The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-28
Thaw's Counsel Finish
 Their Labors.
.MANIAcDEPREsSIvE'INSANITY
This is Explanation of Young Mil
 lionzire's Murderous Act.
Tse Prosecution win Begin It's Evi- aence Today in RebuttsI and Case wm Go to Jury To-
 morrow Night

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 New York. Jan. 27.-The defense closed his case today with maniac de- pressive'' insanity as the explanation of the death of Stanford White at the hands of the young Pittsburg million alre.
 Tomorrow the prosecution will begin it's evidence in rebuttal and the case should go to the jury by Wednesday night or Thursday noon-
 District Attorney Jerome tomorrow morning win apply for the appoint ment of commission to take the tes- tinony of Abram Hummel, the con- victed lawyer, who is confined in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, and who is said to be too i'll to appear in court Mir. Littieton. of the defense, said he would oppose any such action. wheraupon Justice Bowling announced that if necessary he would go to the island himself tomorrow night in com pany with the defendant and his ccun- sel to preside at the taking of Hum mePs testimony. ~
 The jury, 1t was stated, would not be compelled to take the night trip across the river. Thaw seemed de- lighted at the prospect of the outing, even to the grim shores of New York city;s penal colony. and smiled broadly ct the courts suggestion.
 District Attorney Jerome disappoint- ed crowded court room when ne re- trained from his tactics of last year m baiting the expert witnesses for the defense. three of whom. DTS; Msgher. Evans and JeIiffe, declared that ThaW at the time he killed Stanford White, was auffering from such defect- or reason az not to know the nature or quality of his act or that the act was wrong. The prosecutor contented nm self with drawing from the alienists the fact that last year they swQre. t was during a .brain storm" that Thaw committed the homicide. He also read from the affidavit made by Dr. Wagner before the lunacy commission last year, giving conversations had with ThaW irl court, which. tended to show that the defendant had a distinct recollection nf occ,irrences on the roof garden iin- medsately preceding the tragedy
 Manaac Deprenaave Hnsnmtty.
 It was left to Justice Bowling to make a most important inquiry of the aiienists He desired to know the. ex. act nature of maniac depressive" in- sanity, and if the attacks were riikely to recur. He also asked if person sufferinx from this form Of Insanity would be liable te commit assaults. He learned that 1t was a recurrent form of mental disorder, the attacks coming suddenly and without warning, a ,pe-.
  niacal outburst. then by q period of complete depression and then by an- other lucid interval. It seemed that tht presiding judge was securing sn- formation upon which to predicate Ju- dfcial action In the event of a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity or of a straight acquittal Even in this latter event 1t was pointed out that Justice Bowling would have the right to have Thaw committed for exaInina- ton.
 An English physician, one of three men of medicine who testified, first gave the name of .'nnanic-depressive or 'sub-acute mania" to Thaw's mental condition.
 pr. sydney Russell Wells, of London, made the diagnosis during an outbreak by Thaw in 1899. when with a normal ternperature, Thaw demanded that the walls of his rooms in nursing home be torn down so that he might have air and twenty tons of fee be put in the apartment to cool it.
 Mir. LittIeton's question, which was answered by the three experts, was complete resume of the evidence with the exception, as District Attorney Je- rome pointed out, of the testimGay of James Ciinch Smith, brother-in-law of Stanford White, who talked with Thaw for fifteen minutes just before the Sh0otlnE ou tIlS toOA oA NA@NAoAA SAN--
 The question contained some ls.OoO words,
 Dr. Charles BingnaIn, the Thaw fam ily physician of Pittsburg. was put on inc witness stand when court resumed today in the trial or Harry ,t; hi may 1,S R,ngham told of the early symptoms of nervousness sn Harry Thaw, saying he waa first called to attend the boy when he was years old. At that time his nervousness often bordered on con- vIllslons. The attacks usually followed va arfous chiiden's diseases. Thaw slept badly as 8 child, requiring relay or nurses most of the time.
 pr, Bingham said that in the fall or 1903 he was called to attend Harry rhaw in Pittsburg and treated him for nervousness and melancholy. This was after Thaw's first trip abroad With Eyelyn Nesbit The witness saw Thaw several times in the tombs after his ar rest and defendant always referred to the Madison Square Garden tragedy as an fact of Providence"
 Thaws acts in the prison impressed the witness as irrational.
 It was of pr. Bingham that District Attorney Jerome said at the last trial when Thaw's mental condition was un- dsr investigation: ''I had rather have tbe testimony of an old practitioner ike this than ali the experts you could put on the stand.
 The prosecutors cross-examinRtion today was very brief and courteous. IrolIowtnR pr Bingham came the first foreign witnesses pr. Sydney Russell wells of London. who was called to, at tend Thaw in the English capital in the early part of 1899.
 aMr. Thaw was in a very nervous eonditioTl," said Dr. Wells: his pulse was ranid and he complained of pains in the head. I diagnosed his case as one of mental disturbances.P
 On one of his visits to London. the defendant, witness said. he found his patient in a highly excitable state de- spite the fact that his temperature was only es degrees. He feared Thaw might harm himself Thaw did not respond to treatment. even opiates falling. and pr. Wells decided to send the young man to the Devonshire Nurs- ing Association's Hospital.
 Acute Mania.
 On another visit he noticed rhaw