The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-07
MR. JEROME 5 INTENTIONS
0etting Ready to Apply for Com mission in Lunacy for Harry
 K. Thaw.
IS STILL CROSS-EXAMINING DR. EyANI
meoicai Expert Declared His Positive Belief that Thaw Was Incane When He Killed Stanford White but Refused to Classify His lnsan fly as Chronic.

fly as Chronic.
 New York, March 2, When the Thaw trial opened Friday morning District Attorney Jerome announced that there had been received a second packet of letters from J. D. Lyon. tho Pittsburg banker, who until Novem. Der last had custody of Thaw's will The letters received Friday were writ. ten to Mir. Lyon by Thaw while is the Tombs and all bear dates sub. sequently to June 25 last. Mir. Lyon first sent on only letters prior to the roof garden tragedy.
 NIT. Jerome was very anxious tc have the later letters, and they wen sent on by consent of Thaw's at. torneys. The letters are held subject to the courts orders.
 Dr. Britton D. Evans, was recalled as soon as the letters from Pittsburg had been examined by counsel, and MT. Jerome continued his cross ex animation of the alienist.
 District Attorney Jerome's intention of applying for commission in lun- acy to examine Harry K. Thaw seemed to be definitely established Friday during the continuance of his cross examination of Dr. B. D. Evans, the principal medical expert for the defense. Dr. Evans stated that he be- lieved Thaw to have been sufferin. from adolescent insanity in 1903 and at ths time of his marriage, April 4. White, June 25, 1906, he was the vic tim of an acute and recurrent attack of the same mental malady. Dr. Evans was more definite in his answers Friday and was induced to make these statements with positive ness. In addition to the explosions he said there were indications Of mental instability at other times.
 Mir Jerome during his examination constantly referred to the subject of paranoia, but was unable to secure from the witness any admission that would tend to show Thaw a paranoic. By this line of questioning it seems probable that the prosecution will attempt to show that, instead of be- ing afflicted with the insanity of adolescence, Thaw is actually a paranoiac.
 Dr. Evans would not classify adoles- cent insanity as chronicle in Thaw's case and said he had known cases of this form of mental unsoundness to clear up overnight.
 Dr. Evans declared various out breaks did not suggest paranoia, in that they all differ Tn writing the will Thaw seemed to fear for his life: at other times he indicated sim ple melancholia and at last there was the explosive outbreak on the Madi- son Square roof garden. These vari- ances, the expert asserted, were indic- ative of insanity of the adolescent period, but there was no defined form of paranoia.
 MT. Jerome here read from Dr. Evans direct testimony in the course of which he said that Thaw's will and codicil showed a paranoiac form of developmental or adolescent in- sanity" The prosecutor asked if this testimony was correct.
 "It is,' replied the witness. "The will and codicil suggested the para uoiac form, but the outbreaks and ex- hibitions have shown otner forms, in- dicating that it was not paranoia from which the defendant was suffer- inx
 Mir. Jerome handed the witness the original copy of the will and asked: ''WLat paranoiac signs were displayed in this?"
 "The eighth section of the will, ? said Dr. Evans, indicates paranoiat form of adolescent insanity. rather than any of the other forms of adolescent or developmentai insanity This section shows an apprenensive state of mind because he was willing to give large sums of money to prose cute men whom he suspected were try ing to kill him. l have been asked to classify this form of insanity and ] put 1t in the paranoiac class it shows some of the characteristics of para noia."
 Mir Jerome moved to strike out the answer as unresponsible. T asked the witness a question" he said, "and he has delivered an address. Tie question aud the address bear little relation to each other.
 Justice Fitzgerald allowed the answer to stand.