The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-11
Pushes Aresnd Court
 yard : Tombs.
coUNsEIy 10 PLEAD INSANITY
0lcott lisits Demented Cousin of
 the Prisoner.
District Attorneys once Continues tc Gather Evidence of Threats Made Against stamford white
 by the Millionaire.

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 New York, July I0--It practically has been decided by counsel for Harry K. ,fThaw, charged with the murder of Standford White. that a plea of emo tional insanity will be entered in behalf of the prisoner.
 While exercising in the court yard of the Tombs this morning, Thaw acted like a wild man, running about the en- closure in such q manner as to exhaust him.
 While Thaw's counsel are collecting evidence with view to proving that he was insane at the time he killed Stanford White, Assistant District Att torney Francis P. Garvan continues to seek witnesses who are reported to have heard Thaw threaten the man who Is supposed to have been his rival in the affections of Evelyn Nesbit before she became Mrs. Thaw.
 The theory of the prosecution is that Thaw had no motive for the shooting except hatred and jealousy dating from the time Evelyn Nesbit consulted law- yers and made sworn statement re- fiecting on the man she soon afterward married.
 Although the defense has adopted a policy of silence, Terrence J McManus, one of Tnaw's lawyers. said yesterday that if any document purporting to be an affidavit made by Mrs. Thaw was introduced, it would bA proved a fors- cry
 srhen you expect to bring hand writing experts Into the easel" was suggested.
 marked Mir McManus we can show that Mrs. Thaw never signed any paper and whatever may have been prepared she was not cognizant of it's contents and she did not subscribe to it,"
 Mir. McManus refused to discuss the number of alienists who will be called into the case to assist Dr. Allen Me- Lane Hamilton. who has had several long conferences with the prisoner
 Mcdonald Sees Garvan.
 pr. Carlos Mcdonald. one Of the ex- perts for tho prosecutions had a talk with Mir. Garvan yesterday Dr. Mc- Donald and several others alienists trfeo~tor rsxaDnine Thaw on the day af- ter he was Indicted and he then rA- fused positively to answer any .qnes- tions put to him, despite the advice Of William K. oicott. who was present in his interests.
 Mir. oicott went to Philadelphia Sat- rrday. 1t was reported. to obtain in- formation about Miss Harriett Thaw a cousin of the prisoner. who had been confined in the Friends Asylum for the
  years. An effort IS tp be made. it is believed. to show that, Thaw suffers from a hereditary taint and officials of the asylum may De called in his behalf.
 Judge olcott returned today from his trip to Philadelphia in connection with the case and as he was leaving : the Tombs he was asked regarding hts visit to Pennsylvania.
 T secured what I went after" he said. T cannot say that my trip to Philadelphia was wholly successful told Thaw what I had learned and he was very happy over it. So was Mrs Thaw."
 The presence of Mrs William H5l- man. mother of Mrs. Harry K. Thaw. is said to be much desired at the Dis trict Attorneys office. According t1 the report the attorneys who are at work on the prosecution's case would like to question Mrs. Holman, partic1- Iariy with regard to one. of the trips to Europe made by Thaw and Evelyn Nes- bit According to one story that while Thaw and the girl were in London an appeal was made to the American em- bassy to break up the relations be- tween Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit and have the girl sent home. This appeal if is said, was made by Stanford White who acted on the request Of Mrs. Hol- man. It was at this time, the story goes. that Mrs. Holman was much pre- iudIced against Thaw.
 It was said today that if Mrs Hol' man should come within the territory covered by a subpoena os the District Attorney she would be at once sur'' moned to his offtce.
 James L. Lederer of Philadelphia. who was manager of "The Wild Rose connnany when Mrs. Thaw was mem l her of the chorus, was examined by As- l sistant District Attorney Garvan today. T,ederer is said to have told MT. Gar van that he had long believed Thaw to he insane This opinion, he said. was | besed upon his observations of Thaw | during the time '"The Wild Rose" com ,nany was playing in this city. In this | connection he mentioned several incl | dents in which Thaw was the central | figure.
 '.It was common talk among all eh' people who knew Thaw, said Lederer' | s.thst Thaw was dope fiend Tried To Jump Over Hanson. CT recall one night when Thaw was about to send two of his chorus girl l acouaintances home in hanson cab l IJe was there with a Friend named Mo | Kav. Suddenly Thaw insisted In try ing to jumr over the roof or the | hanson.
 
 over the roof of the cab. but he tried end succeeded in crawling uron ono side of the cab over the roof and down the other. Mckay demonstrated with him hut 1t was no use. Then Mckay anparently disgusted, turned aside and said. you can't do anything with a crazy mar: he Is drug crazy
 TIora Mcclure, the show girl who anneared before Assistant Attorney 1 Garvan last Sunday for examination concerninr the Thaw-Wh4te tragedy said today that she did not tell Mir Sarvan of any threats made bv Thaw | against White. She never heard such threats She said she told MT Gar van of many renorts cNncerniuS Thaw | NSrs Tbow and White which has r4ach- ! aS her cars but that nf their truth or | s.tsstv che had no knowledge. An important conference from the | y,iewroint of the defense was held in ,ha Tombs today Those present tn | sdd,tion to Thaw were his wife and sormer Judge Olcott. the leading at | .ornev sor the defense II ia reported | tbat as a result of the conference Thaw withdrew opposition to entering q plea of emotional insanity when the !, ease comes to trial.
 ! 1r.. Thaw rauainad with hAr hun.