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No Expectation Of Having All The
Evidence Before The Jury
Within Less Time.
PROGRAM FOR THE COMING WEEK
Not Known For Sure Whether Eve.
Ign Nesbt Thaw viii Go on the
Stand on Monday or Not-Jerome
Wants the Evidence on Insanity
Brought Out.
(By Associated Press,

(By Associated Press.l
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Doubt and
speculation exists tonight as to just
what course the defense will take
in the case of Harry Thaw when
the trial is resumed before Justice
Fitzgerald in the criminal branch
OF the Supreme Court on Monday
mor:fing.
When court adjourned Friday it
was the intention of Mr.. Delmas,
who is now in absolute command
OF the defense. again to place Mrs.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on the stand
TO continue the narration of the
story upon which the prisoners
life depends.
District Attorney Jerome had dra-
matically protested against any
further defamation of the dead"
just before the Friday adjournment
was taken ard had been upheld by
Judge Fitzgerald in his contention
that a broader foundation. of In
sanity should be laid before ''tffe
loose tattle of the tenderloin" should
be spread upon the records. The dis
trict attorneys reference was to
the question Mr.. Delmas had put
to Mrs Thaw as to whether SHE
and her husband had discussed to-
gether the fate OF other girls at
the hands of Stanford White"
The courts ruling that the insan,
ity of the defendant has not yet
been sufficiently established to adj
nit of the bringing in of further
details of his wife's testimony may
result in a temporary change in the
line of evidence
The course to be pursued Monday
depends greatly upon the attitude
of District Attorney Jerome. who
declared he could have offered legiti-
mate obsset.on to Mrs. Thaw's ties.
timony at the very outset of the
case on the ground that the alleged
insanity of the defendant had not
been established, but had refrained
from doing SO because OF the fact
! that he knew the testimony as to
her revelations to Harry Thaw must
come out some time.
The district attorney yesterday
with a decided display of feeling
protested that these "aspersions of
the dead have gone far enough
until competent evidence be adduced
to Snow the mental unsoundness of
the prisoner and the eject of his
wifes story, together with what
he heard from other sources had
upon his mind, which the defense
has claimed was already weak and
further affected by these stories of
real or supposed wrongs. IL Mr..
Jerome persist on Monday morning
In his objections to the line OF ex-
animation Indicated by Mr.. Delmas'
questions as to stories concerning
young women other than the wife
of the defendant, the prosecuting
officer will be asked. temporarily to
excuse Mrs. Thaw to permit of the
introduction of evidence in accor-
dance witt Justice Fitzgerald's rul
ing. AS Mr.. Jerome probably will
be glad of the delay before he takes
up the difficult task OF cross-ex.
aiming the young wife, he is ex-
pected to consent to the plan.
Thaw's Will as Evidence.
In that event MIR. Delmas VIII
first atteml9 to get in evidence Har
ry Thaw's will. which was ru.ed
out on Friday because of the many
interlineations, lin the somewhat
cumbersome document" as Jerome
referred to it, had net been suffi-
ciently proved.
This will consist of about sixty
pages. closely typewriter and others
in the large hand writing of the
defendant. Justice Fitzgerald held
that tho will must he shown to