Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-05

| girl should De .~AcA tV A4urOpe Tor the | operation. MT. Thaw as her accepted lover went with her.
 He took her to call upon his own sister, the Countess of Yarmouth.
 Tn May, 1908, Harry Thaw proposed to Miss Nesbit. She refused him for | reasons which she herself will tell From that moment an idea took pos. session of Harry Thaw's mind with regard to Stanford White which in the lapse of time led him to believe il would be entirely proper and an act of Providence to kill Stanford White. do not intend to tell you here what Evelyn Thaw told her sweetheart when she first gave to him her reasons for refusing to marry him. She her. self will take the stand and tell you what it was, and you shall judge fof yourself.
 l We will show you that the things l which Harry Thaw first heard from Evelyn Nesbit's lips led him to write many letters and notes to the Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil' dren-letters that will convince you of the deranged condition of his mind. eve will show you that Harry Thew did not abandon his purpose of marry ing Evelyn Nesbit, but that he finally got her consent and did marry her We will show you that he had carried l revolver from June, 1904. We will show further that on the night of June 25 last he wore an overcoat upon the roof of Madison Square Garden not for the purpose of hiding his weapon but because his physician had advised him to do so.
 | I've will convince you finally that when he saw Stanford White his mind | in its diseased state so operated that he felt it to be an act of Gods providence to kill him and that he walked directly to Stanford Whites side as a man might walk to meet friend and then and there shot him to death" Mir. Garvan, in opening the case fol i the state and telling the story of the killing of White, occupied less than ff' teen minutes, and the prosecutions en- tire case was kept within two hours. With the exception of young White and the coroner's physician who per. formed the autopsy and described the wounds on Whites body, the only per. sons called to the stand by the state were five eyewitnesses. They were cross examined briefly by Attorney Dolphin Delmas of the defense, who thus appeared actively in the proceed ings for the first time.
 The witnesses told nothing that has not been known to the reading public ever since the night of the tragedy They related the deliberate manner in which Thaw approached White, faced him and fired. They repeated Thaw's assertion, "He ruined my wife" and Mrs. Thaw's remark to her husband "Yes, but look what a fix you are in now" To this last remark Thaw re- piled, "Dearie, have probably saved your life."
 It was brought out that Thaw look. ed back at his victim as he walked i away with staring look in his eyes. T
 Mir. Garvan's outline of the states testimony was the briefest possible story of the crime. He told of Stan. ford White dining at the Cafe Martin with his son and schoolmate of the latter the evening of the tragedy. He related how White went to the roof garden on Madison Square Garden to see the initial production of sum. mer musical comedy called "Mamzelle Champagne" and then related in sim. ply unembellished language the incl. dent of the killing.
 "The people claim," he concluded "that it was cruel, deliberate. mali. cious, premeditated taking of human life. After proving that fact to you we will ask you to find the defendant guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree"
 It was not until after Mir. Garvan had spoken that the prisoners wife and mother were barred from the room under the rule of excluding wit nesses.