Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
.JEROME'S NEW MOVE.
May Ask for Lunacy Commits
sion in the ThaW Case.
DELMAS WILL CONTEST 1T
Significant Conference With Pittsburg
Alienists.
HAS SURPRISES IN STORE
District Attorney Will Continue His
Efforts to Discredit the Story
of the Prisoners Wife.
DELMAS WILL CONTEST 1T
HAS SURPRISES IN STORE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February 23.-Any attempt
which may be made by District Attorney
Jerome to have a commission in lunacy APP
poInted to examine Harry X. Thaw will be
vigorously opposed by Thaw's attorneys, &C
cording to an announcement made today by
A. Russell Peabody. Mr.. Peabody's state
ment was called forth by persistently re-
peated rumors that 1t Is Mr.. jerome IN
tention to apply for such commission as
soon as he completes the cross-examina-
ton of Drs. Bingaman and Deemar, the
alienists
IF Mr.. Jerome makes any SUCH move as
that either at the reconvening of court Mon
day or later" said Mr. Peabody, VINO nao
lust left Thaw in the Tombs, Mr.. Delmas,
supported by other counsel, Will nsnt
against it to the last ditch"
Mrs Evelyn Thaw visited her husband
early today and remained with him the
full three hours allowed visitors. She ap-
peared to be in much better condition physl-
cally than at the time of her visit yester-
day.
Surprises Are Expected.
BY the time District Attorney Jerome Is
through with his cross-examination OF Eve
lyn Nesbit Thaw it is believed that ne VIII
have sprung some surprises that have not
been anticipated by the lawyers who are
trying to save Harry X. Thaw both from
the electric chair or the Matteawan Asy-
lum for the criminal insane. Additional
surprises may come when the young wife's
ordeal is over, and Mr.. Jerome's work is
again directed to the insanity experts who
have already piled on Thaw's case bur-
den Of insanity that will be hard to throw
off.
Before this return to the experts, how
ever, the district attorney will probably
bring out the testimony Of the two Pitts
burg physicians, Dr. Deemar and DR.. Bing-
aman. both of whom have come here for
the defense. but have been practically con-
yerted into witnesses for the prosecution.
Mr.. Jerome has had long talks with these
physicians 1t may be from what he has
learned from the physicians that Mr.. Je-
rome intends to show that if Thaw was in
sane when he shot Stanford White his
mental malady was of such a nature that
il could not have been entirely cured up
to the present time, if at all. One of the
physicians will swear, it is said, that at
least one of the members of the Copley
branch of Thaw's family has shown homf-
cidal mania. -
So far the main fabric of young Mrs.
Thaw's story stands. although the district
attorney has shown up her great lack OF
memory on cross-examination, as compared
with the ready recital of her direct story.
In his cross-examination Mr.. Jerome has
fitted about from point to point and Incl
dent to incident, and at times there was
cause for wonderment at his dallying for
such long periods on what seemed unimpor-
tant details.
1t is known. however. that in following
up the little details the district attorney
has had definite object in view.
Threat Against White.
As far back as when one of the first men
called for the defense told of the alleged
threat made by White to kill Thaw there
seemed little reason for Mr.. Jerome dwell
ing on what were considered unimportant
trivialties.
The threat was made, according to the
witness. at the stage door of the Madison
Square Theater on christmas eve, 1903.
Thaw went there that night and took Eve
Ign Nesbit away. The witness said that
Thaw went there in an automobile. The
questions that Mr.. Jerome asked about
this seemed useless, but he went to
make the witness say that he was sure 1t
an automobile, and the witness went
IurtNtr ana Salu lndl the Only person Win
Thaw when he arrived vas the chauffeur.
The answers to these questions seemed
harmless one way or other, but the
Importance of them came out in Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw's last hour of testimony on
Thursday. She was sur, she said then,
that Thaw went to the theater for her
that night in carriage. More than that.
she was sure that there were a man and
woman with him. The story of the threat
began TO vanish into thin air at the con-
tradiction of the story OF the earlier wit
ness.
That he is more intimately aware of the
movements of young Mrs. Thaw than she
could have believed is shown all through
the line OF Mr.. Jerome's examina ton fol-
lowing the incident of the alleged threat
by White at the Madison Square Theater.
The district attorney asked the witness in
detail of her movements until she finally
went to Thaw's apartments in Goth street
I'm the early morning. All this was after
the time that she refused his hand in
Paris, and the district attorney will want
TO know il this can be considered a part
OF Thaw's honorable courtship." He will
also want TO know IL it was Thaw's idea
OF courtship to live in apartments connect
ing with hers in the Grand Hotel.
IL is thought that In the rebuttal evidence
MIR. Jerome will offer testimony to show
the movements of Stanford White about
the period when Evelyn Nesbit says he
drugged and ruined her. So far Mrs. Thaw
has not fixed the date within three months.
According to report, Mr.. White was away
from New York great deal during that
part of 1901. Some OF the time he was
fishing and shooting in Canada, and there
were several out-of-town business schemes
that kept him from the city. Whites pri-
vate secretary will be a witness at the
trial. and will be asked to tell about the
movements of his employer.
The Dragging Episode.
There Will also be evidence offered in re-
buttal with regard to the drugging episode.
Mrs. Thaw has testified that she lost con-
seriousness within a few minutes after drink
ing glass OF champagne. Her mind was
very clear, however. to what happened
after her recovery of her senses. She has
not told of any after effects that drugged
persons usually feel 1t is probable that
MIR. Jerome will put medical experts on the
stand TO show that the only drugs which
would produce the complete and quick I'M
consciousness described by Mrs Thaw