LAUGHTER SEIZES GOLDSBY AT TRIAL

Slayer Perks Up as Psychologist Testifies

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BY ROBERT J. DRAKE Uncontrolled fits of laughter seized Lawrence C. Goldsby yesterday afternoon during testimony in his defense by a psychologist who found him to be a homosexual, a dimwit and a mental juvenile of "marked paranoid thinking."

Goldsby was in the seventh day of trial for his life for the slaying May 12 of Patrolman Eugene D. Stinchcomb. That he killed three other persons at the same time is incidental to the trial before a jury in the court of Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert.

A disinterested defendant up to now, Goldsby began to take visible note of what was going on at a time when other observers were tiring under the weight of four hours of testimony from one expert and the prospects of three more days of the same to come.

Psychiatrists to Testify

The witness was Dr. Milton J. Horowitz, psychologist on the staffs of Western Reserve University and University Hospitals.

Objections by County Prosecutor Frank T. Cullitan stopped Horowitz just short of branding Goldsby insane. That conclusion will be left to defense-hired psychiatrists to be heard today. went intol four laughing spells while Horowitz was detailing his unfunny reactions to psychological tests. At each outburst the defendant would bury his face in his hands and rock back and forth in glee. Horowitz found Goldsby to have "very marked homosexual problems" and in fact the patient began to take evident physical interest in his examiner, the jury was told.

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"He eyed me up and down in a very engaging manner," Horowitz said.

Dates Trouble to Childhood

The psychologist said Goldsby told him about his unnatural sex life in a 35-minute outburst. The killer dated his trouble back to the age of 6. when he was feloniously assaulted by a man in Pine Bluffs, Ark.

"When I walk down the street people say, 'Sissy, Sissy,'" Horowitz quoted Goldsby as saying. "People always try to read me. People pull strings and make me bend."

Goldsby decided to have his sex organs “abdicated” and in his army career sent home money to his father to be saved up for an operation for sterility, the psychologist said.

Horowitz described him in such terms as "tense and anxious," "extremely disturbed in his thought processes" and "weak in his learning potential.". His I. Q. was put at 83, or “dull normal." Horowitz added that a low I. Q. in itself had no relation to insanity.

Laughs at Jingle

"He is one out of a hundred,” said Horowitz in relating Goldsby's reactions to the ink-blot test. The same ink blot Goldsby imagined resembled two bears fighting or "a spinning top going] 'round and 'round-it goes by Nagasaki and then slows down." Goldsby laughed delightedly as Horowitz recited this jingle.

The conversation repeated by Horowitz was a strange mixture of sense and confusion, sprinkled with large words used without knowledge of their meaning. At one point in the tests Goldsby turned tables on Horowitz by psychoanalyzing him as "a medium personality."

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Flunks One Test A vocabulary test proved "the erratic quality of his knowledge," the witness said. For example, Goldsby defined such words as tint ("to bleach, or the act of dyeing"), stanza (“a line of lyrics") and guillotine ("a sharp blade"). But he insisted apple meant "daddy-I can see him coming home with a basket of apples; I¦: can smell them far off." Goldsby flunked one test by telling Horowitz he would quell a fire!

panic in a theater by jumping on the stage and telling the crowd the president of the United States and other celebrities were outside. Horowitz, questioned by Morris. H. Wolf, cocounsel for the defense, will return to the stand this morning for direct and cross-examination. The encephalographic readings will be interpreted by Dr. Charles J. Senta, whose testimony Cullitan blocked by blocked by objections) which were finally overruled by Judge Silbert.