Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-05

OF lnlssiNeS daily, some of the letters
coming from across the seas. and his
Monday morning mail always is heavy.
IN resuming his cross-examination of
DR.. Evans, Mr.. Jerome asked:
Doctor, reverting to the night of the
shooting Of Stanford White, does the
TACT that the defendant walked deliber-
ateiy away without excitement after
the shooting appear to you to be an
important fact in determining whether
or not the defendant was insane
Yes, it leads me to believe he was
of unsound mind, that is. when taken
III connection with the other incidents"
That his step was slow and measured
and that he manifested no agitation.
you deem of Importance
Yes. taken in connection with 9TH
err facts"
Your opinion is that he was of I'M
sound mind?"
"Yes, based on all the facts and the
somewhat dramatic manner in which
he acted. The fact that he walked de-
hperately away without any effort to
escape indicates to me that he didn't
KNOW ne mad done anything wrong,
didn't know he had done ANYTHING that
should make him shrink from his fellow
men or from the officers of the law"
Then his attitude was one of satisfac-
ton with his deed?''
/ Il would hardly go as far as that"
When he walked toward his wife, did
ne knew Ill which direction he was GO
ing"'
In view of the fact that he walked
towards his wife, it seems to me that he
did"
The fact" said Thaw, that Thaw
told the fireman who seized him He
ruined my wife'-does that Indicate to
you that the defendant knew he had
killed Stanford White?'
ut indicates to me that this ono
thought which had weighed down upon
hinl-which had been devouring his soul
was still with him."
do you think that in yielding IN his
pistol Thaw knew what he was doing?"
Il don't know whether he knew that or
not"
Don't you think that in saving HE
ruined my wife Thaw was giving a rea-
son Tor killing Stanford White?'
Il couldn't say that"
well. what was the mental process
This idea of his wife being ruined nv
stanford White was still in his mind-in
the forefront of his thought
when the defendant said to the man
VINO had him in custody: I've got to go
down in the elevator anyway; can't Won
take me row.? did he know he was in
custody?"
YES
Did he have sufficient intelligence to
know why?"
lie might have had an insane appre-
citation of all the Incidents"
DO you think he knew he had been
arrested for killing Stanford White?"
81 can't tell
ION the elevator he said: II did If he-
cause he ruined my wife Does that
throw any light on his condition.
only as it shows as did the other
things, that his mind was conferred on
this one idea
But at this time did he know what he
had done?'
There had been by that time a reor-
gaElzation of his mental forces and by
that time he knew that he had done
something"
49," III Iic vi stifI StOTTn, Ulu Ine uc-
fendant have any idea as to what he was
doing?"
Il believe he had an insane knowledge
OF what he did-not the knowledge of a
sound mind''
Were Thaw's mental processes such
that he knew he was attacking White?"
He had an insane Acknowledgements"
eplied DR.. Evans.
The New York statute in an insan-
ty defense provides that the person
committing crime must be so insane
S not to know the nature or quail
ty of the act, or to know that the act
s wrong.
ThaW was paying absolutely no at
ention to DIR. Evans all this while but
'usied himself with reading the letters
e had received. AS usual he made a
note on each letter after finishing its
Derusal
DIR. Evans was unable to understand
he exact relative positions of Thaw
md White before and at the time of
he shooting so Mr.. Jerome acted the
Gene out for him.
We'll imagine Mr.. DelmaS is the
'ictinl." he said turning suddenly on