Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-04

Yes the witness replied, "he said,
He ruined my Wife.
Did he say anything else?'
Did you hear anyone say anything
TO HIM"
His wife"
What did she say"
Look at tho fix you are in.
did he rcply?"
Il did not hear him say anything
Mr.. Deluas took up the cross-exam-
nation.
How far were you from Thaw when
you heard the first OF tho shots you say
you heard?''
'fTwent>, feet." Il
How fast did you move toward NJ
Thawa"
mot very fast. ] got behind him as
he was holding the gun aloff in his
right hand. The second shot followed
almost Immediately. Thaw had turned
away from White when ] took hold of
him.
''What did Thaw do as he left Whites
side?"
he looked back over his left Shout
der. 1t was a staring look"
"A staring look, you say?'
yes. sir"
WAS he pale?'
''He looked like man who was
frightened"
II did not ask you that" quickly in
terrupted Mr.. Dolmas Il asked you IL
he was pale"
He was pale
He was pale
And his eyes appeared 10 he star
ing?"
Yes
That is all"
Edward H. Convey, foreman of labor
ers at Madison Square Garden. further
identified the pistol Brudi took from
Thaw. He was not cross examined.
MAN WHO ARRESTED THAW.
Policeman Al Debes, who arrested
Thaw, identified the pistol.
did you have any conversation with
Thaw?" asked Mr.. Caravan.
81 did. asked the prisoner II he had
shot Stanford White and he said j did.
then asked him why he shot him, and
he said Because he ruined my wife-or
life
lyon could not distinguish whether
he said wife or lifef'
mo"
The defense did not cross examine.
WOUNDS DESCRIBED.
Coroncr's Physician leblanc. who
performed the autopsy on Whites
body. described the wounds made by
the bullets The hrst bullet. he said,
entered tho wight eye, passed down
ward and entering the brain; the sec
ond entered The right side of the up
per lip and the third was in the right
arm.
The witness Identified the various
bullets and yir. Gafyan asked that
they be formally received as evidence
The exhibits Were passed across Go the
table OF counsel for the defense.
'rhaw's eyes wandered about from
right 10 left, but not even neeting
glance was thrown in the direction
where the deadly bullets were being
left by Mr.. Delmas.
I'm your opinion, doctor. what
caused the death of Stanford White?p
asked Mr. Caravan.
The death was due to cerebral
hemorrhages, the result of the piss
tol shot wounds / have described"
There was no cross examination
DR.. Sylvester Pechner, who was
with party upon the roof garden the
night OF the tragedy, testified that he
examined White soon after he fell and
pronounced him dead. He was not
cross examined
Policeman Debes was recalled and
asked by Mr.. Garvan:
"Did YOU hear any remark credited
TO the defendants wife that night?"
Yes
What did shit say?"
Harry, why did you do it, and
ne replica, IL VIII DE all right.
"The people rest their case" an
nounced Mr.. Galyan
IL was 12;4j %. m. and Justice Fitz-
gerald ordered "A recess until D. M,
Mr Gleason announcing that he
would open for the defense
Atty Gleason began his address TO
the Thaw jury AT 2;O5, saying the de-
Tense would be based upon "the con-
stitution and the law of the imperial
state OF New York"
Gleason said that Thaw was suffering
from insanity, hereditary Ia nature,
when he shot White. Mr.. Gleason de-
clared that Thaw believed he was act
ing upon the word OF Providence when
he killed Stanford White that he acted
without malice and did not know the
nature or quality OF his act,
Gleason concluded at $3.50 b. m and
court adjourned until tomorrow morn
ing.
EVELYN's EXPERIENCE.
Gleason asserted that Evelyn Nes-
bit Thaw when first asked by Harry X.
Thaw 10 be his wife refused because
OF an experience In her life connected
With Stanford Wlifa-p