Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-19

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ness does not answer as the district
attorney wants him to-"
He has answered as / want"
why do you keep repeating 1t
them" asked Mr.. Delmas.
Because l. don't want him to fall
into a hole without seeing the hole
There was a general laugh.
Nr. jerome then asked again if the
will or codicil showed a parent deiu-
sion.
Il can't say that it is parent delu-
sion-.'
DO you know what a pa ent delusion
is?''
Yes"
Then DO you find it in this will Or
codicil?"
Il cannot subscribe it as parent
delusion: there is an apparent delusion
"A we'll defined dclusion."
Cant you tell whether it is 4 par
ent delusion?" repeated Mr.. jerome
with persistence.
Il can't say whether it is or not"
why didn't You say So before? I
asked you the question half dozen
times
And the witness replied half doz-
Ell times" interrupted Mr.. Delmas
who had kept his feet during the en-
tire examination.
Mr.. Jerome asked the witness to
point cut in the will a single unsystem
affixed dclusion. DR.. Evans started to
read.
Don't do that commanded Mr.. Jer-
ONE.
you told me TO-" said DR.. Evans.
81 did not
Justice Fitzgerald ordered the origi-
nal question read and then ruled that
the witness had the right to read from
the will in replying to the question.
DR.. Evans then read what he called
Paragraph s. 1t provided in part:
"In case l die other than 4 natural
| death. or if any suspicion attaches to
my taking off. or if l should be made
away with, I direct that my executors
shall Immediately set aside the sum of
$4,000 for an investigation of the cir
cumstances and for the prosecution of
the guilty persons
| If additional sums were needed. the
| executors were directed to use them.
| as that an unsystematized delu-
sion?" asked Mr. Jerome.
| zone statement does not make Sys-
| tenn" retorted DR.. Evans.
Can you point out any other unsys-
| tematized delusions?"
| II am not able to say"
| What are you able to say" inter-
| rupted Mr.. jerome.
"There are 4 good many things 1 am
able to say that am not permitted to
| say" replied the witness.
| "What are you able to say as to un-
systematiZed delusiOns?"
1.-The provision in the will which l
read is such delusion."
What else?"
II see in these documents evidences
of insane decisions. They show de-
lusions Of al unsound mind Said DR..
Evans.
Mr. Delmas, when Mr.. Jerome finish
ed with this preliminary cross-exami-
nation. offered the codicil in evidence.
IMr. Jerome objected to the ldentif1ca-
ton of the document.
There is in this will a reference to
a third document. signed and sealed
at the same time as the will and codi--
ell and ali there must go In at the
same time protested Mr.. jerome.
I'VE have proved" replied Mr. Del
long before June % and this expert has
testified that it contained evidence of
insanity. We arc not offering it as part
of anything else but as separate doe
ument I offer it without reference to
other papers,
This paper is introduced to show
insanity in the defendant" insisted Mr..
jerome, and we are entitled to all til :
n .-.;c l,a fi,,,n
question the right of counsel to intro
duce part Of what is really one docu-
ment."
After a short conference between
Mr.. Jerome and Mr.. Delmas the objec-
tin was withdrawn.
Mr. Delmas read the codicil. 1t be-
queathcd the sum of $500 to Rodey y.
Marshall of Pittsburg to he used all
or I, part in obtaining legal redress
from Stanford White and one other
person who's" name was not allowed %
be mentioned, i'll favor of four young
women, whose names also were omit
ted and who. the cOdicil declared. had
been ruined by Stanford White in a
house in New York furnished and
used for orgies by Stanford White and
other inhuman scoundrels."
The separate circumstances of the al.
legged degrading assaults" upon the fou,
young women were mentioned in the CO.
dicil. One of the young women was de-
clared to be acting at Lew Fields thea
tire at the time.
The coGicil also left to DIR. Charles II
! Parkhurst. TO Frederick Longfellow and
Anthony Comstock sums of $500 each
for the same purpose of securing evil
dence and obtaining redress for the vic
tins.
Mr. DelmaS next offered the entire
will of Harry X. Thaw and there was
no objection by District Attorney Jerome
The instrument was read in fun by Mr.
Delmas but the recipients of the be
quests were not mentioned by name by
the attorneys. who inserted the WORD
blank in place OF the name. After dis
posing Of various personal effects and
trinkets the will in its first section leaves
to Mrs. Evelyn Thaw 5000 in lieu OF
dover and establishes trust fund OF
$4,000 for her. 1t also provides an an.
nuity of $500 for Howard Nesbit.
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