The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-18
Famous Document Is Admit
ted As Evidence After a
Hard Battle in Court.
BEAT HIS WIFE HORRIBLY.
SHE WAS COMPELLED TO TAKE
TO HER BED ON ACCOUNT OF
HIS INHUMAN ACTS-TOOk $500
OF HER MONEY.

New York, March 1S-The same
large crowd was on hand this morn
ing when the Thaw case came up.
Three new experts appeared on Thaw's
side. They were DR.. Charles Pilgrim.
president of New York State Lunacy
commission; DR.. Minar Gregory of the
Bellevue hospital; and VIM. A. White,
superintendent of the government in
sane hospital at Washington. With
out putting the witnesses on the stand
Jerome put in his time trying to get
Hummels affidavit admitted. Del
mas objected, but was overruled and
Photographic plate of the last page of
EveIyns affidavit with her signature
thereon, was admitted.
For an hour the battle waged be-
tween jerome and Delmas as to
whether Hummel's affidavit should be
admitted. Delmas said that if Mrs.
Thaw were allowed to tell under what
conditions this affidavit was prepared
he would gladly admit it. He wanted
it admitted he said under those con-
ditions and he wanted it SO badly that
if Jerome didn't read it, Thaws at
torney would This ended in an adj
mission of the affidavit.
Delmas is expecting TO have Mrs.
Thaw testify concerning it later.
Jerome then started to read the af-
fidavit. This document after telling
Mrs. Thaw's age and reciting her adj
ventures leading up to the trip to
Europe with her mother and Thaw
says Thaw and Evelyn left Mrs. Thaw
in London and started to the CONT
nent, going to Germany where Thaw
rented a castle. Quoting the affidavit
Mrs. Thaw says: AT this castle Mr..
Thaw awakened me one morning, en-
tered my room and began to tear the
clothes from nae. and administered a
raw-hide whipping and when | began
to scream he placed his fingers in my
mouth and choked me. He stopped
for minutes rest and began again.
Next day he came into my bedroom
and repeated his castigation. | swoon-
ed We continued the tip after Thaw
had taken four hundred dollars of my
money and several diamonds. We
next stopped in Switzerland, where he
again beat me at the hotel. | saw
him take cocaine pills. | also found
a hypodermic syringe which Thaw said
he used TO administer cocaine. We
went to Paris and there l was confined
to my, bed for three weeks after Thaw
beat me up
Will Recall Mrs. Evelyn Thaw.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will again be a
witness called in surrebuttal of the tes
timony of James Clinch Smith and
Abraham Hummel. Alienisas Smith.
Ely. Jelliffe and Graeme Hammond
who have spent almost two months in
the court room. will be placed on the
stand for the first time and several
other insanity experts may be called
10 cover what the defense considers inn
portant points.
Several other witnesses will be call
ed but no inkling of who these wit
nesses are, has been given out.
The opposing attorneys. Delmas and
Jerome, spent today with but little
time for rest and recreation. Mr..
Delmas took a couple of hours from his
task of preparing his closing argu
ment to ride through Central Park.
In the preparation of his argument
Mr.. Delmas admits that he has been
greatly aided by suggestions from
widely different points on other conti-
nents and many cities in America.
The average of letters received has
been over 100 a day Men. such as
senators. congressman. mayors of cit
ies. doctors and merchants. have felt
the impulse to write ideas that have
he. l,5f ,fci
of the trial
Spiritualists. hypnotists and telepa-
thists have been represented in great
numbers in the daily mail but those
from mothers, containing words of
sympathy, have been in the ascend
ency.
Notes From Foreign Lands.
Cape Town. South Africa. and Aus
tralia. are the most remote points TO be
heard from. London and Paris have
furnished hundreds of correspondents,
and many of the missives have been
written in languages which defied in
depreciation from linguists who speak
a dozen tongues. What Mr. Delmas
considers the most remarkable of the
many crank letters comes from Paris
The writer says he is possessed of mar
velous powers of telepathy. and offers
without pay to treat the jury so that
a verdict of acquittal will be assured
He merely requests that the names of
the twelve jurors be sent to him by
mail and that he be notified by cable
the exact moment when the case goes
into their hands.
Most valuable suggestions has been
found. it is said in two works on insan-
ity. sent by the authors TO Mr.. Del
mas. Charles Mercer, a lecturer on
insanity at the Westminster Medical
School in London. wrote one of these