Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 213, Hammond, Lake County, 2 March 1922 — Page 2

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CHURCH IN STUPOR

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SEEMS MENTALLY DEAD Will Go to Gallows Tomorrow Without Suffering Slightest Physical Pain. CHICAGO. Jlarch 2 Dead now mentally, Harvey V. Church, doomed mur

derer and "semi-corpse" of the county Jail, will go to his physloal death on the sallows tomorrow without suffering the slightest pain. lie will pass on without knoing what happened. This was the prediction today of Dr. V. J. Hickson, head of Chicago's psychopalic laboratory, who regards the Church case as one of the most remarkable that has challenged the attention of the medical world. "He won't feel a thing," said Dr. Hlckson, "he is emotionally dead." Church actually 23, hut having the appearance of a man of 43 or 50, lies

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pins in his eyelalU and under his ftn-g-er nails, tickled his feet and burinsed the inside of his nose with lighted cigarettes to no avail. Church was unresponsive. "Church's Is simply a case of a 'closed in' personality," explained Pr. iliokBon. "He has cut himself off from con

tact with the outside world. He doesn't !

know what is happening- about him. He is a victim of dementia praecox. and to hang him would be a blot on civilization and a disgrace to the 'community. The doomed man is an arch-preten-

Robert Fulton taking his little boat up the Hudson. The invention of steam navigation a lucky strike for him.

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l Her, in the opinion of sundry alienists, I e

d'-spite the "tests' he has undergone.

"He is a fakir," said Dr. H. Xugla:, singer, former state alienist. "He is sulfering from -self-hypnotism." "I have examined him. He Is in a state of auto-hypnosis resulting from hysteria and foar not from the erertion of his will power. His case is not altogether new In the medical world." Two juries have found Church sane, even though he testiilcd that "two and two is eight" and that "twenty and thirteen equals three." A few months back. Church, a carefree youth, killed two automobile salesmen, Bernard J. Iaugherty and Carl Asmus, to gain poscxaion of a new car. He lured them to the basement of his home, beat them over the head with a iasc;ball bat burled one alive anil threw tho other, handcuffed, into the river. The execution will take place at 4 P. m. instead of dawn, as customary, an exception having been made in Church's case.

tectives working under the district attorney. "'No Buch confession 1ms been secured," said Captain Hunter. He adaed, however, that it was hoped a contesslon might be obtained before the day passed. In the meantime, officer.' are making a thorough check on the stories told by the six men arrested following a story told the police by Mrs. Hupp in effect that the iife of Taylor had been threatened by the men on the night before his murder. Captain David Adams, head of the

HARTLEY

"The hour makes no differenc,' Jailer today. "He's dend now."

said

CONFESSION DENIED

TAYLOR CASE

on a cot in the jail, impervious of his surroundings. He is as near dead as it is possible for him to be without being legally and officially dead. Ho has not eaten for more than forty days. His jaws are locked. He has been forcibly ted liquid food through the nose. His cys have been closed tight for a mnnth. His body retains a deathlike rigidness. His face is wax-like, the race of death. He has grown a long, black beard. "I weigh 210." said Dr. Hickson, who has examined him. "1 put my whole weight on his Jaw but I couldn't budge it." Others who examined Church stuck

riNTERNTICfNAL NEWS SERVICE1 I.OS AN'OKLKS, CAU, March 1 A report that one of the six men arrested on information furnished by Mrs. John Kupp had made a complete confession in connection with the murder of William Desmond Taylor, was denied today by the district attorney's o'Tllce and Captain Hunter of the bureau of de-

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nomiclde squad, and Detective Herman

Cllne. also of the sauad. marin snerinr-

denials of the report of an alleged con

fession and said "there is nothing to it."

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