The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-05
THAW CONFIDENT
 OF HIS RELEASE
Plans to Live in PittSburg and Engage in Literary
 Work.
TO KNOCK OUT DELUSIONS
Especial from United Press.)

Especial from United PreSS.)
 Court House, White Plains. N. Y.
 Aug. 5.-Substantial evidence that
 Harry Thaw's belief in the practices
 of Stanford White toward young girls
 was based on fact and is not, there
 fore, delusion of a disordered brain
 was introduced in the habeas corpus proceedings to-day when James N. Carvalho, a handwriting expert, took the stand.
 The states alienists have declared that a belief based on fact is not delusion and therefore Morschauser ThawS attorney, dealt sledge-hammer blows at the paranoia theory. Thaw's attorney believes that if it could be 1 shown that Thaw's belief was based on fact they could secure his liberty and they were enthusiastic when the | letters were admitted.
 -Thaw, confident that he will be re- leased from Matteawan within week | has made his plans to live in Pitts | burg. In an interview with a United Press representative to-day Thaw said: I am sure I shall be released when | the states alienistS have outlined the three 'delusions' from which they say l suffer- I will then. show them that my belief in these three things was well founded and not a delusion. Also
 I will show them the truth of my be- l lief in Whites orgies.
 "As soon as I am free I will travel | 1n Europe for a time with my mother and sister. We are all in need of rest. Then we will go to Pittsburg to live l shall do literary work. I have al- | ready submitted an essay to a pub | fishing house which will be published | as soon as I am freed.''
 | Thaw has twelve more witnesses to | call He says their testimony will be | sensational. Justice Mills declared | yesterday he wanted to end the case 1 Saturday but Attorney Morschauser l hfc In E,,;e i It is believed however, that Mills will
 hand down his decision by Thursday l of next week as he leaves Friday on
 his vacation.
 | schauser continued reading Evelyn's l testimony at the murder trials tc l prove Thaw believed the White stories and that they were. therefore. not de- | lusionS.
 l Morschausar set about early trying
 to show that Thaw's beliefs in Whites | orgies were not delusions but were | based on facts. Carvelho, the hand
 writing expert, was the first witness | called. He said that he noticed noth-
 ing irrational with Thaw at the first | trial. He had read 6S pieces of writing | purporting to be that of Stanford | White. He had discussed the letters | with Thaw many times and had told | him they were undoubtedly written by | White
 | Morschauser then took up the ''mush-
 room letter" written by White. Car
 Valho said Thaw told him the letter | was sent to a girl named May" White sent the girl to a hospital and | when she was well attempted to work
 her ruin. The letter was read. It was signed by hand drawn in ink | which Carvalho said was Whites
 usual signature. Carvalho then told + of the "Sue Parker letter, which he | said had been offered to Thaw's Jaw | yers by the Parker woman for s5,OO0.
 The woman, he said, had been a sworn | statement that when she was IT she
 met White who was kind to her for
 some time. One Easter Sunday even- ing, she swore, White lured her to his
 apartments Eagles Nest" piled her | with wine and assaulted her. The woman's letters from White and her affidavit, Carvalho said, were finally bought from the woman by Thaw's
 lawyers for $500. Carvalho identified
 the letters in court as copies of the
 original. These copies were offered in
 evidence and Jerome discovered that
 only sixty of them were in hand though there should. have been 6S Jerome, on cross-eXamination attack ed the character of the Parker woman and Carvalho admitted that none ot the letters contained any reference tc the assault on her. Under redirect
 examination Carvalho said that the Parker girls story impressed him af true because of the way she told it. Jerome failed to destroy the founda-
 tion that Carvalho has laid to show that Thaws alleged "delusions' were
 not delusions but facts.
 Edward Robinson, jailer at the Pougekeepsie jail said that Evelyr
 visited Thaw often at the jail there
 and they seemed friendly. Morschaus. . CT, during the rest of the morning
 read from the records of the Pough , keepsie harbeas corpus proceedings and fom the records of the committet , on 1unacy which declared Thaw in. , sane.