Nothwithstanding the anti-vaccina
{want to discuss the matter in the
(others cowards, yet when pioned down
An Insurance Polley Por » Ymas petitioning the Legislature to strike co
| books.
{absence of danger, they want the bars
tionists of Pennsylvania utterly
Some are fond of calling
they dare not come out into the open
A
people in
While all
all parts of the State by the enemies
friends.
of vaccination, vet not one from (ts
‘STARTLED BY EVANS
Expert Tells Court “Thaw Is
Not Insane, Never Was.”
“I DID NOT GO ARMED," SAYS EVELYN
——
Wife of Prisoner, Recalled by Jeo
rome, Denles Telling Howard
Nesbit That White Stary
Was 8 Lie.
NEW YORK, Feb. 28-Dr. Britton
D. Evans, authority on mental disor
ders, who was on the witness stand lo
the Thaw murder trial most of ths
session, wad brought right down tr
the nub of the cafe by one question
fired at him by District_Attorney Je
rome.
“Do you belleve the prisoner {s sane
or insane 7" he asked
“He Is pot insane
wis,” came the reply
This answer created a ripple of sur
| prise lu the court It was Guite unex
| pected tn Its directness, and it appear
| ed to tickle the accused mightily, A
| =atisfled grin overspread his features
| and there was a suggestion of the “ex
aggerated ego” in his eyes
In the midst of the cross examina
tion of Dr. Evans the prisoner began
to write busily. He told the reporters
| he was preparing a statement
His lawyers tries] to dissuade
from dolug it, but Le persisted
Iy he gave out the following slip
“This Is the second statement given
out by Mr. Thaw since Aug 10
“With chances of a million to one
against her, it 1s wonderful that Mrs
Thaw's testimony prevalled against!
and he never
him
Final
legs."
Dr. Evans was led aloug by Jerome |
on the subject of melancholia. system
atized delusions and other crazy
remains a little work to do; the debris
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Statement By Enemies of Vaccination. |
1—Yaccination is not a preventive]
{of smallpox
2—Vaceination does not lessen the!
ivirulence of the attack, nor reduce |
the mortality of the disease }
i
|
vaccination |
|
3—Sanitation and no
has reduce the mortality.
4+—S8yphilis is frequently trapsmit- |
ted by means of the virus. i
5—The bovine pox and the syphil-
{tic pox are identical
6—That scrofula, eczema, erysipe- |
las and kindred human diseases are
transmitted by the virus
|
7—That blood poisoning Is due to |
the virus
|!
§—That vaccination is but a huge |
medical graft |
|
-
8—Doctors disagree. The most em-
inent doctors oppose vaccination. One
writer quotes Dr. Carr as saying that
50 to 60 per cent of the profession op-
pose vaccination,
10—Thousands of deaths and much
disease and suffering are directly due
to the poisonous virus
11—Doctors admit that the vaccina-
ted contriict smallpox and die of {it
Will O' the Wisps” that take flight
so that the
or who Is telling the truth
The Truth.
1—Vacelnation is the
preventive of smallpox
only known
times as many of the
than
ed
ity
3—This is not true
iperson, if exposed, will contract the
disease no matter what the sanitary
| condition is.
pox as of measles, scarlet fever or!
typhoid fever.
4—That Is a physical and scientific
impossibility.
not dishonest to keep repeating the
statement?
5—This Is an absurd pathological
untruth. No Intelligent person would
make 80 Impoasible a statement
6—This Is an absurd impossible
| pathological untruth. Only a dishon-
est man would keep on repeating an
untrue accusation
7—The tips being antiseptic this Is
impossible. Is it not manifestly un-
Just to keep repeating this charge?
s
ket price for a tp, uses the necessary
antiseptics and dressings,
inakes an examination and probably
certificate, he has, for his profession-
cents. Do you ser-
lously consider this graft?
That is not true The efficien-
¢y of vaccination,
theria antitoxin, belng an establish-
ed medical fact, probably not one per-
Its truth. Such a doctor Is surely a
medical curiosity In himself
10
tion,
When ill results from vaccina-
it is beyond human skill to say
whether it is due to the operation, the
physical condition of the patient,
the subsequent care of the wound
or to the virus. Since this is true
Is it not downright dishonest to charge
all these bad results to the virus?
Since the tips are antiseptic, the
chances are a thousand to one that
It is not due to the virus but to one
of the other causes
to
11—This Is a negative untruth. It
is probably not true that a success-
fully vacccinated person ever dies of
emallpox. That there are a few ap-
parently authentic cases is admitted
In this connection, however,
be remembered that many miscar-!
riages of vaccination where no true
Innoculation bas taken place, there
ay remain a scar very closely sim-
lating a true cleatriz. This explains
he fact that u few who have died of
their person
§
en i JA
“How ARD NESBIT.
{ things. He flually drew from the doe
| tor the opinlon that Thaw was Insane
on just two occaslons—when he mar
| was submitted ln court
All through the day there was a bat
! tle of wits between Je id Evans,
{ In which the expert, as on the previ
ous occasion he was under fire, wore
than held his own
| The trial produced one surprise,
which came In the shape of a battery
| of questions hurled at Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw by tending to show that
she feared death at Thaw's hands.
This was on the occasion of her return
from her second trip to Europe
The district attorney called her to
the stand soon after court opened. He
began to question her with the lutent
of bringing out that Thaw had made
threats to kill ber aud that she had
sent her Lrothier Howard to purchase a
revolver for her self protection. To all
Questions aloug this line she gave a
positive "No."
| Jerome got his best foot forward In
this effort. It looked like a carefully
rolue
Jemvine
as a witness for the state to corrobo-
rate Abe HHummel's prospective dental
of Evelyn Nesbhit's account of her fa
mous visit to his office lu LN at Stan
ford White's beliest
Mr. Delnas intimated that be hoped
to be able to close the case for Thaw
this week
Just lefore the hour for resuming
the trial Thaw's little wife slipped into
the conrtroom, accompanied by her mil
Huer friend from Boston, Mrs. J. J
Calne. Mrs. Thaw took a vacant seat
next Mr. Delius at
counsel table. Evidently hopad to
be allowed to sit at Thaw's slide during
the remainder of the trial. Mrs Calpe
took Josinh and Ed
ward Thaw fo the section reserved for |
Fhaw's allenist= and relatives
Rluce both women have testified al
ready, the attorneys for the defense
belleved that there would be no obj
| thou from the other side if they heard
the rest of the evidence. In fact. Dis
trict Attorney Jerome liad consented to
Mm. Thaw's presence, but his assist
ant, Mr. Garvan, didn’t Hke the notlon
and =o after Garvan had whispered to
Dan O'Rellly the two woinen were Jed |
out. The young wife pouted her red |
Hps In disappointment went |
mck to the gloomy witness room,
But in a minute or two she came
| back temporarily. Jerome, It
had questions which he wanted to ask
her reganling certain admissions which |
to
she
a chair alongside
ax she
“evened,
ef Howard I'he ff Jerome's
course instantly set afoot a report that |
tenor
{As a witness agninst his awn sister
Mr, Jerome sald that there was one
point he wanted fo clear up In connec
tion with an alleged statement Evelyn
made to her brother, Howard Neshit,
The prosecutor asked the witness if
ahie had seen ber brother open her re
fum from Europe in the fall of 1908,
Id abe had seen him at te | Na: |The
asked Mr. Jerome
beaten and cruelly
thal You had teen!
treated Harry
Thaw, why alised you in onder ta In i
duce you to make stateisents aginst!
Stanford White?” i
i
i
fay
“1 did pol” responded Mrs. Thaw,
with a snap In her volor that was al
most shrill
“Did you not tell your brother that
Mr. Thaw had beaten you and used
you cruelly in Paris in order to make!
you say lying things agninst Stanford
White—in onder to make you way |
White had drugged and wrongel you?’|
“J did not”
“Did you uot tell your brother that
Mr. Thaw forced you at the paint of a
pistol to tell the story abomt St in ford |
White that ysu have told upon the
stand ¥
“I did not.”
“Did you ever carry a revolver?”
“Never.”
“Did you ever give
money to purchase
“I never did”
“Isn't It a fact, Mrs Thaw, that you
sent your brother to hegel Cooper's to
bay a revolver for you yo
afraid that Mr Thaw ight
your’
“1 never did.’ i
“I= it not a fact that you told yoar|
brother that all of your
about Stanford White were
Hea ¥*
“I dk] not.”
Mrs. Thaw seeined fairly
under this new line of attack by the
district attorney. and her answers!
were all sharply defined. The prose
cufor tried seven varieties of the same!
question to get from Evelyn the ad
mission that she had sent ber brother
to a department store to buy her a re |
| volver Failing, be sald, with wre
| amlfe
“That Is all”
Mr. Delmas
{tlons, and Mrs
antercom
| Interest centers now in
| vers of District Attorney
| seems to give further Indic
purpose in the near future
the court for a comn In lanacy
to report upon the present condition of |
i the defendant's mind
[Mr sald he intended calling
jas a witness in rebuttal Dr. Allan Me
{ Lane Hamilton, the alienist who was!
| first by the Thaw defense, |
[but who Las not heretofore figured in
the trial. Dr. Hamilton is rejort
have sald that Thaw was
time of the tragedy
sane at the present day
Dr. Charles FF. Ri
iburg, the Thaw famliy
of visiting Thaw lu the Tombs
August last, when the pri
much depressed and = ted f
delusion that a conspora I heen
formed against him, «on hat
he was not allows! to pat p
the grating In his cell don
“they” wanted the
and give him punenmonia so
fle and his case
Mrs. William Thaw
next witne
your hrother
a revolver™
n= were
attack
statements
a pack of
bristling :
did not
Thaw
ask anv ques
returnes! to thes
the wapen
Terome, whe
atlon of his
to apply to]
i=sion
Jerome
employed
Ines
and tha
of
physician
Pitts |
told |
during!
iguipAan
arf svete] |
tise}
over |
old alr
in |
Hever i
will hae
ep
Vicomte d'Avenel at Harvard,
CAMBRIDGE. Mu «= Fe
comte Georges d'Avene] of
livered the first of
lectures on the social
history of France at Sanders
under the ausplees of the «
cals of Harvard university
turer said, amoug other
reward of labor has neither rel
the cost of life nor to the
civilization. In civilized
may happen that a man starves
such a thing never happens to a horse
It Is not necessary that there any |
relation the prosperity of al
country abstractly wonsidered and the
comfort of the laboring classes.”
- Vi
France de
of elcht
stiihe
theater |
ercie. Fran
The lec i
thing=: “Tha|
ition to]
progress of
it!
vhile}
i ~
his series
amd ecu
nl country
be
between
Bandits Butcher Mesican Troopers. |
SAN ANTONI), Tex, Feb, 2% <A}
{dispatch from Mazatlau, Mexico i
“Six furales as thes lay asleep fo the!
shelter of rocks lu the vi Inlty of Tepe
were butchered by the ban |
dit Eurique Chavez and his band |
Ranchmen and farmers jn the Tepl
district are coudition bordering |
on panic, as It Is rumored that Chaves
has gathered around him
bloody and cruel as himself
forts have lu the
made to capture Chavez
nerve and knowledge of
have always saved bling!
SAFS
noturions
men as
Many ef
last few months wen |
but his luck
the country
McCleary Succrecds Shalleuberger
WASHINGTON, Fel 28 Otic Ia
{announcement Fosthiast
{General Ce
nde by
wtelyou of the sisnath
{of General W N Shalleaberger, se o
{assistaut prostunster iM
{le miberger subtanitted hls rest
President Roosevelt
jeepted by the prieshdent
[tive James T Med
fwho retires from congress
[elution of the
sucevend Mr sShallenbwry
assistant postmaster general
nn
Kener
shalingg to
My
1
of Mi
nt
wind
wv nf
) : t
Cary vies fn
th
ol
oan
sows]
will
word
present
as ma
{
{
Walker Reported nt Portland, Ore
i NEW YORK, Feh 2% A detective |
[agency engaged ta William F
Walker, the missing bank troasarer of
| New Britain that |
Walker stopped tel
it Portlnnd, Ome on the
HIS, giving the nn of
He left the next morniug
{trace of him was lost
trace
Conn ANNOUNCES
Portland
ht of Feb
|
and farther
ut th
nig
W her
He Seq
Admiral Hjaln
Ambassador Luke |
E. Wrizht gave a luncheon In honor of
Admiral Hinin, In command of the na
val squadron which started today for
Jamestown, Va. Vice Admim! Togo
was also Invited, and the most cordial
feeling prevailed.
Sendo Vor
I TOKYO, Feb
doin,
Town Cammandant Assnssinnted.
KR ENOYANSK, Siberia, Veli 2% .
> commandant was shot twice
d in the streets bere. Hix as
CUolonel Hains and Engineer
Harrod to Retire,
WORK PROMISED HIM, SAYS OLIVE
Ex-Chie! Engineer Stevens, Whos
Resignation the President Has Ac.
eepled, Left Isthmus Yester-
day For New York.
pl
WASHINGTON, Feb 2
dent had a conference at the White
House with Secretaries Taft and Keo
regarding the working out of the de
talls of the reorganization sche me fol
the Panama canal work, and it I= un
derstosdl that in addition to the
changes ln the commission as reporte
it has been decided that Colonel Halns
U. 8 A, retired. and Benjamin Har
read, clvil engineer, both wembers of
the present commission
Admiral Endicott, who Is the onls
malting memier of the old con
sion, will be retatned on the new
as the law requires that one
civil engineer of the navy stall le jo
—The presi
shall retire
re
gituis
Coli
A Colon dispateli savs that Jolin F
ex-chinf Pan
ft far
vngitieer of the
Panama yesterday
New York
In view of the lncreased cost of iis
ing Involved In thelr transfer to ths
Isthmus and the fact that ih Cy are. t
be called upon to undertake profes
slonal work of hich grade for whict
thelr predecessors have Iwen libwralls
recompensed the three engineer offi
cers of the arny—Majors
Galllard and Sibert, who were 1A
as members of the commission and en
gineers to control the canal construe
tlon—will be recipients of salaries con
In excess of the Lim pet
annum they now receive. It is the In
tention to divide among them the sala
ries now paid to Messrs Shonts and
Stevens, aggregating fo iNe per an
num, so long as they are engaged in
canal work. As the president has pow
er to fix salaries of persons employed
in this work, there will be no legal ob
Goethals
Chief Engineer Stevens resigned with
the proviso that he would remain in
Isthmus until his sue
there and was thor
Initiated info the new duties
Familiar as they are with the eon
it Is belleved that the
who are to relleve Mr
will feel able to relieve
there, and
army officers
Stevens soon
him of his re
they sall
as
fer can be effected early in April
It Is stated that it will be Necessary
for these army engineers to make
personal Inspection of every part of the
to the wethod of conducting future
A number of telegrams have been re
at the White House from the
south asking the president to name W
J, Oliver, whose bid for the construc
tion of the canal was rejected, as a
member of the isthinian canal com
Secretary Taft sald that he
considering the appointment of Mr
Oliver as a member of the commis
Mr. Oliver sald that he would
not accept a place on the commission.
bat when he bas been officially notified
that the bid of the Pauama Canal
Construction company been re
Jected Mr. Oliver will give out a state
ment for publication.
“Only last Furey
sion
has
* he sald, “the
my friends that 1
would be Eiveu the cuntract, and he
went as far to say that he wonid
In Panama next November
and said that be was confident thet by
we would have the work
nssursd
as
The corporation organized by Mr
and known as the Panama Ca
ual Construction company will at onc
be dissolved. Mr Oliver says that he
has speut $40,000 fo the preparation of
ind In the organization of the
construction company lohn B Me
York, president of the
Panama Canal Construction company
Washington teluy and will
assist Mr Oliver In the preparation
Senate Passes Labor Peace BIN
WASHINGTON, Feb, 28 After Hs
tening to an argument by Senator Pat
fan
rail:
of government
the
rt or
in ar
ownership of
agnwsd to the
nels senna
the
Ihe senate Pisa
the Daniel bill
foundation the
It an
thorizes a board of trustees to receive
Presilent Roosevelt the Nobel
prize ax the nucleons of a fund to
nt Washington period
wnintives of capital and In
conference n
discussion
“the
without
bring together
fealty repn
Porch Climbers nt New Haven,
NEW HAVEN, Coun, Feb 2% hae
the night imrglars efitered the
of Henry F. English In Hil
House avenne and stole jewelry valued
at about £206, The burglars
entrance to the house hy
Rained
climbing na
r Mr. English
the heaviest Individual faspaver in
the city, and his
h on the second story
is
honse ix the second
borhood within a few dars
Ohte's Capitol In Danger.
COLUMBUS, 0. Feb 2S -A hnge
stone welghing many tons (n the dome
of the state capliol has Leen Joosenesd
by frost and is tn danger of toppling
re, The stone is over the library and
alling would crash through
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