Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-02
District Attorney Wants Experts
10 Declare Harry ThaW n. ].
sane at Present Time.
DR.. EVANS STILL ON THE STAND.
Was in the Witness Chair when.
Court Adjourned Till Monday Morn.
ing, When Jerome viii Continue
His Cross Examlnation-Testlmony
Purely of Technical Nature.
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! NEW YORK, March 1.-The insan
NY OF adolescence Daranoiu and the
! characteristics of brain storms" DC
cupied both sessions of the Thaw
triai today and when adjournment un
VI Monday morning was ordered Dr.
4 Britton ID. Evans. one of the alienists
/, iof lhe defense, was still under cross
examination. District Attorney lie.
I romes course in questioning the wit
ness was somewhat battling. During
me greater part of the time he seem
ed DESTROYS to have DR.. Evans ~.
uuailliedly admit that Thaw sufferer
/ from paranoia. which Is practically
incurable.> Again he brought from
the witness the opinion that whel,
| Thaw was himself he well knew tbnt
/: n revolver was an instrument for
sell protection, and when fired into
human body would produce death.
Finally the prosecutor wanted Ia
KNOW If the actions of a person suf.
fering from n brain storm" or mental
explosion, would be characterized nv
the calm, deliberate manner which
! Thaw displayed the night he shot
Stanford White to death on the Mad.
con Square Roof Garden
! The net result of the day appearaf
F, to, be that Mr.. Jerome Is still LAYING
the foundation upon which he nav
ask for commission in lunacy TO
Judge of the present mental condl.
ton of the defendant Even to III !,
extent of greatly fatiguing the Judge
and jury, the district attorney dwe:t
] upon the subject of adolescent insnn.
! 1ty and paranoia, endeavorinc TO es.
taDlish relationship between the
TWO land being Mt last rewarded bv
DIR. Evans admitting that the defend
ants will and codcil suggested to
MS mind paranoiac -orm of adde's.
| cent insanity. 4. Adoleecent insanity. II
has been explained. is common to
persons during the development ne.
/ riod of life-from 10 to 40 years
while paranoia is fixed insanity I'M
| on one ubject-monomania.
Justice Fitzgerald Eatiaued.
| Justice Fitzgerald indicated his In
tigue at the three days cross exami.
nation of the eXnert, when Mr.. lie.
rome began to question Dir. Evans
about his knowledge of other in.
stances on adolescent insanity which
mad resulted in acts of homicide.
| Dr.. Evans said there was n WON.
an in the hospital for insane at Nor.
ris Plains. n. j.. who in the mids; of
brain storm" or mental explosion
mad killed two of her children.
/ How long has she been in the
asylums" asked Mr.. Jerome. sharplv.
"One year"
lis she cured?"
| DIR. Evans said the woman In |
shown improvement; that her delusion
/ were not SO marked, but she was not
cured
Judge and Jerome Scrap.
F! The district attorney and Judge
mad another wordy conflict near the
end of the day, when Mr.. Jerome
asked Dir. Evans to give his opinion
OF DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton who
is to be called in rebuttal by the
state. and who is reported to have
said that he believed Harry Thaw to
De suffering from form of insanity
which could not possibly have been
removed by this time.
Il refuse to answer" replied the
witness.
Mr.. Jerome argued the point and
cited part of the record i'm the
Prusser case at Albany, where the
presiding Judge had allowed one ex-
pert to give an oDinion of another.
Now you will direct the witness
to answer?" suggested Mr.. Jerome,
inquiringly, of the justice.
Il Will not" responded Justice Fitz-
gerald.
He added that he would not rule
finally on the point until he had read
the entire record of the Prusser trial.
As Mr.. Jerome said the rule would
cover the last question of this examl.
nation until Monday adjournment was
ordered
DR.. Evans Testimony.
Dr. Evans declared today that Thaw
showed n degree of adolescent insan-
ity when he wrote the letters in 1903
after Evelyn Nesbit had told him of
her alleged wrong at the hands of
Stanford White.
Points in the letters as to delu.
sions were more concentrated than
I'm the codicil and when taken by
themselves indicated paranoia form
of insanity of adolescence. On June
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