Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-24
SEEK CAUSE OF
THAW OUST|NG
FROM HARVARD
Prosecutor Says He Will Sum-
mon DR.. Eliot to Learn
Reasons.

NEW YORK. June 24.-The causes
of Harry K. Thaws dismissal from
Harvard may have an important
bearing on his sanity trial. They will
be known If an order asked by As
sistant Attorney General Cook this
afternoon is granted. The prosecu-
tor asked Justice Hendrick to ap-
point commission to find DR..
Charles w. Eliot, president emeritus
of Harvard, and take his testimony
regarding Thaw's expulsion from the
university.
Thaw said before the taking OF
testimon" began today that he had
no fear of Mr.. Cooks examination.
Il do not care what he asks me-"
he said. HE can go as far as he
likes"
Gustave C. Roder newspaper
man, who testified yesterday in
Thaw's behalf, was called as the first
witness today, his cross examination
yesterday having been postponed. He
was asked but one question. whether
there had been any doubt in his mind
at any time as to the nationality of
Thaw.
II thought at first that he was not
quite himself" he said, but Thaw
today is an entirely different man."
of Coaticook. Quebec, where Thaw
was arrested in his fight to Canada,
was the next witness. He described
the various legal proceedings that
took place In Canada, in which he
acted as Thaw's attorney. He testi-
fled that he had never seen any acts
of violence by Thaw during this
period and that his conduct i'm
pressed him as that of a rational
man.
John e. Smith, of Sherbrooke, Que
Dec, newspaperman, who said that
while Thaw was detained in that city
he saw him every day, and Andre
Rousseau, hotel proprietor at Coati-
cook, who said he served Thaw meals,
gave similar testimony
Robert A. Ewing, a Sherbrooke al
derman, said he had visited Thaw
several times in Jail and thought so
much of him that he had invited him
to become one of Sherbrooke's bust
ness men and invest capital there.
The alderman added that he had
overheard a conversation among q
number of strangers in his city that
led him to believe there was plot on
foot to take Thaw across the line by
force. Thaw's attorney told the court
he wanted to bring this evidence out
in order to show that the possible ex,
istence of such a scheme was mo
mere delusion" of Thaw's.
In explanation of his plan to call
Thaw ais State witness, Mr. Cook
said:
II will thus be able to ask Thaw
about anything that had happened
since the day he was born The only
difference is that our side will be
bound by his answers: that is, we
will not be able to impeach his testi-
mony. However, that is quite satis-
factory to me.
IF we had cross examined, we
would have had to make him our own
witness, anyway, il we wanted to ask
him about anything except that triL
to New Hampshire. Then dozens of
other witnesses would have been
called and by the time the case went
to the jury much that Thaw testified
to would have been forgotten. AS 1t
is, his testimony may be the last to
go in"
Conviction that Thaw was ra-
tional person was also expressed by
Thomas +. Johnson, his attorney at
Colebrook. N. H., and Irving A.
Hinckley, head of preparatory
school at Groton. N. H., who inter-
viewed Thaw while acting as news
paper man.