The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10
AbandOns Lunacy Commission 10
Prove That ThaV Has
Never Been Insane
TO DISCREDIT EVELYN'S
STORY IN EYES OF JURY
Gives Out Defendants Statement-De-
nies Report That Countess of Var
mouth Will Seek Separation
of Himself and Evelyn.


New York. March 9.-With the real
work of the prosecution still ahead of
him, District Attorney Jerome spent
many busy hours today preparing for the
states case in rebutal, which will begin
Monday morning with the resumption of
the trial of Harry *. Thaw. Most of the
day the district attorney was closeted
with nine aliensts Six new experts have
been summoned into consultation with
Drs. Flint, Macdonald and Mabon who
have been present throughout the trial
in the interest of the prosecution Mr..
Jerome declined to disclose the Identity
of the new members to his force of alien
lists 1T was said that they will assist the
district attorney in preparing hypothefi-
cal questions. 1t was currently reported
today that Mr.. Jerome had finally de-
s termined to push the case to a conclusion
and not TO ask for lunacy commission.
All the members of the district attor
neys staff sanguine that their chief
will be able to throw sufficient doubt
upon Evelyn Nesbit Thaws story to at
least tend to discredit her in the eyes OF
the jury and they further declare that
Mr.. Jerome hopes to have preponderance
of expert testimony on his side of the
case-testlmony showing that Thaw acted
MS sane man when he shot and killed
Stanford White and has continued TO act
as a sane person ever since. The case,
from today's developments, promises to
ut int hatt of
experts aud this means that there is
absolutely no way of predicting when the
end viii come.
Nine Experts.
II MIR. Jerome only calls three of his
1ine experts to the stand-it is more than
likely that he will call five-it means d
series of interminable cross examinations
by Dolphin NJ Delmas the leading coun-
sci for the deferse Mr.. Demas thus will
be given an I portunity to match his
medicanl knowledge against the very
thorough understanding of the subject
displayed by Mr. jerome. The trail will
enter its eighth week Monday and the
unexpected must occur in order to- bring
about it's conclusion before April L.
Those who have been following the case
were hopeful of an early termination un-
til Mr.. Jerome today went into conference
with nine alienists. Then all hope was
abandoned.
Harry Thaw today gave out a state
ment in denial of the reports that his
sister, the Countess of Yarmouth. had de-
1ermined there should be separation of
Harry and his wife as soon as the trial
is over. Thaw declares that he loves his
wife more than ever and that his sister
made absolutely no such statement as
was credited to her. The statement is as
follows:
Tbam's Statement
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