The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
Whites Slayer Near Collapse
From Continued Delay
Of Trial.
EVELYN Comedies HIM
District Attorney Jerome in New
Move Will Attempt to Get
Records OF Lunacy Commits.
sion Before Present jury.
Needs Court Order.

NEW AOhht Jan. EoF-IIdfIy HSh-
dali 11haw, the young millionaire
slayer of stanford White, who is on
trial for his life, raves when alone In
his cell was the statement of n of
the Tombs keepers today.
Sometimes | can near him raving
in low tones in his CELL was the
keepers declaration. "He is mad all
the way through, and he is scared al
most out of his senses"
Thaw is strung up to the very limit
of his nerve capacity, and every delay
adds to the strain. His wife went to
the Tombs early today and did her
utmost to cheer comfort him. She
found him on the verge of a nervous
breakdown.
1t was announced today that District
Attorney jerome would endeayor to
get the secret testimony taken before
the lunacy commission at the first trial
before the jury.
Immediately after Thaw had Up
peared before the commission a year
ago, and had been questioned as to the
part he played in the Madison Square
Roof Garden and asked his reasons
for killing Stanford White. he was pro-
nounced legally sane, II it was or
dcred that the trial proceed.
1t is commended that the answers he
cav to leading questions bearing on
the murder proved that he had a per-
feet recollection of everything thai took
place on the night of the tragedy, and
IL WINS pg a 6ITnpf pnGIIf nf his aXaIn1-
milton that he was declared sane and
rational at the time of the shooting.
This move by Mr.. jerome, 1t is be-
lieved. may prove a coup d'etat for the
prosecution. Mr.. Littleton, the new
commander-in-chief of the forces of the
defense, has devoted his entire efforts
to proving the prisoner insane. The
reading of his own testimony relating
TO the tragedy, taken in conjunction
with the commissions ruling that he
was rational, will, 1t is thought, weaker
the elaborate framework of testimony
built up by Mr.. Llttleton.
The testimony has been sealed, n
not even Mr.. Jerome OF Mr.. Littleton
has read it. The seal can be broken
only on the order of Justice Fitzgerald,
the first trial judge. Mr.. Littleton has
agreed that a part of ii be read to the
jury. Mr.. Jerome inFists that 1t shall
be presented in full or not at all. JUS
tice Bowling has reserved his decision.
The case has now reached its final
phases where the opinions of half a
dozen physicians may either condemn
or free the prisoner.
Justice Bowling has greatly simpli-
fed matters by restricting the prose-
cution and defense to three experts
each. A dozen of these medical men
would be twice as likely to lock horns
and complicate the trial as half that
number.
Under the restrictions imposed by
Justice Bowling there seems every
probability that the case will go to the
Jury by the end of next week or the
Monday following.
If the trial is ended by that time,
or even a week later. it will be The
most speedy conclusion ever reached
in this city in a case of similar mag
nitude. The credit for its rapid con-
duct may be given almost solely to
Justice Bowling.
The growing despair that has been
overmastering Thaw since Mr.. Lit
Teton has undertaken to show that he
not only vas hopelessly insane at the
time of tine killing os Stanford White,
hut had been from earliest infancy,
has been evidenced by his actions in
tho Toombs
Mr.. Littleton. his corps of assistants
md insanity experts We're busy today
on the hypothetical question which will
he ~propounded to the alienists of the
defense when the trial resume on
Monday. 1t win contain between $1,000
and 10000 words, covering every point
brought out in the testimony for the
prisoner, and will be the longest query
in legal records.
-Four witnesses who are expected 20
testify for the defense arrived her to-
day on the steamer Adriatic from
Europe.
The big steamship had considerable
difficulty in getting past Sandy Hook
because of the heavy seas, and it was
on account of this and the storm of
snow that the witnesses did not land
yesterday. The delay in their arrival
caused an adjournment of the court
early yesterday until Monday. Three
of the witnesses who came on the yes
sci are physicians, and the fourth is a
nurse, who, it is asserted, attended
Thaw while he was i'll in Europe.
The identity of the Thaw witnesses
has been a closely guarded secret, and
with one exception the names had not
become known when the steamer ar
rived today. The known witness is DR..
Gauja, of Switzerland, who treated
Thaw in that country four years ago.