New-York tribune., 1908-01-28
THAW HAS NEW MALADY
~uaNIC-DEPRESSITE" NOW
Experts Say That's That His HIM
-Foreion Uitnesses on Stand.

,lnony given by the prisoners wife be s'riche"
from the record. she had not pfoohoeo de
fourteen letters from Stantoro Nhlte sue s
sh. showed TO Thaw Paris. The Dis1fict Al
.a--,,- ,artens.e; that for this reason only part
OF her story had hoen told: that certain evidence
had been presented. while ether evidence hsd
..een carefully omitted, Justice Downing over
rnlea lie motion
rco.. in the Criminal Courts Building to Black
WIS Island today. Mr.. Jerome said that Ahe
l4,.r,nel whose testimony he wants c2t'erthhs
the affidavit alleged 10 have been made 10y MIS-.
Tlaw was too 81 appear in court MI LII
taeton objected to testimony being taken at
the island and Justice Downing replied tnat Il
no found il necessary he would go - the penn
,o,,;arv tonight with Mr Jerome and Thaw ana
his counsel 10 take The question is 10 be ser
,,aa finally this morning. II Justice De"hhs
decides TO go 20 the peniientiaTY II VIII oe IN.
,-=- time Thaw has been outside the Walls oI
the Tornbs. except TO cross the Bridge Of Signs
n The courtroom. for more than year ana "
balf The prospect yisibIH cheered him up
II is expected that hY tomorrow h'slA i"'
onEy viii all The evidence be IN. but 'la' 'tie "
y,,n,e,,,s a both counsel VIII toe nnished Justce
bowling will charge the jury as soon as the
,rr,roe.,,s are over and the jury is expected 20
retire either tomorrow night or early THURSDAY
morning .
.ba beginning OF the fourth week OF the secoIH
trial when the witnesses from abroad ana III
,-syles F tSingarIla1. the T1aW family phNslrlafl
vho came 10 the trial from sicis5ed. were put IN
;be stand. Dr. Binsaman was the hrsf witness
called lie attended Thaw in 1874. Wneh the p''S-
,,ar ,ras a child At taat time Thaw wls suitefli'S'
\, sai5 fra-, = severe nervous spell and looked as
If he had lust come out Of convulsions lie was
sIpa,-s uerIouee from then or: DR. Bingaman said
-rhaw used 10 sleep lightly and had nervous at'a'hS
which became less marked as he grew Older
In The middle Of Novenber- 1885. DR. Blngallah
said that he SAW Thaw and that at that time n
was in "a very depressed melancholy CONDITION.
He saw him intervals in the following hloi'A
when Thaz's condition showed Improvement iie
SAW Thaw again in tae Toalbs III August. l'''- u"
sid the prisoner gas greatly opp: essed by the ldea
Of a conspiracy % prevent him from bringing me
vengeance of the law upon the man VINO was de-
stroying young girls on another occasion l nav
had piece OF paper pasted in a corner "i his @"
10 keep out drafts. lie thought the prisoners con
irrational
DR. Bingaman cross-ezamnati-n said that ne
gathered from Thasy that this conspiracy ne was
worrying about 10 have him declared IN
sane. Mr. Lit;Ieton then asked what caused Tllaw's
CONVERSIONS. and the witness replied tnat at hrs
he thought Them fits Of anger, but later decided
siley we're due other causes.7
OF the foreign witnesses DT. Sidney Russell
Wells member of the synod Of the University
OF London The Royal Surgical Institution ana
other medical and educational organizations, was
the first to testify. He met the defencant Al
ClaridEe's IN july. 1899 lie visited him twice ana
.,n the second occasion summoned a nurse IhaN
a
The next day arranged 30 nave ThaW sent L"
the ilevonehirc Nursing Home When he returned
10 tel Thaw of the arrangement he found '-'e
patient running about the room. only party
clothed. and using vile language in ouc voice
lie had to hold him before he could b~ dress' d
He decided then that Thaw had a sudden attack
Of acute mania. \ large room was en-
gagged ct the sanatorun. hut Thaw declared that
il WAS 80 small tnat h. could not breathe in II
and wanted the wallis knocked out Then he in
- ice bI
TIE room to cool Il. He Insisted hiring q large
corps TEaw was discharged IN hEe
days the physician afierward diagnosing his case
as "a sub-acute attack Of nanic-depressire IN
sanity
On cross-exarlina1ion Dr. Wells said that Thaws
mind cleared up in days. and in that time he
apologizec for his language a; the hotel and MS
struggles to keep from being dresSed- His pIln-
cipal ,iel1sion. witness said Was that he
thought his room small. although ii was large
Miss Lillian Mcbride, the nurse called by DR.
Wells testified that her patient was restless.
nervous and incoherent in speech She repeated
the story Of Thaws outbreak and his desire To
have the walls Of his room knocked out and he
order for the huge quantity Of ice
NJ Jerome's animation was brief, and
the nurse replaced 10y DR. Frederick ). Bur
toni Browne. o. London but official physician
70 the British Embassy a Rome from ls0l to 1895.
he first Thaw II August. 1879. in Koma-
Thaw telephCned to him. and Dr- BurtOn-B Browne
responded once but Tlaw could not recall 1oT
sofne minutes that ge had sent FOR him. He had
a high temperature and rapid pulse. the physician
testified the pupils OF his eyes dilated.
He was exe;tInely nervous. Thaw ordered
20 stay IN his rooms hui he the
DAY. After thai Ae stayed bed three
days and 1neu got Up. Il tho4ght he suffer
Ing from simple mild mania the ply sican
ssio-
d. Maurice Gauja. Of Paris who had testify
through an interpreter house physician of
the Hotel Palais d'Orsay when Thaw is alleged 10
have attempted 10 commit suicide with laudanum
there = spring 81 l9ys. He described Ihaw5
appearance and said thar he apparently suf,
fering from some OF poison. On ,'oss-eHamna-
ZION he said that he could not tell from the eX-
animation whether il . OF laudanum
poisoning
Dr. Bnganan VAS recalled fer = few moments,
and Mr Litrleton announced that ms hypothetical
question was complete, with :ne exception OF The
testimony given that morning lie then read the
question TO the Ihree experts for the defenceDrs.
ts-i1ton ID Evans Charles q. Wagner and Smith
Ely JeilifTe The question simply a rscapitula
fion Of all the evidence add-cei this trial to
show Thaws insanity NJ. Liulelon al recess
reached the point covered by 'he testimony Of tie
morning and that part Of L was finished soon
afrer court met in the afternoon. il having taken
an hour and quarter read about twenty three
thousand words The prosecutors question will be
tn substance the same. except mat il wi also in
ciude he testimony OF James tLncn Smith
Z short recess while Mr jerome before the
grand Jury tntervened before Tor. Wagner
called for the defence. He said. answering the
hypotbefIcal question, that his opinion that
Thar was ot unsound mind and did not know the
nature and quality OF his when he slew stan
ford rhi;e He defined Oppressive insanity
as q maniacal form q mental UnsoUndness where
.he attacks are infreauent and several years
eIapse between outbursts justice Dowiing then