The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-23
AS The FIRST Witness at His.
Trial to Determine His
Mental Condition.
TELLS OF EXAMINATIONS
OF His Sanity and Goes over The;
History of His Case Since
He Made His Escape
my A..oa !.

ThaW took the stand todaySaS the sArStss
witness IN the trial before a jury 10
determine Shds sanity: Before ThaNS
was permitted TO testify Depuy A.
heard on behaH OF +hestate- NrSC Cox
declared that the state bad no inberesS
In the case other than a. to Whether
he was insane and menace1oSo
We VIII show you. that he 5ss sglzs
ferfng from mcurabIe insanity = sad
the states attorney. Mr.. Cook DE-
c1ared he would show by T9aawSG
mother --that she was suffering from
nervous 1rosrat1on when he vas
had affected Thaw all his lie We
WEI show You chat In his chi 1apodS
Thaw talked g5bbertsh and that htSs
teacher had to talk his language, 4 Ne
said Thaw's paranota was IN eyf--s5
dence throughout his youth, he. as-
serted. Thaw, he continued, had hid
den behind the skirts OF Eve1eyu Mes
bitt who was the only witness who
had testified as TO the deprav1y OF
Stanford White - =
Thaw was then called TO the stand
Mr. Stanchfeld began to question him
in low tone Of voice and ThaW an:
swered I'm equally modulated tones:
He identified HIS mofnez, sister and
brother, who were sitting in the
courtroom at the request OF the at
[torney-
When you left Matteawan did5you
[beIieve you had recovered your san
|fty. he was asked
-1 believed was sane. said the
witness.
Physicians had told yoa so.,s s.
they had
Thaw was taken over the history
OF his escape to Canada and his sub
iseQuent movements
He was asked to tell OF the exami
nation of his sanity made in Man. Man
chester by the federal commission I'm
lconnection with the proceedings to-
|extradite him to New York He
named the members OF the commis-
sion and told how it came to be ap-5;
pointed.
Physicians representing PittsbWg
bank had also come to see him IN
Manchester, said Thaw. but IL do
not give them much of an e1antna-
ton ~
THE Pittsburg banks honoreds
your check. did they not
Yes. and the banks in New Hamp.
shire, Canada and elsewhere, said
1.-THE witness.
Mr.. StanchfeId then turned the
witness over 10 the states attoTney.s
but Mr.. Cook announced that he
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Thaw was then excused and re-:
turned to his seat at the counsel IA
BILE -
John E. Blackburn, one OF the
Jurors who acquitted him OF cor
ispiracy to escape from Matteawan.
the next witness. said that ThaWss.
factions ON the stand and In the court
room during the proceedings seemed
to be those Of q rational man
Blackburn was followed by John
H Ho1bert, a. member of thess11
that acquitted Thaw at his second
murder trial He testified that the
verdict was given ON the ground tnsts
iThaw was insane at the time OF the
TACT. At the time OF the trial ThaW
factions and demeanor impressed him
/ as that OF a rational man he SAID
The states attorney then read to-
the witness letter which he said
was one that Thaw hadwrttten and
passed to his counsel during the
Does that change your op3nion1
cit does not. replied the witnesg,
who was then excused
ThSw during this e1aminationsw as.
busfIy writing notes