Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-04
JEROME ENAC|S
Shooting SCENE
Concludes Extended Cross Exam
ination Of Evans and Makes
Better Showing
"sRAlN STORM" SHORT LIVED
AiIsniss Comes Near Being cornered
In His Expert Diagnosis of Thaw's
Mental Condition at Time Of Shoot
ino-pr. Wagner, Another AIienist,
On the Stand.

New York. March 4.--District Attor-
ney Jerome today concluded his long
cross examination Of DR.. Britton ID.
Evans, the alienist for the defense IN
the Thaw trial, who has declared that
Thaw was suffering from brain storm
at the time he shot and killed Stan
ford White Evans was succeeded on
the stand by DR.. Charles q. Wagner,
of Binghampton. N. Y, also an alienist
for the defense, and his cross exam
nation was begun. Jerome drew inn
portant admissions from Evans to the
effect that Thaw had knowledge OF
what he was doing the night OF the
tragedy. Witness, however, charac-
terized 1t as an insane knowledge.
Jerome piled question after question
predicated upon Thaw's actions SUBJ
sequent to the shooting, and asked if
they did not indicate defendant knew
what he was about. Evans explained
he believed the brain storm had
cleared up Immediately after the shoot-
ing and that Thaw's scattered senses
had begun to readjust themselves even
before he left the roof garden.
DR.. Wagner used the present tense in
replying to q question by Jerome as to
the form Of Thaw's insanity, saying
he believed defendant "is suffering from
symptoms allied to two forms of in
sanity-one tending to melancholy, the
other to dementia." Thaws attorneys
made no move to correct the witness.
New York, March 4.--When the trial
of Harry K. Thaw was resumed today,
DIR. Rrittons D. Evans, alienist, was,
called by the defense and took the wit
ness stand to finish his cross examina-
tion. Thaw was again brought into
court, and carried big brown port
folio envelope filled with letters He
receives several scores Of missives
each day, some letters coming from
across the seas, and the Monday morn
ing mail is always heavy.
In resuming the cross examination
of Evans, Jerome asked:
Doctor, reverting to the night of
the shooting of White, does the fact
that defendant walked deliberately
away without excitement after the
shooting, appear to you to be an i'm
portant fact in determining whether or
not the defendant was insane?"
Yes. 1t leads me to believe that he
was of unsound mind-that is, when
taken in connection with other Incl
DENTS"
.The fact that at the time Thaw's
step was slow and measured and his
manner somewhat dramatic, that he
manifested no agitation, and walked
deliberately away without any effort to
escape, taken In connection with the
other facts, Indicated to the witness
that he did not know he had done any
thing wrong, did not know he had done
anything that should make him shrink
from his fellow men, or from officers
of the law"
"The fact" said Jerome, "that Thaw
told fireman who seized him, he
ruined my WIFE does that indicate to
you that this defendant knew he had
killed White?"
"It Indicated to me-" replied Evans,
chat this one thought which had
weighed down upon him-which had
been devouring his soul-was still with
him. This idea that his wife was be-
ing ruined by White was still in the
fore front of his thought"
Characteristic Of Brain Storm.
In the moments Immediately follow
ing the shooting of White, the witness
said that Thaw might have had an IN
sane appreciation of all the incidents,
but there was nothing in evidence to
show that Thaw knew he had been ar
rested for killing White, the only thing
tending to show that he did know it,
being his statement that it was an act
of providence
But that was subsequently" said
Jerome. "Im asking for the condition
of his mind that night. In most cases
where insane persons kill, when not in
a maniacal condition, do they usually
possess enough intelligence to know
these things?"
Sometimes not always.
"When he was on the elevator, did he
know what he had done?"
There had been by that time re-
organization of his mental forces and
by that time he knew he had done
something
Therefore, if there had been brain
storm he had recovered in this short
time sufficiently to know what he had
done?'
That's one Of the characteristics of
brain storm, but l can't say whether or
rot he knew at the time what he had
done"
witness believed that in the brain