The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-07
Cross Examination of the Alienist Completed by District At
 torney Jerome.
SCENE OF MURDER ACTED OUT IN COURT
MT. Jerome Explained to Court How the Tragedy Was Comratted- pr. Evans Maintained to the End that Thaw Was Insane When White Was Murdered.

of the criminal Drdncn or the SiI- preme court had to be gone through Monday morning before the trial of Harry K Thaw was resumed. Thaw's case was begun in the January term and that term will be continued until it is disposed of
 Dr. Britton D. Evans, the New Jersey alienist, who was under cross examination Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last, was again placed upon the witness stand as soon as Thaw was called to the bar.
 Thaw again brought into court opes filled with letters. He receives several score of missives daily.
 Thaw engaged his lawyers in earn est consultation when he took his place facing the witness and the jury box. He directed his remarks espe- cialIy at MT. Peabody and Mir. Nc Pike. The latter seemed desirous of avoiding the conversation and drew back several times with tolerant mods of his head The defendant, how ever, was earnest and would not be denied. He continued to talk for some minutes. Then he sat back and listened to the first questions ad- dressed by District Attorney Jerome to Dr. Evans.
 It was about the first time he had paid the slightest attention to the witness since he took the stand. Thaw did not listen long, however, but turned to Daniel O'Reilly and be- gan to talk rapidly to him.
 In resuming his cross examination of Dr. Evans, District Attorney Je- rome asked:
 Doctor, reverting to the night of the shooting of Stanford White, does the fact that defendant walked de liberately away without excitement after the shooting appear to you to be an important fact in determining whether or not the defendant was insane2"
 Yes. it leads me to believe he was of unsound mind--that is. when taken in connection with the other incidents"
  step was slow and measured and his manner somewhat dramatic. and that he manifested no agitation. that he walked deliberately away without any effort to escape. taken in connection with the other facts indicated to the witness that he did not know he had done anything wrong. did not know he had done anything that should make him shrink from his fellowmen, or from the officers of the law.
 The witness believed that in the brain storm the defendant had an insane knowledge of what he did not the knowledge of sound mind. The sane man reasons in logical manner. Although reason was. de- throned, the witness said. the de- fendant had an insane knowledeg that he was attacking White.
 The New York law is explicit on the subject of insanity as defense in criminal cases. It provides that the person committing the crime must be so insane as not 10 know the nature or quality of the act, or to know that the act is wrong"
 Dr. Evans in explaining his answer, declared that, If Thaw had been walk ing in a delirium following a fever he would unconsciously have been directed in the way he took. for his mind was so satiated with the one idea of his wife's ruin.
 Mir. Jerome questioned the witness again as to what light was thrown by Thaws declaration in the elevator T did it because he ruined my wife, and Dr. Evans replied that the de- fendant evidently knew something had been done and that the some thing had to do with the running of his wife.
 In the moments immediately follow ing the shooting of White, the wit ness said, "Thaw might have had an insane appreciation of all the In cidents. There was, said Dr. Evans nothing in the evidence to show that Thaw knew he had been arrested Tor killing White, and the only thing tending to show he did know 1t was his statement that it was an act oi Providence.
 pr Evans was unable to under stand the exact relative positions ol Ihaw and White before and at the ume of the shooting, so Mir. Jerome the scene out for him. We'll imagine MT. .Delmas is th Yctim,' he said, turning suddenly or the California attorney.
 MT. Delmas lodged and the judge and jury laughed. Mir Jerome ex plained with many gestures and de scrloed Thaw's passage down th' roof garden, his turning to the Ter and walking % feet to the table Where White sat with his head rest lng on his hand Them said MT Jerome, The turned deliberately ant calmly and shot Stanford White dead DOCS that fact show that he knew what he was doing2"
 NO, replied Dr. Evans, his calm ness does not show he knew bu "ight indicate that perhaps he did. Doctor continued Mir Jerome uoes the fact that Thaw t1A1 you r