The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06
THAW IS
 CONFIDENT "No Doubt About It Now: I Shall Never Go
 Back" THUS SPEAKS
 WHITES SLAYER Mrs. Thaw Weeps as Jerome "Tortures" Her Son With
 Questions
Chart of 205 Members of Thaw Family Shows
 Only Two Crazy
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 Court House, White Plains, N. Y Aug. 6.-"There is no doubt about it now; shall never go back to Mat teawan.''
 : With these words Harry K. Thaw to- day entered into the final stage of his battle for his freedom with tho assur- ance in his own mind that he has made out good casesand that Justice Mills will declare he+is sufficient sane to be released.
 Morschauser continued the reading of the record of Stanford White when formerly of the Pittsburg police, was his first witness OsMara confirmed the story Thaw told last night about a young girl, now one of the prominent, stars on the American stage, who WAS attacked by White. OMara swore Thaw brought him to New York to see the girl and her mother and repeated on the stand the story told by the girl of the manner in which she had been assaulted by White. It was this girl White sent to a, hospital to be treated and when she was well lured her to one of his dens. O'Mara said this ac- tress told him White was preventing her. from getting position on the stage in New York because his at tempt to assault her failed. The girl later became a star and is now mar Hed.
 Jerome on cross-examination, tried to get O'Mara to admit he had inter viewed women in an effort to keep them quiet'' and prevent them from. telling of some of Thaw's act.
 O'Mara admitted that he had seen Susan Parker during the murder trial but denied enphatica1iy that he had ever heard any stories of Thaw whip-l ping young girls. Despite all of Jerome'S battering, O'Mara was not s,, r., I kT-- ies of the young girls. 2s Morschauser recalled Mrs. Thaw and asked her how the Pittsburg police of icial came to be interested in the case. 'Mr. OMara wanted to be of any helrs he could to my son who was his close! friend. His position in the case was like that of MfltonS angels: They also serve who can only stand and wait, t
 Mrs. Thaw produced a chart of the Thaw family showing 205 members. Of these she said only two showed signs of mental disorders. one the result of brain fever, the other from senile de- mentia. consequent upon old age. None. she said, had ever been confined in an insane asylum. Two members. of her branch of the family, she said, were epi:eptic.
 Mrs. Thaw told Morschauser Harry had many fine friends before he met Evelyn Nesbit. She said the following had attended a dinner given by Harry: MT. and Mrs. A. Townsend Burden MT. and Mrs. A. Gillette, Sir Bysche and Lady Cunard, Lady Page, Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, J. H. Astor, Henry ClewS and MT. and Mrs. Jay Livingston.
 Mrs. Thaw broke down and wept again she said that Jerome had tortured her and her son." Justice Mills allowed her the widest latitude in her testimony and she rambled on, charging the prosecutor with persecu- tion.
 
 to describe her impressions of Mat teawan and again she broke down as she told of the shrieking maniacs in the corridors of the asylum .'They pace about blaspheming and cursing,'; she sobbed- Its terrible. They never cease cursing; some cry out vile things.''
 Mrs. Thaw was forced to leave sthe stand to regain her composure. An affidavit by Mrs. Thaw reyiewing gI tho Thaw family history was read and Mrs. Thaw then left the stand.
 Morschauser then recalled Dr. Brit ton D. Evans, his alienist, who said that in his opinion Thaw is not now strengthened out his testimony regard ing his report to Attorney Hartr1dge and Jerome then took him in hand Do you think Governor Fort of New Jersey meant you in his unfavorable comment on insanity experts yester- day?' asked the prosecutor. eThat is a personal matter and I will not enter into personalities" snapped back Evans. Jerome then began cross-ex- amining Evans on his testimony dur ing the murder trial Evans scored a point by declaring that Jerome had tried hard to get a copy of his report He said that "someone'' tried to burg larjze his room at the hotel while a copy of the report was in the room. Jerome and Evans fought back and forth for an hour and then Justicel Mills interrupted.
 Has Thaw at any time expressed you a more extreme belief in whit practices than he has admitted on the stand?'' he asked "Only ing my first three visits" ans Evans.