Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-12
ALlENIST SAYS HIS MIND WAS
AFFECTED
Ordeal Through Which Pittsburger
Passed Enough to Cause Insane
ImpuIses-Women Spec
tators Barred
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| 1t was amended to embrace the evil
dence of record as to the disputed
points. 1t was on the amended ques-
tion that DR.. Wagner gave 1t as his
opinion that Harry Thaw did not know
| because of defective reason that his
act in killing Stanford White was
wrong. When the expert is taken in
hand by Mr.. Jerome he will have to
give detailed reasons for his opinion
Dr. Evans of the New Jersey state hos
pital for the insane will be the first
witness for the defense tomorrow.
A new rule by Justice Fitzgerald
barring from the court room all women
not engaged in active newspaper work
went into effect today. Many of those
who, bedecked in gala costumes, had
occupied front seats heretofore, were
on hand early this morning, but to no
avail. The court officers had direct
orders this time and obeyed them. AS
a result there were many empty benches
in the court room ell day.
Whole Story in Question
Dr. Wagner's decision of the letters
required more than a half hour.
Have you examined these letters
with a view to their tendency to show
the mental condition of their author?"
asked Mr.. Delmas,
Il have"
Mr.. Delmas then proceeded with his
hypothetical question.
Il will assume, DOCTOR" he began
that the author of these letters on
June 25 last was in his 36th or 37th
year; that one of his uncles was in
sane; that when he himself was a child
he had suffered from the usual chill
dren's diseases including Saint Vitus
dance; that he was always of a nervous
temperament; that he slept badly and
often required the attention of two
nurses; that in 1901 he met a young
woman of between 16 and II years of
age; that he paid honorable court to
her and had gone to her mother, pro-
fessed his love and his desire she
should become his wife; that in 1903 the
young woman having undergone
serious operation, the man went to her
bedside, knelt and respectfully kissed
her hand; that after her recovery he
arranged to take her and her mother to
Europe; that in Europe during her
period of recovery following the opera
tion he nursed her tenderly, carrying
her to a carriage and upstairs in his
| arms; that in June, 1903, he made for
NAL offer of his hand to this young
woman, his social position at that time
being one of affluence and his family
! holding a position both in this country
and in Europe which might generally
| be termed enviable; that she declined
| his suit, and when pressed for a reason
! informed him that when she was about
| 16 years of age a certain man in New
York introduced himself into her life
| in the guiSe of a benefa ctOr, expressing
the utmost soicitude for her wefare
| that this New York man displayed be-
! fore her childish fancy, she having been
/ brought up in poverty all the splendor
! of apartments sumptuous in their fit
establishing himself in her family he
| had persuaded the mother of the child,
| her only natural protector-the father
being dead-to absent herself from New
| York and go on a visit to Pittsburg, her
| former home, promising to care for the
! child as though he was her father and
| protect her from all harm; that one
! day he invited her to his apartments
/ and there by means of drugs rendered
her insensible and raVished her; that
! this revelation made to this young man
who had offered his hand, plunged the
sutor into the utmost grief, causing
MIN to walk the floor in an agitated
manner and eXclaim oh, Cod OH
Godn and that he remained long time
with the young woman bemoaning
/ what had happened to her, that after
/ the conference and the return from
/ Europe, the young man was told that
| the man who had raVished this young
! girl, that the man WHO ltlu SO DldCk-
ened mis- character to the girl that she
would no longer see him; that he heard
the man had threatened his life; that
during the period of his estrangement
with the girl he wrote the letters which
have been introduced in evidence and
which you have read; that he had per-
severed in his suit through the inter-
cession of friends, and, finally on April
4, 1905, married the girl; that upon the
occa sion of a subsequent visit to New
York the man who had accomplished
the girls ruin sought by means that
| have been testified to to re-establish
communication with her"
Mr. Delmas continued to narrate the
events leading up to the Madison
Square garden tragedy, and asked DR..
Gardner to state his opinion as to the
mental condition of the man who shot
Stanford White.
Jerome Objects
Mr.. Jerome was on his feet with many
objections. He objected first on the
ground that the question embodied sew
eral matters which he declared were
not in the evidence. He said the evil
dence did not show that one of Thaw's $
uncles was insane, but that he was OF
unsound mind, and that Evelyn Thaw
did not state that she was drugged,
but that the wine tasted bitter and that
in two minutes at the outside she be-
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