The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-20
MAY Be VERDICT FRIDAY.
Last Word of Evidence May Be.
Uttered In T haw Trial T oday.
Mr.. Demas Introduced Record In
Trial and Conviction Of Hummel or
Charge of Conspracy-Defense In
troduced More Aliensts Who SWore
That Thaw Was irresponsible.

Thaw trial was adjourned but four ex-
pert witnesses were to be examined
| before taking of evidence closes.
! Three experts were disposed of In
little more than an hour, so 1t is gen.
orally believed that the last word OF
evidence may be uttered in the IA
nous case today.
In that event the summing up by
Mr. Delmas for the defense will be-
gin Wednesday morning. District At
torney Jerome will reply on Thursday.
Justice Fitzgerald may proceed imme-
diately with his charge to the jury or
he may defer 1t until Friday. Unless
the unexpected happens there should
be verdict by Friday night
The case for the people was closed
by the introduction of the much dis
cussed Hummel affidavit which, with
the consent of the defense, was read
in full to the jury. The affidavit
proved a surprise only as to the Sc
verify of the alleged assaults by
Harry X. Thaw upon Evelyn Nesbit
during their trip through Europe In
1903, when, according to the testi-
mony of Abraham Hummel, Miss Mes
bit would not sign statements which
Thaw had prepared accusing Stanford
White of having drugged and ruined
her.
In this affidavit Miss Nesbit charges
Thaw with having attacked her with
a cowhide whip while they were STOP
ping at an old castle in the Austrian
Tyro and lashing her bare skin until
she became faint from the pain and
swooned
He repeated the attack next day,
according to the affidavit, and after
ward in Paris he beat her at half
hour intervals throughout one entire
day, leaving off only when she would
faint away and could no longer under
stand 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 like a demented person during
some of the assaults.
Contradiction of Hummel's Testimony.
| The affidavit was in some ways a
direct contradiction of Hummel's re-
cent testimony upon the stand. In or
der that the defense might not pre-
vent him from relating how the affi-
davit was made, he stated positively
that he was not acting as Miss Mes
| bits attorney when he drew up 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 Thaw's wife.
There was considerable surprise,
therefore, when Mr.. Jerome read the
opening words of the affidavit, which
are:
Supreme Court, County of New
York: Evelyn Nesbit plaintiff, against
Harry Kendall Thaw, defendant" It
Is said the action contemplated when
the affidavit was made was the recov-
cry of certain property which 1t was
alleged Thaw had wrongfully taken
from the girl. In debating the affi-
davit Hummel referred to himself as
Miss Nesbit's attorney, she being re-
ported to have said:
81 have received certain letters and
cablegrams from Thaw which | have
turned over to my attorney, Mr.. Abra-
ham H. Hummel."
The affidavit is also indorsed Howe
G. Hummel, attorneys for plaintiff"
When Mr.. Delmas began the intro
duction of testimony in sur-rebuttal he
introduced first of all the record in the
| trial and conviction Of Hummel on the
charge of conspiracy. He started to
read the entire record, but had not
reached the remarks Mr. Jerome made
when Hummel was sentenced, which
Mr.. Delmas wanted to present to the
| jury, when Mr.. Jerome said he would
admit the entire record without OBJ.
| lection. Mr.. Delmas then said he
would save the district attorneys ref.
erences to Hummel FOR the summing
up by the defense.
Police Said Thaw Was Irrational.
Next Mr. Delmas put upon the stand
three policemen who saw Thaw the
night OF the tragedy or early on the
morning after. and they ali declared
that he either looked or acted IRA
tionally. To two of them he COM
| planned of hearing young girls
voices. The witnesses admitted on
cross-examination that there we're
seven women of the street in the sta.
ton house the night Thaw was there
and that they were making consider
able noise, but the officers said these
women 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 introduc.
ing the first of seven alienists en-
ployed by the defense, three of the ex-
perts being new to the case. Dr.
Graeme NJ. Hammond and DR.. Smith
Ely Jelliffe, who have been in the
case from the first, and Dr. W. A.
White, superintendent of the govern
ment hospital for the insane at Wash
ington, D. c.. were the witnesses and
all were interrogated on the $4,000
word hypothetical question framed by
District Attorney jerome.
Basing their answers on this ques.
ton, all three of the experts declared