Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-27
JEROME BRINGS OUT NumRE9 q
OF FACTS NOT REpounolNe
TO HER CREDIT.
BROTHER TO testify
Howard Nesbit viii Take Witness
Stand For Prosecution 10 Contra
dict Testimony Of His Sister.

New tufh, req. @E.-EteIyn Mes
Bit Thaw left the stand yesterday ai
ternoon with her story PRACTICAL!
unbroken-. jerome brought out I
number Of facts which do not re
dound to the credit Of the young wo
man and which may even be said I,
reflect on her creditibility. but asid,
from making her admit that the
facts hardly justify the inference
that she was drugged at the time
she says White ruined her, hel
story remains in all its essential de
tails. just as she originally told /,
Today probably the entire time viii
be taken up by the eross-examinatioT
Of medical experts. AS jerome and
DIR. Evans are not on friendly terms
as was evidenced the other day
when the district attorney refused
to shake hands with the alienist. II
Is believed that Jerome will take
special pains TO shake his testimony
Mrs. Thaw Recalled.
New York, Feb. 27.-When tha
Thaw trial reopened today. Jerome
recalled Mrs. Thaw. He stated that
he wished to ask her a few more
questions which he overlooked at the
opening OF the cross examination.
He said 1t was not merely a matter
of affecting the credibility of the
witness, but a matter which he
might wish to attempt to controver,
on the rebuttal and wished TO lay \
foundation for such action by calling
her attention to the matter.
Brother viii Take the Stand.
BY the first question, jerome indi
Gated that he intends TO call Howard
Nesbit to the witness stand to con
tradict his sister. He asked If when
she saw her brother after her return
from Europe in 1908. she did not
complain that Thaw had brutally
treated her. The witness replied in
the negative. She also denied that
she told her brother that Thaw tried
to induce her to tell lies about
White, to the effect that White had
drugged and seduced her at the
same time of telling her brother the
story. She said 1t was false and said
that her brother had not advised her
to get revolver to protect herself
against Thaw. and that she did not
buy a revolver or give her brother
money to buy one for her.
Defense Will Finish This Week.
DR.. Charles F. Bingaman of Pitts
burg, the Thaw family physician,
was the next witness. He testified
as to Thaw's condition on Nov.
1908, at which time he was very ner.
vous and melancholy and seemed
much changed from his former con-
dition. Also saw him in the Tombs
after the shooting. At this latter
time he had delusions and was IRA
tional. On the cross examination,
Jerome asked as to the taint of in.
sanity in the Thaw family. Delmas
objected and the objection was sus-
tanned. Delmas announced today
that the defense would conclude it,
case this week.
Jerome said he would call DR.. Bin
gaman for the state in the rebuttal
and asked permission to take his
testimony in the form ia deposi
ton. Delmas objected, saying that
the testimony must be taken in oper
court. Jerome asked Bingaman tt
return next Monday.
DR.. B. D. Evans was then called
for a cross examination. Jerome ex
amined Evans as to what medical
college he had attended and then
asked IL he considered himself mas
ter OF his profession. Evans replied
that he did not know what he
emant by master" "Do you know
any one who is a master of your
profession" asked Jerome. "If you
mean a man who knows all about 1t
there are none such in medicine