Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-30
THAW'S REAL FIGHT
WILL BEGIN TODAY
Up to This Time His Own Wit
nesses Have Been Tes-
tifying.
NOW IT is STATES TURN
Conviction Grows That His Own
Cross-Examination Will
Decide Issue.
NOW IT is STATES TURN

NEW YORK. Juno oa-Harrv X
Thaw tomorrow will begin his real
| frh, for liberty.
With the fiat. sworn statements of
three exports on insanity that Thaw Is
sane, his counsel to-day put the cap
stone on their strong case in their
! clients behalf Tomorrow the State
will begin its work of dcmolishing this
case before the onlooking jury.
! Prior 10 this Deputy Attorney-General
| Cook will cross-eXamine DIR. Charles X.
/ Mills. tho last of the Thaw alicnists.
who in the closing hours OF the trial
| to-day said with marked emphasis:
Harry Is. Thaw is n sane man"
| With n dozen different variations. Or.
Mills together with DR.. Charles p. Ban
croft and DR.. D. Percy Hickling.
throughout the two sessions to-day
drummed this expert opinion into the
cars OF the jurors to the intense salts
faction OF Thaw and his counsel.
SURPRISE IS PROMISED
BEFORE END OF TRIAL.
a surprise is promised by Thaw be-
fore the end OF the trial.
There is something very interesting
and important" he said this afternoon.
but cannot talk about it, OF course.
We do not need it now, and 1t may not
come out at the trial AT ALL but IL ii
! does not come out at the trial, il will
be made public when the trial is over"
/ Thaw declined TO make any further
disclosures regarding the promised sur
| prise.
! The cross-examination of DR.. Ban
! croft occupied the attention of Justice
| Hendrick and the jury at the mornin e
session. Asked about the Longfellcw
letters which Thaw wrote with refer
ence TO the misdeeds of Stanford White.
tho witness declared they did not
predicate any form OF insanity
| The man might have been drunk
when he wrote them" said DR.. Ban
croft. "He was laboring under great
stress of mind and drinking more or
less steadily"
Would you say they were the prod l.
uct of n paranoiac mind?"
II would not"
Describing the reasons for tho shoot
ing Of White, the witness said:
The act appears to have been a
| passionate impulse growing out of
anger. jealousy and n combination of
influences that disturbed his mind. He
had for long time grounds for anger
and jealousy. They were not the re-
suit of his mental state He knew for
n fact that White had been antagonis-
tic to him in unpleasant ways through
| his wife
After an extended period OF dissipa
! ton. he suddenly lost control of him
self"
insane"
| Yes"
EXPRESSES Ills REGRET
FOR KILLING WHITE;
| Another reason nscribed for his he
lief that Thaw is not paranoiac, said
the witness. is the fact that Thaw has
expressed regret that he killed White.
'I never knew paranoiac mind to
express regret" he said. The para
noiac mind feels that its act is justified.
Mr.. Thaw's regret appears to be sin
cere"
do you take his word for it?"
IT also take into consideration the
general impression which he gives
every one. His conduct Is not the
conduct Of a paraoniac.
Another strong point was scored by
| the Thaw forces when they succeeded
in throwing a cloud over another OF
the delusions said to characterize
Thaw's insanity. This is the delusion
that Stanford White was indulging in
! organized pursuit OF women With the
consent of the court, Abel l. Smith, of
| Thaw's counsel. read in evidence the
testimony OF Susan Merrill at the sec
ond trial that she had told Thaw that
White had offered her $4,000 to en-
gage in the white slave traffic for him.
IA t,,fA -.
sci drew from this is that whether It
| was true or not, the fact that the Mer-
rill woman told Thaw this is sufficient
doing was not fgment of Thaw's
imag agination.
MANY CONTRADICTIONS
| ARE PROVING AMUSING
1t is one of the battling features of
| this trial. however. that after having
secured the introduction of this evil
dencc In the morning, in the afternoon
Stanchfield. to force home another
point. put before the jury evidence
| showing that the Merrill woman had
been indicted for perjury. Similarly
| the amusing contradiction cropped out
of the Thaw alienists at the present
trial, who declare him sane. making n
| point of the fact that they gave no
! consideration to the testimony of the
| Thaw alienists at the former trial, who
pronounced him insane. And, amid
laughter, Cook brought out that Dr.
William ]. White. who swore at the
second trial to belief in Thaw's in
sanity. at later proceeding, when
habcas corpus proceedings were under
way at White Plains swore to a belief
| that Thaw was sane. Finally. counter
acting this, Stanchfield put In evidence
Jeromes summing up mt the second
trial, in which he ridiculcd the evil
dcnce OF Thaw's hercdity which later AT
White Plains he solemnly used as proof
| OF Thaw's insanity.
With tho trial nearing It's critical
stage. all of these conflicting details
force the conviction nore than ever
that in the end 1t will be the TESTIMONY