The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-11
This Is His Conclusion in His
Public Statement Just
Made
ley DO NOT WANT TO KNOW
ANYTHING THAT CONTRAD|CTs
Can Only See the Things which Cor.
roborate Their Own Preconcerned
Hair Splitting Views and Brain
Storm Theories.

Whlce Rams, N. Y, Aug. 11-Reas-
serting his sanity, Harry K. Thaw to-
day issued a statement reviewing the
evidence given In the recent hearing
on his application for release from the
Matteawan asylum. In the course of
MS argument to sustain his conten-
ton that he Is sane, Thaw said that.
according to the alienists, District At
torney Jerome had proved him to be
sane forty-fve times over" in his
long questioning. Thaw's statement
follows:
The following is all have to say
about the trial:
"Mr. Jerome's witnesses we're an nm
professional lawyer and an unfortu-
nate woman who contradicted each
otner. also three Of his peculiar alien
Isis and DR.. Baker, who, from his tes-
timony, might have been on either side
except that he showed some unfriend-
illness to us and could not remember
many admissions he had made to me
and to DIR. Pilgrim.
"Dr. Baker admitted that he did not
believe In souls because. he had never
seen any. DR.. Hirsch affirmed that his
profession was Incompatible with re-
ligion. DIR. Macdonald and DR.. Flint
refused to believe what Jerome had
so!emnly stated to jury, SO I hardly
think any judge could believe any of
them. -
The best experts have informed
me that If any insane man was uues-
toned for twenty minutes as Jerome
questioned me, he would assuredly
show his insanity. AS Jerome kent
this up for over fifteen hours in all
during the trial, he proved me sane
forty-f1ve times over, for the aNenists
said any twenty minutes during his
fifteen hours of wild and extraordi-
nary questions would have settled any
paranOiac.
However, might have failed as
other sane men might have, SO I
don't consider my testimony one-tenth
SO important as the twenty alienists
who personally examined me and in
the records have sworn am sane, or
the testimony of sixty-two lay wit
nesses. Mr.. Jerome at the second
trial. after telling the jury why he
mad not produced DR.. Flint and COM
pany, said he would submit the case
to human intelligence.
William d. Morgan relates the fol-
lowing conversation to the same point.
I "A great alienist is going to oper-
ate on q woman who has been uncon-
scious for forty years and desires
clear knowledge of her mental state
II she regains any mental faculties.
So he asks his wife and her friend to
watch. The doctor tells them, 4 don't
want you to see anything Of the OPP
Grafton, but what l want Is to have
one or more good observers at hand
and want everything observed and
recollected.' His wife replies, Why
don't the people at the asylum do, why
us? Because, answered the husband,
each OF them has theory and none
OF them will recollect anything that
don't agree with 1t. want real live
human creatures of good average in
telligence.'
1T seems to me must be perfect
ly sane II hard headed sensible men
who slept in the same room with me,
saw me undress and go to sleep and
wake up, then eat my breakfast, din
ner and supper, and who took me up
on the mountains where could have
left them miles behind had / not been
- sAAys 4A0oO duu l1Iduy C1Cl.
gymen, headed by President Patton Of
Princeton, and ladies, some Of whom
have known me all my life, and bank
ers and manufacturers and police and
prison keepers accustomed to observ-
ing both sane and insane men. Also
city clerks. editors, farmers, lawyers
and the ex-governor Of great state.
all find, me perfectly sane and none
find anything irrational at all.
This seems to me to prove my san
ity ten times better than whether or
not could handle Mr.. Jerome in q
fourteen and a half hours debate on
every possible subject except the al
legged delusion which he did not seem
to want explained. Maybe explana-
tions would have spoiled his hypo-
thetical question.
= III. X. Thaw",
white Plains. Aug. 10, 1909"
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