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fanity not considered a crime, I should suppose such scenes
were quite common. Any person discovering s quarrel at
his door would be likely to resort to harsh means to quell the
disturbance.’ Mr. Cavendish also refers to the sickness of
the prisoner, deposed to by Clark as having occurred in De-
-cember, 1855. Witness saw him in bed and says he seemed
to him evidently out of his mind; was pulling hair out of his
head; had been very unwell for two or three days. While
confined to his bed two women entered his room, and during
their visit he pointed to a particular spot on the wall, and
ealling our attention to it, remarked: ‘‘Do you see that pic-
ture on the wallf I drew that picture today; how de you
like it’? Witness says there was no picture on the wall.
The learned counsel did not display his usual shrewdness
in introducing this deposition, for it occurred to me while
he was reading the picture scene that it was one of those
hallucinations that never occur in homicidal mania, but is a
marked characteriatic of another disease called mania a potu,
or delirium tremens, and this led me to inquire a little fur-
ther into the matter when Lane and Sergeant Clark were on
the stand, and I think their evidence shows that my conjec-
ture was well founded. It is evident from all the testimony
that defendant had but one attack of sickness from the time
he returned from the plains in November, till his desertion
in January, and the sickness referred to by Lane, Sergeant
Clark and Cavendish must be one and the same, Lane, who
was introduced by the defense, says he does not think it re-
sulted from excessive drinking, but cannot say and would
not swear it did not. He knows prisoner kept liquor in bis
room, for he drank with him several times. Sergeant Clark
says he saw prisoner every day at the fort, and that he was
always on duty except when sick—recollects that he had an
attack of sickness between November, 1855, and January,
1856, after he returned from the plains. The afternoon pre-
eeding, witness saw him riding inte the fort from the diree-
tion of the town of Leavenworth—-noticed that he was very
much intoxicated; so much so that he reeled from one side
of his saddle to the other, and with much difficulty kept his