The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-12
At Least Such Would be Gath.
cred From the Testimony
of Witnesses.
ACTIONS CHARACTERIZED BY
AN ExAGGERATED EGO"
DR.. B. D. Evans on Stand All Morning
Visited Defendant in the Tombs
Eight Times and Found Many In.
dications Of sBrain Stormn-De.
fense's Scheme Becomes Apparent.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
New York, Feb. 12.-The defense in
the Thaw case continued today with
the introduction of expert testimony
as to the condition of the defendants
mind during the several months fol-
lowing the tragedy of Madison Square
Garden.
1--WE do this" explained Delmas,
Thaw's leading counsel, "in order that
the jury by means of the wreckage on
the beach may infer that there has
been a storm upon the waters"
The witness who occupied the en-
tire morning session and whose 'testi-
mony had not been concluded when
recess was ordered, was DR.. Britton
d. Evans, superintendent of the state
hospital for insane at Morris Plains,
N. ]. DR.. Evans declared that when
he first visited Thaw in the Tombs
on Aug. 4, there were many indica-
tions of the brain storm or explosion
or Illuminating condition of mental un-
soundness through which he had re-
Gently passed"
1t now became evident for the first
time in the court that the defense is
endeavoring to show to the jury that
while Thaw was insane prior to the
killing of Stanford White and at the
time and Immediately subsequent to
the homicide, alienists who visited
him in the Tombs found that as their
visits progressed his manner changed
from storm and stress" to calm and
quiet. Dr. Evans testimony today
bore out this contention.
AS an alienist, he had formed an
opinion as the result of his eight
visits to Thaw, but he had not been
asked to state it up to the time recess
was taken, when Delmas indicated
that his direct examination was not
nearly concluded.
Associated Press to The Evening Times.
New York, Feb. 12.-Dr. B. p. Evans
was the first witness called in the
Thaw trial this morning.
The witness knew Harry X. Thaw,
first saw him Aug. 4, 1906 in the
Tombs and in all visited him eight
times. DR.. Evans said to he was alone
on the visits of Aug. and Oct. 1.
At other times he was accompanied
by DR.. Charles G. Wagner, who testi-
fed yesterday. DR.. Evans declared
he noticed on his visits to the Tombs
that Thaw suffered from forms of in
sanity characterized by "an exagger-
ated ego," including dalescent insan-
ity, the latter due to heredity. DR..
Evans said that Thaw also exhibited
symptoms of having recently under
gone an explosive or Illuminating con-
dition of mental unsoundness.
Yesterday Afternoon.
DR.. Wagner's examination Of the
Thaw letters required more than half
an hour.
"Have you examined these letters
with a view to their tendency to show
the mental condition Of their author?"
asked Mr.. Delmas.
II have"
Mr.. Delmas then proceeded with his
hypothetical question. II will as
sumo DOCTOR" he began, "that the
author of these letters on June 25 last
was in his Seth or 37th year, that one
of his uncles was insane; that when
he himself was a child had suffered
the usual children's disease, includ-
ing st. Vitus dance; that he was al
ways of a nervous temperament; that
he slept badly and often required the
attention Of two nurses; that In 1901
he met young woman Of between 16
and II years of age, that he paid hon
orable court to her and had gone to
her mother protesting his love and
his desire that the girl should become
his wife; that In 1903 the young woman
having undergone serious operation
the man went to her bedside, knelt