The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-29
Prisoner Has Fine Day. but
Last Hour Surprise Drives
Away Smiles.
JEROME TEST MONI
on SANITY GETS IN
Members of New Hampshire
Lunacy Board Call Him
Normal.

ouite as good y method az ans other
~ -,using the effects of testimony Of
fered to supreme Court Justice Peter
Uendrick and a jury at the Harry
Thaw insanity hearing IN the County
Court House yesterday was to not" the
manners Of Thaw and the jurymen as
the day progressed. .
Through all the morning session ana
for a great part of the afternoon near
ing Tnaw as his own witnesses toId
their reasons for believing him normal
showed his appreciation OF tho good
things they said about him. He was
evidently pleased with the way things
were going. Just MS for days past he
has displayed his satisfaction while his
witnesses have steadily backed up the
Thaw contention that he was sane while
In Canada and New Hampshire. And the
twelve jurymen showed polite atten-
tlon.
In fact Thaw and his counsel might
have showed real elation-which they
didn't-when Thaw's lawyers won out
In their efforts to read 10 the jury those
portions Of William Travers Jerome's
assumption-ruled out temporarily last
week-at the second trial OF Thaw for
NV ~ ''' $780,
by the prosecution that the velvet
swing studio In which Evelyn Thaw
SAYS she was mistreated by Stanford
White really existed and therefore was
not an insane dclusion Of Thaw. Last
week Thaw's lawyers managed to get
before the jury evidence which showed
that fear by Thaw that he would he
forcibly kidnapped after his escape and
brought back 10 New York was not a
delusior.
Thaw wins Another Point.
In addition to all this Thaw's counsel
also succeeded in the afternoon in read
ing into the record the entire report
Of the Streeter commission of New
Hampshire. which ruled that Thaw was
perfectly sane while in New Hampshire.
although permission to read the docu-
ment had been denied in the morning.
And on top OF all these successes Mr..
Stanchield, Thaw's chief counsel, WAS
permitted 10 read to the jury the And
ings of the Mcclure commission. which
nj the first trial OF Thaw for the muir
der Of Stanford white reported that the
commission had found that Thaw was
san enough TO confer with his counsel.
All this time Thaw was pleased. So
were his lawyers and so were his rela-
tives seated near him. IL one were to
Judge by the smiles of all who have
Thaw's welfare at heart. Then, lust
Mt the last hour or 80 of the afternoon
session. a change might he noted in tho
court rJom as Deputy Attorney-General
Frank X Cook began to cross-examine
one of Thaw's WI witnesses.
The witness was iDr. Charles +. Ban
croft, for more than thirty years head
Of the New Hampshire state Hospital
for the Insane. DIR. Bancroft had testi-
fed that he was a member OF the
Streeter commission. which up in New
Hampshire had gone into Thaw's life
and heredity, had made physical exami-
nations 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.
Then began the amirtelon
which caused Thaw to grow seemingly
much more thoughtful. The Jury lost
its aspect of p~erfunctory attention and
each of the twelve men sat I'D and
studied attentively the face of Or. Ban
croft as he frankly the uues-
tons put to him by a lawyer there 10
convince the jury that Thaw should
not be liberated as sane.
did you learn asked Mr.. Cook
suddenly, when Or. Bancroft had testi-
ned tina among other things he and his
colleagues who had decided Thaw sane
had based their verdict on was an in
quiry into Thaw's family history. thai
an aunt OF Thaw's father was an epilep-
tic from c~hildhood?"
~ think" replied Dr. Bancroft re- div.
that we learned OF this"
And did you hear that n second
cousin OF Thaw's father after being con-
fined for fifteen years In an insane ASYLUM
died there?'
Yes. sir" answered DR.. Bancroft.
And did you hear that a half sister
OF Thaws father was insane"
II don't recall that"
ANA ala you know that a cousin OF
Thaw's once removed was insane?
Yes"
did you learn that his mothers uncle
was insane?"
II don't remember"
Did You learn that a full brother OF
ihaws mother was confined in an insane
asylum"
Il did
Did you learn also that a first cousin
OF Thaw's mother was lnsane?'
Yes answered the Thaw witness
atter pausing II minute in silence to re-
fresh his memory
DC you snow that the testimony OF
his family doctor was tia in childhood
Harry Thaw was peculiar. morose and
sometimes given to acts of vlolencs?"
A ] recall st." said ur. bancroft
MS childhood history showed excita-
bility."
Asks About Thaw a. Child.
Did you know Of the testimony of his
teachers that as a child he showed out
breaks during which he would emit
animal like yells and would nave TO be
removed from the room
Not TO the extent you recall il now. 4"
Throughout all this testimony and
added evidence brought out by Mr.. Cook
that DIR. Bancroft mad heard that Thaw'
later life was ''tempestuous,' that he
had gone "a rapid pace" that he drank
more or less"-these replies swept from
-EaWs face the look OF confidence which
had been there while Gen. Frank 4
S~treeter of New Hampshire and DIR. Ban.
croft during direct eXamNation were
piling up evidence In his favor.
Ana then came a question which
seemed to make the biggest impression
of the trial so far, II bad to do with
Ir. Bloomer, an assistant to Dr. Ban.
croft IN the New Hampshire insane
asylum, formerly connected with the in,
sane asylum at Albany. and with Or
Bancroft n member OF the Streeter com,
mission which recently In New Hamp,