The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-12

PENDANT is now sound IN mind rests
with the defense under a rule laid
down by Justice Fitzgerald This rul-
ing was to the effect that a person
once declared insane remains insane
until the contrary is proved.
Mrs. Thaw's stay. before the jury
was brief. When Lawyer Delmas had
deftly limited her examination to the
change she had noted in her sons con-
dition following his return from Paris
in 1908, after Evelyn Nesbit had told
him her life story, and when District
Attorney Jerome had, with the great
est respect and consideration, conduct
| ed short and Intellectual cross ex-
animation the mother love welled
strong in Mrs. Thaw, and she felt she
had not done her ALL She was loath
to leave the witness chair.
There is the question of heredity,"
she protested when both Mr.. Delmas
and Mr., Jerome told her she might
step down.
Il have asked you, madam, all that
is considered necessary" said Thaws
attorney, with the utmost Difference.
Mrs. Thaw told of coming to New
giving her consent to her sons mar
| riage, the one condition being that the
girls past life in New York should be
a closed book, never to be referred to
in any way. Then came the story of
the marriage in Pittsburg in April
1905, the honeymoon trip and then a
happy, placid summer spent at the
mothers country home in the noun
tains.
In simple words the aged woman de-
scribed how she had come upon her
son at night on several occasions in his
room in the Thaw mansion in Pitts
| burg weeping violently. He was fully
dressed each time. Steadfastly he re
fused to tell her what was the cause of
his strange actions, saying, she aver
red, that the story was too terrible for
her to hear,
Wanted Harry to Tell All.
1t appeared from Mrs. Thaw's testi-
mony that the mother time and again
besought Harry to make a confession
Of the cause of his unhappiness Final.
", she said. he told her that the worst
man in New York had ruined his life
and that he could never be happy
again, But still he persisted in refus-
ing to name any one.
1t was on Thanksgiving day, 1903.
that, she learned details of the story of
the girl she said
II did not understand, madam, what
you said about this defendants re-
marks to you about Miss Nesbit's
mother being of no help to him. said
Mr.. Jerome
HE said she would not help him to
raise the girl out of her condition"
Mr.. Jerome gave the impression that
he might use the mothers testimony
as weapon in another direction-in
an attempt to have a commission ap-
pointed to test the present state OF
mind Of the defendant. While the
elder Mrs. Thaw was on the stand the
district attorney engaged in wordy
war with Mr.. Delmas, during which
he uttered publicly for the first time
the threat of a lunacy commission.
Mrs. Thaw's entrance in the case as
witness was sudden and complete
hshifting of the scene. Mr.. Jerome had
spared relentlessly with DR.. Charles
3. Wagner all the hours preceding
his efforts being apparently directed
toward showing that Thaw was sane
when he shot Stanford White.
After long and vain effort to pir
the expert down to an admission thai
Thaw knew exactly what he was do
ing at various times and getting tho
invariable reply that he had some sor