New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13

proceedings. from your observation OF
the conduct of Thaw, from his family
history, have you been able TO form an
| opinion as TO the sanity or insanity of
| Mr.. Thaw?" Cook asked him.
Insists He's Paranoiac.
81 have" Flint replied. 81 believe
that he is suffering from paranoia, or,
as II is sometimes called, constitu-
trend. II is incurable."
Has he any other complications 2"
Cook asked
He is also sexual pervcrt OF a
form called Sadist." Flint replied.
| That means he takes pleasure in in
/ hicting pain on other persons or ami
/ mails. These practices may extend TO
/ serious injury or even murder"
rs Sadlsm insanity or degeneracyT y
asked Justice Hendrick.
mo, II is not recognized as insanity
| by writers on the subject OF paranoia,"
Flint replied, "but it is often grated
/ on forms of paranoia."
/ Are sane people ever Sadists?" the
/ court asked.
81 never saw n sane person who was, )"
Or. Flint said
"But what / am getting at, may a
person be sane and still be a Sadist?"
Justice Hendrick asked.
81 suppose So" the witness replied.
81 think Sadism is sometimes asso-
ciated with insanity and sometimes
not"
At this point Mr.. Stanchield took up
the REORGANIZATION of DR.. Flint.
During the morning session Justice
Hcndrlck, who has expressed annoyance
before during the course Of the trial
at the way the Thaw case was being
written about in the newspapers, again
took the papers to task for what he
said was a misstatement of his words
in a ruling on Friday.
Court Corrects Newspapers.
81 want TO say to the gentlemen Of
the press" he said, that a number Of
the papers of New York have said that
at the session on Friday, when Mr.
1haw had answered a question, and Mr..
Cook asked him TO repeat it, and
finally held that he had answered the
question, the papers of New York said
that ! said he had answered the ques-
tion fully, and one Of them sanely,' and
the other nationally
81 have no objection to the news
paper comments on this trial as far
as they are anywhere within the lines
of the truth, but you gentlemen must
not sit down there and guess at what
is said on a vital thing like that, and
| want to say TO you gentlemen of the
jury, If you read that, | never made
use of such an expression and that the
papers who do that are in contempt of
court.
Zone paper, for instance, saw fit TO
predict what my idea of the outcome
pF tria al 4
said / said on the bench, which |
never said. and I want to say that
paper is in contempt of this court.
said, He has answered the question
fully and there it ended
You gentlemen probably did not
hear the whole thing and you guessed
at the rest of it, but you must guess
again at your own peril. | do not
mean YOU gentlemen who personally
are here, but | mean your newspaper
proprictors and editors.
Gentlemen Of the jury, il you have
any impression that | ever expressed
any opinion about the sanity or insan-
ity Of this man by direction or indi-
rection. get it out Of your minds. That
is for you to determine"
Interested in Evelyn.
DuTlUR SHUT ItCtSS III the Ulluult
of the morning session, Thaw expressed
a great deal of interest as to why
Evelyn Nesbit was not to be called as
a witness.
"Has it been settled yet whether Mr.
Cook told Mrs. Evelyn Gas he always
calls herr Thaw not to come back 2"
he asked the reporters, and when some
one told him it was still a mystery,
he continued, "Iou can tell from what
has been read here this morning" re-
ferring to the reading Of her testi-
mony, that she wasn't really wanted.
"If she had been allowed to testify
it would have broken up their whole
case. She would have stuck 10 the
story that she told before Justice
Keogh in White Plains. She undoubt-
edly told them that she was coming
down 10 tell the whole truth. Do you
notice it wasn't she who sent for
doctor after she returned to Camp
Jack? They did IT, That's the reason
they didn't send the Sheriff after her.
He knows her and he would have
brought her down.
AS it was, some Of the things that
were read this morning were very
favorable to me. If she had gone on
the stand, she would have created even
greater impression in my favor"