Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-30


tell replied the witness, smiling.
The district attorney dropped this line
Of questioning.
Were you ever insane?" asked Je
rome.
Il may have been at one time for .
few moments"
Were you crazy when you killed Stan
ford Whittier
Il think was legally crazy. but may
be mistaken"
do you think you did wicked thing
in killing him7''
II do"
KILLING WAS WICKED.
Then why did you Ill him?'
Probably for what he did to my wife
ITO your wife alone?"
principally"
Were you jealous?"
II could not say that I was jealous
did you have a feenng o. bitter per
sonal enmity towards him, or did yoJ
think he was the kind of creature that
every decent man was justified in putting
out of the way?"
There is no such thing Of a man thai
every decent man should put out Of the
way"
Asked why he killed White Thsw re
piled:
Really 1 don't know"
THAW PRAISES HUGHES.
Thaw said that his own choice Of an
attorney for his first trial was Governor
Hughes, because the jury would know
that any witnesses he put on the stand
would be truthful"
Jerome reviewed Thaw's frequent
change OF counsel.
The witness explained that his dis
agreement with the firm of Black. Cru
Der & Olcott was due to their determine
ton TO try to acquit him on the ground
of insanity when he knew he was not
insane. He reiterated. however, that he
might have been insane for a brief in
terval when he killed White.
You must remember" he remarked,
that these lawyers were Influenced in
their belief regarding my mental condi-
ton because they were told that the
charges 1 made against White were I'M
true"
But were they true7'' demanded Je-
rome.
They WERE" replied Thaw firmly.
why were you expelled from Har-
vardT' asked the district attorney.
PUT OUT OF HARVARD.
IT was told was not useful there. and
and four or five others were put out
for studying q subject not in the carricu-
lum."
illegal. perhaps. but not immoral"
Mr. Jerome did not pursue that subject
further, but reverted to the testimony
given yesterday by Susan Merrill, Thaw s
former landlady In New York. Thaw de-
clared that when he first learned that
Mrs Merrill was to aso on the stand he
was exceedingly angry.
IT was told" he continued. that Gar
van, assistant district attorney. got her
NJ q, hav-
and got her TO tell a lot OF lies about
me. But, OF course, 1 don't say this is
true"
Thaw was in the midst OF his testimony
and apparently unruf1ed by his ordeal
when court took the noon recess.
THAw SAYS HE IS SANE.
When the afternoon session opened Je
rome asked Thaw.
In your opinion are you now sane?'
yes" said Thaw. and in other per
sons opinion"
The witness was then shown the pam
phlets prepared by his mother.
Did you believe the allegation will
which this pamphlet opens, that coward
ly combination of powerful men existed
against you. were true?' asked Jerome.
ct thought my mother must have beer
90 informed or she would not have saiC
It." was the reply.
Thaw said ne did not believe that such
a combination existed to conceal 1.-THE
wrongdoing of Stanford White and his
associates"
How do you explain all the troubl'
and expense that Mr.. Hertridge, YOU
former counsel, went to in order to ge
this whip that was presented yesterday ?
asked Mr.. Jerome.
"He never went to any expense" an
, swered Thaw. but he amended this by
adding that he had heard that it haC
cost $40. OF which Hartridge paid hal
and Daniel o'Reilly half.
Had you any reason to believe, as II
limited in your mothers pamphlet" saiC
Jerome, that 1 was Influenced agains
you by malevolent motives?'
EXONERATES JEROME.
mo, 1 really did not think So"
did you think was influenced by an
other motive than a desire to perform m!
dutyT'
We'll, 1 did Think you might have beer
moved by a whim," answered the wit
; ness. and he went on to explai that afte
his acouittal ne was told that jerome
/ sad said that If he remained in the Mat
] teawan asylum for 80 days he Gerome
would be satisfied. The man who tolC
him this, he said was his former attor
/ ney.
JEROME EXCITES THAw.
The first evidence given by Thaw of an!
excitement was when Jerome probed fur
Their into the events leading up to thu
shooting and questioned him regarding
his early relations with Evelyn Nesbit
The witness measured his words careful
", with an evident desire to present thi
part of his career in the best possibl
/ light.
At this moment, Evelyn Nesbit Thav
herself slid into a seat among the wit
nesses. II Jerome had planned her ap
pearance TO confuse the witness he coul'
not have brought her in at more tell
| ing tuncture.