Show SLAYER SLAYER-OF IS ADJUDGED I i J J INSANE roi i J OGDEN OGDEN June 7 Heber Heber Bur BurcK Burc slayer of D Dr Charles F. F Osgood wai declared insane by a a. directed t tin In the district court here yest yesterday and aw was ordered committed to the state stati mental hospital at Provo If It he recovers re reo covers his ills sanity he will be tried for foi murder murdes The verdict of Insanity wa returned by a a. Jury after being directed to d do so so o by Judge rudge J. J.- A. A Howell Howel 1 William Burch a a brother o of Heber was the first witness He testified th Lh there re were several cases of insanity i Inthe Jr In the We Burch family and that the father who is 80 years old Is an epileptic The witness said Heber had acted fc a peculiar manner for fOli sev several ral year fl The brother testified that Heber Wasat wa Was ae at it one time the victim of a blood di dis ease condu conducive ive to insanity an antha tha b h had bad attempted to commit suicide In St St. StLouIs Louisin Louis LouIs In 1904 1004 William Burch also d that Heber had a delusion the effect that a man In blue Was wai continually sending him telepathic messages messages 4 I 1 When Heber Burch was caU called d to the thi stand he was alternately pale and ani nd flushed and his us usually bright brown browneyes r wn eyes were re red 1 He repeated the story of his life Ufe declaring that he shot D Dr Osgood because the physician had p per performed r formed a needless operation upon pon b hf j head In St. St Louis at the time he be attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted to poison polson himself 1 He related a weird story of t three years he spent on a homestad ad adIn in Idaho when the man In blue War waa reproaching him daily because of degenerate habits He declared th J he thought the operation upon upon his h heal hea d was responsible for his bad practIces practice Upon putting the matter up to th thi th th i man in blue the answer came earns bA bc k to kill Dr he testified Physicians who testified Burch t be he insane were Dr R. R S. S Joyce R. R Morrell Dr Ezra C. C Rich Dr Edwardr Ed Ed- ward I. I Rich Dr t 3 ct A. A Dickson Dr DiSi DrS S W W. Badcon and Dr E. E R Dumke |