Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07

DEFENSE TWO MORE WITNESSES
Alieni.ts to Be Examined and Defense
Will Be Thru With Direct Testi-
mony-May Mackenzie Will Not Be
summoned-cross Examination May
ee Exhaustive-Pians Of Attorneys.

New York, March 7.-Death in Jus
tice Fitzgeralds family has postponed
the sessions of the Thaw trial for a
day. and court will not sit today. On
Friday, when court reconvenes, the de-
tense will call two more alienists,
probably DR.. Graeme NJ. Hammond ana
Dr. Smith E. Jelliffe, who have been in
the court room practically every day
since the trial began.
Before court adjourned yesterday,
Delmas stated there would be but two
more witnesses called. The attorneys
will devote today to forming the hy-
pothetical questions which they will
{ put to these experts
This question, Delmas said last night,
will cover every fact in the case. How
long 1t will take Jerome to cross
examine these experts no one can tell.
1t will depend very largely on their
attitude and their willingness to give
direct answers.
This decision makes It certain q
number of witnesses who had been ex--
pected to testify for the defense will
not be called at least in presentation
OF the direct case. Among these are
Roger O'Mara, the Pittsburg detective,
and May Mackenzie. Both may be
called when the defense reaches its
sur -rebuttal.
Plans of the defense in regard to
what Mrs William Thaw, the white
haired mother of defendant, would tes-
fify to, were changed. 1t had been an
nounced she would testify. as to in
sanity in her family, but Delmas would
not allow her to Go So even. after she
had asked in open court to be allowed
to- This was probably due to the fact
that the defense does not desire to pile
up any more evidence Of the taint Of
insanity in Thaw's blood. Mrs. Thaws
testimony as to the mental condition of
her brother and other members of her
family could do nothing but tend to
show taint in the blood that would per-
haps be permanent. The defense goes
on the theory that Thaw was insane
from early in 1903 until after June 25
1906, but that after White, the man
whom he believed to be responsible for
all his troubles, was dead, his mind
rapidly became normal.
The defense has not yet introduced
testimony to show that Thaw is sane
today, but may do so by experts FRI
day. The only evidence that has SO
far been introduced which tends to
show he is at present sane, is DR.. Ev-
ans testimony that when he saw him
In the Tombs, October 8, his condition
was greatly improved and that the inn
provement was of an impressive char
acter.
Mrs William Thaw, mother Of de-
fendant, was not kept long on the
stand yesterday afternoon, but her ex-
animation added another dramatic
chapter to the history of the trial of
Harry K. Thaw for the murder of
Stanford White. Mrs. Thaw's stay be-
fore the jury was brief. When Delmas
had definitely limited her examination
to the change she had noted in her
sons condition following <his return
from Paris in 1908, after Evelyn Nes-
Dit had told him her life story, and
when the district attorney had with
great consideration conducted a short
and Intellectual cross s-examination, the
mother love welled strong in Mrs
Thaw and she felt she had not done
her all. She was loath to leave the
1sitnass chair.