Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-08-05
THAW SORRY
He SLEW WHITE
REVIEWS INCIDENTS LEADING TO
KILLING AT ROOF GARDEN
Is URSHkkEk By JEROME
Natteawan Prisoner Gives Deliberate
Answers To Cross-fiEe of Question
ing and Proves Splendid Wit
ness i'm His Own Behalf.


Harry X. Thaw underwent a six
hours examination by District Attor-
ney Jerome ia the Supreme Court
here and az the end be told his in
quisitor that ne could continue. as be
thres-ened 20 do. for two days more If
he wished
Thaw surprised Jerome A year
ago last month. when Tor a few min
uces be had gone on the stand In his
own behalf al a similar proceeding
I'm Fougnheepsie. the Matteawan pris-
Oner lost his grip on himself COM
pletely under the simplest question
ing He now exhibits the keenest in
telleCt and keeps the steadiest hand
The proceedings resem BLEED mere
those % q witness testfying dspas
siOnateiy in a case beyond his interest
than those OF a man whose freedom
depended in large measure upon every
spoken sentence.
AT EASE ALL THE TIME
Thay was at ease all the time joked
With his Questioner. corrected him
once or twice. and met him point for
point in every dangerous passage.
The morbidly curious circle OF
White Plains citizens who daily fight
Cor places i'm the court room heard
things that were away above their
heads
The alert man on the witness stand
talked quite naturally OF the Honor
able Mrs So-and-so and the Duchess
OF TLis-aud-that whom he had 20 dine
with him In cafes OF Paris He spoke
about mountain climbing I'm Turkes-
tan about the delights OF the Rhine
country French was at the tiD of his
tongue and easy repartee with allu-
sions ir the ballad currency of the
cOsmopo.ite.
The citizens OF white Plc'ns had
crowded the court 20 hear a luuatic
When Thaw first took the stand at a
-eV minutes after the opening of the
ruir- session. spectators hracet
lselres 100 await some untold dem
orst-ation on his part-an explosion
such as the aIenists had talked about
for two days past
The man who is seeking release from
NatteaVau as one cured OF his I'm
sanity settled himself easily in hi.
chair ANA wiped his glasses while Je
rome thuul el his realms OF typeNIit
ZEN paper.
10 was in The soothing accents o
one uLo addresses O child that jerome
nut the first question.
Did the witness know the nature %
the proceedings that were in progress
there2
The same question put in the sam
way. had thrown rhaw into panic
wear before In poughkeepsie. and b
had CROPPED blindly I'm his confusion
for "a logical answer at that tim,
lie answered tersely that il was
habeas corpus proceeding brought Z
test his present sanity. The tone q
his voice was enough 90 convince j,
rome that he could not conduct a elias
IA hrst reader az the present occasion
JEROME FEELING GROUND.
The district attorney vas feelin
LIS ground during the first five mil
utes of Interrogation. and Thaw va
finding his Throughout all the que
tioning Jerome tried hard 70 thro
him self into the mental attitude OF Il
man who faced him. He CROPPED
every point 70 touch the characteri
tic weakness that the alienists decla
10 De resident somewh here in a par
noiac's mental complement
He sounded him on his memory, {
his concept of the morality that VI
outraged in his killing OF White. al
on his assumed chivalry ia regard
the protection OF young women.
skipped from one subject 70 anOths
and then with suddenness back 20
review OF the first Thaw was as nj
bic and nuid in his reasoning as .
rome
One subject upon which the pro
-cutor harped with strong inslsten
vas that OF TbaW's relations with {
man be slew, his view OF the char
ter OF White. and OF the motives viii
prompted his murder
You know Ferris. the hypnotist
Queried Jerome.
Thaw said some years ago. when
acquaintance with Evelyn Thaw y
IN its inception. Ferris had come
his apartments for the purpose OF z
ing him lessons IN hypnOtism.
Il told him that ] knew and was
terested ia a young lady. and that
vas barely possible that she was
der the hypnotic influence OF a cert
man In town. / wanted 10 know sol
thing about hypnousm. 50 that co
be sure on this point
What led you TO believe that
young woman was hypnotizedg'
district attorney wanted 20 know.
From what she herself had told
and friends had said 70 me" repl
Thaw. Il had Stanford White
mind. although l was not at all 5
that he could be a hypnotist"