The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-29
CROSS-ExAn|hAT|ON
RIGID IN THAW CASE
DIR. Bancroft, of New Hampshire Com
mission Which Pronounced Thaw
Sane, Has Strenuous Hour.
HAD LARGE NUMBER OF
AFFLICTED RELATIVES.
State Skiilfully Gets Before Jury Case
where Paranoiac Showed No Sign
of insanity for Year and Half--Did
Murder ON liberation.

New York, June 2s.-Quite as good
a method as any other of guaging the
effects of testimony offered at the
Harry Thaw insanity hearing in the
county courthouse today was to note
the manners of Thaw and the jury
men as the day progressed.
Throughout all the morning ses-
sion. and for a great part OF the af-
ternoon hearing, Thaw, as his own
witnesses told their reasons for be-
lieving him normal, showed quiet.
dignified appreciation of the good
things they said about him. He was
evidently pleased with the way things
were going on. as he displayed his sat
fsfaction for days past while his wit
nesses have steadily backed up the
Thaw contention that he was sane
while in Canada and New Hampshire
And the twelve jurymen showed polite
interest
In fact, Thaw and his counsel
might have showed elation-which
they didn't-when Thaw's lawyers
won out in their efforts to read to
the jury those portions of William I.
Jerome's summary at the second trial
ruled out temporarily last week
of Thaw for murder. wherein admis-
sion was made by the prosecution that
the studio. in which Evelyn Thay says
she was mistreated by Stanford White,
really existed. and, therefore, was
not an insane delusion OF Thaw. Last
week ''Traw's lawyers manager 70
get before the jury evidence which
showed that fears by Thaw that he
would be forcibly kidnapped after
his escape and brought back to New
York nat not delusion.
New Hampshire Found Him Sane.
In addition to all this Thaw's coun-
sci also succeeded in the afternoon IN
reading into the record the entire
report OF the Sereet Commission or
New Hampshire. which ruled that
Thaw was perfectly sane while In
New Hampshire, although permission
to read the Streeter report had been
denied In the morning. And on top
OF all these successes Mr.. Stanchfields.
Thaw's chief counsel. was permitted
TO present the jury the Mcclure com /.
mission finding, which at the nrst
trial of Thaw for the murder OF White
reported that the commission had
found Thaw sane enough to confer
with his counsel.
All this time Thaw was pleased.
So were his lawyers, and so were
his relatives. seated near him. II one
were to Judge by the smiles OF all
who have Thaw's welfare at heart.
Then, just at the last hour or 50 OF
the afternoon session, change might
be noted In the. courtroom as Dep
uty Attorney General Cook began to
cross examine one of Thaw's own witt
nesses.
The witness was DIR. Charles p. Ban
croft. for more than thirty years head
OF the New Hampshire State Hcspi-
tai for the Insane. DR.. Bancroft had
testified that he was a member ~
Streeter Commission. which up In
New Hampshire had gone into Thaw's
life and heredity, had made physician
examinations Of Thaw. had gone into
his morals and his aspect Of life In
general. and then had found him sane
at the time they examined him.
A Rigid Cross Examination
Then began the cross-examfnatfon
which caused Thaw to grow seeming
" much more thoughtful The Jury
lost its aspects OF perfunctory atten-
ton and each Of the twelve men
studied attentiveIy the face Of DIR.
Bancroft az he answered frankly the
questions put TO him bv . lawyer