Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-10
Attempt to Prove
 ThaW's Sanity
FIRST EFFORT OF COUNSEL FOR
 DEFENSE WAS BLOCKED.
WILL NOT CALL ,EVELY TN
Prosecutions Plan is to Prove That Accused was Insane at the Time of His Escaue and a Menace to Public Safety.

New York, March 9.-Attorneys for Harry Kendall Thaw slayer of Stan ford White, today made their first at tempt to get testimony concerning his sanity into the record of his trial for conspiring to escape from the state hospital for the criminal insane at Matteawan. The attempt was unsuc- cessful
 It was while William Gordon, a ho- tel keeper of Beacon N. Y, was on the witness stand that Justice Page, before whom the trial of Thaw and five co-defendants is in progress in the criminal branch of the supreme court, sustained the prosecutions ob- jection against the introduction of such testimony It was understood applied solely to the testimony of Cor don
 Questioned on Thaw's Sanity.
 Gordon, after telling of the many visits Thaw had made to his hotel while on his way to and from habeas corpus proceedings he instituted, and declaring that he conversed with was asked whether the defendant ap- peared to be perfectly rational at all times. The question was put to him on cross examination by John Stanch- field, counsel of ThaW's legal advisers.
 Prosecutions Objection Sustained.
 The prosecution immediately object ed, pointing out that the witness had admitted it was quite a while prior to the day of the escape that he had last talked with Thaw. Moreover, the prosecution contended, the sole issue to be decided was the guilt of the de- fendant and his wounded co-conspir- ators
 In upholding the objection Justice Page said that. if it was the idea of 
 witness Gordon that Thaw was of sound mind at the time of his escape, he through his testimony on that sub ject must necessarily be remote"
 Mir. Stanchf1eld asserted after the adjournment this evening that he would make a further attempt tomor- r7w to get testimony concerning Thaw's sanity before the jury The defense of Thaw hinges upon the claim that he was sane at the time of his escape and therefore was being ille- gally detained.
 State Expects to Complete Case Today
 Franklin Kennedy, special attorney general in charge of the prosecution, announced tonight that he expected to complete the states case by to- morrow night
 Aside from Gordon's, virtually all the testimony taken today had to do with the renting of the big automo- DllS III WHICH uctW I16Q as Tar as New Hampshire, the presence and actions in the Holland hotel at Beacon, N. Y, which adjoins Matteawan, of the CO., defendants, the ownership of the laun- daulet which figured in the escape and the Identification of court records The usual motions to dismiss the in- dictments against the defendants were made and denied.
 State Claims Thaw Was Insane.
 H of the state to the jury at the open ing of the proceedings, today, asserted that Thaw was insane at the time of his escape and that to allow him to be at large at this time would still constitute a menace to the public safe ty.
 Defense Not to Gall Evelyn Thaw.
 Although it was said early in the day that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw had stated her intention to testify in her husbands behalf, Thaw's attorneys de- clared they would not call her.