Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-13
Wife of No il is Seriously III and He Asked Permission
 10 Go to Her
NO MORNING SESSION
Thaw in Prison Pen Held Long Chat With His Wife, Jerome Getting Ready 10 Combat the Story
 of Dr. Evans.

New York, Feb 13.-The illness of the wife of one of the jurors in the Thaw case to-day caused the aban- donment of the usual morning ses- sion of the court, recess being or dered by Justice Fitzgerald at 10:48 a. m. until 2 p. m.
 Mrs Joseph B. Bolton, the wife of juror No II, is said to be threatened with pneumonia, and some apprehen- sion is felt lest her illness may seri- ously interfere with the trial. MT Bolton asked permission of Justice Fitzgerald by telephone early to-day to visit his home in company with two court officers and 1t was grant ed. He lives far out in the Bronx. and had not returned to the criminal courts building at 10:30, the time for court to convene.
 District Attorney Jerome and MT Delmas, leading counsel for Harry Thaw, conferred with Justice Fitz- gerald, and soon the recess was an- nounced by Justice Fitzgerald, who said that the morning session would be abandoned to await the return of the juror.
 Thaw was not brought into court. He remained in the prisoners pen, where he held a long chat with his wife.
 MT Peabody of the defendants counsel, said to-day that it is the purpose of the defense to have Dr Britton D. Evans, the expert who testified yesterday, take the stand this afternoon for cross-examination. Dr Evans will be followed by Mrs Harry Thaw. who in view of the broader foundation" of the prison er's insanity, laid by the experts, will be asked to conclude her story.
 Juror Bolton returned to the crlmi- nal court building shortly before two o'clock. It is reported that he intends to go before Justice Fitzgerald and report to him the condition of Mrs Bolton as being critical and that he believed 1t his paramount duty to be with her.
 New York, Feb 13.-District Att torney Jerome will need all of his re- markable knowledge of insanity to shake the story of Dr Britton D. Evans. That he will attempt to do so is evidenced from the notes he took during the examination and the fact that he had the prosecution's three alienists, Dr Carlos Macdonald, Dr Austin Flint and Dr William Ma bon, beside him all day and frequent ly conversed with them.
 The defense assumes that 1t has now laid the foundation for the in- troduction of testimony which has heretofore been excluded from the case. Among the things which have been so excluded is Thaw's will and the codicil thereto. The defense counts largely on this to show the effect of Thaw's mind of the stories which were told by Evelyn Nesbit.
 It will form a proper foundation for the testimony of Evelyn Nesbit 1 Thaw, who will probably be recalled to-day, regarding conversations with her husband in which were men, toned the names of other young girls | who are said to have had similar re- lations with White.
 The defense claims that these stories preyed on the mind of Thaw | and contributed largely to the men, tai condition which induced him to | shoot White.
 Although Mir Delmas has an- in open court that it would | only take him a few days longer to | finish his direct case for the defense, that does not mean that the case is nearly over. It does not count the | time Mir Jerome will occupy in cross- It is said that Dr Graeme NJ. Hammond and Dr Charles L. Dana, both we'll known alienists, will take the stand for the defense. This will mean four experts for Mir Jerome to cross-examine. That he will examine them thoroughly goes without saying. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has not finished her direct examina- ton and the cross-examination will probably take some time. Mrs Will liam Thaw is to testify and so, 1t is said. Is Miss May Mckenzie, the chorus girl friend of Evelyn Nesbit.