Connecticut western news., 1907-02-14
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 1t has been learned that President Roosevelt has officially asked Postmas- ter General Cortelyou whether 1t is feasible to bar from the mails the pa pers that publish the full particulars of the Thaw case and requesting that if it can be done that the mails be closed to them as soon as possible
 United States District Attorney Stimson sent to the newspapers pub lished in this city warning that under the United States statutes he would prosecute every publication which printed obscene matter relating to the trial of Harry K. Thaw.
 District Attorney Jerome's effort to counteract the effect of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's testimony will involve, it has developed, surprising testimony, af- fording revelations of the doings of the gilded set of which White. Thaw and the Nesbit girl were members.
 The prosecution, it was pointed out, will have to prove that Thaw was mentally sound at the time of the shooting In order to do this, 1t was said. Jerome will contend that the shooting instead of being the result of an insane impulse was the result of jealousy.
 Jerome and DeImas Clash.
 For five and half hours the crowd in the criminal branch of the supreme court listened to an exposition of the various Einds and degrees of insanity, interspersed with tilts between Dis trfct Attorney Jerome and Dolphin M. Delmas. -...=-.
 It was not a day of dry, technical testimony. The day was also we'll fill ed with interest to those who followed the lines of reasoning that led the sin gle expert called to the conclusion that Thaw was insane when he shot White.
 Jerome said lie had received the in- formation from the girls mother, and for the first time it became known that the prosecutor had been n communi- cation with Mrs. Charles T. Holman. the mother of Evelyn Nes, Thaw.
 The expert who occupie,, the stand was D. Hrinton D. Evans, superin- tendent c. $he New Jersey State h. sane asylum in Morris Plains.
 The gist of the alienist's testimony was that Thaw had been suffering from a positive disorder or Gerange- ment of the brain as result of hered- itary predisposition and other exciting causes in the way of stress and strain and ordeal which brought on brain storm" This ''brain storm," the wit ness said, left it's traces behind. and they were apparent to him when he eI- amined the prisoner. Thaw's insanity, the expert maintGined. decreased grad ually, and at the last visit Dr. Evans made to the Tombs the prisoner ap- peared more rational than at all pre- vious visits. The defense is trying to avoid any admission that Thaw may be insane at the present time.
 Will Make Use of Any Defense.
 Several witnesses have testified that in their opinion the prisoner was ''ir- rationaP' at the time he took the life of Stanford White, and one had de- clared upon the stand that he had heard MT. White threaten to kill.
 "All the Gefenses which are proper under the laws of this state to plea of not guilty we shall avail ourselves of, as counsel for the defense stated in the opening address," declared Lawyer Delmas in response to demand by the district attorney for a clear state ment as to whether self defense would be an issue.
 Thomas McCaleb, California friend of both Thaw and his wife, was an fm- portant witness. McCaleb said that he and Evelyn Thaw were standing near the elevator on the Madison Square Garden reef waiting for Thaw when he shot White.
 With positive assertion the witness also said that J'haw said in reply to his wife's err. "Oh. Harry, why did you do it:' the words, II saved your life, dear,' and kissed her.
 This corroborated previous testimony by other witnesses. tending to show that Thaw was laboring under a de- fusion that his wife's fife was in dan ger when he shot Air. White.