The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
THAW IS CONFIDENT.
Says He Will Never Return to the
Insane Asylum.

White Plains, n. Y, July 81
There was small prospect that Harry
K Thaw would reach the stand at to-
days session when the supreme court
resumed it's hearing on his applica-
ton for release from the Matteawan
criminal insane asylum.
DIR. Britton D. Evans, who declared
yesterday that Thaw was not and
never had been a paranoiac, contin-
ued his testimony today and his cross
examination by District Attorney Je-
rome was expected to be long and
searching. DR.. Isham D. Harris, of
Hudson River state hospital for the
insane at Poughkeepsie, came into
court with the Thaw party and said
he expected to follow DR.. Evans on
the stand.
Than is eager to testify. He en-
tered the court room, looking unus-
ua1Iy buoyant.
Il will never go back to Mattea-
wan lie said, Il am we'll satisfied
with the way the hearing has gone
thus far and 1 am not afraid to face
Mr.. Jerome"
In the corridor Thaw met his
brother and sister-in-law. Mr.. and
Mrs. Josiah Thaw and held few
minutes conversation with them.
District Attorney Jerome today de
MED the report that Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw had been summoned to appear
today. He said that the subpoena,
under which she testified, week be-
fore last, was still in force and that
she could be brought here whenever
further evidence for her was needed.
'Thaw Is Not Insane"
In my opinion Mr.. Thaw is not
insane" were almost the first words
spoken by DIR. Evans when he took
Has Harry K. Thaw any decisions
or nalluciaptiOns at this timer" asked
Charles Morschauser. Ths4w's attorney.
He has not replied DR.. Evans
In ross-examination MI Jerome re-
minded DR.. Evans in his former testi-
mony he had declared that Thaw was
insane a year before he killed White
The experts answer to this was that
n formation given by Thaw had caused
him to modify his opinion Replying to
Jerome'S questions. DR.. Evans said that
he did not consider Thaw's act of let
ting his wife tell the court her story
sevldence of a disordered mind.
Personally" he added. Il do con-
slider it a case of bad Judgment"
Mr.. Jerome then offered in evidence
DR.. Evans brain storm report which
was one of the factors in gaining a
verdict of not guilty on account of in
sanity at the second trial. The district
attorney read the ahenist's conclusion
that TnaW at that time suffered from
adolescent insanity and would be sub
ject to outbreaks of the disease in the
future.
DIR. Evans said that in the compila-
ton of medical evidence made by his
sistants. only matter likely to assist
Thaw's attorneys at that time was in
cIuded.
"They found as much or more on the
other side" ne remarked, but 1 told
them not to put it in.
while I assumed at the trial that
ell facts upon which this report was
yz0r fr7gP cot H.
dc not think so now
just before the opening of the after
noon session Evelyn Nesbitt ThaW slim
ped quietly into the court room 1t was
believed that she was summoned Dy
Mr. Jerome to be on hand in case Thqw
took the stand, but Mr. Jerome sal h.
did not expect to call her today.
DR.. Evans explained his change
convictions regarding Thaw when Mr.
Morschauser resumed his examine
ton.
Since the second trial Dr. Evans
said he had received further impor-
tant information. Formerly. he con
sidered Thaws belief reCardjy,..
Stanford Whites treatment OF vo,Ife
girls as delusion; now he did not.
DO YOU say asked Justice Mills
that If ThaW had been free from Il :
lusions and outbreaks for the past
three years, since he killed White. II
is proof of his sanity and a guaranty
of his freedom from such outbursts
in the future %
The witness would not assent 10
this question entirely. He aontentad
himself with relating that Thaw's a.
$ions at present, showed that he was
sane.
Susan "A. Morrill,. who Attornfr
Hartridge said, was present, when he
received the mysterious articles
marked as exhibits yesterday, follow
ed DIR. Evans on the witness stand
Justice Mills announced: NO To-
man should stay in this court room nm
less she is willing to hear eyerytbir,-
but I hold that the courts are puo.ic
and VIII not compel any one to leave.
Mrs. morrill, said that during the fan
OF 1902. Thaw rented rooms from her IN
t&o different houses. She knew fln1