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Show . .. . ' - . Conviction of Thav Would v Mean Summary Punishment of Prosecuting Attorney, Declare Anonymous Writers; Defense De-fense Ended With Testimony of Prisoner's Mother; Adjournment Ad-journment Till Monday to Give Jerome Time to Prepare. NEW YORk, March 8. The trial of Harry K. Thaw was adjourned today until Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock, after Attorney Del-mas Del-mas had announced, upon the' opening of court, -that, the defense had concluded its .testimony, District Attorney At-torney Jerome stated that he had no witnesses ready to proceed with in rebuttal, and, at his request, an adjournment ad-journment was taken. This action was not unexpected, unex-pected, for Delmas served notice late yesterday upon the District Attorney that the defense had abandoned its plan of calling two more experts. Mr. Jerome did not consider the notification as official, and came into court this morning prepared to listen to more testimony as toJUaw-Vunsound condition of mind. j DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME IS STILL' RECEIVING MANY THREATENING THREAT-ENING LETTERS WHICH ABUSE HIM FOR PROSECUTING , THAW. SOME OF THE WRITERS THREATEN THREAT-EN IF THAW IS CONVICTED, TO BLOW JEROME INTO ATOMS, TO BOIL HIM IN OIL, TO SHOOT HIM AND TO DO OTHER CRUEL THINGS. The court wss opened with all the usual formalities. Thaw was bright and smiling as he walked to his place at the counsel table. His brothers, Edward and Jostah. were In court, and he smiled a greeting to them. The prisoner's arms were filled, as usual, with the big brown envelopes containing his correspondence. When Justice Fitzgerald had ascended the bench and Clerk Penny had called the roll of the Jury, Delmas arose and uttered in a loud voice the three words, "The defense rests." Jerome then said he would have to ask for an adjournment of the case until Monday morning. . "When the court adjourned last Wednesday evening." J-rome said, "I had no reason to expect other than I would be confronted this morning by experts who would be called to answer a hypothetical question which Mr. Delmas was to frame. Yesterday f.-enlng. however. Mr. McPlke called upon me with a letter from Mr. Delmas saying the defense had changed Its plans and would call no more witnesses. wit-nesses. "Under the clrcumstsnces. I must ask for an adjournment, as I have no witnesses wit-nesses available today." Delmas Willing to Adjourn. "There is not the slightest objection on our part," said Mr. Delmas. Justice Fitzgerald then ordered an adjournment ad-journment until Monday. Dlstrjct Attorney Attor-ney Jerome said he was not prepared today to-day to add anything further to his state, ment of last night that the evidence he will have to offer In rebuttal will be before be-fore the Jury by Wednesday evening. He added that the case should go to the jury by Friday next. Mrs. Evelyn- Nesblt Thsw was in the witness room today and when court adjourned ad-journed she Immediately went to the Tombs to visit her husband. Was Delmas' Idea. To Delmas. chief counsel for Thaw, Is ascribed this unexpected move. In the trial which- has furnished so many sensations. sen-sations. . Personally he waa Impressed with the testimony given by Mrs. William Wil-liam Thaw on the stand, Wednesday, and In thinking of his future plant that night there flashed Into his mind the thought that with this picture of the grief-stricken mother on the witness stand, fresh In the minds of the Jurors, It wss a good place to close the ra-e of the defense. He knew that Ihe Jurymen had had a surfeit of expert testimony and, as that was about all he still had to offer, of-fer, he deemed it wise that it should be eliminated. Thaw and his relatives are said to be satisfied with the derision -"f counsel, end with the prospects of the prisoner, judging judg-ing from the case thus far presented. Mother Not Satisfied. Mrs. William Thaw, mothar of the prisoner, was reported to be dissatisfied on one point. This was over the fact that she was not allowed, Wednesday, to testify on the question of hereditary Insanity In-sanity in the Thaw family.- She wished to explain the statements made in the course of trial that members of the Thaw family have been In Insance asylums and that there was a streak of insanity In the family. Mrs. Thaw, It was stated, felt that a great Injustice had been done the Thaw family by these statements, hence her desire to publicly deny them. With this subject in mind, Mr. William Wil-liam Thaw sent for Lawyer Clifford W. Hartridge yesterday and had a conference with him lasting nearly throe hours, during dur-ing which she told him that if she could not tell her story on the stand, the should communicate her side of it to the newspapers. Hartridge. however, Ir believed to have persuaded her to postpone the explanation. explana-tion. Hartridge, when he loft the conference confer-ence at the Lorraine, denies that T'.mw's mother was displeased because tLe had not been allowed to explain. He asserted that she was satisfied with everything when the lawyers had explained; thi underlying un-derlying reasons for the mnnner ,in which her testimony had been restricted. It was reported around the criminal courts building after the trial had been adjourned this morning, that Mrs. Evelyn Eve-lyn Thaw had been subpoenaed by District Dis-trict Attorney Jerome to appear as a witness for the prosecution In rebuttal No verification of the report could be obtained, however. The District Attorney's Attor-ney's office refused to confirm or deny the story. |