Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1909 — EXPERT TESTIFIES FOR HAINS [ARTICLE]

EXPERT TESTIFIES FOR HAINS

Says Captain Suffered From Impulsive Insanity at Time of Shooting. Flushing, N. Y., Jan. 8. —The trial of Thornton Jenkins Hains has passed to that stage frequent in homicide cases where testimony is developed from n.edical experts and alienists. Hains’ counsel placed on the stand Dr. L. Samuel Manson, an alienist, who after listening one hour and fifteen minutes to a hypothetical question, declared that on Aug. 15, when Captain Hains shot William E. Annis, he was suffering from “impulsive insanity.” The prison physician was not permitted to tell his opinion of Captain Hains' sanity, and it looked as if tho defense would be unable to get the alienists' testimony before the jury.