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{ONLY INFERIOR SAYS ASYLUM READ Dr. Russell of Matteawan Causes Surprise by Denying Calling Defendant Paranoiac. SUMMONED BY JEROME, Alienist Swore Slayer Had No Delusions at Time of Shooting. (Bpectal to The Krening World.) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 9.—After Dr. Adolph Meyer had reiterated his fon that Harry Thaw was sane at! the hearing before Justice Keogh to-| Gay William Travers Jerome, Special Deputy Attorney-General in the case, during his cross-examination, sprung « surprise by calling Dr. John Russell, ‘wuperintendent of Matteawan asylum, It was shown that two returns had Been made by him as to the mental “tondition of Thaw and that only one has been filed tn court. Over the ob- wection of Mr. Shearn both returns Were entered on the record. In the Mrst return Dr. Russell only set forth that Thaw is “of unsound mind and has ot recovered,” while the return spread an the record to-day sets forth that| “Harry K. Thaw 1a still of unsound _mind and has not recovered and in his ppinion it would be dangerous to the ublic peace and safety if he was re Tenses.” . In the first return the question of Thaw being a menace to the com- munity if given his liberty was ‘emitted. DIDN'T CONSIDER THAW WAS A PARANOIAC, Mr. Shéarn brought out from Supt. kcal that he did not'consider Thaw ® paranoiac, but that he was suffering from constitutional inferiority. “I told you,” said Dr. Ri 1 did not believe Thaw w: from paranoia.’’ “Have you seen any evidence of insan- ity on jority, which Is in the om- cla! classification of the State Lunacy Commission?" “1 have not.” The asylum superintendent sald he did Bot with to enter the second rpurn be @ause he did not desire to express an pinion as to Thaw's mental condition. le desired to make Thaw's condition stitutionally in'¢@rior and to leave the atestion of his discharge as being a nace to the community to the dis efetion of the Court. Dr. Russell said the return first fled court met with his views and that © other return submitted to-day was ined at t jeneral ted to put in the return that Thaw was constitutionally inferior,” jd Dr. Russell, “but the Attorney- neral ted it entered differently, gad no I let him enter ‘unsound mind.’ ney-General said ne would the return as 1 wished, he right to make any return equest of the Attornes- “Did you reach a conclusion that he gquid be released with safety to tht) public?” “I don't want to express an opinion one way or the other.” , WAM you say whether it would bo dangerous to discharge him?" Mr. anked. “1 can only say,” sald Dr, Russell, jat this man ven me no trouble! > tepaenty et hat it oh as he fad committed a murder, and my ex- @M@ination showed that he was constitu. @enally inferior, I came to the conclu- sien that I would not make a statesnent Be to whether he could be released with eafety.” “Didn't you tel me that Thaw had Constitutional inferiority with paranolac (fend? Mr. Jerome roared. “I absolutely did not.” Mrs. Thaw, mother of the prisoner, faughed heartily at Mr. Jerome's dis- eomnture. "What did you say?" 4F A POOR MAN, WOULD AT- TEMPT HIS RELEASE, "You asked me, suppose this w man and had not al! this furs and ‘notoriety been made over pil what Would you do with such a case—would you discharge hi nd I replied I this ca I said,” rep Russell, “t could take this man ani keep hin ou: of parr Hielleve 1 could take him out and keep ‘im from doing 5 asain Po you metn as an atieatant!” acted Justice Keogh. viate any ig wrong.” “What d Justice Ker you mes “w. y, he Mignt comnit anotier mur der.” (Br. Russel! also expressed an opinion that he did not think that he could call ‘Thaw insane in the sirict sense of the Por five hours yesterday Dr. Meyer, who is a professor in Johns Hopkins University, testified that he could find mer trace of delusions or exaggerate! emo on the part of Thaw, and he re- iterated this opinion to-di ‘Phe allenist testified th Delieve Thaw was under he wan the inst: ened a Ate @ delusic nent of Providence O When Ae anes be ‘Du aby arn Yoda feole ec tes te : * he did not} that} eT Justice Keogh will probably not decide the question as to Tha nity until next month and in the mean time Thaw will probably be confined in the White Plains il, ‘The prisoner Iki Plains better than Matteawan, allowed more Mberties here, . “Was there any significance on the part of Thaw in going to Anthony Com- stock as the head of the Society for the Prevention of Vice, and asking him to Investigate Stanford White's rela- tions’ with young girls” “Not to me as an allentat.” “What was his purpos in going to Comstock?” Mr. Shearn inquired. "To get evidence.” For what purpose |“PEE:WEE,” HA HAL average ‘0 make White suffer,” Dr, Meyer answered, PRETTY GIR SAS “SUSPENDER AK” FURTED WT HER Has Former Policeman Ar- rested and Held in Bail for Disorderly Conduct. fifty years old Depa was a Jack kngwn MoGee nthe Pi when well mounted vender Jack," a with him out of the owboy patro w Woere he was a was in fay ona thleen Young, a pet Mg Kir] Of No. 338 West One xteenth street, that the former patrol ted to flirt with her, lapped her face, nor ordered that a rly conduct, jeo was placed was then held in $200 r examination on July 12. Mo- Magistrate O' bail Gee told the Mas! te that he lived at No, 270 Broadway, McGee figured in the newspapers about a week ago when he held & mass meeting in the public square in White Plains and denounced Former Dist ny Jerome for his methods in uting the Thaw case. At that time, and also at the time when he wee dieminadd from the fares, "Bui | RON ee ment several | who told | TAPPED THE TILL JUST FOR A JOKE But ‘Restaurant Man Couldn’t See It, and Merry Wag Is Sad — Boo, Hoo! John Rice, twenty years old and known to his asso:.ates as ‘Pee-wee” b@ause of his diminutive stature, Is disgusted with the inabiilty of the person, particularly a police- man, to see a jok “Pee-wee" 11 at No, 251 West Twentieth street. This morning he wi passing the restaurant kept by Louis Michies and his wife at No, 115 Ninth avenue, Mrs. Michles cooks for the customers and Mr. Michics presides! over the restaurant. The restaurateur | was dozing. “Wouldn't It be a good Joke,” re- marked "Pee-weee" to himself, “for me to take all the money out of the cash drawer?” a “Pee-wee" simply can't resist his love for a merry quip, so he stepped in softly and made a clean sweep of the cash drawer’s contents, amounting to 96.90, Mr, Michles has a habit of| dozing, so when he opens the cash| drawer he gives the bell an extra ring. By that system Mrs. Michles, in the kitchen, can tell, if the rings but once, that an unauthorized person ts at the drawei When she heard the bell ring but a! single time she rushed from the kffchen Juat quickly enough to see "Pee-wee” making a hasty exit through the front] door, Se followed and overtook him, but he knocked her down, Policeman Reuben Welsh saw thatthe little girl the last six days of every The little | Month, and ran to catch “Pee-wee." Jester darted into No, 44 -West Nine- and dropped trom 4, The policeman through the hallway, money. hat” he could not si was lockd up. salsky in 1910," sald “Pee-wee.” Jok e THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY 9, was about to dart to the street again but Mrs. Michies He then made for the barred his way. cellar, and when the policeman appeared there Bave battle. lowed Welsh’s revolver was accidently dlecharged slightly wounded, “Pee-wee.” he sprang out of a al bin and In the strug@le that fol- and the policeman was but he held onto Ha, ha ha!” chuckled “this 1s a first-class joke. I was only having some fun. Here is the man's Give it back to him, Ha, ha, “Pee- wi Mr. Michles cepted his money, but the joke, and “Pee-wee” “I was sent to Elmira by Judge Ro- “They said I stole a horse and wagon, But that was a joke, too. Ha, ha, ha! It is very queer that people take my little so seriously. I can't understand In making the arrest Patrolman Welsh shot himself in the thigh, but after having the wound dressed at the New York Hospital he was able to go home. Cae Es FIGHTS FOR CHILD A YEAR. Father's Long Legal Battle at Last stu. oor Leopold Alfred Meyer, a silk merchant, has been awarded the custody of his 1 daughter, after a bitter legal wrangle with the father of his dead wife for more than a year, Resplendent Hats, New Style Parasols | TaN NOT CRAY, and Black Lingerie Gowns, Latest Fads FOUNTAIN HATS 1912. other summer which belongs to the realm of elaborate dress. These stately parasols stand very tall and have crooks at the wrong end—that is, at the ferule and which is usually supposed to rest the ground. In the case of the on the con- on . ! RIGHT F' shepherd crook parasol, trary, the handle-end is provided with ARE BEAUTIFUL: Shepherd’s Crook Parasols Are Made to Be Carried Upside Down. The new fountain hat is the prettiest thing In the way of freak millinery that has bubbled up in New York in many a day, It makes you think of an electric fountain, springing up into the alr in @ fairy-like tower of opalescent spray and then descending to whirl and foam ani splash over the edge of a marble basin. This delightful new hat 1s made of ostrich feathers—a new kind of ostrich that has not @ particle of curl, but ts thick and fluffy, and also light enough to suggest the splash and spray of mov- ostrich feathers—a new kind of ostrich, plumage {!s appallingly expensive, and the woman who wears a fo chapeau possesses the comforting assur- ance that everybody knows her head- Bear cost $200 or $300 and came from Paris, 5 The hat {tself is made of dark-gray Meture shape with a hemp, in a wi brim rolling slightly off the face tn front. A white satin rose catches back the brim, which is crushed against the| splashing feathers all around the edge of the fountain—or, in other words, the hat brim. The white feather ends *plash from the centre of the crown all over the top of the hat and over the edge of the brim at sides and back, the tall plume rising from the centre of | this splashing, swirling spray of feather- ends, THE LATTICE HAT SUGGESTS A SUMMERHOUSE. Tho lattice hat 1s another garden This hat suggests a summerhouse made of | green jand roses clamber romantically. hat ts made of wire and over this is |laid eretonne in a latticework pattern. On the cretonne foundation are ar- ranged the cHmbing and trailing flower @ also in effect in midsummer millinery, latticeworgk over which ‘The shepherd's crook parasol is an-' of Appeals. a metai tip or ferule and rests on the ground, the parasol being carried up- side-down #0 that the fringe or ruffled lace trimming falls gracefully down- instead of hanging outward from the tips of the ribs in the fat and ungainly manner of the flounced parasol carried with the handle up. BLACK LINGERIE FROCK DIS TINCTLY DASHING. A coal black Mngerie frock does seem rather an erratic whim of fashiot all one's preconceived ideas of lini gard suggests something filmy-white, hanous and rather ethereal than The black lingerie frock, however, {s distinctly dashing. It ie one of the most striking styles of the midsummer and the blacker the cos- tume {s, as to boots, hat and parasol, the more striking and dashing ts the effect. These black Ii rie dresses are made of fine black ba’ e embroidered elaborately in an open eyelet pattern and are put together with heavy black or with Oluny dyed black. touch of black Chantilly at the neck to give the desirable filmy effect, The whole frock |is mounted over very thin white stlk, lace into relief. BRANDT CASE CLOSED; NO FURTHER ACTION BY THE GOVERNOR} Dix Doubts He Could Do Any- vines The thing in View of Action by Court of Appeals. ALBANY, July 9.—Gov. Dix said to- the conviction of Folke E, Brandt, tl former valet of Mortimer L, Schiff, did not believe he would further action in the case. “The Brandt case is now closed,” said the Governor. “I doubt very much !f there is anything for me to do in view of the unanimous deciston of the Court Children Cry for Fletcher’s « The Kind You Have ‘Always Dosight has borne the signa- ture of Chas, H. 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