The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-03
LUNACY COMMISSION
 ID REPORT TO-M0RROW
DEFINITELY STATED THAT IT
 WILL CONCLUDE ITS LA- BORS TODAY.

Conclusions Will be Presented to Jus
 tice Fitzgerald Before the Hour Set
 for the Thaw Jury to Report in
 Court-AnnOuncement That Commits
 sion Desires to Renew It's Private
 Examination of the Accused Comes
 as a Complete Surprise.
 New York, April 2-It was definitely stated tonight, after a session which lasted from 1O.8O o'clock this morning until 6:SO p. m., with an interval of only forty minutes for luncheon, that ttle lunacy commission which is inquir- ing into the present mental state of Harry K. Thaw will conclude it's labors tomorrow and will have reported it's conclusions to Justice Fitzgerald be- fore the hour set for the Thaw jury to report in court on Thursday morning. There will be brief public session of the commission tomorrow to hear final witness-an alienist-offered by District Attorney Jerome, and then will follow a private mental and physical examination of the defendant. It was stated tonight that only the members of the commission and the official stenographer would be present at Thaws last ordeal, both the attorneys for the defense and the district attor- ney being barred.
 The announcement that the commits sion desired to renew its private exam ination of Thaw came at the end of day of many witnesses and was in the nature of complete surprise. The de- cision was probably due to the conflict ing character of the testimony heard to-day. It was another battle of ex- perts, with the allenists engaged by the district attorney declaring Thaw to be absolutely incapable of understanding his own condition, of realizing the na- ture of the charge against him or of rationally conferring with counsel, while the doctors engaged by the de- fense declared that Thaw throughout the trial had acted in a rational man ner, had rationally advised his counsel in their hearing, and fully understood and appreciated everything connected with his case and trial.
 The experts for the prosecution ad- mltted that tney had reached their con- clusions as to Thaws present state of mental unsoundness from distant ob- servations of him In the court room and from writings alleged to have em- anated from him during the trial. Among the latter were twenty-four pages of newspaper clippings and mem ofanda written by Thaw as suggestions to his chief attorney, Dolphin M Dell mas, for his summing-up address to tie jury! MT, Jerome's experts declar- ed these writings, introduced before the commission by the defendants own counsel to prove his sanity, were the writings of an insane man. The ex- perts for the defense declared there was absolutely nothing in the writings upon which to predicate an opinion of men tai unsoundness.
 After the experts had finished MT. Delmas himself took the stand, declar- ed that many of Thaws suggestions were most valuable, and that he in- tended to incorporate some of the sug- gestions in his summing-up address.
 The alenists for the defense, in tes- tifying, declared that they had had the advantage of constant personal exam nations of the defendent, while the prosecution's witnesses had not.
 The Tombs physician two chaplains of the city prison, several guards and a probation officer took the stand and testified that Thaw in prison has acted and spoken like rational man in every way.