Show JUSTICE MillS S fOR FORAND AND AGA AGAINST KalAv Thaws Composure Is Perfect As fie He Listens to Denunciations and ad Mor Defense Plains N Y Aug ments were heard b by Justice Mills II Ills to today day in the tho application of Harry K Thaw for his release from Mrs Irs Josiah Thaw the sis was the tho only member of the family party part not present when court convened Thaw looked oven better eller than usual He s t his features with willi evident determination to show no motion emotion under the storm which be expected to descend upon his head Mx u Jerome began with saying that Justice Mills must be famil tar lar with the case caso and therefore he would not attempt to go over oer the tho el dence In detail Speaking of the credibility or of the witnesses es and their beating bearing under he said sald he bellE believed d dall all did their best to tell the truth ex cx except Mrs E Evelyn eln Nesbit Thaw I do 10 thInk thin he declared that this girl was deliberately and Intentionally falsifying ing That she told her husband the stor of her Injury at the hands of C Stanford White While I have hae no doubt Ill Mr r J crome then passed directly to of Tha Thaws s sanity sanit He acknowledged that modern science did not attach extreme tance to the loho influence of in disease nevertheless he declared red this Influence must be considered in assessing the defendants mental con condition condition Ho He summed up Thaws family history with the declaration that whoa when a m member broke broe he or broKe In their weak mind Under strain the they developed ImbecIlity or i epsy Let me mc point out noW noc that the whole Th Thaw fa family lIy manifested what might be called pec peculiarity such a stock the average man or of tWo thc World orld would sa say without an any assist once Vell you ou would get a pretty rickety sOrt of out of that family story of receiving large sums Of money from Thaws at al attorneys and of his flying at her house with varIous women the district at attorney attorney torney saId Was Here Mr Jerome laid down his notes arid and re recited recited cited from memory various arious wild lId acts of the prisOner ner testified to at the for former mer iner trIals HIs alleged attempts at al suicide In Paris and his proposition to commit suicide with his wife Ife In Inc New c York were held up particularly as 5 evidence of a diseased mind No normal mind would want a wife to 0 tell the terrible story Evelyn Thaw told on the stand asserted Jerome While the district attorney spoke Mrs irs Thaw read a magazine Once she leaned over and made t suggestion to toI toMi Mi I I which the latter not noted noted ed down Thaws love ot of the dramatic was pointed out by Mr Jerome as a strong of his alleged mania It received Its strongest In Inthe inthe the shooting of White saId The district attorney declared that ho placed little reliance on the testimony or of Dr Evans Thaws ws chief alienist and ask asked d the court to disregard It If 11 a person had come In here bere from Mars ars continued the prosecutor and seen l haw on the stand ho he would hae hav realized something was the mat matter matter ter with Ith him It was un unwholesome holesome It Itras ras as uncanny r I call your attention to his act A Aman Aman man of sound Bound mind have hac said Yes I kill killed cd him but he did a goat groat wrong to the woman I loved Joyed and I hated him It was S wrong rong I know voice rose for lor the first time Mrs Irs Tha Thaw laid ald down her bel mag ezine and she and the prisoner and his counsel held a ered confer conCer conference I enc ence The district attorney went ent on The situation Is about this Here Is a man whom hom heredity has proven to tobe tobe be bad he Is a man whose childhood was that of a highly nervous sort Rort We Va find him marrying maming this girl and there was nothing after the marriage to ex CX excite cite his jealousy We see him pursuIng pursuIng Ing this idea or of Injury to young Amer Amerl l ivan an girls Referring to Mrs frs Thaws attack on him In The Secret Unveiled Jerome said We Bec se In this pamphlet the same color that runs nil all through the case It g seems to me It would not be safe to turn this man loose until there has been ample to submit him to medical examInation for a long Ions period Jerome finished his summing up at 1135 p mc m the court having offered objection to the tho length of oC his speech Sp ecIL Attorney for or Thaw Tha be began began gan b by urging the court to lo consider I only the evidence In the present proceedings and disregard I ThawS condition prior to during or just after the homicide He dwelt on the testimony of his own alienists and attacked that or of the tho opposing experts especially Dr Bakers If Thaw had hadn hada n a latent trace of Insanity he said the horrors of would hav ha hamade made It Incidents of Thaws Thaw early earb life Iffe Were grossly grossl exaggerated at atthe atthe the trIals he said to show insanity A similar result might ho bo achieved with Ith the boyhood pranks s of an any man Mr rr explained the ex excitement excitement created In n a London hospital by Thaws demand for ice as follows Mr 11 Thaw was simply ahead of the English Your honor remembers how when as bo boys s we had a fever they would not noL give gic us any ice fee or cold coldwater water ater Well rell the people in that hos hospital hospital pital had the same sam l idea ea He declared although the defend defendants defendants ants life liCe was raked with incidents to Lo prove his insanity at the trials there ther was Vas a period of 11 years during which no erratic acts were In evidence i to Evelyns alleged mis misconduct conduct with White Mr Ir said With this before him ever every da day and every Thaw started out to lo wreak his vengeance on Stanford White and sought to break 11 up p his den and do de atro troy forever that power to wreck and andI ruin the lives of young girls Mr Thaw w appealed to DIstrict Attorney I Jerome The district attorney ad admitted the existence of such places and If he had llad used the energy In root rooLIn rootIng In Ing them out that ho has hounding in this lila youn young man the crime would never neer hare hae been committed I MRS THAW COMPARES ALIENISTS TESTIMONY White While Plains N Y V Aug 7 Mrs Mary Iary Copte Copley Thaw mother of Harry Harr K Thaw today loday made public a statement In which she compared the testimony glen given by Thaws alienists to the evidence given by District At torne alienists Mrs Thaw Tha said I Mr Jerome Terome speaks of fourteen al I ts There are but four that he place on the witness stand to swear that m my son has or ever eo I had hadan an any incurable ment l these have hae no religious feeling about their oaths that I know of Of the fourteen he claims seven soen have hate since I sworn that my ms son is sane ane and ex except except Dis E Evans ns and Wagner as to their first two visits all of them Doctors Evans Eans Wagner Graham i Hammond Jelliffe Pilgrim and Greg I sworn they ther never neer saw any sign of Insanity In all their personal examInations of him Dr White call called called ed before the th commission in March 1907 did not testify However he is read ready to swear to my sons sanity or Of the remaining s sven ven Dr Hamilton has said too much and after his trick mess Iness and his offer to 0 mal maIze e It de dementia dementia mentia praecox he cannot hop help Mr Jerome Dr Ferris announced on February 1 1908 that he be hall had never neer made a personal examination of Mr ir Thaw and could not give gle an opinion as to Mr Thaws condition Dr Mabon I am told lold has some conscience I have bae been told that Mr Mi Jerome considered Dr Hirsch his best alienist but m my sons experts say sar sarI I that Dr Is better belleI I know that Dr would not testify against my son now Dr Lamb head I or of the Mattea wan Institution refuses to swear that m my son is a paranoiac and Mr fr Jerome dare not use DI Baker Bakera as a On an expert so lie he Is left with just I four doctors It is not necessary for forme forme me to express m my opinion of Jerome Terome I simp simply name the who would I go on oil the stand and swear as lie ho liest wishes st shea Thoy Ther are Doctors Hirsch Pritchard Flint and 1 MacDonald Signed Mar Iary Copl Copley y Thaw I Replying to Tho Thaws Wt statement on the witness stand Thursday do de she did not understand A llor aol Delmas was as to get half his fee r from Harr Harry Thaw and the other half from hers herself If Mr Ir Hartridge c Thaws former attorney produced a letter letterI I written b by Mrs Thaw to him over oyer three months before belore the trial begau in which she in part partIn I In order to graUf m my son and nt at the tho same samo time limo to make a satisfactory tory arrangement wiLli Mr lr Delmas r I I thInk the plan we spoke of of charging on Harrys Hanys account which ho consid considers ers fair fail and then thon I to supplement whatever i is needed to moet meet Mr Del Dol Dolmas Delmas mas claims will he the best I I Continued on Page Four I I Justice Mills Hears Arguments i ments for forand Against Thaw Continued From Page While hile Plains N Y Aug GHarry K Thaws latest to regain liEs his freedom will end end The sub submission submission mission of testimony In his hearing before Justice today and anda andall a all that lint remains is lie tho final of the attorneys Justice Mills will wIH file his with the county clerk Thursday AUGust 12 Ser Serl 1 o The may grant Iii li plea pIca an and hull him absolutely free II mn may tic dc cle cic l q lie he has i iii d nd refu refuse to rf ru in which case tho thi an probably will hl 1 tu to wan hm has pital for the lie criminal Insane But Dut Jus lice ice Mills has further discretionary powers lie He may feel feol lint Thaws Thaw men mental men mental tal condition is still In doubt and for that reason renson delay the final meanwhile paroling Thaw Thai In the cus CLIS custod tod of some soni or possibly on his own nce In the care of his family Or Oi lie he may declare Thaw in insane sane but moved b by his mothers corn com his surroundings nt at send him hini to some somo other state hospital not nol with Thaw heft the court room with jaunty stop sLop Tho rho strain of tho he past four during which ho has milled mIttel to fourteen hours or of was not apparent At no time has he expressed anything but bul satisfaction with the lie results and confidence In iii the tho success of his case The evidence presented In Iii behalf of oC Thaw closed with a dramatic outburst b by his mother Mrs Mary Co Ier Thaw Her last words word wore were a denunciation of District Jerome leronie Earlier In lie tho las she h had d read fL a It t of names distinguished In New York so society ciet The They were ivere she said at ata a dinner she gave in New York which HUlT Harry atten attended ed before his marriage 11 I brought In lie tho names of who attended that dinner to my son she said because or of the statements of Mr lr Jerome regarding the company compan Harry was to keep I do donot donot not have nn any especiaL enmity toward towar Mr 11 Jerome but he be certainly certain 1 has not behaved In iii this matter maLler In a gentle gentlemanly manly war vay nor in a Christian way war Mr Jerome always talked about Har Harrys rys being a frequenter of the tho tender tenderloin tenderloin loin when lie he knows as well ns as any anyone ono one that boy bor never went to the tenderloin until he met a certain per persOn sOn Eon Mrs Irs Thaws testimony was fre frequently interrupted b hi s sobbing as she dl described Harrys s gs at That place seemed to tomo tome mo me like the vestibule to the he Infernal regions shin said The principal new witness today was OMara formerly chief of of Pittsburg Heco He the lie stories about t Stanfor Stan ford White hite The greater part of the lie day was de devoted voted voled to a reexamination of Thaws I allt alienists Jerome the ex cx with eer every dolce device or of the He aroused lie tho Ire of oC Dr Britton D Evans Bvans b by asking if IC IChe he was the lie subject of the iou of medical witnesses dolly reel yesterday h by Governor I Fort of C New Jeri Dr Evans Eans Js Is su of th New cw Jersey Jerse state Insane Insano at Plains The Tho expert replIed that he declined to go Into Imo personalitIes Dr Di G C Harris of the he state asylum also received a l grilling Doth Both to their I assertion that whatever Thaws men mea mental tal condition might haVe heen when lie he shot Stanford White he was now sane The left lell the lie stand unshaken |