The San Francisco call., 1906-12-19
DEFENSE OF THAW
IS REVEALED
Sensational New York Muir
der Case to Take a
New and Startling Turn
MOTIVE EXPLAINED

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. ls-After
months of lighting, ignoring the advice
of the most distinguished lawyers in
the country, Harry Kendall Thaw. who
murdered Stanford White. the noted
architect, on the roof of Madison
Square Garden. has dictated his own de-
Tense and that defense eliminates all
possibility of emotional insanity.
With a murder prolific with sensa
tionai features on account of the high
social standing and the unsavory repu-
tation OF both the murderer and the
victim, the new defense in the case
adds chapter to its sensationalisnl
and one that viii startle the civilized
world with its audacity, its barring to
public gaze the lives of the three prfn-
cipals, Harry Kendall Thaw, Stanford
White and Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. the
latter a beautiful model and the wife of
the accused man
Harry Kendall Thaw is prepared 10
go on the witness stand and Justify
himself before the world for Shaving
Stanford White by telling the jury how
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw contracted an al
most incurable disease-positively in
durable If not taken In its early stages
from Stanford White. and how Eye
lyn Nesbit Thaw in turn transmitted
the disease to her husband, who has II
at the present time.
This is the defense that Thaw
planned and held out for against the
advice of his lawyers to plead "emo-
tional insanity"
According TO the story told by D
Carnahan. a Pittsburg lawyer associat-
ed with the defense. Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw first became impregnated with
the dreadful malady about three years
before she was married 20 Thaw. AS
soon as the symptoms appeared the
young girlish model went to White and
told him of her predicament and ac-
cused him of being the instrument
whereby the rest of her life was to be
a burden. She Informed him that she
would expose him as leper. The
denunciation took place in the little
tower in Madison square Garden, where
White carried on his orgies
Scared by the denuuciation Of the
beautiful model. White supplied her
plentifulIy with money and sent her
abroad by the next steamer to obtain
the finest possible treatment White
demanded from Evelyn Nesbit that she
should tell no one OF her condition. not
even her mother. Solicitous TO de-
gree, White then informed Mrs. Hol-
man, the mother of Evelyn Nesbit, thar
the health of the child was bad and
that she needed a trip abroad.
Not until this day is IL thought that
Mrs. Holman knows the facts. The
treatment abroad only retarded the
ravages of the disease in Evelyn Mes
bit -Thaw. From outward appearances
she is said to be in perfect health. with
the exception of drawn, worried look
which always accompanies the ravages
of the malady. The lawyers for the
defense claim that an examination OF
her blood will uphold their defense.
Owing TO the difficulty in proving the
defense as planned by Thaw the law
yers have pleaded with him TO fight for
his life on the ground of emotional
insanity. From the defense as now
planned il will be necessary to exhume
the body OF White TO prove that he
had the disease said to have been
transmitted to Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
Thaw's trial will begin on January
81, according to an order signed by JUS
tice Newburger today. The trial will
be before Justice Fitzgerald.