Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-11


when he landed. The will and condi-
ell next were taken up and discussed
TIE will showed a cowardly fear of
death, declared the prosecutor, but
nothing more.
SO you see. gentlemen" he went on,
it was easy for such a cowardly man
as this TO Withhold his Dementia
Americana for three years and then
kill the victim who could not see him
approach.' Mr.. Jerome again picked
up the will and held it aloft.
''Where is the delusiOn in that will?
Didn't he leave his money to the right
| cople? Where is the delusion in his
reference to the oath street house?
Hasn't the girl described it; where is
the deluSiOn there? Don't let US as
sumo she was telling the truth once
ana in the next breath say the same
thing shows that Thaw had delusions.
Nov turn to the mothers testimony.
When he went home the girl had thrown
him over again, perhaps for the very
reason mentioned in that affidavit.
There is nothing to show there was any
other reason. He loved her all right,
loved her in his own brute way. There
is the scene in the church when the
music moved him and he shed tears.
Were was the delusion there? He WAS
nervous and worried on the day Of his
marriage. Why, Evelyn was not u and
he was afraid her mother would not
give her consent. Did Thaw show de-
fusion? Didn't it rather show a sense
of the requirements of the law?
"What one Of the many people who
must have known him during his life
has been called here to show that he
WAS ever irrational? No one
Did his mother say he was ever ir-
rational? No. She simply said he was
nervous and depressed and after we
hear Of what happened before ne lett
New York, l don't wonder.
.\ow for the witnesses. First, Dr
Wiley. I see Mr.. Delmas does not place
him among the experts. He seems L"
treat these experts as SO much junk. IL
| he puts seven in one basket against
six in the other he seems to think the
seven will win. | had the deluSiOn that
| quality counted for something and
| that it was not merely a matter of
quantity"
Taking M the testimony of the de-
! fences medical witnesses one by one
! givrn by DR.. Wiley of Pittsburg and
practically ignored it altogether. OF Or.
! lingaman. the Thaw family physician,
/ hc spoke in the highest respect.
! This physician, who frankly tells
/ You that he is 4 general practitioner,
jerome continued, ''who is not d hired
expert. testified that Thaw, as a child,
| had all the ailments incidental to child
| hood He tells YOU that he WAS called
! in to attend ThaW in the latter part of
| 1909 and found him depressed and merry
Gus. That is only natural. Any man
| who had had the interviews Th1W had
with the eirl he loved and saw h9i go
to lis hated rival and make the AFFIDAVIT
| shn ala. he would also Re depressed and
detected.
THE doctor also saw Thaw in pris N
ana found that ! ThaW had stuffed
| some paper in the cell door 20 keep out
| the draft 50 as not to catch cold. Per
frctIy natural, is it not? Thaw told Dr.
Hingnman that his counsel desired 70
nut him in a mad house and that 2
conspiracy was or foot to commit hin
10 an ASYLUM SO as - prevent tn" IL"
of White from being made public IN
court.
For that reason he changed his coun-
sci, a rational proceeding if Th3w wan''"
TO take the chance Of fighting out ms
case before a jury.
Now as to Mr.. Deemar. He merely
testified that Thaw was nervous, that :
all.
DIR. Evans and DR.. Wagner came next.
Evans told you that T1haw suffered ~
exaggerated ego. That is merely another
rame Tor vanity. DR.. Bingaman when
asked about it said that Thaw Always
had 4 great opinion of himself.
Evans told you that Thaw had 4
brain stornl-a better term would be "a
ranoa OF a mild form No one ever heard
of a brain storm before and Evans may
have wanted to make of it CLASSIC
!phrasc. Wen, he mas at least succ2, ded
in making it known the world over FOR
two GAYS You will rccell we tried 70 find
a definition for brain storm, but could
not find out.
We were told that Thaw was like q
ruddcrlcss ship which had lost its bal
ance wheel, cast off from its moornGs
and the nearest we get to a definition
was 4 mental illumination, psychic eN-
. plOSiCn.
: | Nv hen Dr. wagner TOOK tlc Sldiiu ~
| said Dr. Evans explanation of Tlhaw's
state of mind when he killed White wa
n good one When asked if he knew o.
a similar case recorded in medical liter
aturc out of the many cases he said hi
knew, lie cited this one" Mr.. Jcromr
then read the case Of n woman which has
several times been referred to in tht
course of the trial. After reading thi;
case Mr. Jerome remarked:
II think one can truly say, as Dr.
, TIrsch. that there is as much similarity
: between this case and that Of Harr!
Thaw as there is between smallpox ari
q broken leg.
After Evans and Wagner came Mrs
Game. She merely testified that Thav
glarcd every time he saw White. Moth
ing unnatural in that.
This is practically all the evidence
with the exception of that OF the expert
which the defence has submitted in sup
. port Of the plea of insanity"
Mr.. Jerome then rehearsed the testimo
nv Of the states experts and dwelt upor