The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-19

could not sleep at all because of those
little girls screaming upstairs.
Were there any little girls upstairs?
asked Mr.. Delmas.
I'm pretty sure there were not. Any
way, | could not hear a sound"
When Mr.. Jerome took the witness in
| hand for cross-examination he asked wit
ness if a statement he had made the day
| after the tragedy to Assistant District
Attorney Garvan was true?
Eyes sir" said the witness.
Did you not say Thaw acted quietly
when answering questions to the desk
sergeant" asked Mr.. jerome.
Mr.. Delmas objected and was sustained
on the ground that the witness had not
been questioned about Thaw's conduct
until he had reached his cell.
Barrett admitted his statement to MI
Caravan in which he said Thaw had re-
fused TO talk to any one but himself Bar
rett: that he had asked for cigars and
when they were given him. said they were
not all of the same brand; that some
were better than others; that he seemed
to be all right at this time, except that
he had apparently been drinking a Varie-
ty of stuff or using dope"
Barrett said he had never seen the
statement after he made it to Mr.. Car
van
There were lot of women upstairs
that night, were there not?" asked the
district attorney.
Yes sir
%And one of them cursed and swore
and said she would not sleep there or
let any one else sleep, didn't she?'
Il don't know anything about that
woman" replied the witness.
well did not'y tell Mr.. Garvan that
you were with. Thaw and you heard
that?''s
mo, 1 did not; said l heard it when
| was upstairs
Returning to his question regarding
Thaws appearance, Mr.. Jerome asked;
well did not he look as If he had
been drinking hard?'
Yes"
Mr.. Jerome said he would defer any fur
Their cross-examination he might desire
to make of the witness.
Lynch on Stand.
Policeman Thomas F. Lynch followed
Officer Barrett on the stand. He had
Thaw in charge the morning after the
tragedy. In his opinion Thaw at that
| time was irrational" Thaw had also
complained to him about hearing tho
voices of little girls in the station house.
II told him there were no little girls
in the station. He said he heard them
CRYING, and they sounded as If they were
not more than IL years of age. | walked
over to the airshaft and listened. ! heard
nothing but | said to him: "Do you hear
| them now"
He said Yes and then I said Well
you must be dopey.'
Officer Lynch said on cross-examinatlon
he did not think his memory was any bet
ter now than II was Immediately after
the tragedy. but he might have remem-
bered some things that he did not re-
member the next day
did YOU say to Mrs. Hamilton. the
stenographer in my office the day after
the homicide, I have seen many dope
fends and think he is one? " asked Mr..
Jerome.
Yes
Ibid you say he had the appearance
of having been drinking?
Yes
did You saw the matron had her usual
number of tenderlon women and perhaps
he heard them?'
Yes"
This ended officer Lynch's examination
and he was excused.
Following the regular afternoon recess
| Mr. Delmas called to be sworn hve Oh
| the defense's alienists They were Drs.
| Graeme NJ. Hammond Smith Ely Jei1he
| Charles w. Pilgrim, Minas Gregory and
| William A. White.
DR.. Hammond on Stand.
! DIR. Harmon was the first of the f1ve
| to take the stand. He qualified as an ex-
| pert by stating his education and the
| various positions he has held.
Mr. Delmas asked DIR. Hammond II he
| had been, in court when the prosecu-
tions Hypothetical question was put &c
| the experts for the state. He said ne
was. and that he had read the question
over and was thoroughly familiar with 1t
| I'm your opinion at the time the person
| described in this question as Harry n
| Thaw' fired the shot which caused the
| death of Stanford White did you thinR
Harry Thaw knew the act was wrong?
asked Mr.. Delmas.
I'm my opinion he did not answered
| DR.. Hammond.
AT that time did he know the nature
| and quality of his act?
I'm my opinion he did not
+ was that failure to know his act
wrong, due to a defect of reason under
which he was then laboring?"
Yes
Mr.. Jerome took up the cross-examina
| ton
| what sort of defeat was Harry X
| Thaw' suffering FROM he asked.
| "A form of mental unsoundness.
| what form?
| Il can't say exactly what form.
| WAS it brainstorm?
ut may have BEEN
Brain Storm.
| did YOU ever hear of a brainstorn
before DR.. Evans sprung it on us here?
| yes
| "Where?"
| "In two medical dictionaries
| Dr. Hammond gave Mr.. Jerome ths
| names of the dictionaries.
The district attorney asked for syn
| onym for brainstorm.
"Maniacal Juror" said DR.. Hammond.
do you think Harry *. Thaw was lik'
a rudderless ship which had lotst its bal
ance wheel?'
| Perhaps"
Did you ever hear of rudderless shiI
that had lost its balance wheel as
synonym for brainstorm?"
| Yes"
| From whom"
| DIR. Evans"
What is a rudderless ship which ha.
| lost its balance wheel?"
II don't know what the balance whee
| has to do with It,.
| yet you subscribe to that theory"
| II don't use brainstorm myself"
Unsound Uncle.
Where does maniacal Juror come II
| in this hypothetical question:" asked Mr.
| Jerome.
II cannot pick out any one part" re
piled DIR. Hammond, Il must conside
| the Wilderness.
| Where are its elements?"
1.-The presence of st. Vitus dance twice
and the fact that an uncle was Of unsount
| mind -