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Show District Attorney Will Try Hard to Have Millionaire Prisoner Sent to Madhouse; Mad-house; Wants. Expert to Say Slayer Is Now Demented. Every day of the Thaw trial, apparently takes District "Attorney Jerome so much nearer to the foundation . he is trying to lay for a request ; for a commission in lunacy, as the first step in an attempt to send the slayer of Stanford White to the asylum for the criminally insane in Matteawan. When court reconvenes recon-venes Monday, the examination of Dr. B. D. Evans, the defense's principal expert, will be concluded and other medical men will be called-for cross-examination in a continuation of Jerome's attempt to show that Thaw's insanity is of such a nature to be incurable, or at least of such a character as makes it unlikely that he has-recovered from the mental derangement which caused him to eoYnmit homicide. will draw .together the loose ends of bis somewhat erratic questioning and will endeavor to make Dr. Evans admit that he believes Harry Thaw is insane today. It was determined last night at a conference of defendant's counsel, in the home of Delphin M. Delmas, to endeavor en-deavor by all legal means to combat the supposed attempt by the District Attorney Attor-ney to apply for a lunacy commission. The lawyers were unanimous in the opinion that Thaw's fate should be de-decided-by the jury, and when their conclusion was reported to the wife and the mother of the defendant they acquiesced ac-quiesced in the decision to fight the case, to the end. - One of the lawyers for the defense, in speaking of the eonferenee and its decision, de-cision, said that any attempt to send Thaw to the madhouse, where he would have to remain until the indictment is disposed of, would be fought to the end. i NEW YORK, MARCH 1.' JEB-" JEB-" TME IS FIRMLY CONVINCED , ,HAT THAW'S MENTAL CONDITION CONDI-TION IS THE RESULT OF PARANOIA PARA-NOIA AND NOT OF MELANCHOLIA, AS THE DEFENSE HAS TRIED TO SHOW. IN OTHER WORDS, HE BELIEVES BE-LIEVES THAT THAW'S MENTAL MALADY IS OF A CHARACTER WHICH PRECLUDES THE POSSIBIL-1 ITY THAT HE COULD HAVE BEEN INSANE ON THE NIGHT HE SHOT STANFORD WHITE, AND SANE TODAY.. TO-DAY.. DR. EVANS HAS ADMITTED THAT HE EELEEVES THAW WAS INSANE IN THE FALL OF 1003 AND THAT HE WAS AGAIN INSANE WHEN HE MARRIED, APRIL 4, 1905, AND WAS BUFFERING FROM "BRAIN STOEV7" JUNE 25, 1906, THE NIGHT or THE HOMICIDE. WHAT HIS CONDITION WAS BETWEEN BE-TWEEN THESE DATES HE HAS NO MEANS OF KNOWING. WHILE THE EXPERT HAS BEEN FIRM IN HIS CLASSIFICATION OF THE DISEASE AS MELANCHOLIA, AS THE RESULT RE-SULT OF INSANITY OF THE ADOLESCENT ADO-LESCENT OR DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE, HE HAS BEEN FORCED TO ADMIT ' THAT AT TIMES THERE WERE PRESENT THE SYMPTOMS OF PARANOIA. It is probable that the prosecution's experts will testify that many of the symptoms which Dr. Evans has straggled strag-gled to show were simply those of melancholia mel-ancholia are really the signs of paranoia. para-noia. The District Attorney's cross-examination of Dr. Evans has been mas-V'Vly, mas-V'Vly, and, struggle as hard as the ex- rt might, he could not keep from making mak-ing some damaging admissions, although it has taken Jerome more than two days of constant questioning to draw them out. : The District Attorney's final effort ef-fort will be made Monday, when he |