The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-04
NOT TO CALL MRS.
THAW TO TESTIFY
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENSE FEAR
EVIDENCE WILL BE SEIZED
UPON BY JEROME.
COUNSEL is CONFIDENT.
OF His AcqutaI And Says There is
No Show for the Appointment
OFF Commiss ission--Prisoner
Was Quiet Sunday.

New York, March $50 far as i
known the last remaining dramatic
| feature of the Thaw trial may no
materializc. Mrs. William Thaw
the defendants mother, possibly viii
not be called to testify for her son
his counsel fearing that her evidence
will aid Jerome in his efforts 10 lane
the young millionaire in the mao
house
IT, howe YER, she is called her testi
mony, it is said, will he along tbs
line of parental influences which
made Harry X Thaw the nervous
sleepless, headstrong child described
by the family physician This week
also Drs. Bingham and Deemer, OF
Pittsburg. who attended Thaw when
he passed Though infantile diseases
including the ST. Vitus dance, will lie
put on the defense. They will fol
low DR.. Charles Wagner
Thaw's Sunday in the Tombs was
uneventfu He did not attend relig-
ious services and had no visitors.
One of the counsel for the defense
said today concerning a commission
in lunacy
We know positively there is no
show for the appointment. We be
lieve Thaw will be free inside of a
month"
The defendants counsel are in a
quardary over the probable result
of allowing Mrs William Thaw.
mother Of the defendant, to take the
stand. 1t is feared that any testimony
which she may give relative to pre-
natal influences ending to p.oduce
conditions favorable to the murderous
outbreak last summer may be seized
upon by the district attorney as an
other link in his chain of proof that
Thaw still is insane.
While the general opinion seems
to be that Jerome has failed to es,
tablish Thaw's present mental incom
potency by the defence's experts, it
is admitted that he has forced some
startling admissions. ard has a fair
show to say the least, 10 send the
prisoner TO the asylum for criminal
insane if he is acquitted
Mothers Story May Be Disastrous.
Mrs. William Thaw could add no
tnng to the defense beyond showing
that her son exhibited indica ions Of
mental storms" when young, and
that there is reason for believing the
cause to have antedated his birth.
While this would assist in the in
sanity theory of the fense, it would
be almost certain to oyerstep the
mark and be partial proof of chronic
insanity, it is argued.
Thaw himself has pleaded with his
attorneys to refuse to allow Mrs.
Thaw, Sr.. to testify, lest the WY
prosecutor make capital from her ap.
pearance during his cross-eXamina
ton.
1t was determined al a conference
Df defendants counsel at the home Of
Dolphin NJ. Delmas to endeavor by a
legal means to combat the supposed
attempt by he district attorney to ap.
ply for a lunacy commission.
The lawyers were unanimous in the
opinion that Harry X. Thaw's fate
should be decided by the jury, and
when their conclusion was reported
% the wife ana mother Of the de
'ouIapt tb,,, ac,uf,s,I -, ia, IrCf. 4.-
10 fight The case 10 the end.
DR.. Evans is Recalled.
One of the lawyers for the defense,
n speaking OF the conference and It's
lecision, said that any attempt TO
send Thaw 10 a madhouse. where he
would have to remain until the in
lictment is disposed e. would be
ought 70 the end.
Whor the court rec0nvenes tomor
'ow the examination Of DR. b. ID. ]
Evans. the defense's principal expert. /
will be concluded. and other medical
men will be called for crOss-eNamina- /
ion in continuation Of Mr.. Jerome's
lttempt to show Thaw's insanity. He
'bHitiuI AIl6 Il VI %HtA a lld uit a. l
o be incurable. or at least OF such a
character as makes it unlikely that
le has yet recovered from the mental
arrangement which caused him to
commit homicide
Nature Of Disease in Question.
Dr Evans has admitted hat hc lc- /
owes Thaw was insane iH tho fall n /
9u3 and that he was again insane /
when he was married. April g. 1905. /
md was suffc ing from brain storm 4
N June 25 1906. The night e the /
homicide. What his CO.. dition vas .
letween these dates he has no means /
# knowing.
While the expert has been firm in \
is classification Of the disease a.
nelanchOlia a. the result Of insanity
f the adolescent or develOpmentsl
tage. he has been forced @ admit
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