The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-19
DID NOT WANT TO KILL WHITE Thaw Sought Redress in
 Courts. APPEALED TO MIR. JEROME Asked Anthony Comstoek to Break
 up Architects Orgies. Will Introduced Showing Defendant % Be Apprehensive of Great Bodily Harm--Evans Proves Hard
 Knot for Prosecutor. I

New York, Feb. 18--'I never wanted to shoot the creature. l never wanted to kill him. I knew he was q foul creature, destroying the mothers ana daughters of America, but l wanted. through legal means, to bring him to trial. I wanted to get him into court to bring him to justice. But Proyi- dence took charge of it; 1t was an act of Providence"
 This is Harry K. Thaws own story of the killing of Stanford White. It was told by him to pr. Britton D. Evans. the aiienist. last August in the Tombs. Today Dr. Evans repeated the prison er's words to tho jury which is trying Thaw for his life.
 District Attorney Jerome fought hard last week against the introduc- ton of this evidence, which the de- fensa believes is conclusive proof that Thaw did not know his act was wrong. Once the testifying physicians had de- ciared that in their opinion Thaw was insane at the time he made the state nent to him: however. the rules of evidence permitted the introduction Of the prisoners words.
 In further bulwarkIng their conten- tion that Thaw was insane when he killed Stanford White. the defendants counsel succeeded today in placing be- fore the jury the wfll executed by Thaw the night of his marriage in April, 1905. and a codicil to the will executed at the same lime.
 Again MT. Jerome fought the evil dence. but he significantly withdrew his objections after Dr. Evans had Thaw was insane at the time he exc cuted the will. The fact that the Dis- trfct Attorney seems disposd to let in testimony of every character provided there is q preliminary opinion from the witnesses that the man was of unsound mind at the time to which the testi- Hony refers, was taken today as fur ther indicating that Jerome may at the psychological moment, if he deems his hand strong enough. demand the ap- pointment of q commission to pass ups on Thaw's state of mind at the present moment
 zksii And EoSafcil lEhe Will Asad 1iiA cudfcii aN read G the jurors today were offered in evi. dence aa cumulative testimony oi Thaw's mental rnsoundnes. prior to thu killing of White. In his will Thaw provided that his executors should sci apart the sum of $5o.000 for the in vestigation of his death in case of a violent or suspicious end, and for the prosecution of the persons suspected of having had Q hand in his taking off.
 In the codiciI Thaw left to lawyer in Pittsburg the sum of $7,500 to be used in securing legal redress from Stanford White and one other person whose name was not allowed to be read, for the benefit of four young wo- men who, Thaw declared, had been the victims of degrading assauits' in a house Furnished and used for orgies by Stanford White and other inhuman scoundrels."
 The names of the four young women were mentioned by Thaw. but were not made public. Thaw also beQueathed sums of $2,500 each to Rev. Dr. Chas H. Parkhurst, Anthony Comstoek and a lawyer named in his codicil to be used in discovering alleged misdeeds by Stanford White and securing re- dress for the women.
 Two other persons will take the stand tomorrow, Drs. Hammond and JelIiffe, and 1t is said that 1t will be part of their function to detail the improvement in Thaw's mental condi- ton during the period of his confine- ment in the Tombs, declaring that the stress which caused the mental expio- sion was removed with tho putting