The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-15
WAR Of EXPERTS IN
HARRY THAW TRIAL
Jerome Has Lined Up Six
AIienists Who Hold the
Defendant Sane.
STATES HYPOTHETICAL
QUERY HAS 10, 900 WORDS
Abe Hummel Severely Rcbuked
by Delmas for His Too
Sudden Answer.

NEW YORK, March l4.-Answerina
The same Hypothetical question in re
sponse 10 which the alienists of the de-
fense declared Harry K. Thaw was suf-
fering from an unsound mind and did
not know the nature or quality Of has
act when he shot and killed Stanford
White, Dr. Austin Flint. the first OK
pert called today by District Attorney
Jerome in rebutta, declared ii to he
his opinion that Thaw positively did
know the nature and quality of his act
and knew that the act was wrong.
When court ad diourned Mr.. Delmas had
not begun his cross-examiuation of DR..
Flint, who is the first Of six alicnists
20 he called by Mr., Jerome.
After receiving Or. Flint s answer to
the Delmss Hypothetical question, Mr.,
Jerome had read to the witness the
prosecution S hypothetical question
which contained some $4,000 words and
which required one hour and eighteen
minutes in its reading, DR.. Flint again
said without qualification that Thaw
knew kis act WAS wrong and is three
fore liable for tho murder in the first
degree under the statutes Of the state
of New York.
Will Be Hot Cross-EXamination.
Mr. Delmas indicated that he would
cross-examine each expert searchingly.
Mr. Jerome s sanguine prophecy that
the taking of testimony would be con
cluded by tomorrow night has been
abandoned and those concerned in the
case again look To April | as the earliest
moment Of closing the trial.
Abraham Hummel was on the stand
again today and before Mr.. Demas
could object 10 a question pat by Mr..
Jerome the witness had got into the
record the statement that Evelyn Mes
bit had told him thai she had informed
Harry Thaw in Paris in 1908 that Stan
ford White positively had not drugged
or betrayed her. Mr.. Delmas at first
moved TO have the question and an
swer stricken from the record but as
the district attorney seemed about 10
consent 10 this plea, he insisted that
the answer stand.
l1uUHlel y IuItUtT ltStlHoHN Was
halted until Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
again takes the stand To testify as To
whether or not lummel was acting as
her attorney when she made the state
ments to him which were afterwards
embodied in an affidavit.
Ii was reported tonight that District
Attorney Jerome may be called TO the
witness stand in sur-rebuttal by the
defense. The purpose, it was sand, was
TO question MIR. Jerome as to certain
actions against Abraham Hummel, who
was witness today. This move was
taken as a reason for the defense al
lowing much of the Hummef testimony
TO stand today.
HumneI Storm Center.
After Abraham IIummel had been
called 10 the stand at the opening Of
the Thaw trial today. Mr.. Dehnas began
his argument in reply to District Attor-
ney Jerome as TO the adnlssbihty of
gardins the affidavit Evelyn Nesbit Is
said TO have made in his Office.
The District Attorney ciatned tnat
this evidence, II allowed. would tend TO
show that Evelyn Nesbit may not have
told tho defendant the story which is
said TO have made him insane.
Dr. Allan MeLane Hamilton. the alien
list who was employed by Thaw soon
come witness for the State, was in
court today along wth the other eX-
perls for the prosecution. Mr., Jerome
may call eight experts In all,
In beginning his argument MIR. DelmaS
touched first upon the point OF the pro-
fessional relations existing between Eve
lyn Nesbit and Mr.. Hummel al the time
the affidavit was MADE. Hummel denied