Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-28
EVELYN THAW AGAIN RECALLED.
Denies That She Ever Carried a
Pist0l=-=DefenCe Will Close This
Week, If Jerome Finishes.

New York, Feb 27.-1nterest in the
Thaw trial to ny cc0tcrcd ii the man
lyres of District Attorney jerome.
10 sea ca 10 givC further \ ii-lto
". his purpose in the near future 70 APP
n 70 tie court for commission on
It'll ~ 10 lcpo:t upon the preset con
,tion OF the defen ants Mill. 7
witness stand for. the greater 7art 0f
he day was occupied by DIR. Britton D.
Evans. director of the New Jersey hos
Iital for the insane al Morris Plains. \.
j., an alienist for the defence, who was
up for cross-cxamination. Mr. Zero
seemed to direct his efforts at getting
from Evans information as to the *
act recognized form of insanity from
which the expert declared Harry Thaw
was suffering at the time OF t!ia
Brain storm which resulted in
Whites death. DR.. Eyars had tes-
titled that in his will Harry Thaw dis
played evidences of q lneiancholic state
Of mind. The district attorney dwelt
for ar hour or more upon the subject
Of melancholy.
Mr.. Jerome said he intended calling
as a witness in rcbuttal DR.. Allan Nc
Lane Hamilton. the alienist who was
first employed by the Thaw defence.
but who has not heretofore figured in
the trial. Or. Hamilton recently re-
turned from Europe. and. in a pub
lished interview. Just after lie landed.
was rcnortcd 10 have said that he
cIrne u the conclusion that Thaw was
insare at the time vi the tragedy and
that IL is insane It the present day.
The district attorney also stated tha.
he would call III. Charles F. Binga-
ran Of Pittshur-. the ThaW family
physician. in reDTttal. DIR. Di3gaman
was on the stand for short while to-
Gay, but Mr. Delnas objected when Mr..
jerome stated in to examine the
physician as to insanity in the Thaw
family on the ground that the witness
had not qualified as an expert. Atr.
Jerome thoreupon tod DR. Bingaman
to hold himself i'll readiness to take the
stand for the state.
DR.. E:ngaran toll today OF visiting
Thaw in the Tombs during August
last. when the prisoner seemed much
depressed and suffered from the dclu-
sion that Il conspiracy had hecn form
cd against him, complaining that he
was not allowed to put paper over the
pTdiIIS Ill his CELL tDOI DeCdUSt IHtS
wanted the cold air to blow in and give
him pneumonia. 50 he would die ana his
case never come 10 trial.
BY Retailing Mrs. Evelyn Ncsbit
Thaw to the stand for Il few questions
which he had omitted on his long
cross examination. Mr.. Jerome carly
today indicated that he would call
Howard Nesbit, her brother, 10 cnntra-
dict her in a matter Of credihility. HI
asked Mrs Thaw if she had not to!d
her mother that Thaw had treated her
cruelty While abroad because she Tc-
fused to tell lies about Stanford White
and say he had drugged and mi5trCat-
ed her. He also wanted to know if TIC
brother had not bought her pistol
with which she might defend herself
against Thaw. The defendants wife lie
MED absolutely that there was any
truth in any of these statements ana
said she had never owned or carried
a pistol in her life.
Mr.. Delmas announced today that the
defence would conclude It's case this
week. This, however. was upon the