Show IRA WS W'S CONDITION WORSE VORSE Noted Alienists Say Patient Suffers From Progressive Paranoia INFLUENCE OF VISITORS Calls of Relatives and La Lawyers Have Baneful Effect on on Prisoner I New Yo Tori 11 Feb 24 According According to reports leports received c 1 hero today Harry Harr Ken Kendall Thaw is believed now to bo be I Insane II It Is declared that alienists who have havo examined un and ph- ph served him since ho was committed to toI I criminal I insane insane- m-an m a asylum are convinced that he Is a paranoiac and as paranoia 1 fc is a progressive dis disease disease dis- dis 15 ease case it would woul appear that nothing nothing- short of a miracle can intervene to secure his freedom In the present state of Thaws Thaw's case cae his future is entirely in the hands of ot the thc state board of lunacy an and the staff oC ol alienists in Custom provides that when a a. man Is commUted committed com corn mUted to the slate state for fOl crimInal criminal criminal crim crim- inal insane the doctors there shall ob oh- serve c him hint for tor 60 days and then make mako maloa a report upon his Ills mental condition if It they see sec lit Ht Should such a 3 report bo ho f fol-ced fol by Thaws Thaw's attorney at the expiration of or 60 days lays in Mat Mat- latte te wan it wilU certainly be a adverse to him 7 j I Dr Ferris FeITIS head bead orl the state tate board beard of or lunac lunacy on whoso whose judgment Thaws Thaw's chances of liberty largely larg-cl depend depond was one of the alienists engaged by District Dis Dis- Attorney Jerome to testify Inthe Inthe in inthe the first trial of the young oung Pittsburg millionaire for fol the killing of Stanford White hUe At that time Dr Ferris was as of the tho opinion that Ih Thaw was a dangerous dan dan- lunatic Opinion of Dr Ferris Fen is Dr Ferris himself however Inan in inan an Interview In Albany this afternoon said No ono one can tell whether Harry Thaw is sane ane or insane and counsel quit visiting and advising ad him I called on Mr Thaw once three w weeks reeks eks ago A About out all I could g get t from bi him was that P by y advice of ot cOunsel counsel coun cOun- sd sel he as to refuse to answer answer answer an an- que questions I J havo o not been near neal him since If If Thaws Thaw's relatives es and lawyers 1 would let him alone alono for tor a while Superintendent ent L Lamb b n might be tie e able ablo to determine for himself the tho patients patient's e exact ct mental con condition That would do o much toward towar how long long- Thaw Is to bo ho incarcerated In Matt Mattea- Mattea a- a wan I have luve no int Intention of pf visiting Thaw again for a 8 while at least He HeIB Heis IB is in the tho care caro of or Dr Dl Lamb and that official must ultimately decide Thaws Thaw's state of mind I have at no time Shen given given Sh en an nn opinion that Thaw Is insane added Dr Ferris Ferri |