Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
Says The Real Goodness" Of His
sWife Is Above the CoHpre-
4 heRsISR Of Jerome.
GAVE It OUT IN SINGULAR WAY
Had Typewriter Statements Pre-.
faced Without the Knowledge Of
His Lawvers-Dr. Evans Was the
One Witness On the stand and the
Testimony Related to Insanity.
CIV Assoclated press. !

CIV Associated Prcss.)
NEW YORK Feb. 2S.--Harry K.
Thaw enlivened an extremely dull!
session of his trial In the Supreme
Court today by giving out TO the
newspaper men brief statement In
which he accused District Attorney
Jerome OF having made nnprofession.
alfremarks in court, asserted thut his
wife's testimony was absolute truth
and in conclusion declared that Mrs.
Thaw's natural real goodness was
above the comprehension of the prose.
cutting officer =.
twas just before adjournment was
taken for the dry and after many
hours of expert testimony as to whnt
was the meaning of extracts from
eight letters written by the defendant
with their relation to the sanity or
insanity OF the writer that Thnw gave
out his statement In court. The cir
cumstances attending the delivery of
the statement TO the newspaper men
were about rs Interesting MS the
statement itself. which reads. "rhis
Is Mr.. Thaw's second statement since
August 10. With chances millions to
one against her after the catastrophe
it is wonderful TINT Mrs. Fl. *. Thaw
has prevailed In tho CROSS examina.
ton against the prosecution backed
I icy; black LEGS. Her testimony was
ftbioluts truth. -, S-,2l...l-iss...-
Our evidence was OF conversations
The cross examination has proved the
exact facts under oath.
Mr.. Jerome, finding his :nforma.
ton in certain lines falsifies conclud.
ed by more usual methods. which l..
I to his credit. However. from some
of his questions and some OF his I'm.
professional remarks i'm court. II an.
peared clearly that the natural and
real goodness of the witness Is above
his comprehension"
J Thaw began the preparation of
| this statement yesterday afternoon.
One of the newspaper tables adjoins
that of table occupied by his counsel
and n reporter sitting near the lie
PENDANT read over the latter's shout
| der the two opening paragraphs.
! When the papers appeared yester
day with the extracts from his state
ment printed in display type, Thaw
was much chagrined. Today in cour,
he took the reporter to task He said
he had not intended making the state
ment public until the end of the trial
T. He further asserted that many mis-
takes appeared In the portion of the
statement that was published and
added that he might make a correc
tion later. Last night in his cell in
the Tombs, Thaw completed his state
ment. and today. after he had Spoken,
! 10 the renorter who had looked over
his shoulder, he handed the original
! draft to another reporter whom he
! mas known for many years and in
whom he had confidence. He also
handed the newspaper man a brown
envelope.
Wanted It Correct.
Seal the statement I'm in this en-.
velope." said Thaw. "and write your
! name across the flap. am going to
have some typewriter copies made
and when they are completed | want
you to compare them with the origi
nal and If they are all right they will
e given out"
! Daniel O'Reilly. one Of Thaw's law.
yers, said later that he also had a
copy OF Thaw's statement but would
not give it out until the defendant
directed him TO do so. Later this
afternoon the typewritten copies sud
denly appeared in court. Attention
was first attracted to them by Thaw
handing carbon copy 10 his news
paper friend and asking him to com
mare 1t with the original. Four OF
five other copies lay on the counsel
table In front of the defendant. One
of the reporters reached over. picket
up the copies. and hastily left the
court room. He was quickly followed
by other reporters and soon the
statement was being flashed int
(. newspaper offices throughout the
country The copies and the origi
nal were exact and Thaw then sale
he was content to have the statement
released as a correction to the former
statement. which appeared this morn
i ing. Clifford Hartridge, of ThaV
counsel. and Mr.. Delmas denied latel
! they had no knowledge of the state
mont having keen prepared or giver
out.
! Or. Evans the One Witness.
DR.. Briton d. Evans. the alienist
was on the witness stand all of today