Court Psychiatrist Testifies Goldsby Proved Own Sanity

BY ROBERT J. DRAKE A court psychiatrist cut a swath through two days of expert testi-; mony for the defense late yesterday by flatly asserting that Lawrence C. Goldsby was sane when he killed Patrolman Eugene D. Stinchcomb May 12 and by citing the defendant's own words to illustrate the point.

Dr. Wilfrid M. Gill, testifying in rebuttal for the state, dismissed electroencephalogram charts introduced by the defense as of no worth in establishing existence of a diseased mind and denied that a sane man's thinking pattern can ever be obliterated by emotion.

"Can you say positively and irrefutably that this man's mind was a sane mind when he committed the act? Dr. Gill was asked by Norman S. Minor, co-counsel for the defense.

"With the knowledge we have at hand, yes," he replied.

Trial Nears Ending Testimony was very near at end when both sides had finished with Dr. Gill and Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert recessed the: trial until Monday morning.

County Prosecutor Frank T. Cullitan said he planned to call only one more witness, Dr. Royal G. Grossman, chief of the court psychiatric clinic. He also will testify Goldsby was sane when he killed Stinchcomb and three Euclid Avenue bus pasengers.

Closing arguments will begin Monday afternoon, and the case jury's hands

should be in the the case

Tuesday.

Dr. Gill quoted these words spoken by Goldsby in a psychiatric interview 11 days after the killings:

"I can't remember all that happened. I remember shooting over his (Stinchcomb's) head, but he came on. I knew if he got me he would kill me. I don't remember shooting anybody else.

Slayer Seeks Mercy

"I don't want anything like this to happen again at any price. I want to stay locked up the rest of my lif They got to show me

some kind of mercy."

Goldsby talked rationally about his homosexuality.

"Everybody teases me. me about

being a homosexual," Dr. Gill

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quoted him as saying. "I have sense enough to know what I do is wrong."

Goldsby also talked of a phobia: "I hear snakes. I see snakes every place I go. When I walk up to something, it turns into a snake."

Sings Hymns in Jail

He spent his time in County Jail singing hymns, walking in his cell block and worrying about his trial, the psychiatrist said.

"He was sane," Dr. Gill said. "He could distinguish between right and wrong."

Dr. Gill said Ralph Robinson, court psychologist, found indications that Goldsby was malingering, or faking a worse mental condition than he really had. He answered rather difficult questions easily but flunked simple ones. As a result, his I. Q. may be higher than the tests showed, the witness said.

On cross-examination, Minor won an admission that a psychopathic individual might be seized by a psychosis (insanity) under stress.