Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-10
THAW A SANE MAN
Jerome's Experts Will Try to-
Prove That as a Fact.
ALlENlSTS IN REBUTTAL
Defense May Also Call More Physi-
clans to the Stand
DEFENDANT ISSUES STATEMENT
He Denies That His Sister Wishes to
Bring About Separation Be-
tween Himself and Wife.
DEFENDANT ISSUES STATEMENT

NEW YORK March 9.-With this real
work of the prosecution still ahead of him,
District Attorney Jerome spent many busy
hours today preparing for the state 5 case in
rebuttal which will begin Monday morning
with the resumption of the trial of Harry
X. Thaw before Justice Fitzgerald Most
of the day the district attorney was clos
eted with nine alienists, six new experts
having been summoned into consultation
with Drs. Flint, Mcdonald and Mabon, who
have been present throughout the trial In
the interest of the prosecution. Mr.. Jerome
refused to disclose the identity of the new
members of his force of alienists. Their ad-
vent into the case. it was said, was for the
purpose of assisting him in preparing hypo-
thetical questions which he will put to the
experts when they go on the witness stand.
Jerome's Intentions.
1t is currently reported today that Mr..
Jerome had irrevocably determined to push
the case to a conclusion and not turn 1t over
to commission. All the members of the
attorneys 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 in the eyes of the jury, and
they further declare that Mr.. Jerome hopes
to have preponderance of expert testimony
showing that Thaw acted as sane man
wnen he shot and killed Stanford White
and has continued to act as sane person
ever since that time.
The case from today's developments
promises to resolve itself at last into bat
tie of experts, and this means that there
is absolutely no way of predicting when the
end will come.
Much Cross-Examination.
If Mr.. jerome only calls three of his nine
experts to the stand-it is more than likely
that he will call five-it means a series of
interminable cross-examinations by Dolphin
NJ. Delmas, the leading counsel for the de-
Tense. Mr.. Delmas thus will be given an op-
portunity to match his medical knowledge
against the very thorough understanding
of the subject displayed by Mr.. Jerome
Since Mr.. Jerome began to lay today so
much stress upon the subject of insanity in
preparing for rebuttal, 1t scarcely seems
possible that his prediction as to the time
of ending the case can come true. The
defense has two alienistS in reserve who
will be called in rebuttal. and that means
a still longer delay. The trial on Monday
will enter its eighth week, and the unex-
pected must occur in order to bring about
its conclusion before April 1. Those who
have been following the case were hopeful
of an early termination until MIR. Jerome to-
day went into conference with nine alien
lists. Then all hope was abandoned.
Thaw Makes a Statement. =;
Harry;Thaw today gave out statement
in denial or the reports spread abroad to
the effect that his sister. the Countess of
Yarmouth. had determined there should be
a separation 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 absolutely
no such statement.
The statement is as follows:
xuiS 70 ep,pbat aDy :
sibe the published report that my sister
the. Countess of Yarmouth, is DESTROYS of
bringing about separation between my
wife and me at the conclusion of the trial.
Perfect harmony exists Between my wife.
my sister and myself, as indeed between
all the members of my family. Such
thing as a separation has never been and
never will be considered by me or any of
my relatives.
1.-The Countess of Yarmouth is very friend
ly with Mrs. III. X. Thaw and holds her in
the highest esteem.
LAS for myself, my love for my wife is
greater than it ever was before if that is
possible. 1 hope that this denial from me
will forever set at rest the absurd story of
a possible enlargement.
1T is peculiarly. regrettabe to Mrs. Thaw
and myself that such story should have
eminated from the source it did"
Form of Questions.
Much interest attaches to the form of the
Hypothetical question which the district at
torney will PROFOUND to his experts. Mr..
Delmas seemed to include every fact con-
nected with the case in his hypothetical
question and the defense's alienists gave 1t
as their opinion that Thaw not only was
insane when he killed Stanford White. but
for two months thereafter If the aliensts
for the state can take these same facts and
reach a Numerically opposite opinion, the
jury will have to take its choice and place
its own estimate upon the value of expert
testimony.
The stan of county detectives attached to
Mr. Jerome's Office have been sent out for
every person mentioned by Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw in her testimony, and efforts will be
made to round them all up, high and low,
to secure every bit of outstanding evidence
that may bear in any measure upon the
rebuttal of Thaw's wife's story. 1t Is hard
ly 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 evil
dence. But information they can give to