The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-03-01
SAYS THAN WAS INSANE
DIR. EVANS SCORES A POINT FOR
THE DEFENSE.
UNDER JERoME's cRoss.FIRE
A Large Portion OF the Day Was DC.
cupied by the District Attorney in
Cross Examining DR.. Evans Concern.
ing Letters Written by Thaw.

cupied by the District Attorney in
Cross Examining DR.. Evans Concern.
ing Letters Written by Thaw.
New York, Feb. ga strong point
for the defense was made under the
cross examination of DIR. Evans by
District Attorney Jerome today In the
Thaw murder case
DR.. Evans declared on the stand In
cross-eXamination that he was con.
WINGED Harry Thaw had been insane
for time in his life, but not insane in
way from which 1t would necessarily
follow that he Is insane now.
This is the point that the defense
has been attempting to establish all
along-that Thaw was insane when he
killed White, but that he is not insane
today.
Letters Serve For the Point.
Letters written by Harry Thaw
served to bring out this opinion from
DR.. Evans.
Dr. Evans was the first witness
called to the stand today and District
Attorney Jerome continued his cross
examination. DR.. Evans was one of
the alienists produced by the defense.
The entire morning was taken up with
questions concerning certain letters
written by Thaw.
DR.. Evans declared that the letters
convinced him that Harry Thaw was
insane at the time he wrote these let
tiers, but not in the sense that Thaw
would always remain insane.
New York, Feb. 2S.-Interest in the
Thaw trial center ID in the maneuvers
of District Attorney Jerome, who
seemed to give further indication of
his purpose in the near future to ap. |
ply for commission in luncay to re
port on the present condition of the |
defendants mind. The witness stand
for the greater part of the day was
occupied by Dr.. Evans, director of the |
New Jersey hospital for the insane at |
Morris Plains, an alienist for the de |
Tense, who was up for cross.eXamlna |
ton. jerome seemed to direct his eff |
forts at getting from Dr. Evans infor
nation as to the exact recognized |
forms of insanity from which the ex.
pert declared Harry Thaw was suf.
fering at the time OF the ~Ltain
Storm" which resulted in the killing
of White. Dr. Evans had testified
that in his will Thaw displayed evi |
dences of a melancholic state of mind
The district attorney dwelt for an
hour or more on the subject of melan.
cholia and asked the expert if it was
not true that in acute melanchoia
there is a recurrence of thefiiction
in at least one-thrd of all cases. DR..
Evans said there was. Jerome said
he intended calling as the witness in
rebuttal DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton,
the alienist who was first employed
not heretofore figured in the trial DR..
Hamilton recently returned from Ell.
rope and in published interview just
after he landed was reported to have
said that he came to the conclusion
that Thaw was insane at the time of
the tragedy and that he Is
insane now. The district attorney
dioO oLdlcu tldl lie WOulu call Ut.
Charles f. Bingaman of Pittsburg, the
Thaw family physician, in rebuttal
DR.. Bingaman was on the stand for a
short while, but DelmaS objected
when Jerome started in to cross.exam.
inc the physician as 20 insanity in the
Thaw family on the ground that the
witness had not qualified as an expert
BY recalling Evelyn Thaw to the
stand for few questions which he
had omitted on his long cross-examina.
ton Jerome indicated that he would
call Howard Nesbit her brother, to
her in matter of CREDIBLE.
ty He asked Mrs. Thaw if she had
not told her brother that Thaw had
treated her cruelty while abroad be.
cause she refused to tell lies about
Stanford White and say he had
rugged and mistreated her He also
wanted to know If the brother had not
bought her a pistol with which she
might defend herself against Thaw.
The defendants wife denied absolute.
y that there was any truth in any of
hese statements
Delmas announced that the defense
would conclude its case this week