Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-30
PROSECUTOR GAINS NOTHING iM
THIRD DAYS EXAMINATION
ON INSANITY HEARING.
"MAD HARRY" HOLDS OWN
WITH "cRAzY JERoMEs
People Call District Attorney Crazy.
Says Thaw, But He Does Not rhink
He Is--Thaw correets Lawyers in
Regards to Statements Made During
Previous Trials.

mite FlainS. N. Y. July 30.-Neitha
er Harry *. Thaw nor his counsel
Charles Morschauser, showed much In.
terest today in the report that Evelyn
Thaw intended to begin suit for di-
vorce as soon as the present proceeding
closed.
Altho District Attorney Jerome an4
nounced at the close of yesterdays ses.
sion of court that he was thru with
Thaw. he recalled hdm to tho stand
this morning. He started the exam.
ination along the lines that thus far
have yielded him results He probed
into Thaw's own ideas OF his mental
condition, and contrasted his answers
with those of the fourteen alienists who
at various times pronounced him Insane.
Thaw chung to his oft repeated phrase
that he was not medically" insane,
altho he might have been legally" so
when he killed White.
ThaW Correcte Jerome.
jerome was primed with various
opinions of experts, but Thaw seemed
to have them just as accurately fixed In
his mind. and once or twice corrected
the prosecution. He admitted that
some of the physicians may have been
right. and others, he said. were wrong.
one, he declared. wilfully presented q
distorted verdict.
Terms Stories "Crazy Los"
Jerome asked Thaw about the story
that he once scalded girl In hot
bath tub. and that he had taken girl
named Ruth Lambert automobllng In
Paris and brought her back naked with
welts from II beating. Crazy lies"
said Thaw contemptuously The dis
trict attorney recalled other scandalous
stories about the witness that came out
during his trials. Thaws comment
was the same. Lies" The tales OF
cruelty in early youth of beating a boy
ana driving horse to death. the for
mer told the sanity commission bv n
cousin named Lyons. the latter by his
brother. Josiah Thaw. Witness like
wise denied. His explanation was
that his relatives in their zeal To save
MN on an insanity plea might have
used or exaggerated mere rumors."
Wasn't n true that you were known
as Mad Harry" questioned Jerome.
Yes. might have been called that.
but the same thing may be true of all
most ANYBODY. For instance. I've
heard you called crazy Jerome but
for that reason | don't think YOU ara
insane"
Justice Questions Thaw.
Ihaw was excused at noon by Jes
rome, after two hours of questioning.
Then Justice Mills went 10 the heart
of the case with serious questions:
DO you thoroughly believe what you
told DR.. Evans as to your belief re-
earding White, and were your beliefs
honest?"
Distinctly yes"
You say Evans was given to unde-.
stand by outside sources that your be.
liefs were unfounded and that this led
him to report You as insane?"
yes"
"At the present time do you hold the
same belief as to Whites practices -
Il have found | was mistaken in some
things"
Put In substance do you believe
White committed these offenses against
young girls
yes"
DO you hold that You had amr,o
evidence. and have you more evidence
on that subject than the statements OF
various women who said they had lost
their virtue?"
Yes, Sir; Mr.. Comstock"
But Comstock told you he could nee
eorroborate this and make certain the
proof?'
No. Comstock told me he had un.
mistakable proof, and l thought his
N l,at hns ,,,t,,
Did you consider the statements II
abandoned women to be trustworthy
evidence?"
by no means"
How long before Whites death did
you have these fixed ideas as % his
acts ?"
"As early as June, 1903"