New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13
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the judge. The doctor seemed stag
gered.
81 don't know-it was handed to me
by her" he replied weakly.
well, don't you know as a matter
Of fact" the judge came back at him,
that II was written six years after the
facts which it purports TO rclate?"
Dr. Flint insisted that he did not
know.
well, all right; now 90 on and tell
US what reason you have for believing
any part, aside from that book, of her
testimony. while you reject others"
Book Only Reason.
The doctor said the book was the
only reason. els that the only reason %
said the judge, as if to make sure of
what he heard, and he repeated the
question again when DR.. Flint assured
him that it was.
Judge Hcndrick abandoned the wit
ness for time TO the cross fire of John
B. Stanchfeld. until Mr.. Stanchfeld
asked the alenist il he did not know
that Mrs. Merrill, in an affidavit sworn
to subsequent to her first giving her
testimony about Thaw, had repudiated
as perjury the part about Sadism, the
very part that DR.. Flint so tenaciously
insisted was all he believed to be true
of her story.
Let me ask you" the court broke
In as if puzzled, what mental process
is there"--
WHAT" asked Dr. Flint, jumping
in his chair and turning around to face
the justice.
wait a minute and get my ques-
ton. What mental process is there"
tie court repeated, (which leads you
when you state that the part Of her
testimony which you say you believe
you have her own affidavit that II is
perjured- what mental process is there
that leads you to believe that part OF
her story?"
The process, mental process?" the
doctor said, blinking at the judge. The
Judge reiterated the question again, Is
he had been reiterating most Of his
questions, as If TO omit no effort to
understand the working of DR.. Flint's
mind.
well. in the first place. do not
believe her own affidavit" replied the
doctor finally.
The judge, with scarcely concealed
impotence, went over the ground
again, trying to find out why DR.. Flint
believed one part and not another part
of the Merrill woman's testimony.
well" Dr. Flint said, mir. Thaw
has testified that he knew Mrs. Merrill,
that he went to Mrs. Merrill; he has
testified, or it has been testified to, that
Mrs. Merrill, during the greater part
of the first trial sat in the witness
room with Mr. Thaw's family. This,
taken in connection with the CORE
spondence between her story and the
scientific history Of Sadism, leads me
to believe a part of her story Of Sad
ISM"
Then it was necessary for you to
believe her story in order to make the
theory of Sadism fit the Thaw case; is
that it?" asked Justice Hendrick.
The justice turned away as if he was
done, but DR.. Flint was not quite fin
ished. He eXclaimed:
at was not, your honor; I have not
said SO. / have other reasons"
His Other Reasons.
His words were scarcely audible In
the hum of surprise which filed the
court DR.. Flint gave as his other rea-
sons "the affidavit of Ruth Lambert,
made in Paris; the affidavit Of Ethel
Thomas with regard 10 Sadism, and
another statement about MIR. Thaw at
a hotel in London.
But Justice Hendrick did not seem