The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1907-03-21
NEARING THE END
One More Day Will Close the TAX
ing of Testimony in the
Thaw Case.
GOES TO The JURY FRIDAY
The HummeI Affidavit Admitted as
Evidence-Three Experts Testify
All Believed the Defendant
Insane at Time of Shooting.

New York, March 15.-Answering
the same hypothetical question in re-
Spouse to which the alienists of the
defense declared Harry X. Thaw was
suffering from an unsound mind and
did not know the nature or quality OF
his act when he shot and killed Stan
ford White, Dr. Austin Flint, the first
expert called by District Attorney
Jerome in rebuttal, declared it to be
his opinion that Thaw positively did
know the nature and quality of his
act and knew that the act was wrong.
When court adjourned Mr.. Delmas had
got begun his crOss'examination OF
Or. Flint, who is the first of six
!lienists to be called by Mr.. Jerome.
After receiving DR.. Flint's answer
to the Delmas hypothetical question
Mr. Jerome had read to the witness
the prosecutions hypothetical question
which contained $4,000 words and
which required one hour and Is min
utes in the reading DR.. Flint again
said without qualification that Thaw
knew his act was wrcng and is there
fore liable for the murder in the first
degree under the statutes of the state
of New York
Abraham Hummel was on the stand
again Thursday and before Mr.. Del
mas could object to a question put by
Mr.. Jerome the witness had got into
the record the statement that Evelyn
Nesbit had told him that she had in
formed Harry Thaw in Paris in 1903
that Stanford White positively had
not drugged or betrayed her. Mr.
Delmas at first moved to have the
question and answer stricken from
the record, but as the district attor-
ney seemed about to consent to this
plea he insisted that the answer
stand.
New York, March 16.-With Attor-
ney Delmas fighting him every inch
of the way, District Attorney Jerome
Friday secured from Abraham Hum
mel his complete story as to the affi
davit which it is alleged Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw made in the lawyers office
in 1903, charging Harry X. Thaw
with beating her when she had told
him that the statement that Stanford
White had drugged and ruined her
was not true. Mr.. Delmas, first OBJ
jecting broadly to all of Hummefs
testimony, offered a specific objec-
ton to each question put by the
prosecutor. Justice Fitzgerald over
ruled every objection and Mr.. Del
mas had exceptions.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called to
the stand in the effort of the defense
to keep Hummel silent. She declared
she had called upon Hummel in his
professional capacity, and to seek his
advice as lawyer. STANFORD White
had taken her to the lawyers office
with that end in view
Justice Fitzgerald declared that adj
hitting the proposition of counsel and
client, Mrs. Thaw herself had waived
the professional privilege by taking
the stand early in the case and CIV
ing her version of what transpired at
Hummel's office. The bond of secrecy
once removed could not be re-estab-
lished.
Unsuccessful in blocking Hummeps
testimony Attorney Delmas in cross
examining the witness brought from
his own lips the fact that he had been
convicted Id December 1905 on a
charge Of conspiracy in the same
courtroom in which Tnaw is being
tried He further admitted that two
indictments for suborantIon Of per
jury are pending against him and that
one Of the indictments charges him