The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-09
JEROME WANTS WHITES
 LETTERS PRODUCED
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prove, on rebuttal remains as deep a mystery as ever. The prosecutor him. sels is probably at loss to know how far he can go in attacking Evelyn Thaw's story and in adducing evidence tending to contradict and discredit her. Ills plan of campaign may be entirely changed at any time by an adverse de- cision from Justice Fitzgerald. MT. Delmas, for the defense, undoubtedly will make MT. Jerome's progress diffi- cult by continued objections The rules of evidence invoked in the ThaW case differ materially from those In any re- cent murder trial in this Jurisdiction, and it has been evident from the first that the attorneys on both sides have been feeling their way cautiously. District Attorney Jerome undoubted- ly will again summon Abraham Hum mel lawyer, to the stand to testify as to the affidavit Evelyn Nesbit is alleg- ed to have signed charging Thaw with cruelties because she would not tell lies" about Stanford White. The pros ecutor attempted to introduce this tes- timony by interrupting young Mrs. Thaw's narrative, but the testimony was barred at that time. MT. Jerome believes that upon rebuttal Justice Fitzgerald will allow him a much wid- Ter latitude than was granted on cross { examination.
 Howard Nesbit was with the district attorney to-day and it Is said he will 1 be called to the stand to testify that | his sister told him Thaw had treated 1 her cruelty while abroad in 1903 be- cause she again would not tell lies about Stanford White" MT. Jerome hopes by the brother to corroborate the testimony he effects to elicit from Abraham Hummel, the latter being un- der indictment at the present time for alleged subornation of perjury in the Dodge Morse divorce tangle.
 With all the witnesses here enumer- ated and many others under subpoena MT. Jerome adhered to-day to his pre- diction of last night that the case might be given to the jury by Friday. MT Jerome when asked to-day how many witnesses he would call, replied smil. ingly:
 "The minimum Is zero and the maxi. mum is twenty-hve: el may be either :
 He would not modify what he sait yesterday to the effect that In the pres ent state of the evidence he would as suredly let the case go to the jury ant not ask for a commission. This deter imitation on the district attorneys par pleases Thaw's lawyers and the de fendant himself, who all along has fear ed the asylum for the criminal insane far more than verdict as to his gull or innocence under the statutes.
 Despite MT. Jerome's hope for ter imitation of the long drawn out cast within the next week. few of those wht have kept track of the progress of thu trial are willing to hazard a prediction that the end is less than two week. away
 Before leaving for his home in Pitts burg to-day Dr. c. c. Wiley, the frs aiienist put upon the stand by the de fense, gave out for publication a lette sent to him by D. M Delmas, Thaw' chief counsel. The letter, after statinl that the expert testimony given by DI Wiley had "been fully confirmed b, that of the alienists subsequently, ex amined," contained the following some what significant sentence:
 "They have but reiterated your opin ing that, upon the facts of the case, tn defendant at the time of the homlcid was of unsound mind"
 From this expression by Mir Delma it would appear that he does not ex pect to use the plea of Justification in his appeal to the jury, but rathe hopes to convince them that Mrs. Eve lyn Thaw's stories about White tempo rarily unbalanced the defendants mind