"Major Sellers, what is your occupation ?" The Colonel looked about him loftily, as if casting in his mind what would be the proper occupation of a person of such multifarious interests and then said with dignity: "A gentleman, sir.

My father used to always say, sir"-- "Capt.

Sellers, did you; ever see this man, this supposed father ?" "No, Sir.

But upon one occasion, old Senator Thompson said to me, its my opinion, Colonel Sellers"-- "Did you ever see any body who had seen him ?" "No, sir: It was reported around at one time, that"-- "That is all." The defense then sent a day in the examination of medical experts in insanity who testified, on the evidence heard, that sufficient causes had occurred to produce an insane mind in the prisoner.

Numerous cases were cited to sustain this opinion.