The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-03-06
THE THAW TRIAL.

manner of conducting his case by his
counsel. He says he regretted that
Hamuen was excused before Delmas
cross examined him. 81 despise hin
cordially. declared Thaw of Hum
NEIL Delras explained to the court
that he expected to finish his case
this week.
Evelyn, who was the first witness,
denied she had told her brother,
Howard Nesbit, that While abroad she
had been brutally treated by Thaw,
who tried to induce her tel lies
about White. DR.. chas. Bilghan, the
Thaw family physician, OF PittsDurg,
testified that Thaw had nervous mel
ancholy in 1908. Witness knew that
Thaw was worried.
DR. Bingham explained that T1aw
had intertwined newspapers between
the bars of his cell so that the cold
air could not reach him. He said that
ThaIr declared the officials were trying
10 force cold air in so he could get
pneumonia and die
.E.e asked me to examine ms
pulse. the witness said, "and asked
me If it were peculiar. I told him
mo, 1t. was not unnatural, but it was
rresular. He said it might have
been caused by something that occur
red after the Act of Providence. "
The cross4examination of DR.. Big
nam by Jerome did not develope any
shing. Deimas refused to allow Je-
rome to take DR.. Bigham over as a
witness for the State at this time.
Delmas declared the regular proceed
ure must be followed
DR.. Evans was then cross examined
hv Jerome. DE-. Evans admitted that
he had been called frequently to test
ny in insanity cases.
: District Attorney Jerome asked DR..
Evans many questions relative to in
sanity. Jerome attempted to bring
ont that Dr.. Evans had sought reten-
ton in the case, but pelmas blocked
the question. It developed later that
DR.. Evans had received letter
from Harridge asking for an inter
view and. then was retained.
Generally Believed in New York That
the EFors VIII be to Send Him to
the Asylum Instead of the Electric
Chair.
New York, March The belief
that Harry Thaw is actually insane
has now. become almost unanimous
among the officials who have followed
the case. From growing suspicion
several weeks ago the idea has be-
come a conviction among practically
an of the wavering ones. This con-
yiction Of Thaw's insanity, followed
the iacident Of the giving out by him
of statement branding the district
attorneys forces as bIackguards and
prosecutors. Despite the fact that no
sone in an official position can be
quoted as believing that Thaw rs
mentally unsound, there is the best
reason to think that the entire staff
.of the district attorney is of the opin-
ion that Thaw is insane now. 1t is
Obvious that District Attorney Jerome
has shifted his efforts to convict
Thaw oG murder to a plan to SEND
him to Matteawan. An example Of
this was shown when Jerome at
tempted to prove by DR.. Evans that
Thaw,s letters appeared to have been
written by an insane man.
DR.. Evans Cross-Examined.
New York, March 1.-Thaw ap-
peared more nervous. than usual to-
day, eyeing the newspaper men criti-
cally. DR.. Evans was cross-examined
by District Attorney Jerome concern
ing the Longfelow letters, written
by Thaw, which were under consider
alton all day yesterday.
Mr.. Jerome tried to fnd out from
Or. Evans what he considered the let
tiers Thaw wrote to Longfellow, over
which Jerome and witness struggled
yesterday, showed as to Thaw's men
-al condition when written.
DR.. Evans replied that they indi-
gated mental instability. The witness
declined to say whether instability
was insane, though Jerome pressed
him closely on his point. Jerome
brought out the fact that DR.. Evans
believed Thaw insane when he wrote
the Longfellow letters in 1903, at
time of his marriage on April T. 1905,
and on the night he killed Stanford
White, June 25, 1905.
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