New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-26
MAY CALL JEROME
FOR THAW TRIAL
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hibit them before the jury as proof
Of his paranoiac egotism," Mr.. Cook
said.
The pictures, which have been shown
commercially, we're taken while he was
in Jail in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and
while he was in New Hampshire. They
show him in many characteristic poses,
one stretch of ten minutes showing
nothing but the play of expression on
his face as he stards on portico.
To show them, in addition to getting
them declared admissible Es evidence
by the court, it will be necessary to
arrange with the Offices of the Borough
President, Commissioner of Water Sup
ply, Gas and Electricity, Superin-
tendent of Buildings and Fire Com
missioner for permission TO turn the
courtroom into a motion picture the
atre.
President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot
of Harvard will be asked to receive the
commission on Monday FOR the purpose
of inauiring Of him why he expelled
Thaw from Harvard in 1892. Alfred
L. Becker. associated with Mr.. Cook as
counsel for the people, will represent
the state before DR.. Eliot and Sieg-
fried F. Hartman, Of Mr.. Stanchfeld's
staff. will represent Thaw. Instead Of
preparing written interrogatories, it
was decided yesterday to present the
questions to DR.. Eliot orally.
Evelyn May Testify.
Mr.. Cook said yesterday the state
has not given up hope of getting Ey-
elyn Nesbit Thaw on the stand to tes-
tify against Thaw. He had learned, he
said. that he had been misinformed
when told she was i'll in Chicago, and
that as a matter of fact she has been
In New York City since the trial be-
gan. His process servers are trying to
get her.
The Deputy Attorney General wants
to use her in blasting the romantic
version of her relations with Thaw
given the jury by Mr.. Stanchfield in
his opening address. He wants to
show that il Thaw thinks he was per-
forming a high-minded act in protec-
ton of innocent girlhood in killing
Stanford White for seducing Evelyn
Nesbit he is laboring under the para
noiac decisions the state maintains are
his.
threat to put William Travers
Jerome on the stand came yesterday
in an effort by the states attorneys to
block a line of questioning adopted by
Thaw's attorneys while Merrill Shurt-
left. one of his New Hampshire at
torneys, was on the stand.
did you have a conversation with
Thaw in regard to a talk with Mr..
Jerome about kidnapping Thaw?" Abel
/ Smith, jr., of Thaw counsel. asked.
81 told Mr.. Thaw that Jerome had
stated TO me that if we applied for bail
in New Hampshire while his case was
pending there he (Jerome) would take
TLaw 70 New York il he had to take
him nv force" Mr.. Shurtleff said.
"That. in substance, is what | told Mr..
Thaw Jerome told me-"
Sees Watching Alienists.
81 object to that" Mr.. Becker, OF
states counsel, said. 81 object to any
line of questioning intended simply to
create in the minds OF the jury preju-
dice in regard 10 Mr.. Jerome's part in
Tho Thaw matter If testimony of this
sort is 20 be admitted it will be neces-
sary for US to call Mr.. Jerome to
deny IT," Lib
ii will explain the theory on which
that question was asked" Mr.. Stanch-
field said. 81 have been sitting here
watching DR.. Carlos Macdonald. one
Of the alienists in the employ. OF the
state. Every time Mr.. Jerome's name
has been mentioned he has watched Mr..
Thaw's face and has iotted down
!
81 am familiar enough with DR.. Mac
Donald's methods to know that when he
goes on the stand 10 testify ne Will
state that Thaw is suffering with de.
lusions in regard TO Mr.. Jerome ana
as 10 plans TO kidnap him. This tes-
timony from Mr.. Shurtlef is for :hH
purpose of destroying Or. Macdonald
testimony of that nature. .
Upon this explanation Justice hen
drick ruled that the question and an
swer should stand.
The first witness called vesterdai by
Thaw was Dr Noel Z. Gullett, Of han
chester. y. H.. next door TO who2e hons
there ThaV took up his residence. Or.
Gullctt s?id he became friendly with
Thaw AMI once tool him 10 visit tn.
State Industrial Institute, Manchester
of which ne is physician.
Thaw was much pleased, he said
with the fact that there was no cor
moral punishment at the school. The
doctor said he saw no egotism about