The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-01


 Defendant, Himself Adds Fest to An Uninterestins Day In Court By
 Declaring MT. Jerome Acts
 UnprofessionaiIy. New York. Feb, 2s.-Harry K Thaw enlivened an extremely dull session of 1 his trial today by giving out to l newspaper man brief statement in ! which hs accused District Attorney | Jerome of having made unprofessional remarks in court asserted that his wife's testimony was absolute truth l and in conclusion declared that Mrs. Thaw's natural real goodness was l beyond the apprehension of the prose- cutting officer It was Just before adiournment was I taken for the day and after many hours or expert testimony as to the
 meaning of extracts from eight let 1 ters written by the defendant. with l their relation to the sanity or insan- Iity of the writer, that Thaw gave out l his statement in court. The circum- 1 stances attending the delivery of the statement to the newspaper men were about as interesting as the statement itself. which reads.
 This is Mir. Thaw's second state ment since August 10.
 With chances millions to one ! against her after the catastrophe in 1 1901, it is wonderful that Mrs. Thaw i prevailed in the cross examination against the prosecution backed by the 1 black legs.
 Her testimony was absolute truth. "Our evidence was of conversations The cross examination has proved the exact facts under oath.
 MT Jerome, finding his informants i in certain lines faisified. concluded 1 by more usual methods. which Is to his credit
 However, from some of his ques- 1 tions and some of his unprofessional I remarks in court, it appears clearly I that the natural and real goodness of l the witness is above his comprehen- l sion"
 Thaw began the preparation of this | statement yesterday afternoon. One of f the newspaper tables adjoins the table | occupied by his counsel. and a re- l porter, sitting near the defendant read over the latter's shoulder the two l opening paragraphs When the papers l appeared yesterday with the extracts
 from his afAteaneff printed in display type. Thaw Nsas much ehargrsned.
 Took Reporter to Task. Today. in court. he took the reporter to task. He said he had not intended making the statement public until the end of the trial He further asserted that many mistakes appeared in the portion of the statement that was pub lished and added that he might make correction later.
 Last night. in his cell in the Tombs, Thaw completed his statement and to- day after he had spoken to the reporter n h fesa etx Aore. taa handed the original draft to another reporter whom he had known for many years, and in whom he had confidence. He also handed the newspaper man brown envelope.
 Seal the statement up in this en- velope," said Thaw, and write your name across the flap. I am going to have some typewriter copies made, and when they are done I want you to compare them with the original and if they are all right they will be given out"
 Daniel oReilly. one of Thaw's law yers, said later that he also had copy of Thaw's statement, but would not give it out until the defendant directed him to do so.
 Late this afternoon the typewritten copies suddenly appeared in court. Att tention was first attracted to them by | Thaw handin ga carbon copy to his newspaper friend and asking him to compare it with the original Four or five other copies lay on the counsel ta- hla in front of the defendant. One of the reporters reached over, picked up The conies and hastily left the court room He was quickly followed by oth- ev ranorters and soon the statement was flashed into newspaper omces throughout the country The copies ana the original were exact and Thaw tr a statement released as a correction to the garbled statement "htc" gu this morning.
 ci,crord HartridRe. of Thaw's counsel, ard MT Delmas declared later they had no knowledge of the statement having been prepared or given out Dr. Britton D. Evans, the alenlst' ,,,as In the witness cnalr all of today
 ,ndergoing cross examination at the bands of District Attorney Jerome The nrosecutor said before adjournment tbat he would probaly keep pr. Evans on the stand throughout tomorrow. This means that the cross examination aF Dr Wagner another alienist, will 0ot he reached until next week and makes indefinite the time when the de- fense will rest
 Dr Evans and Mir. Jerome spent the entire day in going over eight letters
 written by Thaw and culling out of them excerpts on WulCn pH. I4NdhS udSSu his expressed belief that they were written by a person of unsound mind.
 "Do you mean an Insane person2'' asked Mir. Jerome
 "Yes," replied the witness, "but not in the sense that the person might al- ways remain insane
 This was the essence of the days work. MT. Jerome seemed as interest ed as the expert In searching out the phrases in the letters which might be construed as the writing of an Insane man and for the first time. the jurors were permitted thoroughly to examine nhotographic copies of the letters. As the witness and the prosecutor poured tedIously over the documents, the ju- TOTS were enabled to follow them close ly. The District Attorney apparently wanted the letters to be thoroughly scrutlnized and understood by the jury.
 MORTON RE-ELECTED.