Connecticut western news., 1907-03-07

| storm which developed when Thaw saw Mr. White and went toward him was one of such violence as to deprive the defendant of realizing sense of what he was doing
 Knew Revolver Was Deadly.
 During the half hour Thaw sat witt, 1 his wife before the shooting, according to the opinion of the expert, he prob | ably knew that the exploding of a loaded revolver into the body of a per son would produce death.
 "Dr. Wagner said Mir. Jerome, twill you kindly describe in as few words as possible the kind of insanity this defendant Las or had?" 1 In replying Dr. Wagner created something of a stir by using the pres ent tense
 "In my opinion" he said, "this man has symptoms allied to a depressive form of insanity and others allied to dementia praecox."
 Whether pr. Wagner used the pres ent tense Intentionally or not did not develop, for the point was not caught up by any of the attorneys.
 Mr. Jerome, however, made use of it, for in a low voice he repeated the doc tors answer by beginning:
 '.Then you say, doctor, that this man is suffering from symptoms allied to two forms of inSanity!"
 Dr. Wagner listened intently and re piled, "Yes''
 Dr. Wagner then repeated the story n,I AL the effect that he had not wanted tc kill White, but that Providence had stepped in and that it was probably for the best for if White had been sent to prison he would perhaps have succeeded in getting out and would have resumed his course.
 pr. Evans Leaves Stand.
 A long stride forward in the trial was taken when Jerome announced that his exhaustive cross examination of Dr. Britton D. Evans, one of the alienists for the defense, had been concluded. Dr. Evans had been under fire for more than three days.
 In questioning Dr. Evans Mir. Jc- rome asked if the statement in the
  killing Stanford White, walked away with the utmost coolness and deliber- ation' was a factor considered by Dr Evans in forming his opinion that Thaw was of unsound mind at the time. This was a factor, the expert replied, taken in connection with all the other circumstances 1t indicated to him that at that time Thaw had no feeling that he had done wrong.
 Thaw's statement to a fireman, to whom he gave up his revolver "He ruined my wife," threw some light up on the defendants state of mind. It indicated to the expert that the suspi cion that Mir. White had wronged his wife was still in Thaw's mind.
 Dr. Evans insisted that an insane person might have certain knowl edge of what was going on around him.
 Actions Not Important, Says Expert.
 Mir. Jerome in his attempt to show that Thaw acted sanely after the shoot ing reminded the witness that at no time had Thaw asked why he had been arrested and had submitted quietly to his captors. The district attorney sug gested that these were the actions of normal man.
 The fact that Thaw walked to White and turned very quietly" be- fore he shot him indicated nothing to the expert regarding the prisoners state of mind.
 By the time Thaw was in the street his words indicated, according to Dr. Evans, that there had been a readjust- ment of his mental processes and that he knew he had killed Stanford White.
 Harry K. Thaw enlivened an ex- tremely dull session by giving out to newspaper men a brief written state ment in which he accused District At torney Jerome of having made unpro- fessional remarks in court
 Harry Thaw's Statement.
 The statement is as follows:
 .'This is MT. Thaw's second state ment since Aug. 10. With chances mil lions to one against her after the ca tastrophe in 19O1 it is wonderful that Mrs. H. K Thaw prevailed in the cross examination against the prosecu- ton, backed by blacklegs. Her testi- mony was absolute truth. Our eyi dence was of conversations. The cross examination has proved the exact facts under oath. MT. Jerome, finding his in formants in certain lines falsifiers, con cluded by more usual methods, which is to his credit. However, from some of his questions and some of his un- professional remarks in court it ap- peared clearly that the natural and real goodness of the witness is above comprehension Thaw's lawyers have objected to the issue of any statement by him.
 Counsel Confident of AcquIttaI. | Numerous reports that District Attor- ney Jerome was about to ask for a commission in lunacy to examine Har- " K Thaw. whose trial for shooting Stanford White was resumed, caused one of the counsel for the defense to say: ~
 1.-The defense is confident that no ap- plication will be made by the district l attorney for the aDDointment of q com