The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-15
FIRST STATE EXPERT
 SAYS THAW WAS SANE
DIR. FLINT DECLARES ACCUSED KNEW NATURE OF HIS
 ACT.

Answers Identical Hypothetical Ques-
 ton Put by the Defense and Also
 Another of 15,O0O Words-Latter
 Took One Hour and Eighteen Min
 utes to Read-DeImas Will Cross
 Examine Flint To-day--HummeI Gets
 on Record Important Statement---
 Defense After Objectlng Insists That
 It stand.
 New York, March 14-Answering pre- cisely the same hypothetical question in response to which the alienists of the defense declared that Harry K. Thaw was suffering from mind so unsound that he did not know the na- ture or quality of his act when he shot and killed Stanford White, Dr. Austin Flint, the first expert called to-day by District Attorney Jerome in rebuttal, declared 1t to be his opinion as scien- Itific man that Thaw positively did know the nature and quality of his act, and knew that the act was wrong. When court adjourned for the day MT. Dell mas had not begun his cross s-examina- tion of Dr. Flint, who is the first of six alienists to be called by Mir. Jerome.
 After repeating to pr, Flint the same question which Mir. Delmas put to the experts for the defense, and having him declare that Thaw was sane on the as- MT. Jerome had read to the witness the prosecution's hypothetical question, which contained some 15000 words and which required one hour and eighteen minutes in the reading. pr. Flint again said without qualification that Thaw knew his act was wrong and is there fore liable for murder in the first de- gree under the statutes of the state of New York.
 Dr. Delmas indicated that he would examine each expert searchingly. MT. Jeromes sanguine prophecy that the taking of testimony would be con- cluded by tomorrow night has been abandoned, and those concerned in the case again look to April 1 as the earh- est moment of closing the long-drawn- out trial.
 Abraham Humnel was on the stand again to-day, and before MT. Delmas could object to a, question put to him | by MT. Jerome the witness had got into l the record the statement that Evelyn Nesbit had told him that she had in- | formed Harry Tnaw in Paris in 1908 that Stanford White positively had not drugged or betrayed her. MT. Delmas at first moved to have the question and answer stricken from the record, but as the district attorney seemed about to consent to this plea the counsel for the defense insisted that the answer stand
 Hummefs further testimony was halted until Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw again takes the stand to testify as to whether or not Hummel was acting as her attorney when she made the state ments to him which were afterwards embodied in an affidavit.
 Both MT. Jerome and MT. Delmas were irritable to-day, and had frequent clashes. The strain of the trial is pal pably telling upon every one concerned with it.
 It was reported tonight that District Attorney Jerome may be called to the witness stand in sur-rebuttal by the defense. Tne purpose, it was said, was to question MT. Jerome as to certain actions laying against Abraham Hum- mel, who was witness to-day. This move was taken as a reason for the de- fense allowing much of the Hummel 1 testimony to stand to-day.