The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-08-13
Testimony Completed and
Only Arguments Of Law
yers Now to Be Heard
THAW SURE HE WILL WIN
Aged Mother Upbraids Jerome as
mo Gentleman" as Trial
Nears Completion

White Plains, n. Y, Aug. c.
Harry X. Thaw's latest struggle to
regain his freedom Will end tomor-
row. The submission Of testimony
III his hearing before Justice Mills
sd this afternoon and all that re-
mains is the final arguments of the
attorneys. Justice Mills will file
lis decision with the county clerk
here On the morning Of Thursday,
Aug. 12.
S>'eral possibilities confront Thaw
The court may grant his plea and
make him absolutely free. 1t may
decide that he has not established his
slnlty and refuse to interfere, in
which case the state authorities will
probably send him back to Mattea-
van. But Justice Mills has further
discretionary powers. He may feel
'2at the young mans mental condi-
ton is still il doU't and for that rea-
son delay a final ORDER, meanwhile
%Darolina TnaW in the custody of some
officer or possibly on his Town recog-
H!Zance in the case of his family, or
he may declare thar Thaw is insane,
Vat moved by his mothers complaint
ra@al1ing his surroundings at Mat
'e1Wan, serd him tC some other state
hospital not peOplel by criminals.
ThaW left the cuirt room this af-
telnoOn with a Jaunty step. The
strain of the past four weeks, during
which he has submitted personally to
fourteen hours Of crOss-eXaninatiOn,
was not apparent either in his face
Of bearing At no time during the
proceedings has he expressed any
thing out satisfaction with the results
AID confidence in the success of his
cause. This afternoon he was hope
ful as ever.
II am sure" he said, that I shall
be free
The evidence presented in behalf
of Thaw closed today with a dram
attic outbnrst by his mother, Mrs.
Mary COpley ThaW, who was the final
witness. Her last words were a de-
nu%nciation of District Attorney Je-
rome! Earlier in the day she had
read a list Of names distinguished in
New York society. They we're guests,
she said, at a dinner she gave in
New York which Harry attended be-
fore his marriage. In concluding
her testimony she referred to this
list Of names:
II brought i'm the names of those
who attended hal dinner to my SON."
she said, "because of the statements
or Mr.. Jerome regarding the COM
pany Harry was accustomed to keep.
| do no have any special enmity to-
ward Mr.. jerome, but he certainly
has not behaved in this matter in a
gentlemanly way nor in a christian
way. Mr.. Jerome always talked
about Harry's being a f]requerter of
the Tenderloin, when he knows as
we'll as anyone that my boy never
went to the TenderlOin until he met
a certain person who dragged him
down.
THAT said Attorney Charels Nor
s~chaHser, lends u case"
On the stand today Mrs. Thaw's
Testimony was again frequently inter-
rupted by sOhbing, as she described
Harry SURROUNDINGS at Matteawan.
That place seemed to me like the
vestlbule to the Internal regions" she
said solemrly.
The principal new witnesses today
ere Roger O'Mara, formerly chief OF
police of Pittsburg. and recently en-
plOyed by the Thaws as a detective
in Harry's case. He testified in cor.
rotation of the stories about Starr
ford White. The greater part of the
day was devoted to a re-aximination
of Thaw's ~alienists. Jerome attack
ed these experts with every device of
the skilled crOss-examiner. He rous-
ed the ire Of DR.. Evans by ASKING
if he was the object of the
citation of medical expert witnesses
delegated yesterday by Governor
Franklin Fort of New Jersey. DR..
Evans is a superintendent of a New
Jersey state insane hospital at Morris
Plains. The expert replied that he
declined to go into personalities.
DR.. |. G. Harris. of the PoughkeeD-
sic state asylum, also received a grill
ing. But both alienists stuck to their
assertion that whatever Thaw's men
tai condition mi SHIT have been when
he shot Stanford White. he is now
sane. They left the witness stand
u~nshancn.