The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-08
FLAWS MOTHER FEELS BITTER Issues a Statement Oh
 AGenists. DOUBTS THEIR HONEST Controversy Over Fee Paid to
 Delmas. Clifford Hartridge Gives Out . Lettes to show That the California
 Lawyer Was Paid
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White Plains. N. r.. Aug. 7.-MrA Mary copiey Thaw. mother of Harry K. Thaw. today made public . statement in which she compared the testimony given by alienists in behalf of Thaw's effort to free himself from the insane asylum with the evidence given by Dis trlot Attorney Jerome's aiisnists. Mrs. Thaw said;
 MT. Jerome speaks of fourteen alien. ista. There are but four that he darss place on. the witnsss stand to swear that my son has or ever had any in- curabis. mental trouble, and these have no religions feeling about their oaths that know of. Of the fourteen he claims. seven have since sworn that my son Is sane. and except Drs. nvans and Wagner. during their first two visits, all of them. Doctors Dvana Wagner, 0raeme. Hammond. Jsiiffs. Pilgrim and Gregory. have sworn that they never saw any sign of insanity whatever In all their personal examinations of him pr. White also was at the oommlssion in March. 1907, to testify to my son'a insanity, but the oommissionsrs an. nounoed that they heard enough alien. tify, No one knows better than Mfr. Jerome that he is ready to swear to my sons sanity. Of the remaining seven pr. Hamilton has said too much. and after his trickiness and his offef to make 1t dementia praecox' he cans not help Mir. Jsroms.s R
 "Dr. Ferris announced on February {, 1908. that he had never made . por- sonal examination of Mir. Thaw and could not give an opinion as to Mir. Thaw's condition
 "Dr. Mabon. am told. has some con. science. have been told that Mfr. Jo- rome considered pr. Hirseh his best aiienlst. but my sons experts say that pr. Diefendorff is better. I know that pr. Diefendorff would not testify against my son now. Dr. Lamb, head of the Matteawan institution. refuses to swear that my son Is . paranoiao and Mir. Jerome dare not use pr. Baker as an expert, so he Is left with just four doctors.
 "Tt Is not necessary for me to ex- press my opinion about them. simply name the alienists who would go on the stand and swear as he wishes They l are Dr. Hirsch. pr. Pritchard. Dr. | Flint and pr. MacDonald But I take 1 more satisfaction In the quality of these alienists who are willing to sup- port Mir. Jerome even than in theix number.
 (signed.) Mary Copley Thaw." Replying to Mrs. Thawss statement on the witness stand Thursday claiming that she did not understand that Law yer Deimas was to get half his fee from Harry Thaw and the other half from herself. and also that she had never heard of any such arrangement until the murder trial of Harry Thaw was on, Mir. Hartridge produced the foi- lowing letter written by Mrs. Thaw to him over three months before the trial began:
 Hotel Lorraine, ''New York, October 27 1906. "Clifford W. Hartridge, Esq: My Dear Sir-In order to gratifl my son and at the same time to make satisfactory arrangement with Mr. Delmas, think the plan we spoke of. of charging on Harry's account. which he considers fair, and then to supplies ment whatever is needed to meet Mr. Delmas's claims, wiM be the best.
 T can only hope that shall not be too heavily taxed. While what ad. vance Harry comes from his inherited share of my estate. 1t does not allow me the use of that money during my life time, nor do I quite think he will pay interest on the loan for good req sons, so long as his family is as now constituted. Sincerely yours
 "M. c. Thaw."