The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-03-21
7HIT EBSIIHJ ETHFE
Beat Her With Whip Because She
Defended White.
FAMOUS TRIAL NEAR AN END
Four More Experts to BE Heard
When Testimony VIII close and a
Verdict May Be Reached BY Friday

Four more Experts 10 DC Hea'"'
When Testimony VIII Close and
Verdict May BE Reached BY Friday
Night.
New York, March 19.-Four more
,xDerts are To be examined in the
rhaw trial and the taking of evidence
will close. Three experts were dispos-
I'd of in a little more than an hour SO
1t is generally believed that the last
word OF evidence may be uttered in the
famous case today (Tuesday). In that
event the summing up by MIR. Delmas
for the defense will begin Wednesday
morning. District Attorney Jerome
will reply on Thursday Justice Fitz-
gerald may proceed Immediately with
his charge to the jury or he may defer
1t until Friday. Unless the unexpect-
ed happens there should be a verdict
by Friday night.
The case for the people was finally
closed by the introduction OF the much
discussed Ilummel affidavit which.
with the consent of the defense, was
read In full 20 the jury. The affidavit
proved a surprise only in the alleged
severity of the assaults Harry X.
Thaw is said to have made upon Eve
lyn Nesbit during their trip through
Europe in 1903. when. according to the
testimony OF Abraham Hummel. Miss
Nesbit would not sign statements
which Thaw had prepared accusing
Stanford White Of having drugged and
ruined her.
In this affidavit Miss Nesbit charged
Thaw with having attacked her with
cowhide whip while they were stop
ping at an old castle in the Austrian
Tyrol and lashing her bare skin until
she became faint from the pain ana
swooned. He repeated the attack the
next day. according to the affidavit,
and afterward in Paris he beat her at
half hour intervals throughout one
entire day. leaving off only when sh2
would faint away and could no longer
understand what was happening. Miss
Nesbit is alleged to have sworn in the
affidavit that she was in daily fear for
her life and that Thaw acted as de-
mented person during some Of the as
saults
The affidavit was in some ways di-
rect contradiction Of Hummels Ie-
cent testimony upon the stand. In Or
der that the defense might not prevent
him from telling tie story OF the max
ing OF the AFFIDAVIT he stated positive
" that he was not aotirg as Miss Nes-
bits attorney when he drew mp the
document; that he was acting solely
in the interest OF Stanford White and
that no legal action was contemplated
in behalf of the young woman who Is
now Harry Thaws wife
There was considerable surprise
consequently when Mr.. jerome read
the opening words Of the affidavit,
which were:
Supreme Court. County Of New
York
Evelyn Nesbit, plaintiff. against
Harry Kendall Thaw defendant
1t IS said the action contemplated
when the affidavit was made was the
recovery OF certain property which It
was alleged Thaw had wrongfully tax
en- from the girl In debating the atil-
davit Hummel referred to himself as
Miss Nesbit's attorney, she being re-
ported TO have said
Il have received certain letters and
cablegrams from Thaw which have
turned over 70 my attorney, Abraham
H. Huumel.
The affidavit is also endorsed Howe
and Hummel, attorney for plaintiff
When Mr.. Delmas began the nitro
duction of testimony In surrebattal
he introduced first Of all the record IN
the trial and conviction OF Hummel
on the charge of conspiracy. lie start
ed TO read the entire record, but had
not reached the remarks of Mr. Je-
rome made At the sentencing OF Hum
mel and which Mr.. Delmas wanted to
present to the jury. when Mr.. Jerome
said he would admit the entire record
without objection. Mr. Delmas then
said he would save the district attor-
ney's reference to Hummel for the
defense's summing up.
Next Mr.. Delmas put upon the stand
three policemen who saw Thaw the
night OF the tragedy or early in the
morning after and they all declared
that he either looked or acted IRA
tionally. To two OF them he complain
ed of hearing young girls voices. The
witnesses admitted on cross examina-
ton that there were seven women OF
the street in the station house the
night Thaw was there and that they
were making considerable noise. but
could not be heard from Thaw's cell.
After this testimony had been pre-
sented Mr.. Delmas passed to the final
stages of the trial by introducing the
first OF seven alienists employed by the
defense, three of the experts being
new TO the case. DR.. Graeme NJ. liam
mond and DR.. Smith Ely Jeiliffe. who
have been in the case from the first,
and DR.. w. A. White, superintendent
of the government hospital for the in
sane at Washington. d. c., were the
witnesses and all were Intercepted
on the hypothetical question framed
by the district attorney. All three Of
the experts declared Thaw was so
mentally unbalanced at the time he
killed Stanford White that he did not
know the.nature or quality of his act