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Show "DELIBERATE AND WILFUL UNTRUTH' SAYS ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, April 2. President Roosevelt today emphatically denied the statements contained in a letter published this morning, purporting to have been written by H. B. Harriman to Sidney Webster of New York in the latter part of December, 1905. In Harriman 's letter the statement is made that at the request of President Roosevelt, he, Harriman, assisted . in raising a fund of $250,000 to be used in .(Continued on Paa X THAW TRIAL. (Continued from Page 1) had often discussed various matters with Thaw. "Have you ever noticed anything in his conduct or speech which suggested irrationality t" asked McClure j "Not since the trial." "But before!" "I can't say that there was ever anything any-thing more than a highly excited or overwrought condition." , ,The witness never noticed anything in his facial expression which suggested irrationality. Jerome asked Mr. Wade if the first conversation he had with Thaw after his arrest was rational or irrational. Thaw, who sat inside the inner rail with his counsel, tugged at Hartrfdge's coat sleeve and said in an audible whisper: "Object to that." Hartridge did so, but the question was allowed. "His conversation at that time," said the chaplain, "was irrational." Jerome here asked Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton to take the stand. "When d-id vou last see Harry Thaw!" asked Jerome. "In July last." "At whose instance did you callt" interrupted Chairman McClure. "At the instance of the defendant's .attorneys. And I would like to haveia your Honors rule as to my privileges inS this matter," said Dr. Hamilton. Chairman McClure suggested to Jerome Je-rome that he ask the witness as to what he had observed in court. "I decline to proceed along those lines," replied the District Attorney. "The commission has a definite purpose pur-pose to find out if this defendant is in such a condition of lunacy as to rationally ra-tionally advise his counsel. Unless there is an objection upon the ground that a professional privilege is involved. I shall proceed. I am ready to show that the privilege in Hamilton's case was waived at the trial." "There is no objection, but the doctor doc-tor himself has asked for instructions. No privilege has been waived before us' said Chairman McClure, Dr. Hamilton declared it to be his j opinion that Thaw is suffering from a progressive form of paranoia, or delu- I sinal insanity, and declared that the de- j fendant is not capable of realizing the nature of the charges against him. |