They ask and receive large sums for their services, and their
dishonest testimony must be met and refuted by the evidence of
honest physicians, who, by virtue of their attainments, have a
right to demand substantial fees. Even so, newspaper reports
of the expense to the State of notorious trials are grossly
exaggerated. The entire cost of the first Thaw trial to the
County of New York was considerably less than twenty thousand
dollars, and the second trial not more than half that amount.
To the defence, however, it was a costly matter, as the recent
schedules in bankruptcy of the defendant show. Therein it
appears that one of his half-dozen counsel still claims as
owing to him for his services on the first trial the modest
sum of thirty-five thousand dollars. The cost of the whole
defence was probably ten times that sum. Most of the money
goes to the lawyers, and the experts take the remainder.
It goes without saying that both prosecutor and attorney for
the defence must be masters of the subject involved.
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