New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-01
THAW BREAkS OUT.
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A. he said. showed signs Of insanity. In Exhibit
B, DIR. Evans said:
81 am of the opinion that the defendant was
insane at the time he wrote the letter"
In several other exhibits the witness discovered
characteristics to show that the writer was men
tally unbalanced The examination was exceed
ingly tiresome. as the witness would not answer
as the prosecutor wanted him to. and the prose-
cutOr tried TO stop the witness answering in his
way.
Exhibit provoked the most interesting tilt of
all the letters examined. After reading It DR..
Evans was asked:
ON your opinion. as scientific man. does the
letter indicate that the writer, when writing 1t.
indicate ne was of uhsOund mind. but it points in
that directon-that his mind was in a state Of In
9Wi you 1qst tell us what KSu ,5 mean PI By
mean non-steadiness an unbalanced mind. a mind
such as would give way under considerable stress
orousIy and BEAUTIFULLY; such as a mans mind or
persons mind does I'm a state of perfect mental
sides that 1t shows here. II seems TO me. me- ten
place he speaks of being able TO own Ptttsourg po-
ing TO forget; but when reached our big home
and sat at breakfast Sith the decentest people IN
Won would have been so respected and your repu-
tation as a beauty would be greater over the
world and last longer. too. probably forever. and
cally." Is that what you mean? Ayes.
There was a question whether a word IN the
next sentence in the letter was supreme or
not, and Mr. Jerome asked:
Q.-Have you read it properly or not? Al don't
know
coherent or not? A-Without knowing more about
mus tetan ~ s this Of their owning the city
Of Pittsburg poI!ticalIy-that tended toward de-
gsy9 s b5 OF sonn6 n make ns o{ o at the
typewriter copy and 1t has supreme p noth-
Mr peimas-That means the Senator from Penn
o.@How does that seem incoherent. that a young
of large means should oe Senatos o. trS ssCase
from which Senator Quay had come? Al DON'T
Q@Weii. without assuming that does T. seem 70
yuu that the writer OF that letter gave S Ell
insanity because he aspred to be Senator rom 'He
Mr. Beimas@YoG are not to assume that he was
az Mr. Jerome1My question Is directed TO that.
whether it seemed 70 him that because ra,L man
aspred to be Senator fr9 TINE fe snTsSe here in
the exhibit Is. And we could own Pittsours not
the money. but politically.
After the letters had been disposed Of the Dis
trio, Attorney turned his attention 20 the hypo-
thetlcal question put by Mr.. Delmas. He asked:
Q-Now what there in the ny. hyP0the,tSisS ss
exhibits 4 20 L. that were elements that enabled
E nsah to s e@y the 5a night of the 18th Of june 1867
The Gyeob a YES assumed
of ;hinEs and among them the fact that his uncle
either w Tns MhsS T SP 99a My memory is that
the relative had enilepsy But It assu NEE t taI b6d
the various chiIdrens diseases that he was ner-
yous, that his mother about [ourteen NOUNS S h ne
and found a child In the bedworas to that effect
some considerable time after that, she was very
nervous result Of this and thaI ,r Jne
nervousness. Il further assumed that this man
6af he e met yoGnR nav Woman and giving the name
Evelyn Neshit think. In 1901 that shs ss ne
Jaa sgI d' ~ M" dne stanford White and Narrated
snn.hat en- detail the relations Of White to her
and ~ hp still doing that which appeared TO IN
her husband subsequent 10 her marriage and took
into consideration these letters Ihat Is my recol-
lection Of the Hypothetical question
Or Evans said he had made written report
of his findings regarding Thaw. Mr.. Jerome
asked him to produce 1t Tomorrow DIR. Evans
refused. Mr.. Jerome had the alienist served
with a subpoena duces tecum to bring 1t to-
day DR.. Evans got name. Mrs. Aston" into
the records while reading a letter written by
the defendant while in Paris. The letter was
ore telling about visits to cafes in that city. and
the name was that spoken of previously as a
woman high in New York society" DIR. Evans
read it after the following questions had been
asked:
Q.-Is there any evidence of this not being. evil
dence tending show the writer of unstable
mental condition? A.-The pages l, 2 3. and taking
those by themselves. without knowing what was
before. II may mean little or nothing II says;
He could not keep his eyes of many pretty girls
In sight. one night Mrs. Aston wanted to come
with people. hut had 10 resign Several
'beauts' here last week.
Odd YOU think ! asking you to read II
aloud. or did YOU understand was asking you to
point In IL this evidence of discOnnecton which
in other letters you say tended to show I'M
stable mental condition of the writer when writing
it, A.-Nes.
Q-Point out IN this letter any such evidence
connected with that exhibit YOU have pointed
them ont IN others. Al do not see in this letter
the suggestive part that In the others. 1t Is
one parent teal paragraph. you may call II. This
exhibit written. but cannot predicate mental
unsounduess "A separate proposition on Ii.
DR. Evans will continue on cross-examnatiOn
to-day. Mr.. Jerome has intimated that he is far
from through with the alienist. and II IS ex-
pected that he will be on the stand all day.