The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-24
EXPERTS GIVE
 VIEWS ON !!HAW
Several Doctors Describe Acts
 of Defendant
ONE MORE DAY FOR DEFENSE
Early Adjournment Is Taken In Order That Counsel May Prepare Fly pothetcaI Question To Be
 Used In the Trial.

New York, January 23.-When an early adjournment of the Thaw trial was taken today in order to enable the attorneys for the defense to prepare their long hypothetical question covering all chs evidence in the case, there seemed no longer any doubt that next week will bring the second hearing to a close Justice Bowling has decided to limit each side to three expert witnesses and two of the defenses trio were heard today as to the facts of the mental and physical examinations they made on Harry Thaw in the Tombs prison follow ing his arrest for the killing Stanford White.
 No experts for the state have yet ap- peared in the court roon> and MT. Jerome has not indicated the manner in which he will combat the testimony of the alensts in the employ of the defense All of the doctors who served MT. Jerome at the first hearing are under subpoena but as possible witnesses in sur-rebuttal of any action the district attorney may take in rebutting the insanity plea that has been built up.
 Mr. Jerome turned the tables yester- day upon Mrs. Thaw by reading to the jury the affdavits she made a year ago to the lunacy commission which was test ing her sons condition of mind and the defense may show a seeming reversal by having the states alienists admit upon the stand that they made affldavits year ago in which they expressed the opinion that Harry Thaw was suffering from incurable paranoia and had been a victim of that mental malady for many years.
 One More Day For Defense.
 The defense should conclude it's evil dence tomorrow unless MT. Jerome ex- tends his examination beyond the limit of his present intention. pr. Charles G. Wagner, of Binghamton, N. Y., and Dr. Britton D. Evans, of Morris Plains, N. J., bottr superintendefrts of state institutions for the insane were on the stand today. In detailing their conversations with Thaw in the Tombs they brought out more clearly two points which were glossed over last year. The first of these was to the effect that Thaw had told them that in 1900 or 1901 he had
 
 ner party in the Madison Square Garden tower. He had left early and been ac- cused of breaking up the pasty Some of the guests did not eat much, Thaw said, and the young woman who sat next to him declared the food was bad Thaw also told the physicians of the first time he saw Evelyn Nesbit It was in 1901 in front of theatre. "A pure looking girl he described her When he asked who she was he was told the name was Nesbit and that "she belongs to Stanford White"
 Thaw managed afterwards to meet the girl at an after-theatre supper in com pany with several other chorus people
 The European witnesses who are vet to be heard for the defense will arrive to- morrow morning on the steamer Adriatic which Is expected to dock at g a. m The court session begins at 10 o'clock and every effort will be made to have them there at that time as MT Iittleton is anxious that their evidence shall be in before he puts his hypothetical question. Besides Doctors Wagner and Evans, the question will be answered for the de- fense'by pr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, of Colum- ----~-----~-------,--->
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