until Miss Dolbeer's death, and the doctor said lie considered he knew her very well. He regarded her as perfectly sane and In normal nor-mal health during all that time. Dr. Glbney said ho was not an Insanity expert, but was willing to declare that Miss Dolbeer was perfectly sane; that there was .absolutely no difference between be-tween her demeanor when In New York and when ho flrst saw her. He said she had never been morose, peevish or melan-cholv melan-cholv On cross-examination he admitted that people may be perfectly normal at times and insane at others. He said this might havo been true In Miss Dolbeer's case. Dr. Glbney said Miss Warren never told him that Miss Dolbeer had committed suicide. sui-cide. He said he had nover formed tho Impression that Miss Dolbeer committed suicide, had not so reported to the police, nnd never used tho word suicide In connection con-nection with the case. Mr. Rellly then read from thc record thc direct examination In which tho doctor had referred to thc caso as "suicide." Dr. Glbney said thl3 must have been a mistake. |