The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-30

Emotional Display = Acqults I'm
self With Credit on Witness stand
and With His Attorney Goes Over
Msss Of Exhibits Presented by Dis
trict Attorney.
White Plains, NJ Y, July 3o.-Wil.
liam Travers Jerome. district attor-
ney Of New York. finished his In
quisition Of Harry X. Thaw In the
supreme court. This ends perhaps
the most surprising chapter Of the
long court procedure In which the
young pittsburger has figured, GER
tainly the most surprising in this
latest, phase OF the case--Thaw's
fight to prove himself sane and OBJ
tain his release from the Matteawan
asylum for the criminal insane.
All told, Harry Thaw faced MIR.
Jeromes lightning thrusts for ten
hours, yet he held his own at all
times. and today he Is in the hands
OF his friends. His attorney, Charles
Morschauser, Is conducting the exam.
nation, which Is expected to last as
long as Jerome's.
Notwithstanding the mental strain
he was under during his eyamina.
tion, Thaw labored for several hours
with his attorney In Justice Mills
ante-room. going over the multitude
of records used by Mr.. Jerome in his
rapid-fre of cross questions. The
district attorney consented TO this,
but sent one OF his deputies to guard
the evidence, which he said belonged
to the records of his office.
Thaw and his attorney returned to
the courthouse and, with deputy
sheriff at the door, began their task.
They asked this privilege chiefly on
account OF certain exhibits intro
duced by the district attorney. These
consisted of various papers contain
Ing notes and drawings found in
Thaw's cell at the Tombs after he
was sent to Matteawan. What use
Mr.. Jerome will make OF them will
develop later. But their appearance
seemed 10 bother the Thaws some
what, and after court adjourned Mrs.
William G. Thaw, the prisoners
mother, gave out an interview in
which she said that the production
Of these papers by the state proved
the charges she made in printed
pamphlet recently. hat her son had
been hurried away to the asylum
without being allowed to get his
clothes or other effects in his cell.
On the whole, however. Thaw and
his attorney are we'll satisfied with
tho progress Of the case. Thaw
showed even more confidence than
he exhibited during the first encoun-
ter: in fact his self-satisfaction at
one time almost cost him dear when
he ventured into heated passage at
arms with the district attorney. But
he checked himself when he realized
that he had nothing to gain and
everything to lose by n show Of tenn
per. Except for this squall, the ex-
change of questions and answers.
with here and there an occasional
sally of wit, progressed smoothly.
Mr.. Jerome based his questions
chiefly upon various documents, let.
ters and memoranda. which he pro-
duoed in surprising numbers. The
one he found most useful was a tab.
let containing 26 sheets OF foolsoap
paper. on which were pasted
strange variety OF newspaper clip
pings and scraps of manuscript.
Thaw identified IL as something he
had prepared and sent to Delpin M.
Delmas. his chief counsel during the
first trial, for use in preparing his
closing speech to the jury. Some of
cause suspicious OF the authors san.
ity, hut these bits Thaw invariably
explained by saying they were letters
written to him aud his family by per-
sons whose kind intentions probably
were better than their mental bal
ance.
While Thaw was Of course the cen
ter figure at the hearing, there we're
two other witnesses, Susan Merrill,
the former New York LODGING house
keeper, and Clifford w. Hartridge,
Tbaws former attorney. Mrs. Mer-
rill went further into details regard
ing Tbaw's alleged abuse of young
women at her house. She admitted
having had dealings also with Stan
ford White. te
Hartridge testified to the truth of
parts of her story. He said that the
money he turned over to the woman
which she said was used TO prevent
the girls Thaw whipped from making
trouble did not come from Thaw
himself. He said that he had receiy.
ed 100000 from Mrs. William Thaw,
but had used large part OF It for
various purposes connected with the
family"