Show INSANITY OF DOROTHY ELLINGSON When Dorothy Ellingson shot and killed her mother In the bed bedroom room ot of o their home bome last January 13 after atter a quarrel over the gIrls gIrl's jazz general opinion Was that a 11 girl with lowered conscIence had yielded to a violent passIon and In rage had shot to kill With With- WithIn Within in the last few tew days as the tho case caso has I progressed In the San FrancIsco court Dorothy 16 years of ot age has given evidence of ot Insanity She has had repeated tainting fainting spells The superintendent of ot the state hospital hospital tal for tor tho the Insane at Stockton who I should not bo ho easily deceived con considers sIders the tho girl Insane and It Is pos pos Bible sible tho trial will wilt end with the accused going before a body of to bo be examined as 8 to her ber mental It would be B a source of ot relief to know that the girl was not mentally responsIble when she committed tho the deed Un Un- Under Under der normal conditions the bonds ot of affection are so strong bindIng mother and daughter that an out outrage rage so 80 horrible Is not possible Dorothy we wo may discover was vas a defective when she sho first yielded to the temptations of ot the tho night life and found plea pleasure lure In the company of er men and women who drank and caroused The average girl ot of o six six- sixteen sixteen teen would ding clIng to her mother and bo be careful not to openly defy home authority and above all not to brIng sorrow and anxiety to moth moth- mother er or But Dut Dorothy became so ob- ob ob obsessed with the dissipation she had indulged In as liS to resent any Inter inter- interference Interference ference terence and when her mother I chastised her she sha became enraged grabbed a pistol and fired The girl must have been men men- mentally mentally tally taUy and ph physically abnormal and with the strain upon her since the tragedy It Is possible her nervous system has completely broken down Whatever is done care caro should be taken to make plain to other girls of ot sixteen that Dorothy EI El- El El has wrecked her life lite and that out of ot the of her ber mis mis- misdeeds misdeeds deeds has come a II nightmare of horror hor hor- |