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(Continued from Page 1) always another version and that is the truth," Douglas maintained. He repeated that Peter Marx had him “railroaded to the pen" on those earlier charges as the result of Marx’s criminal activities; criminal activities which Douglas said cost him his family, job, home and reputation.
Good Worker John A. Mulik, a witness called by Douglas, said he has known the defendant for four years and worked with him for two, buying, cutting, scrapping and selling steel. “He’s a very hard worker, no question about it,” Mulik said. “If the market (for steel) comes back up,” he said he would go back into business with Douglas. Mulik acknowledged that Douglas had brought up the subject of Peter Marx when the two worked together. "He doesn’t talk about it all the time but he does talk about it," the witness said. In response to questioning from Dudley Payne, Douglas’ court appointed lawyer. Mulik said he’d never seen the defendant commit any violent acts but that he had argued with Douglas over business matters on several occasions.
Answering the commonwealth’s attorney, Mulik said he was not aware that Douglas had been convicted in 1974 on three counts of attempted murder.
Patricia Redman. Douglas' sister, said her brother’s problem with Peter Marx has existed ever since the two met at Centrat State Hospital. Other than for “a childhood prank,” she said, Douglas had never been in trouble with the law until his domestic difficulties began.
Commonwealth’s attorney Douglas Baumgardner asked Redman if she knew that Douglas was convicted of breaking and entering and assault in 1973.
“I don't think 1 know what you're talking about," she replied.
Summoned by the court, psychiatrist William Young testified that Douglas has been ‘‘quite unstable emotionally and socially” for some years and “under stress in his social and vocational life in terms of the law."
Dr. Young, who had examined Douglas in response to the court’s request for an opinion on the defendant's sanity, described Douglas' views on Peter Marx as "unalterable."
Under cross examination by Douglas, Dr. Young characterized his behavior as dillusional, explaining that
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