Show THAW medically SANE SA S A N f NICE POINT OF difference GIVEN BY AN EXPERT district attorney jerome Is accused of sharp practice by thaws counsel 0 0 0 0 0 THAW IS INCAPABLE 0 0 6 1 I 1 0 0 new now york april 3 when 0 0 the thaw lunacy commission 0 0 went into session today dig 0 0 triet attorney jerome called 0 0 to tho the witness stand dr alien allen 0 0 ross diefendorf superintend 0 0 ent of tap state hospital for 0 0 the insane at middletown 0 0 conn and professor of mental 0 0 and nervous diseases at yale 0 0 university dr diefendorf tes 0 0 tidied for tho the state at the trial 0 0 of thaw declaring iho the defend 0 0 ant knew the hatire and 0 0 icv of his act when he killed 0 0 stanford white and knew the 0 0 act m was wrong to the corn com 0 0 0 mission today the alienist de 0 0 dared that from what he be had 0 0 seen of thaw and the writing 0 0 he had examined he was of the 0 0 opinion that thaw is not now 0 0 capable of rightly understand 0 0 ing his own position appreciate 0 0 ing tho the nature of the charge 0 0 against him or of rationally ad 0 0 his counsel 0 0 0 0 new york april 3 after hearing two experts as witnesses today ono for the he t state ana and one for the defense the commission which Is inquiring into the present mental condi condign finn ot harry K thaw went into executive session and conducted its last mental and physical examination of tho the d defendant fen dant even the lawyers on bogli ahles were barred from this last sitting the commis commission sidn intimating that after the mass of contradictory expert testimony placed before it the mem b bera era believed they would get all tho the information they required from thaw j i himself I 1 the coi commission 0 o ni i 0 n e expects x pec t s t to 0 i report epo rt its finding s t to 0 i justice u astl e 0 M fitzgerald t ag e m 1 d tomorrow mor morroway at the trial will proceed 0 or an n order will be bo issued cora committing thaw to the Matle awan asylum for the criminal insane dr diefendorff explained at some length the 24 pages of suggestions made by thaw to mr delmas for his summing UD up address and declared that they emanated from a diseased brain the commission asked the witness to point out what reconsidered he considered insane evidences among the memoranda m dr diefendorff pointed out one passage which district attorney jerome start od ed to read aloud I 1 1 I must protest against this inter erupted sir hartridge of thaw thaws s conn coun sel those papers were produced for the benefit of the commission at a secret session and the district attorney lb IE reading them to the reporters it is another cas like the lyon letters from pittsburg they wore sent here to the clerk of the court it was agreed that they might be copied in the district attorneys office and trien then they mysteriously appeared lu in tho the newspapers there was nothing mysterious about tho the publication of those letters said mr jerome 1 I gave them out myself they were public docu document menta produced in open court but they had not been admitted in evidence retorted mr hartridge chairman mcclure put an end to the discussion by saying the lyou letters were not before the commission dr br diefendorff said the suggestions suggestion made by thaw indicated a delusional state of mind did you think he lie had lad delusions when nhen he committed iho the homicide asked chairman mcclure yes replied the witness who went nto into an elaborate explanation of the difference between medical and legal insanity declaring that thaw was medically but not legally insano insane when he killed white under questioning by mr air hartridge dr said that thaws delusions were similar to those indicated in the letter letters which formed a part of the district attorneys hypothetical question at the trial on similar writings then you reach the conclusion that at one time timp ho he was sane and at another time in sane asked mr air Il hartridge artridge t or dr diefendorff said ho lie bould stana on his answers he admitted he had bever perso personally hally examined thaw buc but thought him to be buffering suffering from paranoia at ftp in it was announce announced 1 that the examination of thaw bad had been completed the thaw lunacy commission remained in session to consider its report after the examination of thaw had bad ae been e a com completed ile t 0 d mr jerome and counsel representing in iho the defendant were notified that hey they were no longer required by bv the commission and there would be no communication of any sort with any one tonight the commission nn un will report to justice fitzgerald before court convenes tomorrow rooming morning |