The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1907-03-14
THE THAW TRIAL
Only Rebuttal Evidence Now Re-
mains to be Heard in the Gel
ebrated Case.
ELDER MRS. THAW ON STAND
Ten Witnesses Called in Rebuttal
. Were Permitted Only to Testify
That Thaw Seemed Sane On
Night of Tragedy.

matte chapter was added to the his
tory of the trial of Harry X. Thaw fo
the murder of Stanford White Wed
nesday when the defendants mother
took the witness stand to contribute
what she might toward saving her
son from the electric chair. Mrs
'Thaw's stay before the jury was brief
When Mr.. Delmas had definitely linn.
tied her examination to the change
she had noted in her sons condition
following his return from Paris In
1903 after Evelyn Nesbit had told him
her life story, and when District At.
torney Jerome had with great consid.
GRAFTON conducted short and ineffec-
tual cross examination, the mother
love welled strong in Mrs. Thaw and
she felt she had not done her all She
was loath to leave the witness chair.
Twice during her recital, Mrs Thaw
broke down and was unable to pro.
coed.
She said that when Harry came
home in 1903 he seemed depressed
and apparently had lost all interest
in life. He passed sleepless nights,
would often leave the table at meals
and go into the parlor to play upon
the piano, the music growing softer
and softer until it finally died away.
HE told me a wicked man-prob.
ably the wickedest man in all New
York-had ruined his life"
1t was not until some time after he
had offered this explanation of the
change in him that she learned the
story of the young woman who was
to become her daughter-in-law.
, Mrs. Thaw told of her son breaking
down in a Pittsburg church and ex-
planning that it was all because of
the sorrow which prevented the young
woman he loved being at his side.
Mrs. Thaw told of coming to New
York to meet Evelyn Nesbit and of
giving her consent to her sons mar
riage-the one condition being that
the girls past life in New York should
be closed book, never to be referred
to in any way Then came the story
of the marriage in Pittsburg in April
1905, the honeymoon trip and the
happy, placid summer spent at the
mothers country home.
At the end of Mrs. Thaw's exami
nation court adjourned over until Fri
day morning, a death in Justice Fitz.
gerald's family causing an abandon
ment of the Thursday sitting.
II Harry Thaw's fate is thrown in
to the hands Of the twelve men in the
jury box who Wednesday hea.l the
mothers story, there seems little
doubt that what she said will carry
wonderful weight. But Mr.. Jerome
COVE the impression that he might
use the mothers testimony as a
weapon in another direction-in his
fight to have a commission appointed
to test the present state of mind of
the defendant
Harry Thaw during his mothers
stay upon the stand seemed unusually
pale and extremely nervous.
Mrs. Thaw's story was deeply i'm
pressiye in its simplicity and brevity
New York, March 9.-The defense
in the Thaw case rested Friday imme. |
diately after the converting of court
and an adjournment was ordered un.
til Monday morning. District Attor-
ney Jerome said that while he had
been informally notified Thursday of
the changed plans of the defense he
had come to court expecting to be
confronted by additional expert testi.
mony. His witnesses were not ready,
he added 1t was upon this represen-
tatlon and with the consent of the
defense that the adjournment was
taken
The court proceedings occupied less
than five minutes and Mr. Jerome
returned at once to his office to pre-.
pare his rebuttal testimony. Almost
his first move was to subpoena Mrs.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw to produce In
court any letters she may have writ
ten by4Stanford White.
The district attorney also had May