WIDOW'S COMPETENCY QUESTIONED; PSYCHIATRIST TESTIFIES IN MARRIAGE-FRAUD CASE.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer A hospital psychiatrist testified Thursday that an elderly widow suffered from dementia and memory loss, bolstering prosecutors' claims that she wasn't competent to marry a man charged with bilking her out of her $250,000 savings. Howard Detwiler Jr., chief of psychiatry at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, testified during a preliminary hearing that Mary Cartwright Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE (December 17, 1900 - April 3, 1998) was a leading 20th century British mathematician. She was born in Aynho, Northamptonshire where her father was the vicar and died in Cambridge, England. was suffering from ``depression . . . paranoia, psychotic psychotic /psy·chot·ic/ (si-kot´ik) 1. pertaining to, characterized by, or caused by psychosis. 2. a person exhibiting psychosis. psy·chot·ic adj. thoughts and dementia'' during a stay at the medical center. Prosecutors maintain that Cartwright could not have been aware that she had married Timothy Watkins, who with his son Loren, 29, and daughter-in-law Christina, 27, are charged with grand theft and elder financial abuse. The trio is accused of stealing Cartwright's $250,000 nest egg Nest Egg A special sum of money saved or invested for one specific future purpose. Notes: Examples of the purposes for which nest eggs are usually intended include retirement, education, and even entertainment (vacations and cruises). and taking out $121,000 in equity loans on the Cartwright Motel, the Val Verde Val Verde may mean:
Under cross-examination from Christina Watkins' attorney, Christopher Armen, Detwiler acknowledged that people with Cartwright's condition can be lucid for long stretches and then lapse into dementia. Sheriff's detectives arrested Loren and Christina Watkins in April at Cartwright's Concorse Drive home. Timothy Watkins was taken into custody a few days later. Loren Watkins ran LWC LWC Lindsey Wilson College (Kentucky) LWC Liquid Water Content LWC Lightweight Coated paper LWC Language of Wider Communication LWC Lincoln-Way Central LWC Lost Workday Case LWC Leave Word Calling LWC Light Weight Concrete Construction, and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. detectives contend some of Cartwright's money was funneled into that business. |
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