Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-03-10
Six New AlieniStS Summoned
to Assistance of District
Attorney in Effort to Prove
Thaw Guilty of Murder,
IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT
DURATION OF TRIAL
Prisoner Again Denies Stories
of DiSSenSionS in His Family
and Possible Separation Of
Himself and Young Wife,
IBy Morning Journal Special Leased Wire. !

BY Morning Journal Special Leased wirc.l
New York. March 9.-With the
real work of The prosecution stUl
ahead of him. District Attorney Jer-
ONE spent many busy hours today
preparing for the states case in re-
buttal, which will begin Monday
morning with the resumption of the
trial of Harry X. Thaw before JUS
tice Fitzgerald. Most of the day the
district attorney was closeted with
nine aienis.s, six new experts having
been summoned into consultation with
Drs Flint, Mcdonald and Mabou. Mr.
Jerome declined to discuss the iden-
tity of the new members to his force
of alienists Their advent. it was
said was to assist the district attor-
Hey in preparing Hypothetical ques-
tions which he will put to the experts
when they go upon the witness stand
1t was currently reported today that
Mr. Jerome had determined to push
the case to conclusion and not to ask
for a lunacy commission An the
/
staff are sanguine that their chief
will be able to throw sufficient doubt
upon Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's story to
at least tend To discredit her i'm the
eyes of the jury 90 they further de-
clare that Mr., Jerome hopes to have
eponderanee of expert testimony on
his side of the case-testimury show
ing that ThaW acted rs sane man
when he shot and killed Stanford
White, and has continued to act as a
sane man e.er since.
The case from tudays develop
promises to resolve itself at least into
a battle of experts. and this means
that there is absolutely no way Of
predicting when the end will come
If Mr.. jerome calls only three Of
his nine experts To the Stand-it is
more than likely that he will call
I five-it means Il series of intermn-
able ss-eXaminatiOns by Delmas.
| the leading counsel for the defense.
| Mr.. Delmas thus viii be given an op-
| portunity to match his medical kuoWl-
edge against the very thorough un-
derstanding of the subject displayed
by Mr. Jerome. Since Jerome began
to lay today SO much stress upon the
subject of insanity in preparing for
rebuttal it is scarcely possible that
| his prediction as to the time of end
! ing the case can come true. The de-
| fense has two alienists in reserve who
will be called in sur-rebuttaI, and
/ that means a still longer delay
| The trial on Monday will enter its
| eighth week, and the unexpected
must occur in order to bring about its
I conclusion before April /.
Harry Thaw today gave out a state
ment in denial of the reports spread
abroad to the effect that his sister,
| the Countess of Yarmouth, had de-
termined that there should be a sepa-
ration of Harry and his wife as soon
as the trial was over. Thaw declares
| he loves his wife more than ever and
! that his sister made no such state
ment as was credited to her.
! 81 wish to deny as emphaticaIly as
possible the published reports that my
sister. the Countess of Yarmouth, is
| desirous of bringing about a separa-
ton of my wife and myself with the
conclusion of the trial Perfect har-
mony exists between my wife, my sis
! ter and myself. as indeed, between all
| the members nf my family, such
| thing as Sc ..tation has never been
and never will be considered by me
or any of my relatives.
| 'The Countess of Yarmouth Is very
! friendly with Mrs. H. *. Thaw, and
holds her in the highest esteem.
"As for myself my love for my wife
| is greater than it ever was before II
| that is possible | hope this denial
| from me will forever set at rest ths
absurd story of separation
at is peculiarly regrettable to Mrs
Thaw and myself that such a story
Z the
source 1t did,
Much interest attaches to the form
! of the hypothetical questions which
| the district attorney will ask his eX-
! rerts.
MIR. Delmas seemed to include
1 every fact connected with the case
! in his hypothetical question, ana the
| defense's alienists gave it as their
opinion that Thaw not only was in
sane when he killed Stanford White,
| but for two months thereafter. II
/ the alienists for the state can take
/ these same facts and reach diamct-
! icaly opposite opinion, the jury VIII
have to take its choice and place its
own estimate upon the value OF eN-
pert testimony.
The staff of county detectives at
tached to Mr.. terome's office have
been sent out for every person men
toned by Evelyn Nesbit Thav in her
testimony, and efforts viii be made
to round them up, high and low, to
secure every bit of outstanding ad-
vice that may bear in any measure
upon the rebuttal of Thaw's wife's
story. It is hardly likely that any of
these persons will be called upon to
testify. for it is doubtful If they can
be called under the rules Of evidence.
But information they can give TO the
district attorney, he thinks, VIII be
] ra Iua hla nssnt 10 the neonle.s case.