The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-04
ThaW Commission Disrupted
To-Day
BY PUTzEL'S WITHDRAWAL
Reported That Medical Member Stood
Out Against the Other Two
Justice Fitzgerald Adjourned
the Court.

New York, April 4.--After working
until two o'clock this morning and again
fon The greater part of the forenoon, the
! Thaw lunacy commission which was APP
pointed to determine che sanity Of Harry
X. Thaw, who is charged with murder
ing Stanford White, reported to Justice
Fitzgerald that they had been unable
to agree and asked for further time,
which was granted, adjournment Of court
was taken until this afternoon.
AT 10 o'clock Dr. Pttzel withdrew
from the conference OF the commission,
while the others remained in session
with Justice Fitzgerald. II il under.
stood that Dr.. Putzel has withdrawn
permanently. He refuses to make a
statement. It Is reported that the
commission is hopelessly divided.
Great excitement prevailed at the
I courthouse this morning when it be-
! came known that the Thaw lunacy com
mission was closeted with Justice Fitz-
gerald. The justice was at the court
house at ten o'clock, and the commission
q arrived shortly afterwards 1t became
4 known then that the commissioners had
been in session until two o'clock this
+ morning This led TO the report that
=. the members were unable to reach a
u decision; and this impression gained
ground as the moments after 10:3O slip,
ped bv without a word from the board
b Hope was written on the faces OF Mrs
u William Thaw, EVELYN Thaw and the
& Countess of Yarmouth when they entered
b the court room All looked well,
Thaw, in the ante-room, was visibly
worried and kept appealing to prison
h guards to know the reason Of the long
4, delay. Jurors and attorneys also shower
signs of impatience.
Finally, at 1880 o'clock, the court
convened. The jurors were Immediately
/ excused until 2 o'clock, owing to the
fact that the commissioners had not been
/, able yet to agree. Itsis understood that
DR.. Putzel had failed to agree with
r the-legal members in considering Thaw
j sane. Justice Fitzgerald had hoped to
secure a unanimous verdict, and mem
bers of the commission evidently be-
lieved this possible if they were given
longer time for a decision.
Thaw's Examination.
Thaw underwent private mental and
physical examination for more than two
hours yesterday afternoon. In this last
crucial test he was entirely alone before
the commission, even the district attor-
1iey and the members of his own counsel
being barried. When the three members
of the commission, David Mcclure, Peter
B. 0lRey and DIR. Leopold Putzel, had
completed their final examination, they
in turn cordially shook hands with Thaw.
He went back to his cell in the Tombs
with a light heart, and later told his
counsel that he felt the commission
would surely declare him sane.
When the commission began its pri-
waite examination of the defendant mem
bers questioned him particularly about
this delusion and others from which il
has been testified he was suffering al
THE time he shot and killed Stanford
White. DIR. Putzel of the commission
conducted the brief physical examination
to which Thaw was subjected. lie was
given all of the standard tests OF the re.
feSes, the pupils OF the eye, the Rom.
berg test for evidences ,0f loeomotoi
ataxia, etc. Thaw is said TO have un-
dergone all of these testst in a thor.
0fIghly satisfactory manner.
The alienists who testified for the
defense and who conducted much more
searching physical test than that under.
taken by the commission yesterday, de.
elared that they were unable to find any
really abnormal traces. Dr. B. ID. Evans
said there was an unusual bump neal
tise base of the skull, and he also de
scribed Thaw's fuctuating pulse, dcclar.
ing It was the most extraordinary he
had ever met with in his medical ex
peIienee The rate Of beat would otter
change four times in a minute. he said
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, attired
again in the blue sheoolgirl costume Of
the early days of the trial, was present
at most Of the public session, and Will,
Thaw was cIoseted with the commission
for his last ordeal, she sat in the cor
ridor with members OF her husbands
counsel.
Attorney Delmas was absent yesterday
but at the end Of the inquiry Thaw
sent him a note by special messenger
telling him To be ready to proceed Will
his summing up.