The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-15
Laughs AS She Refuses. to
Talk Until He Is Searched
For Revolver.
LAWYERS MAKING
CAPITAL OF STORY
Prisoner Says Her Attitude Proves
That She Is Prejudiced
Against'I1im.

WHITE PLAINS. n. Y. July Is
Harry Thaw laughed at the statement
made by his wife that she would not
go On the stand again at his sanity
hearing before Justice Mills until she
had seen him searched for concealed
weapons.
1t is expected that Mrs Thaw will
take the stand again -ome time today
20 tell, if Justice Mills will permit, OF
the threats against her life Harry Thaw
IS alleged to have made.
Harry has threatened to XIII me.
said she. and I fear he will do so.
shall refuse to go on the stand again
searched for pistol"
When Thaw was told this he laughed
= heartily and said Evelyn's attitude only
proved his contention that she was
prejudiced against him and wanted him
kept in the asylum. He SAID he had no
fear of anything she would tell on The
stand and declared the defense could
prove, If Evelyn old tell that story, that
she had said to many persons that she
could keep him in the asylum Dy going
Oh the stand and swearing he had
threatened 10 kin her.
he seemed to ne in much better health
than at any time since the killing of
Stanford White. He says ne is per
fectly ready 10 undergo the grueling
examination of tie States attorneys and
The States alienists
When the count was called to order
Evelyn was not IN the room but the
States attorneys declared they could
produce her Immediately Il Justice Mills
ruled that her testimony was not con-
fidentiaL
Physician on Stand.
DR.. Adolph Meyer, a New York physi-
clan, was the first witness of today. He
had visited Thaw five times, twice at
White Plains and three times at Mat
teawan. His talks with him about
White, d.. Meyer said. were for the
purpose of securing information on
which 10 base a hypothetical question.
"Tlaw told me he had not seen White
until the moment of leaving the roof
garden" he said. and then he de-
clared he could give no account OF the
shooting itself
y asked Thaw what he thought about
Jerome, and ne answered that there
were improper motives 0enind Jerome's |
uNtiDll5 IN prosecuting lsliii so NlBoI- /
ogsly. I asked him Il he was revenge /
ful, and he said he was not in any way. /
Il asked him what ne thought about /
the killing OF White, and he answered !
that he had an absolute horror of kill /
ing. I asked him about his estimate Of |
e crime committed under the influence
o. liquor, and he said il should not be
considered differently from any other.
y asked what he now thought of the
killing of Stanford White, and his an
swer was:
There is less danger now that peo-
pie would think that ii was the thing
10 do
Answer Incoherent
The incoherence Of the answer struck /
the States attorneys forcibly and they /
all copied it verbatim and made copious |
notes.
DR.. Meyer said Thaw complained that /
he had TO 90 TO bed every night at /
Matteawan at s o'clock in a cold room.
while I'VE other inmates in the same I
ward had more privileges.
Thaw had told Dr. Meyer, the latter
swore, that Dr. Baler, the States alien
ist, had made fake statements at the /
Thaw hearing IN Poughkeepsie.