The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-02-06
THAW LAWYERS
ARE D|SGUSTEO
WITH GLEASON
DELMAS DISSATISFIED WITH
PROCEEDINGS CONDUCTED
BY CONTEMPORARY.
JEROME IS MERCILESS
In Most Severe Examination Ever
Held in New York--District
Attorney Tears Testi.
mory to Shreds.

New York. Feb. g. Scarcely hat
court adjourned today when there
was a conference of the counsel FOL
Harry X Thaw ana it became known
that certain torneys We're not wei
pleased with the days developments
Delphine NJ. Delmas upon leaving the
court room declared fatty that he was
dissatisfied with the proceedings and
intimated that he was surprised that
The conduct of the defense for the
day had been int usted to John B
Gleason rather than TO himself.
Dr. Wiley the Pittsburg physician
who testified for the defense and was
so sharply cross examined by Jerome
should not have been put upon the
stand today Delm2g said, and per
haps should not have been put upon
lac stand at ALL
II expected to conduct the case,
Delmas added. Il was urprised that
Gleason should have done it,"
II had been rumoreG in the court
room that Thaw was pleased with
Gleasons address to the jury Mon
day and that he directed that Gleason
should take charge Of the case to-
day
Counsel Threatens Withdrawal.
Thaw's attorneys were closeted
well into the evening and when the
conference broke up nothing definite
as to what transpired was made pub
lic
It was said late tonight, however,
that at the conference, tve of the de
fe.ndant's counsel informed Gleason
that unless he desisted from conduct
ing Thaws case individually and ir.
respective Of their wishes they would
withdraw ffom the court room at the
opening of the session tomorro"
morning and sever all connection
with the case.
Gleason insisted. according to the
author Of the report that he had not
,isurped the position of the senior
counsel. but had taken the initiative
in the proceedings at the request of
Thaw himself, under whose guidance
he understood all the counsel were
acting.
When Gleason heard he ultimatum
af his fellow colnsellors repeated, he
declared again, 1t was stated, that the
wishes OF their client were para
mount with him and he supposed with
the others
Made But Little Progress.
The task of proving to the jury
that Harry Thaw was insane
through heredity and mental strain
when he shot and killed Stanford
White, was taken up today, but when
court adjourned it was the general
opinion that but little progress had
been made.
Thaw's attorneys endeavOred in
vain to place before the jury evidesce
to Prove strain of insanity in col
lateral branches of defendants fam
lily but they were blocked at every
point by District Attorney Jerome,
whose objections were upheld by JUS
tce Fitzgerald.
The defense however did get be
fore the jury the testimony of an ex-
pert. that in his opinion Thaw was
".uffering from insanity" the night
of the tragedy. Jerome undertook TO
break down the testimony of the
alienist. D.. c. c. Wiley of Pittsburg.
aud for three hours put him through
q cross examination as severe as was
ever heard in a New York court. The
prosecutor was relentless In his at
tack and before he mad finished DIR.
Wiley protestingly declared:
Didn't Come AS Expert.
81 didn't come here as an expert
I came here as a witness to fact,
and have been converted into an OK
pert without being prepared for it.
The district attorney aston'shed
every one by his intimate knowledge
of medicine and its technical phrase
ology. demonstrating the care with
which he bad prepared himself to-
meet the very defense which Thaw's
counsel have entered in his behalff
Jerome searchingly inquired into
Wiley's record as a physician a1d ex-
pert on insanity He hurled vOlleys Of
technical questions at the witness,
who at times sat mute. and at other
tines declared he could not answer
or gave evasive replies. Often he
brought upon himself a sharp warn
ing from the district attorney 10
make reply and not an argument
Witness rs Bsffleo.
Jerpme drew from the alienist the
opinion that Thaw's acts in the Madi-
son Square Roof Garden. when he