The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-18
AN ACT OF PROVIDENCE.

He took his assistant, DIR. c. c. Bell
ing. along to take notes of the thirt
clans and counsel on that occasion
That ended the note taking" said
the witness.
7 may omit essential details. but
memory
Here Mr.. Jerome again objected
This witness he declared. says he
may omit essential facts
what can he do?" replied Justice
Fitzgerald. but give his best memory
That is all that is required by the rules
of evidence
The objection was overruIed and DR.
his first visit to Thaw on August 4, last
II took 4 letter of Identification to
Mr.. Thaw from Mr.. Hartridge, and
was finally conducted to his cell He
gave me his hand and looked at me
with 4 staring and twitching of the
eyes. With a nervousness such as we
seldom see. and in an agitated manner,
he asked me TO have a seat beside him
on his cot He looked at me a long
time and then said:
Acted Like Crazy Man.
You have different eyes from DR..
Hamilton Your eyes look as if you
were a sane man. His eyes suggested
insanity 1 asked him how he was.
saying I had been sent by Mr. Hart
ridge to talk matters over He said it
-
ridge and in response to my question
as TO how he felt. he said. oh I'm all
right
The words were nervously uttered,
and were piled together. Then he
continued. Lew Delafeld. lawyer,
and the Arm of Black. Olcott. Gruber
& Bonynge are in a conspiracy with
Jerome so as TO close this matter up
and railroad me off to an asylum. They
want to have me declared insane 1t
f- al v-nr
don't want me to come to a trial where
may be vindicated and where 1 can
tell the court and the jury all there is
in this matter
Dr. Evans said the arrival of the
prisoners wire and mother inter-
rupted the interview
He offered TO withdraw, but Thaw
told him to remain, and after kissing
his wife and mother and introducing
the physician. he asked them to ex-
cuse him until he had finished with his
caller
He then told me- continued Dr..
Evans, 'of Stanford White and at
great length spoke of the alleged
wrongs the man had done TO innocent
and pure minded girls
He never referred to himself and
did not seem to feel in any danger
from his position as prisoner
charged with murder He declared
that White had drugged. poisoned and
men who had not been inclined TO
crime-women whose minds as well as
wei as bodies had been pure He de-
clared il to be the scheme of his own
lawyers and everybody else to have
all these matters shut away from the
public"
Second Visit TO Thaw.
sDr. Evans next described his second
visit on August q. last.
Thaw came into the examination
soE IT,
board box in his arms. 1t was filled
with papers He was nervous and
and looked at both myself
and Dr. Wagner with the peculiar
stare He had an air Of self inpor-
lance as If he was telling us what to
10, instead of undergoing an examfns-
lon hlmself- He said he felt all right
and slept very well. He then proceed
ed 10 tell US the same story of perse-
cutlon he had related to me on the
occasion Of my first visit
He referred constantly TO This man
THIS creature this dead man. this beasr.
the blackguard,' and said the man had
sought TO take the virtue of every pure
lhinded woman who came within the
sphere of his observation
I tried to save Them Mr.. Tbaw
said to US, and added, 7 did all in NV
power l never wanted to shoot the
creature l never wanted to kill him.
knew he was foul creature. DESTROY
ng all the mothers and daughters in
but 1 wanted through legal
means TO bring him to trial. I wanted
to get him into court SO he would he
brought to Justice
I then asked him under such cir
sumstances he had shot Mr. White.
Providence Directed the Shot.
Providence took charge of it, h
epied; this was an act Of Providence.
: or my part, | would rather have had
linn suffer in court the humiliation the
'eVelation OF his acts would have
,aused'
Did he tell you what he had done. if
anything. to bring Stanford White into
,ourt? ?" asked Mr. Delmas
He said he had gone TO see Anthony
-oTnstock. District Attorney Jerome
md a private detective agency. He said
Mr. Jerome had told him he had better
ct the matter drop; that there was
nothing to it; the detective told him
hey would take the matter UP but they
lad not submitted proper report. AS
o Mr. Ccmstock, he said, he discovered
hat Delaney NicolI, the attorney, was
lcting as legal adviser both to Stanford
White and to Comstock- He regarded
his as another link in the conspiracy
against him
Il asked him why he had carried a
pistol and he said Roger O'Mara, an in
dependent detective in Pittsburg, had
advised him 10 do so after he had told
)'Mara that on several occasions thugs I
lad jostled him in an attempt to get |
lin into a quarrel and street brawl- He !
aid these thugs We're the hired agents |
# Stanford White. who did not want |
o take the responsibility and danger Of |
making a personal attack He said I
White had hired the Monk-Eastraen /,
rang to get him into a quarrel, and then !
peat or kick him to DEATH
The witness next went into a de-
of his third visit TO Thaw on |
1s- He was accompanied /
" DIR. Wagner and Mr.. Hartridge.
-haw came into the room again, car
ying the pasteboard box full of pa
lers- Thaw said the papers had TO be |
ooked after at once. He then turned !
bruptly about and left the room. say /
ng: