Defense Attorney: Q. "Your mother is still alive. A. Yes. 

 Q. How old is she ? A. She is past her 76th year 



Q. Sometime ago was she afflicted with certain diseases ? A. Just 

 recently she was, yes. 



Q. Just recently that was ? A. Yes. 



Q. What was the trouble afflicting her? You may describe it. 

 A. Just recently, about last June, she went blind suddenly in one eye. 

 We treated with the eye specialist. He described the disease as glau- 

 coma. 



Prosecuting Attorney: We ask that what the doctor said go out. 



The Court: It may go out. 



Defense Attorney: Q. I mean with respect to her other physical 

 troubles, what was she suffering from? A. From the time she was 

 about 45 years of age, as I remember it, she had always been troubled 

 with rheumatism. She complained of its being rheumatism. 



Q. Just describe what portion of her body was afflicted with it? 

 A. Her legs, particularly her knees; also in her arms. 



Q. Were they swollen ? A. Her eyes were very much swollen, yes. 



Q. About to what size above normal ? A. Well, it was over like 

 this. 



Q. Would it be within reason to say they were double the size of 

 normal ? A. Just about, yes. 



Q. And how long, to your personal knowledge, did that condition 

 continue ? A. That particular condition, so far as I know, my mother 

 has been troubled with rheumatism, as I say, since she was about 45 

 years of age. We would send her to Paso Robles Hot Springs and she 

 would be relieved of the rheumatic condition for some length of time; 

 then it gradually came back. She tried various liniments, and things 

 of that nature. Also consulted doctors. Finally, she was confined to 

 her bed and was removed to the P - - Hospital in Oakland for treat- 

 ments through medical doctors. She was in the hospital for, I should 

 say, close to five weeks, bedridden, no natural sleep. 



Q. What was her condition when she was taken out of the hos- 

 pital? A. She was bedridden, just the same as when she went in 

 there. 



Q. Did she obtain any benefit from all of the treatments she had 



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