LIVERMORE INSANE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3792, 9 August 1932, Page 8

LIVERMORE INSANE

TOWN EDmON

SAYS MEDICAL WITNESS A OERTIF l A HLE MFATAL MOTHER'S CASE QUOTED PROCEEDS OF AH' It OK It TRTAL (Pc r P rcss A f soei a tin n.) Well mg tan , A n g list 9 • When the Court resumed the murder charge noainst i Evermore Jo-day the Crown Prosecutor said lio would close his case subject to being aJlowcd to call evidence in rebuttal of the medicili evidence il it was thought iicccFsaiy. For the defence, prisoner’s record when ho wa< under the care of tlie Child Welfare Department was pub in and it was admitted by the Crown that Liver more’s, mother died in a mental hospital i,rt 1917. FovidoiK%> was ffivtjn Ha Dr D. Hi. Vonwiek, who said ho was satisfied Livermore was a certifiable mental and was certifiable for some time prior to the act with, which he was now charged. He based hi 5 opinion on three things: hia demeanor throughout witness’s examination, his statements to witness or conversation with him and his history* Wi|mss gave evidence-in detail as to why lie reached his eonclu-ion that Livermore definitely was insane.