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Show Defendant's Whole Bearing at Time of Shooting Indicated Unbalanced Condition Con-dition of Mind, Dr. Evans Asserts; Dr. Wegner Goes on Stand. ilr. Evans, the, alienist, was on the stand in the Thawj murder trial again today. He asserted in answer to a! question of District Attorney Jerome that Thaw, when he1 killed White,' had an insane understanding of his act. ; It is expected that Mrs. William Thaw, the prisoner's mothp,iwill be called to the stand this week. It is thought she will tell of pre-natal conditions influencing her son's1 life, and of peculiar actions in his youth. NEWj YORK, MARCH 4. THE FORMALITIES OF POSTPONING THE MARCH TEEM OF THE CRIMINAL CRIMI-NAL BRANCH OF THE SUPREME COURT HAD TO BE GONE THROUGH THIS MORNING BEFORE THE TRIAL I OF HARRY K. THAW WAS RESUMED. THAW'S CASE WAS BEGUN IN THE JANUARY TERM, AND THAT TERM WILL BE CONTINUED CON-TINUED UNTIL IT IS DISPOSED OF. DR. EVANS, THE ALIENIST, WHO WAS UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY THURS-DAY AND FRIDAY LAST, WAS AGAIN PLACED UPON THE WITNESS WIT-NESS STAND AS SOON AS THAW WAS CALLED TO THE BAR. THAW AGAIN BROUGHT INTO COURT SEVERAL BIG BROWN PORTFOLIO PORTFO-LIO BNVELOPES FILLED WITH LETTERS. . .' . .... . i that he did not think he should shrink' from his fellow men, or from the offl-; cers of the law. ( - "Then his attitude was one of satisfaction satis-faction with his deed!" ' 'I would hardly go as far as that.";. "When he walked toward his wife! did he know in which direction he was1 going!" . "In view of the fact that he walked, toward his wife, it seems to me that he did." One Thought Uppermost. "The fact," said Jerome, "that Thaw told the fireman who seized him,; ' He ruined my wif e, ' does that indicate1 to you that this defendant knew he' had killed Stanford White!" , "It indicates to me that this one, thought, which had weighed down upon; him, which had been devouring .his soul,: was still with him. This idea of his wife being ruined by Stanford White' was still in the forefront of his thought." ' ' What mental process tn the defendant defend-ant is conveyed to your mind by his Stating" upon the roof garden after his arrest, when told that an officer bad been sent for, 'I've got to go down some time, you might as well take me1 down in the elevator now. I don't want to cause any annoyance!'" "As to whether the man was sane or insane," replied Dr. Evans, "the re- mark conveys nothing. It may simply' have meant that there was a crowd M' . the elevator and he did not want to annoy an-noy anybody by obstructing the way." IN EARNEST CONFERENCE, WHICH TOOK PLACE FACING THE JURY BOX. HE DIRECTED HIS REMARKS ESPECIALLY AT . PEABODY AND M'PIKE. THE LATTER SEEMED DESIROUS OF AVOIDING THE CONVERSATION AND DREW BACK SEVERAL TIMES WITH TOLERANT NODS I OF HIS HEAD. THE DEFENDANT, DE-FENDANT, HOWEVER, WAS EARNEST EARN-EST AND WOULD NOT BE DENIED. HE CONTINUED TO TALK FbR SOME MINUTES. THEN HE SAT BACK AND LISTENED TO THE FIRST QUESTIONS ADDRESSED BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME TO DR. EVANS. It was about the first time he had paid any attention to the witness since he took the stand. Thaw did not listen long, lowever, but turned to Daniel O'Reilly and began to talk rapidly to him. In resuming his cross-examination of Dr. Evans, Jerome asked: "Doctor, reverting to the night of the shooting of Stanford White, does the fact that the defendant walked deliberately de-liberately away, without excitement, -after thai shooping appear to you to be an important fact in determining whether or notthe defendant was insane!" "Yes, it. leads me to believe he was fit nnsnnnH mind that. in. when talrpn in connection with the other incidents. inci-dents. V The I fact that, at the time Thaw's step was slow and measured and his manner somewhat dramatic, and that he manifested no agitation, that he walked away without any effort to escape, taken in connection with the other facts,. indicated in-dicated to the witness that he did not know he had done anything wrong, |