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appeared at the trial.
Sgt. Edward Stevenson, brought back to testify by the defense from his post in Germany, told the court that Col. Holmes, in separate conversations which occurred two or three days before the will signing, had said that he was "going to make out a will" and that “he was going to do something good” for Dr. Neilson.
A civilian orderly working part-time then at the hospital, Stevenson said he’d met the colonel a few days after his admittance on October 12. 1979, and had taken him on several occasions in a wheel chair to the post exchange “when he was in good spirits” and to the nuclear medicine department where Dr. Neilson was assigned. Part of his duties as an orderly, he said, was to engage patients in conversation aimed at lifting their spirits. In speaking with Col. Holmes during this daily contact, Stephenson testified, he noticed no sign of mental problems or depression. “To me, he had a very strong will,” the sergeant said, adding that the colonel was “strong hearted... a very stern man ...a very independent person.”
Called To Room
Stephenson said that he was called into the patient's room on October 27 by the charge nurse on the floor. Georgia Liston Daley. Appearing “very alert” and "in good spirits”, the colonel asked him to witness the signing of “a document," the sergeant testified, adding that he intuitively judged it to be a will. Stevenson told the court that he watched as first the colonel and next the charge nurse signed and dated the document. Then he did the same but without reading any part of the sheet of paper. The sergeant didn't remember seeing a man in a
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