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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1921, 21 April 1880, Page 2

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THE KING- OF SPAIN. The trial of Otero for attempting the life of tho King ha 3 concluded. The tribunal assembled in the ancient Convent or the Salesas Order of Nuns, built in 17oS by the Portuguese Princess, wife of Fernando, sixth King of Spain. Tho court and the building were densely crowded though Otero was not present. The Spanish procedure is confined to speeches of the counsel and written de.laraticn3 of, tho witceesrs and accused before one judge, who delivers sentence within tiro doys after the hearing. The advocate of the proiecutioa in a long speech asked for u sentence of death Xi.e counsel for the defence made out a very jtrong case from tho report of the medical men appointed by the Crown, admitting that Otero'a intellectual faculties vrere very defective, and the opinion of two other specialists, physicians of much reputation in cases of insanity, who declared that ho was imbecile, an-i that he had male relatives who h".d been afflicted with imbecility, and idiotey. They declared that he had aet.ei under monomania, as attested by witnesses and by his behavior a month before tli3 crime. The defence, for these reason?, as'iic d for hi 3 acquittal, or for a further medical inquiry to show that he was not responsible lor his actions. The Court, ho?reyer, sentenced him to death,