Show Ar ANOTHER OTHER CLIMAX IN CASE OF THAW lUN Today the Lunacy Commission Will Report on His Present Mental State PRISONER IS CONFIDENT BELIEVES TRYING ORDEAL IS ABOUT OVER New York Tork April 3 Tomorrow brings another critical stage in the case of Harry K I Thaw when the slay slayer er or of o Stanford White either be of or officially proclaimed Insane and ordered ordred to a state asylum or his trial will be resumed before Judge Fitzgerald upon the finding of the lunacy commission that the defendant is at this time ca capable capable Capable pable of rightly understanding his own position of appreciating the nature of the charges against him and of ut ration rationally rationally rationally ally advising with his counsel The commission completed its work tonight and will wUl be ready to report tc Justice Fitgerald tomorrow morning Private Examination Thaw underwent a prIvat mental and physical examination for more than two hours this afternoon In this last crucial test he was wis entirely alone before beCore the tho commission even the dIg dis district di attorney and the members of or hs hIs own counsel being barred When the three members of the commission David McClure Peter B Olney and Dr Leopold had completed their final examination they shook hands with Thaw In a most cordial manner He Ho went wont back to his cell in the Tombs Tom s with a light heart henrt and del cared later to his counsel that he felt feIt the commis commission commission sion would surely declare him sane sano to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow The attorneys shared sharE their clients optimistic view of the situation District Attorney Jerome would not commit himself In any an way Thaws counsel declared they were ready r y to proceed with the case cae tomorrow and believed that Mr Delmas Demas might begin his summing up address before noon In that event they thoy said sai Mr Sir Jerome would address the Jury on Friday and anda a verdict might be expected before the weeks end Report Will Not Be Made Public There is little or no likelihood that thit th the report of the commission which has inquired into Thaws present mental state ever will be made public If It the decision favors Thaw Justice Fitzgerald Fit ger geraId aId ald will merely order the trial to uro Dro without any reference ce whatsoever to the Interruption which began two w Justice Fitzgerald would have to quote but briefly from the th for formal formal forma mal ma finding of the commission In his order committing the young man to ait n asylum If It committed Thaw would have to remain In the asylum until declared sane by the superintendent of the In Institution Institution Institution Then he would be brought back here and tried again Last of the Alienists Alienist The last public session of the com corn commission commission mission was held this morning to hear the testimony of two more alienists Dr Allen AlIen Rose Bose Diefendorf of Middle Middletown Middletown town Conn for tor the prosecution and an anDr Dr Charles G Wagner Vagner of o Binghamton N Y for the defense Dr Diefendorf gave a purely academic decision based upon assumed facts and writings writing from the defendant and declared Thaw was as incompetent Dr Wagner Vaguer said he had talked with the prisoner almost dally daily for nearly two months and had bad unable to find anything upon which to predicate an opinion of ot mental un nfl unsoundness unsoundness soundness at this time He was not willing to go goon on record however as specifically declaring Thaw to be 11 n every sense a sane man He said he had not sufficient facts before him or sufficient time tims In which to reach so s positive a conclusion Dr Wagner repeated many of his more recent conversations with Thaw Tha ThaI I and gave the defendants Idea of his present predicament Thaw declared that he realized his position today to ny was wass serious s Ho He thought however his at attorneys attorneys attorneys had made such good progress during the trial that he was In a n much better b position than when it was be begun begun begun gun He He said mid he had no delusion now new that his act was an act of Providence Stood All the Tests Teats When rhen hen the commission began Its private private private vate examination of oC the defendant the t e members questioned him particularly about his delusion and others of or which It has been testified he ha was suffering at atthe atthe atthe the time he shot and killed Stanford White Dr of ot the commission c conducted the brief brIe tion to which Thaw was subjected He HP was given all aU the standard tests of ot the th reflexes the pupils of the eyes the th Romberg Bomberg test for evidences of tor ataxia etc Thaw is said Bald to have undergone all aU the tests in a thoroughly satisfactory manner The alienists tes tea testifying for the defense and who con conducted conducted conducted ducted a more searching physical test te t than that undertaken by b the commis Continued on Page 2 ANOTHER CLIMAX IN CASE OF THAW Continued from Page 2 sion slon today toda declared they were tn bl to find any really raly abnormal traces Dr B D Evans Eans said there was wa an unusual bump near the base bale of the skull and also told of ot Thaws fluctuating mIce ulso declaring It I was the most extraordinary h hI h hid hd d ever eer met with wih in his medical fience The rate rte of ot beats often oten would change four times In a Mrs Evelyn Nesbit eibl Thaw was pres nies present rS ent cut during most mot of the public sessions Attorney Delmas was not present to today today day but at the end of ot the inquiry Thaw rha sent pent him a note by special messenger me telling him to be ready to proceed with wih his summing up argument tomorrow |