The Red Cloud chief., 1908-01-31

gins is G,taenCe IN n.D~,tal.
New Ioi., Jan, lS.-Tue Thaw dc.
Tense ClUsnu is Caae VIA "AIahiC-de
pTcas.vC insanity as tai G~"rIdnatlon
OF thc Gcota o. STANFORD Nnitc at the
han.s % the yOun, rlttaDurg million
alrg. The prosecution has begun its
evidence IN rcJdClal u the case
sLCu.u 20 to the jury by Thursday
noon. district Attorney Jerome VIII
apply Tor tEe appointment OF a ON
mIss.on TO take the testimony OF
Abraham Hummel, the convicted law.
yer VINO is confined in the p~enitcntiary
on Blackwell 8 island, and who is
said to DC too i'll 10 appear in court,
Mr.. Littleton OF the dCicnse said he
would oppose any such acton, where
upon Justice Bowling announced that
If necessary he would so to the island
himself tonight. IN company with the
defendant and his counsel, to preside
at the taking Of HummCl $ testimony.
Tho jury, IT was said. would not be
compelled take the night trip across
the river Thaw seemed delighted at
the prospect OF the outIng-cven to
the grim shores of New York city's
penal colony-and smiled broadly at
the courts suggestion.
Alienists on the Stand.
District Attorney jerome disappoint-
cd a crowded court room when he re-
trained from his tactics OF last year
IN batting the expert witnesses for
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Wagner, Evans and Jelliffe-declared
that Thaw at the time he killed Stan.
ford White vas suffering from such a
defect Of reason as not to know the
nature or quality of his act or that the
act was wrong, The prosecutor con.
tented himself with drawing from the
alienists the fact that last year they
swore it was during a brain storm
that Thaw committed the homicide.
He also read from the affidavit made
by DR.. Wagner before the lunacy com
mission last year giving conversations
had with Thaw in court which tended
to show that the defendant had a dis
tinct recollection of occurrences on
the roof garden Immediately preceding
the tragedy.
Bowling Secures Information.
II was left to Justice Bowling to
make a most important inquiry OF the
alienists He desired to know the ex-
act nature of "manic-depressive" in
sanity and II the attacks were likely
to recur. He also asked If a person
suffering from this form of insanity
nnn1l hn liln1yy RI Dammit acgDnIfc
! He learned that 1t was a recurrent
form OF mental disorder, the attacks
coming suddenly and without warning.
n period OF insanity being followed
by a maniacal outburst, then by a Pc
riod of complete depression and then
by another lucid interval. II seemed
that the presiding judge was securing
information upon which to predicate
judicial action in the event Of a YER
diet of not guilty on the ground of
insanity or of a straight acquittal,
Even in this latter event it was point
ed out that Justice Bowling would
have the right to have Thaw commit
ted for examination.
English Physicians Diagnosis.
Ti hAiSioh pa ~ ohN VI Na'
three men of medicine who testified,
first gave the name OF ''manlc-depres-
sive" or "sub-acute mama" to Thaw's
mental condition. DR.. Sydney Russell
] Wells of London made the diagnosis
during an outbreak by Thaw in Lon.
don in 1899, when with a normal tenn
perature Thaw demanded that the
walls OF his rooms In a nursing home
be torn down so that he might have
air and that twenty tons Of ice be
' put in the apartment to cool 1t.
Mr.. Littleton's question, which was
answered by the three experts, was Il
complete resume of the evidence, with
the exception. as District Attorney
jerome pointed out, OF the testimony
of James c.. Smith, brother.in-law OF
Stanford White, who talked with Thaw
for fifteen minutes just before the
shooting on the roof of Madison
Square Garden. The question con
tained some fifteen thousand words,