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Show illness of jurors we . guises a slight delay in thaws toial for murder Jerome's Knowledge of Insanity to Be Put to Severe Test in Cross-Examination of Dr. Evans; Evelyn Thaw Expected to Drag Names of Other Young Women Into the Case in Effort to Prove Prisoner Insane. I HOW MRS. ASTOR LET THAW INTO SOCIETY I :tv. 0 7 X vsk X IIAERY K. THAW. 4- 4 4- NEW YORK, Feb. 13. When Mrs. Astor was reorgan-4- izing New York society sev- . fral vpsrs ag. pay Emma H. DrZouh', ph operiP'1 the 4. (jatrs iupt wide nnugh ti ppr- . I mit if th1 intrusion of an " a 1 . 1 " .1 l.'i1"! into thr rompany "f . th fcft. Amns thsp thro wss pi- . arfh- one of th mufhroom Tittsburg jjrrwth. This was - Harrv K Thaw. Th Rf-nia- min Thawp. whoso wraith is -. pro'liioup, were alrca.h' in pplendiiily in though not of Newport. Th sorial poverpign PfilT withheld X 4 4 f 4 U - V - I 3 ; 1 1? c I'" X X' 4 ?chJS X , . tfic pceptc-r. But her hrcvet to the vnurg pcion of the Thaw 4. - , ,j 4. , 4 familv. whose reputation for oarcli ss opulence and other things EVELY"V THW ! rot ahvap tncnti.ined in the rrrord was a matter of common gos- .a-s.a.a.s. tip. took the form of an invitation to the famous Aster ball. 4. 4-4-4444444- 4 4 The Harrv K. Thaw who attended that festivity, the cachet of all that is desirable in the exclusive set, heard 4 j in court the mome.ntarv unseating of hip reason urged in extenuation of the killing of White and had the severest I 4- test put upon his sore'v tried self-control in the confronting of him with his victim's s -n. - ! 44-4-444-44-4 4 4444444444444444444444444444444444 ' NEW YORK. FEB. 13. -THE ILL NESS OF THE WIFE OF ONE OF THE THAW JURORS TODAY CAUSED THE ABANDONMENT OF THE USUAL MORNING SESSION OF THE COURT, A RECESS BEING ORDERED BY JUSTICE FITZ GERALD AT 10:48 O'CLOCK UNTIL 2 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. MRS. J. B. BOLTON, WIFE OF JUROR NO. 11, IS SAID TO BE THREATENED WITH PNEUMONIA, AND SOME AP PREHENSION IS FELT LEST HER ILLNESS MAY SERIOUSLY INTERFERE INTER-FERE WITH THE TRIAL. BOLTON ASKED PERMISSION OF JUSTICE FITZGERALD BY TELEPHONE EARLY Tins MORNING TO VISIT HIS HOME IN COMPANY WITH TWO COURT OFFICERS, AND IT WAS GRANTED. HE LIVES FAR OUT IN THE BRONX. DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME AND DELMA8, LEADING COUNSEL FOR HARRY K. THAW, WERE CALLED INTO CONFERENCE WITH JUSTICE FITZGERALD. AND A FEW MINUTES LATER THE RECESS WAS ANNOUNCED. I Thaw remained in the prisoner's pen i this morning, where he had a le-ng chat with hip wi fe. Teabody, of counsel for the defense, j paid this morning that it was the purpose pur-pose of the defense to have Dr. Fvans I take the staDd this afternoon for cross I exam i ua t ion. He would be followed ; by Mrs. Harry Thaw who, in view of ; the ''broader foundation-' of the pris oner's insanity, laid lv the experts, ' would be asked to conclude her storv. 1 Jerome had objected to her doing so on the ground that what she had to say was permissible onlv after the de- . fendant was shown by competent tes timony to have been of unsound mind, i EVANS A LESS EASY MARK FOR JEROME THAN FIRST EXPERT i NEW YORK, Feb. 13. It was ex- ! pected laat night that when District Attorney Jerome should take up the cross-examination of Dr. Evan, the j alienist In the Thaw case, he probably would have some difficulty in shaking the testimony. Dr. Evans' story of j Harry Thaw's mental condition, aa told j on the stand yesterday, waa clear and I concise. It would be a difficult story to shake, if Dr. Evans' ability as an alienist is any way what it would appear ap-pear to be from his direct examination. Jerome would need all of his remarkable remark-able knowledge of insanity to shake this story. That he would attempt to do so was evident from the notes he took during the examination, and the fact that he had the prosecution's alienists. Dr. MacDonald. Dr. Austin Flint and Dr. William Mabon, beside bim all day and frequently conversed with them, apparently consulting them. The defense presumes that it has now laid the foundation for the introduction intro-duction of testimony which has heretofore here-tofore been excluded. Among the tes timony that has been so excluded is Thaw's will and the codicil which is said to provide a fund of $oii,oih) for the prosecution of his murderer, should XContlnued cm rage t.l -does not'eoant the time Jtrme' will occupy la cross-examination. . It is ssld that Dr. Graeme M. Hammer and Dr. Charles Dana, both well-known alienists, alien-ists, will take the stand for the defense. de-fense. This will mean four experts for Jerome to cross-examine. That be will examiae them thoroughly goes without earing. ErelTa N. Thaw has not ret finished her direct examination, ana the cross-exsminatioe cross-exsminatioe will take tome time. Mrs. William Thaw is to testify and so. it is said, is MisstMae MeKenzie,v the chorus girl friend of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. What Jerome's ease in rebuttal will be it is hard to say, but it seems certain now that he will put in at least three alienists. . .Expert to Help Delmas. Dr. George Franklin Shiels, formerly of San Francisco, who is one of the alienists for the defense, and who is said to be a long-time friend of Delmas, has been selected to assist the lawyer in his cross-examination of the experts for the prosecution. Dr. Shiels has eome to New York to practice. He is said to be an alienist of high repute on the Pacific coast. With his familiarity with the methods of Delmas, he is expected to aid materially in the efforts ef-forts of the California lawyer in the attack on the experts Jerome will put on the stsnd. Two new witnesses for Thaw were in attendance at the trial yesterdav. They were J. J. Deering and C. J. Bamberger, Bamber-ger, agents of the Society for the Suppression Sup-pression of Vice, who are said to have investigated the complaints which Thaw made to the society. Stories regarding Thaw's eccentric bridge whist playing, which may pos j sibly figure in the trial as showing the defendant's state of mind about the time of the tragedy, are cropping out. The latest statement in this regard is credited to a member of the New York Whist club. Thaw, according to this man, sat in that club, at bridge whist, on the average of three nights a week, from two to five hours. Thaw rarely I plaved bridge whist," it is said, at less i than $1 a point, which meant that, with the luck against him. he sometimes i stood to lose at least $1500 a night. I Thaw's Whist Playing. I "Sometimes he won," said a mem- ber of the club last night, "for he was ! not altogether a bad player. But far ! more often he lost. He gradually ac-j ac-j quired a reputation for being an unlucky un-lucky player. I have hearcl it said I that Thaw paid not only the losses of i himself, but those of his partners." I Thaw, it is seated, was regarded as i somewhat eccentric, especially as a bridge whist player, and was quite emotional. He kept on playing at the club whenever he was in the city right up to the time of the Madison Square Garden tragedy. THE THAW CASE (Continued from page 1.) he die a violent death, and a fund of $75,000 for the care of a number of young women said to be named in the will, who Thaw is said to have believed be-lieved were victims of Stanford White. The defense counts largely on this will to show the effect on Thaw's mind of the stories which were told him regarding regard-ing the relations of White and Evelvn Nesbit. Counts Much on Will. It would also form a proper foundation founda-tion for the testimony of Evelvn Nesbit Nes-bit Thaw regarding the conversations wifh her husband, in which were mentioned men-tioned the names of a number of voung girls who are said to have had similar relations with White. The defense claims that the stories preyed upon Thaw's mind and contributed largelv to the mental condition which indw d him to shoot White. Although Pelnias has announced in open court that it would take him only a few days longer to finish his direct cae for the defene, that does not mean that the cane is nearly over. It |
