Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1909 — THAW HAS PLEASANT CHAT WITH JEROME [ARTICLE]

THAW HAS PLEASANT CHAT WITH JEROME

Prisoner Tells Doctor He Never Threatened to Kill Wife. White Plains, N. Y„ July 27.—Alienists have started their slow march across the stage in the Thaw case. The efforts of Stanford White’s slayer to obtain his release from the Matteawan asylum are culminating in the testimony of the experts. District Attorney Jerome of New York, at the request of the attorney general’s office, appeared in court and took entire charge of the state’s case. Jerome and Thaw sat so close together that their chairs touched, but If the prisoner had any fear of the man who prosecuted him his face did not show it. All but one of the witnesses were Thaw’s today and his equanamlty was undisturbed. At times he and the New York district attorney chatted and smiled like old friends reunited. Dr. Britton D. Evans, famous for his introduction at the trials of the term “brain storm,” probably will conclude his testimony today. Dr. Evans testified that Thaw has not now and never has had the particular kind of insanity known as “paranoia,” which the state and county authorities contend still afflicts him. Etelyn Nesbit Thaw did not come to White Plains. Jerome said that she was still under subpoena and might be called for cross-examination after Thaw testifies. Dr. Evans stated that during a recent talk with Thaw the prisoner declared that his wife’s assertion that Thaw had threatened to kill her was false.