The Mena weekly star., 1907-03-28
PROVING THAN |S INSANE
Alienists Sign Affidavits Declaring Murderer of Stanford White
 is Mentally Unsound.
WOULD CONVENE HIM IN AN ASYLUM
The Doctors Say that Defendant Is Suffering From Paranoia From
 Which He Will Never Recover His Discharge Would be Menace

Whicn ne VIII Never Hecove'-
 His Discharge Would be Menace to Public Safety.
 1 New York, March 22.-The seven slienists employed by District Attor- ney Jerome in the Thaw case Thurs l day signed affidavits for presentation to Judge Fitzgerald in the argument tor the appointment of commission
 in lunacy to examine Thaw. Six of l ihe alienists in their affidavits, de- slared that Thaw was suffering from form of paranoa, that he should not l be discharged from custody, that if he should be discharged he would be dangerous to public peace and safe | ty and that 1t is reasonably certain 1 that he will not recover. The seventh altenist, Dr. Hirsch agreed with his that Thaw cannot possibly recover. The document includes also an af- ridavit by Irving S Cobb. reporter, describing note given to him a few weeks ago by Thaw in which Thaw commented upon his wife's testimony and upon the conduct of the prose cution
 The affidavits are signed by Doc tors Flint. Mahon, Macdonald, Pritch- ard. Ferris. Hirsch aud Diefendorf ] The alienists declared on their af- fidavits that Thaw knew the sature and quality of his act in shooting Stanford White Together the affida- wits make S2 printed pages.
 1 Dr. Carlos F. Macdonald in his af- fidavit declares:
 After careful examination of the exhibits and the hypothetical question and the testimony and affidavits of Mir Cobb and assuming evidence stated in the case to be true. my personal observation in court during the trial and also including certain observations that I made of the de- fendant in the library of the district attorneys office on June 27. 1906, am of the opinion that the defendant is now and for some time past has been suffering from form of mental disease commonly known among men skilled in mental disease as paranoia. Yet 1t is my opinion, based upon what has just been enum- erated that when the defend ant killed Stanford White on June g. 1906, he was then suffering from said mental disease, commonly known as paranoia but that his then mental state was such that he knew the nature and quality of the act that he was doing and that it was wrong, namely, that he then and there knew that he was discharging into the body of Stanford White. a loaded revolver; that it was Stanford White into whose body he was discharging loaded re- volver and that he then and there knew that such discharge was likely to produce death and that he then and 1 there knew such act on his part was against the current morality of the people of this state and in violation of law.
 '1 am of the opinion, upon the l facts above enumerated. that the mem tai disease commonly known as para noia from which the defendant was 1 suffering on the night of June 25. 1906 is form of mental disease from which 1t Is reasonably certain he will not recover and that the discharge of the said Harry K Thaw would be dan gerous to public peace and safety and that he should be committed to an in- stitutiop fer the insane I am further of the opinion on the facts above stated that the said Harry K Thaw is now and for some time past has been in such state of lunacy or insanity as to be ineAssAIe of understanding the proceedings against him or mak- ing his defenss'
 Exhibit A, to which Doctor Mac Donald alluded Is a letter written by Thaw while in Paris in 1903.
 John B. Gleason of counsel for Thaw said Thursday that Mfr. Delmas is responsible if commission is ap- pointed as it was he who called Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton to the wit ness stand land told Mir Jerome to go ahead and ask the witness any, thing he wished to
 Retired Army Surgeon Dead.
 Washington. March 20 Brig Gen. John Moore, ' $. A. retired, former surgeon general of tho army. died Monday, aged Sl Gen. Moore