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Show ifrs is MOB Witnesses Testify to Alleged Mental Deficiencies cf Freda Lesser's Slayer. l.OS AXO W,:S, C'.-ilif., J)c. 2'!. Harry NfjW'M tni mc,i; courtroom manner his ulmoxl mxlioiilc-w atl.il.iiH': amj his star-liiK star-liiK RiritiKi.t alHTwl of liim coiitiniiKlly iii not a si., I.iit a iiiacti'-c ot long Htandiir-:, nvoriliiiK to tc::t;mony Intro-cluvi-a laif; tiwlay In Now'd trial n a Llia!'.: of having' in urdm tj.l hia sweetheart, Freda l.cicr. Tlu.s testimony can.o from K. W. Mc-Cumljur, Mc-Cumljur, luni.urly a .ri.ioncr with Ki:W In Ilia L'Oi.nly J.i i L . .MoOunocr Biti.l Now Ii " .1 1 u.-n Liy l,,iL II L tit-.: uuclow of liis v iiiid i;;i.: il inio .-.cU' e lor hour.-i al a lime, motion!-.-,s and in-: .-r i.Uenio; a v-onl. .M . i .'ii :i 1 1 " i 's t. -moony i;u U:o out-Mtainllli out-Mtainllli loaLure of 111'; tli--l.-ii.- o'H eilorid louny tu iiuw New mis uu-uund menially. men-ially. MrCinnl.ur said lie had noticed other tliliiK al.ont .ow wiiU.il faus.-d liim lo Ixillnve Ulc accused was 'nut llfiht" mcll-tallv. mcll-tallv. For hiHtanro, ho said, Now frequently rolled ni his liuiiseis h-s, tine at a lime, and studied them with much seeming seem-ing concern. New made a pet of one of the jail eats, according to the witness. l'.nt one day when he was playing with the eat. Me-Fumlicr Me-Fumlicr told him his pel was likely 10 scratch him, Mel 'unlhcr testified, on which New licw into a rsi;c and threw the animal out. of his cell some yards down the corridor. Many depositions were read to the Jury by Jjecoinpio Davis, chief of counsel tor New, all from residents of Indianapolis, New's former homo. Colonel Robert ii. Tyndall,-a 7-otninent I, usines.-i man of that city, formerly the commander of the unit of artillery of the Indiana National unard, with which New sciwcd on 1 1 1 c Mexican bonier In 1'Jlli, In one of these depositions expressed tlio opinion thai tho accused was not normal menially. Ho did Captain Calvin 1. Fay no, captain of "A" batlery, Indiana National uard, under whose observation observa-tion New Klient his tune on the border. Captain i'ayno said It was assumed anions tho officers and men of tho batlery bat-lery that I ho defendant was a son of Senator Iarrv s. New of Indiana, and on account of "unfortunate circumstances of the voting man's birth." as well as tho hlKh st-andim; of the senator, every effort Wiis imiuu to give the defendant opportunities for advancement. But his mentality was not able to trrasp the tech-niiilo tech-niiilo of artillery werk and he "got nowhere," no-where," tho deposition said. Captain Payne said New appeared morose mo-rose and seemed to be brooding much of tlio time, tin one occasion, the captain testified, he heard a member of the battery bat-tery cail ouL lo New: "Well, New, I see the old man is elected," referrins?, in the iiidirment of Captain Payne, to Senator New. "A peculiar look of sorrowr camo over the hoy's face," the deposition read, "a look 1 could not analyze. But it made a deep impression oti me.'' The defense is laying much stress on tho alleged effect on the mind of tile accused by his brooding over what counsel coun-sel termed the "sad circumstance of his birth." Depositions were introduced and records of the Indiana state hospital for the insane in-sane were read to the effect that Kd-WHt-d P. Seuddor, maternal - grandfather of the defendant, was committed to that institution as insane in 1SS7. Mrs. , 10. y. Klster, groat aunt of the accused, was adjudged insane the preceding year, according ac-cording to similar evidence. |