| Show AL ALIENISTS DISAGREE AS ASTO ASTO TO 10 MENTAL CONDITION OF OP W. W HOOPER YOUNG It Is too soon to make any sweeping statements about bout the condition oC of Youngs Young's mind My I examination of or the theman man was brief brier and perfunctory It did not take more than fIve minutes and nd you OU know v that one cannot draw an any set act u cono conclusions lans In that period of ot time From the shape o of Youngs Young's head I Iam Iam Iam am convinced con that he ho Is of a 3 low type It does docs not necessarily roll follow 0 that he heIs heis is 19 In insane ane On his te features tures arc stamped tam d the lines of or dissipation and perhaps of or vice Jee an and he ho Is In a a. highly nervous state ns as the result of 0 his recent 1 S S The m moment ment I laid eyes ens upon him I decided It was vas not a n. fit time to stull study him properly lIe He must have a chance to get over his excitement and quiet do down n to the prison routine Until then he will continue to act strangely not necessarily because ho he Is mentally unbalanced un un- un- un balanced but because hi hl brain will be constant constantly In a a. blaze while his crime his flight and capture and all the th r dramatic incidents of or the thelast last few days ore aro still sUll fresh before Core his Imagination When hen I went to see him we spoke on only a few words I do not wish to tell loll what the prisoner said sald to me ale because eau e eI I do not believe It would be fair It was plain pain th that t the man mait was not trying to sham m Insa Insanity All that I noted in him was waR extreme nervousness and the appearance of ot approaching approaching- physical collapse As I entered his cell cen I sal said HoW How r lpg J I INot Not Shamming Insanity To this he answered Vcr Very ery fine doctor In the tim rp few fw words words' th that t f fol followed l- l lowed there was vaz n nothing to Indicate a desire to create e th the ImpressIon o of ct m montal mon mon- n- n tal tat sQ In fact indications n were rather to the thc contrary It was os first Intended to place Young in murderers' murderers jon row at nt the Tombs At AtTO TO m my suggestion this plan was changed however r so 80 that U the prisoner mn may be studied to better a advantage l e at the prison pris pris- on hospital There are arc only four tour oth other r persons persons- confined there and It will be possible s to k keep ep a a. lo r eye cye upon pon his movements The necessity of or being Yer very clo close c and nd cautious in passing upon the mental mental mental men men- tal condition of oC persons charged with crimes cannot be too greatly atlY sized There are no now man many lunatics In Inthe inthe the asylum at nt n who who n arrested for the commission lon of ot crimes w were re believed to fo have been perfectly pane ane The reason for Cor this bell belief In their sanity was that motives for their be pointed cd out As Aft nn an illustration 1 I could refea reCel to the Catherine Dreyfus case a e. e This woman woman wo wo- man had I lived cd three years ear with a io- io as his wife He lie finally left lefther lefther lefther her and another She was uvas angry and jealous but It seems that she permitted him to visit her hor after art att af at- t ter r his marriage and one da day while he was tacking t. down a carpet for tor her hershe she crept up behind him and anti S him upon ulOn the head with u it 1 killing him Instantly She was waa arrested and taken to th Tombs Insanity Discovered red Later Her trl friends declared that she was as ln Insane nc This was disputed by others who held that she hC he was wis moved movell solely b h by ungovernable Jealousy The belief belle li In Inh h her r sanity I strengthened every da day be because because be- be cause ahe he conducted herself l In a 0 mos rational manner mner It was not until seven seen cn months had passed d' d lint it 11 was discovered that he was waa u a maniac who had been brooding over insa insane no schemes chemel far for years before she yielded to the impulse im Inn pulse to murder the recreant man luau I i remember er many man other Instances of Qt the kind A few rew years car ago ao a u. young oun 9 man murdered hi his sw sweetheart etheart In Sn front of ot a downtown theater As usual In I such cases the question of his sant sanity was mooted He showed no signs of oC an unbalanced d mind and for months It was as believed that he hc had been spurred to murder solely by a ferocious Jeal jeni- Later it came out that he was uns a victim of cataleptic Insanity and as a 11 consequence he was as sent to one of or the State insane asylums Instead of ot being han hanged ed for his crime So far I understand no motive for forthe forthe the he murder of or Mrs 1 Pulitzer has been found This gives a presumption In Inot faor favor fa- fa vor ot or of ot insanity Yet time lime ma may produce the he motive at present lackin Young Youn seems to be he able to converse rationally yet It mar may thay be found foun after arter he has been studied for tor several months month that he too is Ig s mentally unsound and ble Sane Says Dr Wildman Dr Valentine Wildman the alienist and exp expert rt on Insanity said gald that Youngs Young's law lawyer er will have ha a hard time proving pro his client to be he In Insane ane I have ha followed the case very closey close- close I 13 y as OS It has developed de In the papers he 10 i said aid and to my mind the anI only form orm of mental derangement that can be put forward Is moral Insanity and this the law aw under no circumstances will nize Ills His plans were well laid and Indicate Indi cate a t clear active mind I venture I the he assertion he did not Intend to murder the thc woman I believe that he 1 t gave her an overdose of or chloral for some reason and then thell when whet he found she hc as aa dead lead sa saw that it behooved him to get Ket rid of or the body His Ills actions In cutting off ott his mus inu- mustache tache extracting his filled HIed tooth and otherwise disguising himself arc are strong proofs of ot his s. s sanity Insane Says Dr Edson Dr C Cyrus us Edson the specialist on brain and nervous disorders of ot 56 Fiftieth Fiftieth Fit Fit- street f paid oaid al From what I have seen In the newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers of the crime It i la Is the action of ot otan an Insane man There are numberless cases cages on record of murders in which the victims were mutilated in the same manner n. n as was Mrs Pulitzer These Thele murd murders rs were committed b by men suffering ant suf fering from flom a peculiar form Corm of or mania It Is IJ In my opinion that Young was wa a victim victim vic vie tim of this form of oC In Insanity Certainly Mad Says Dr Smith Dr T T. P. P F. F Smith an associate of or Dr Alan MeLane leIane Hamilton the brain specialist said ald He lie was probably Insane at the time of or hi his deed Iced It ma may ha have vc been only a momentary attack of or mania for which his habits of the past several years ealS prepared him but while It was on him i he was completely be beside himself He lie may have recovered reco from Its effects as quickly as he was overcome For the time being however he was the tho victim of ot blood mania In Its most violent form |
