Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

first witness. Mr. Delmas took up the
direct examination of the witness. thus re-
Stunning hts position IS leading counsel
Dr. Evans was asked to relate the con-
versations he had with Thaw during his
first three visits to the defendant in the
Tombs.
The witness has heretofore testified that
as the result Of these first three visits he
had reached the conclusicu that Thaw
was Of unsound mind.
Il took a letter of introduction 10 Mr..
Thaw from Mr. Hartridge and was finally
conducted to his cell. He gave me his
hand and looked at me with q staring
and twitching Of the eyes with a nervous
ness, such as we seldom see and in an
agitated manner, he asked me to have a
seat beside him on his cot He looked at
me long time and then said:
You have different eyes from DR..
Hamilton. Your eyes look as IL you were
sane man. His eyes suggested insanity
II asked him how he was saying / had
been sent by Mr.. Hartridge to talk matters
over He said II was all right II | came
! from Hartridge and response TO my
question as to how he felt. he said, oh! I'm
all right
The words were nervously uttered and
were piled together Then he continued
Lew Delafeld. a lawyer, and the firm of
Black. Olcctt, Gruber & Bonynge are in
conspiracy with Jerome, so as to close this
matter up and railroad me of to an asylum.
D." They want to have me declared insane.
| There's nothing to It. They don't want
me to come to a trial, where l may be
INDICATED and where I can tell the court
and jury what there is in this matter"
DR.. Evans said the arrival of the pris-
| oner's wife and mother interrupted the in
terview.
Thaw Talks of white.
lie offered to withdraw, but Thaw told
him to remain, and after kissing his wife
and mother and introducing the physician
he asked them to excuse him until he had
finished with his caller.
He then told me-" continued DR. Evans
"of Stanford White, and at great length
spoke of the alleged wrongs the man had
done to innocent and pure-minded girls.
| He neve" referred to himself and did not
seem to feel in any danger from his posi-
ton as prisoner charged with murder"
DR. Evans next described his second visit.
on August p last
"Thaw came into the room with a large
pasteboard box in his arms It was filed
with papers. He was nervous and agi-
tated and looked at both myself and DR.
Wagner with the peculiar stare. He had
an air Of sef-importance as If he was tell
ing us what to do instead of undergoing an
examination. He then proceeded to tell us
the same story of persecution he had re-
lated on the occasion of my first visit
He referred constantly to this man. this
creature, this dead man. this beast the
blackguard' and said the man had sought
to take the virtue of every pure-minded
woman who came within the sphere of
his observation
I tried TO save them Mr. Thew said
to us, and added: I did all in my power
never wanted to shoot the creature I
never wanted to kill him I knew he was
n foul creature, destroying all the mothers
and daughters in America. but l wanted.
| through legal means to bring him to trial.
I wanted to get him into court so he
would be brought to Justice
! II then asked him why, under such cir
cumstances, he had shot Mr.. White.
" Providence took charge of it, he re-
| piled. This was an act of Providence
For my part 1 would rather have had him
suffer in court the humiliation the revela-
ton of his acts would have caused"
ibid he tell you what he had done, II
anything, to bring Stanford White into
court?" asked Mr.. Delmas.
| HE said he had gone to see Anthony
Comstock and Mr.. Jerome and private
detective agency He said Mr. Jerome had
told him ne had better let the matter drop:
that there was nothing to It, The de-
tectives told him they would take the mat
ter up but they had not submitted n
proper report. AS to Mr. Comstock, he
said, he discovered Delaney Nicoll. the at
torney was acting as legal adviser both to
| Stanford White and to Colnstock He re-
garded this as another link in the con-
| spiracy against him.
! II asked him why he had carried pistol,
and he said Roger OMara, an Independent
| detective in Pittsburg, had advised him to
/ do so after he had told O'Mara that on
several occasions thugs had iostled him in
an attempt to get him into quarrel ard
street brawl. lie said these thugs were
: the hired agents of Stanford White, who
/ did not want to take the responsibility and
danger of making a personal attack. He
said White had hired the Monk Eas tman
gang to get him into a quarrel and then
/ beat or kick him to death"
Thaw Dismisses Doctor.
The witness next went into a description
of his third visi: to Thaw on September 49,
He was accompanied by DR.. Wagner and
Mr. Hartridge. Thaw came into the room
again, carrying the pasteboard box full of
papers. Mr.. Hartridge had tried to induce
him to give up the papers. Thaw said the
papers had to be looked after at once. He
then turned abruptly about and left the
room, saying:
Good day, doctor, am very sorry"
II told him the papers HAD nothing to do
with my examination, but ne swept out of
| the room and that ended the visit"
LAS a result of that visit did you draw
any scientific deductions as to Mr.. Thaw's
condition.
Yes. He displayed a highly explosive
mental makeup in that, without adequate
cause, he dismissed his counsel and physi-
clans after he had agreed in advance that
| We should come there for the purpose in
dicated. He displayed defective reason In
putting aside professional men whom he
had been assured were there through no
unfriendly part"
] did he mention to you the names Of any
! OF the young women who he said had suf-
fered wrongs at the hands OF Stanford
! White?" asked Mr. Delmas.
Before the witness could reply Mr.. Del
mas withdrew the question and asked DR..
Evans II he had read the codicil to Harry
1 Thaws will.
The witness said he had read 1t in part