Milford chronicle., 1907-02-08

the doctor, acted 1rrauOnally on the
car, coming in suddenly and jerking
10 up one Of the window blinds, slammine
it down and then lifting it up again
the while engaging in a wordy wal
with the conductor.
) Have you ever examined this de.
PENDANT with any of the recognized
d tests Of insanity" asked Mr.. jerome.
a mo" replied the witness.
t Have you ever conversed with
n him?"
= mo" replied the doctor.
. The district attorney then drew
a from the alienist the opinion that
: Thaw's acts on the Madison Square
roof garden, when he killed Stanford
/ White, were not acts of insanity when
taken singly, but constituted evidence
OF insanity when considered cOllec-
lively. At times Dr. Wiley seemed en-
tirely bafled by the questions. He
hesitated at each, and before he could
answer Mr.. Jerome had framed an
other query replete with impressive
sounding technical terms and appar
emily offering a problem no less diff |
cult than its predecessor. The witness |
admitted that many of the tests to |
which the district attorney referred, |
such as the Romberg test and the
! Argyll Robertson pupil test were I'M
known to him, and when he was asked
to quote from any accepted work on
insanity, declared he could not give
the exact language from any book.
Thaw's counsel sat silent and with
out protest as Mr.. Jerome grilled the
first witness for the defense Thaw
himself seemed to take but little in
terest in the cross-examination at the
outset, but later began to take notes
and was often in earnest conversation
with those of his counsel who sat near t
est him. At times Thaw could not al
together suppress the suggestion of a
grin at the keenness of some of Mr.. S
Jerome's questions and the subtle hui I
NOR they so thinly concealed. But be- il
fore the close of the day Thaw seemed
to worry. He bit his finger nails and Il
seemed anxious for the doctors ordeal L
to end His attorneys appeared a bit c
puzzled at first, but evidently deter O
mined to give the district attorney the n
widest liberty Of
Tried to Show Strain of Insanity.
It was at the close of Mr.. Jerome's
ross-examination of Dr. Wiley that o
The attempt was made to introduce
testimony tending to show the strain
If insanity said to have existed in GER .,
ain branches of the Thaw family. -
Among the witnesses called to the D.
tand was Albert Lee Thaw. of Rich =,
nOnd, Va, who said that his father -
md Harry Thaw's father were first -
ousins. The defense stated its pur- -
ose to draw from the witness the fact -
hat his father died in an asylum for NJ
he insane. when Mr.. Jerome objected. IU
lie declared that the relationship of
9th the witness and his father was -.
DO far removed from the defendant to %
e competent Nv
"And the law" he added, us not ~
atisfied that a man is insane merely -'
ecause he died in an asylum or a re- ~
eat for persons suffering from men ~,
u disorders. The fact that a man -
les In an institution such as that con- ~
lcted by DR.. Wiley, the eminent spe- AG
alist we had upon the stand today, =.
sane. There must be competent tes-
nOny to the fact"
Justice Fitzgerald upheld this view AM
the matter saying, however, that his nVe
ling was subject to revision If the lor'
torneys for the defense could cite aea
thorities on the subject Mr.. Glea- Gun
n. who alone conducted the case for WeI
aw, did cite some cases, but prom III
ID to have more authorities in court. car
The defense next introduced as a snO
tness Benjamin Bowan, who testi- a'te
d that in January. 1904, he had a ia
lversation with the defendant. He Is 5
s about to tell what the converse. an 5
D was, when Mr. Jerome objected,
,laring a conversation so far back
5 not relevant or material. Justice Man
zgerald again called upon ThawsI
orneys for citations of authorities AL
ering the introduction of testimony from
he character proposed. Mrs.
ustlce fitzgerald sustained Mr. Je- were
les objection, and the witness ed s
jped aside. wher
r. G. H. Bihgaman, of Pittsburg, ridin
has been family physician of the engir
WIS for 80 years. took the stand road,
testified that he had known Harry So "
w ever since his infancy. He had boy
ted him once for st. Vitus dance. mite
seemed to be a lad of highly nerv-
temperament and slept badly at
It, said the witness Ro
r Jeromes cross-examination was Anthu
I. of Su
low old was the defendant when he in thi
St. Vitus dance?" he asked. been
seven" been
that Is all, DOCTOR" work,
:. John F, Deemar, Of Kittanning, Miss
the family physician of the Cop not h