The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1915, Page 5

ayn f D THAW ON STAND ~ ASSERTS THAT HE (S NOW A SANE MAN Continued from First Page.) —— wr ©“! Phew is said to have beaten chorus eee at her house, “THAW SITS NEAR JURY BOX, brow FACING JURORS. +» With his chair so placed that he ‘y @irectly faced the jury and was Boarcely ten feet from the twelve ‘en who afe to judge him, Thaw to- day began his fight for a decision _, Mhat he is sane and entitled to his : »freedom. In his behalf two score wit- / ) Remees, represent Il phases of re- Sationship and acquaintance with him “and his affairs in the last nine years, Were crowded into the court room. In contrast to the forty witnesses h Thaw's counsel began calling , Were two of the State's wit- ry who sat, chin in hand, in the | rs m. They were Dr. Austin + Fiat and Dr. Carlos MacDonald, ths “two distinguished allenists who will J yepeat their belief that Thaw is still par jhould be restrained. ‘They were there to watch his every Movement, to see if anything he may Yow do or say in court will strengthen » thaw was hs \d possessed of | famener to-day as yesterday. ‘} bls seventh experience in @ court of {aw fighting for life or freedom. With bim came his mother, Mrs. Mary Cop- ley Thaw; Mrs. George Lauder Car- hegie, his sister; Mrs, Benjamin Thaw, his half sister, and his halt orother, Josiah T. Thaw. There was a great crowd in the gorridor when Thaw and his party arrived, and five policemen had their bands full to keep the way clear, THAW IS CALLED AS FIRST WIT- NESS FOR HIMSELF. hy 6 After brief opening addresses by John B. Stanchfield for the prisoner and Deputy Attorney General Frank K. Cook Thaw took the stand this Afternoon at 12.05 as the first witness \ m bis own behalf in his fight against teturn to Matteaw: | In response to stions by Mr. Btanchtield Thaw s: his home was In Pittsburgh and that his mother Was alive and sitting there in the . tourtroom—he inclined his head to- ward the gray-haired Mrs, Tha Q. On Aug. 17, 1913, did you Matteawan? /. I did; I belie melt to be sane. @. Physicians had told you so? A. Q. Where did you go when’ you left Matteawan? A. By automobile, which was waiting for me, to Rochester, N. H. I took a train there to Beaver Vt. I wanted to get to Pitts- burgh. My idea was to get through by way of Canada—by way of Coat- } feoke, which is in Canada. But I was arrested in Coaticoke on Aug. 19. ; THAW ASSERTS BELIEF THAT HE 18 SANE. Responding to a series of questions by Mr. Stanchfleld, Thaw told of his wanderings about New Hampshire and Vermont, ‘vhich have been re- | Jated innumerable times. | Q. Vhen you were in Manche: ‘4m December, 1913, was not a com sion appointed to examine you a / your mental condition? A. Yes, @ | Commission appointed by Federal Judge Aldrich, It was made up of y Dr. Morton Prince, Dr. Bancroft and Dr. Bloomer. A pronounced you sane? 12, 1914. 19) Q. They ma tion of you? . Yes, month. There were five or six ses- sions at which I was it and there were other sessions at which they went over all the alleged evi- dence Mr. Jerome had collected. Q. Was there any other examina- tion of you? A. Yes, a Pittsburgh bank sent physician to look me to to honor my drafts, They were subsequently hon- ored in four States. STATE WILL CALL THAW AGAIN AS WITNESS. This practically concluded the ex- amination of Thaw by his attorney and was the same story he told dur- w, A conspiracy trial. hen Mr, Stanchfield told Mr. Cook he might now mine the Deputy Attorney General declined to that he intended calling do 80, sayin, the next witness, over seo whether Thaw himself. John D. Blackburn, a juror during the conspiracy trial, was called, Mr, Blackburn is present solicitor for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, He was examined by Abel I. Smith dr, one of Mr. Stanchfield’s asso- clates. Q. You saw Mr. Thaw on the stand during the trial in which you were a juror? A. Yes, for about two and one-half hours. Q. Did you believe he was rational or Irrational? Deputy Attorney General Becker leaped up with an objection which the court sustained. Several times Mr. Smith tried to get an expression of opinion from the witness, but the attorney for the lea and Justice Hendrick prevented Finally the question was resolved into: “Well, what did you see him do in court?” and this was put by Jus- tice Hendrick himself. The witness then replied on the stand and seemed § any other witness. He a@ questions,” Q. (by the Court)—Now, tell us, did you believe his acis and conduct were rational or irrational? A. Rational. Here Mr. Cook took the witness in hand for cross-examination. Q. Do you know Dick Butler, who engineered the escape of Thaw from Matteawan? A. Yes, slightly. Q. Did you observe Thaw's de- meanor at the counsel table? A. Yes. Q. Did you pay attention to him rather than to the testimony? A. No, Q. Do you remember Thaw’'s exhil- aration during the most serious mo- ments of the trial? A. No, I did not. Q. Did you notice him making vol- uminous notes and trying to pass b> ad to Mr. Stanchfileld? A. Yes, I ai TELLS OF LONG ANSWERS TO SIMPLE QUESTIONS. Q. Don't you know that Th answers to the simplest quest often required fifteen or twenty mii utes and three or four pages of the record? A. I don’t remember that. Q. Didn't you go out after the jury le wan it like wered THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, came in and tell the newspaper re- Porters that Thaw’s sanity had been discussed in the jury room? A. Yes. Q. The jury deliberated for nine- teen hours, didn’t it? A. Yes. Q. And it took you that long to de- cide on his sanity? A. We didn't discuss the sanity question all that time. Another Thaw juryman, John A. Holbart, who served on the second trial, which resulted in declaring Thaw not gullty of murder, but insane at the time of the crime, was then called to the stand. Mr. Holbart’s testimony was a re- iteration of the finding of the jury on which he sat; that Thaw was sane at the time of the trial, but insane when the shooting of White occurred. In cross-examination Deputy Attor- ney Genera! Becker read to the jury & memorandum which he stated Thaw had written during the second trial and showed marked irrationality. In an undertone to the newspaper men Thaw sald the paper was a memorandum that Mr. Peabody and he had made of Clifford Hartridge's utterances in court. Q. Now that I have read this paper to you, does it change your opinion as to Thaw's sanity at the time the paper was written? A. Not at all. Here a recess was taken for luncheon. VAST CROWDS FOLLOW PRIS- ONER INTO THE COURT. The great crowd which followed Thaw from the Supreme Court House at recess was there in even greater force when the trial was resumed at 2.15 o'clock. Police and court officers had to force a line through it to per- mit a passageway for Thaw and for | Justice Hendrick. The first witness after recess was Moses L. Malevinsky, a lawyer, who stopped at the hotel in Gorham, N. H., In the summer of 1918 at which ‘Thaw was a guest at the same time. Q. (By Mr, Smith) Did you see Mr. Thaw constantly during that time? A. Yes, every day for about four weeks, save for a week, when he wos Ill, Q. Did you ever speak with him? A. No, but I heard him talk at least fifteen times. I did not charge my mind with the subjects of these con- versations | heard. Q. Can you state from what. you observed of his conduct in and about the hotel, at tional? Deputy Attorney General Becker made his usual pbjection, but was overruled. “T think he was an absolutely ra- tional man. Mr. Malevinsky replie: “Perfectly rational,” he repeated, by mal didn’t know it. about the ordinary topics of the day? A. Yes. the conversation does not touch his gorical answer I'll say yes and no. table and elsewhere | whether he was rational or irra-| 1915. ‘Thaw, and that when he heard Thaw! wood Hall Golf Cup played over the Hinks of the Huntingdon Valley Country Clab. Jerome D. Travers, national open champion, defeated Dr. M. K. Neiffer of the Home Club, 4 up 3 to pinay, while Maxwell Marston of Raltusrol, the New Jersey champton, easily defeated Rich- ard Mott of the Home Club, 6 up 4 to was coming to the Gorham Hotel he cancelled hig reservation. But he de- elded later A go there, as he was not comfortable in the place in Nova Scotia he had selected when he de- cided not to go to Gorham. Assistant Deputy Attorney General Cook cross-examined Mr. Malevinaky. | Q. Don't you know that often a| man. A. I don't think so—T Q. You only heard Thaw talking Q. Isn't a paranolac often brighter when talking of other affairs, when | delusions? A. If you want a cate- Under redirect examination by Mr. Stanchfleld, the witness related the incident of a little party at the Gor- ham Hotel at which Thaw was pres- ent. One of the Indies and T discussed how Thaw would behave at this party. But he conducted himself in) a perfectly normal and rational man- | ner, There were a number of youns and old women present, and Mr./ Thaw behaved like a perfect gentle | man.” ANOTHER JUROR THINKS THAW | 18 SANE. ! Lawton Mackall, juror No. 7 in the! conspiracy trial of Thaw last March, | testified that he had watched Thaw | closely during the trial. | Q. (By Mr, Smith), Did you listen | carefully to his answers? A. Yes, Q. Did you see him as he sat at the counsel table and on the stand? | A. Yes. Mr. Smith's question as to whether, from such observation, the witness was impressed with Thaw's ration-| ality or irrationality was not per- mitted to be answered just then. The Court asked Mr. Mackall to tell! more of what he had observed of Thaw, and he replied: | “T noticed the quick way In which he caught the humorous Incidents of the trial, often setting them long be- | fore the rest of the people tn the! room. And I remarked the eagerness | with which he leaned forward to see thet the stenographer got the last word when he © liometimes he us nanper at the ond of a rey fter this the question of ration VIE ality wos out again, and Mr. Mackall replied: “tt ved him to be en trely rations!" ——_—_—— TRAVERS AND MARSTON ay of emphasis. ADMITTED AN EARLY PREJU- DICE AGAINST THAW. ‘The witness testified that at first he had been violently prejudiced against BONWIT TELLER &,CO. 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