The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-05

1 AdA DeeN previously LtSuEtu.
Paul Brudi. the fireman who held Thaw.
was next on the stand. He was about
twenty feet from White. and saw Thaw
/ He came up to the table where White
was sitting and then the first shot was
! fred"
Did you see it nred?"
! Yes"
How many shots were fired?"
Il recOllect two
(which way was Mr.. White sittiGg?"
Il could not see him very we'll
And which way was ThaW standing?"
/ Facing toward Madison avenue"
After the shots were fred, what did
you dor
Went up and grabbed Thaw and took
/ him to the elevator"
did he say anything?"
ale Ruined My Wife," He Said.
Yes. he said He ruined my wife "
did he say anything else?'
Not that I know Of"
! On cross-examinatics Mr.. Delmas
/ brought out that Brudi had been to the
rear and right of White when the shots
were fired.
Describe what you did after the first
shot"
/ Il went up behind him slowly, so as not
to start a panic. and grabbed his right
hand, which held the pistol up in the air.
4 He gave IL to me without any trouble and
looked at me over his shoulder with a
/ staring eye. He ruined my wife, he said.
I led him TO the elevator"
Describe Thaws condition, as you re-
member it."
He looked like a man scared"
Il don't want that. Was his face pale
or red?"
! 1t was very pale and his eyes staring.
/ Edward H. Convey the roof manager
Of the garden. was called to identify the
/ revolver which he had given to Policeman
| Debs. II was black, short bulldog affair.
and exhibited with IL were six cartridges,
/ three of which had been fired
/ After him came Anthony Debs, the pO-
/ liceman who arrested Thaw. He met him,
/ ne said. AT the bottom Of the elevator, and
I put him under arrest.
/ did he say anything 10 your"
Yes. I said, Did YOU kill Stanford
/ White. and he said, did I asked him
why, and he said Because ne ruined my
wife, or life, / cOuldnt catch which. He
asked me where we We're going and 1 said
/ To the station house
He said All right that was all"
Debs was not cross-eXamined.
COrOner's Physician Testides.
Coroners Physician Timothy Leblanc
who performed the autopsy on Stanford
Whites body. was the next witness
Did YOU find any pistol-shot wounds?'
Yes"
What were they"
The physician described them at great
length and in complicated terms. He tes-
ufed that one bullet had entered beside
the left eye and had entered the brain
another had entered the right side Of the
/ face near the cheekbone. and the third
had entered and passed through the right
arm.
The bullets We're produced and placed
I'm evidence. Mr.. Delmas took them out
Of their envelopes and put them on the
table They were fiattened into an irregu-
lar shape and looked rusty.
And from this examination did you find
the cause Of Mr.. Stanford Whites death?"
continued Mr.. Garvan.
Yes from cerebral hemorrhage. caused
by the pistol wounds which / have de-
scribed'
Mr. Dalmas did not cr0sS-eNamine and
DIT Sylvester Bechuer, who was with
Cohen at Madison Square Garden on
June p. was called. He had not seen the
shooting, but had heard the shots. and
corrObOrated the statements Of the other
witnesses that Thaw had his revolver
high above his head in his right hand
Did you see Mr.. White fall?"
Yes; I went 10 him"
WAS he dead?'
YES"
DIR. BechHer CrOSS-exRmincd.
On cross-examination Mr.. Delmas asked:
In what position were you and your
party in regard to Mr. White?'
He was to our right"
What did Mr.. Thaw do after the shots
were fred2"
He broke the pistol and held it up in
the air"
Broke it, you say"
Yes
officer Debs was recalled,
Did the defendants wife say anything
to him."
Yes; on the ground floor Of the garden
she said: Harry, why did you do ito and
he said; 1t will be all right
He was not crOss-examined, and left
the stand.
That closes the peoples case" said
Mr.. Garvan. The case against Harry
Thaw had taken just two hours 10 unfold
itself
It was then 12:45 o'clock. and the court
took a recess until ? p. m.
Thaws Lunch i'm Courtroom.
As usual the members of the Thaw
family had their lunch in the little room
next to the courtroom. Mrs. William
Thaw wasn't there, having gone home
soon after the witnesses were excluded
from the courtroom. There was no great
crowd fighting to get into the courtroom,
although it had become generally known
that the prosecution had closed its case
and the defense was ready to outline its
case.
Just before court reconvened Mrs.
Harry X. Thaw, all in blue, hurried
through the courtroom to see her hus-
band, who had been brought over from
the Tombs. She spoke to him for a sec
ond and waited in the room with the
other witnesses for the defense all the
afternoon.
The first report was that Lawyer Glea-
son would consume four hours in making
the opening speech. There We're prayers
that he wouldn't take that long, but it
was hoped that in addition to giving the
jury a lecture on insanity, and its various
causes, he intended 10 tell very clearly
just what the defense would be He made
good on the latter part, but when he got
going on insanity District Attorney Je-
rome, IN very gentle speech, said that
Mr.. Gleason was taking too much lati-
tude, and Justice Fitzgerald agreed with
Mr.. Jerome. The result was that mir
Gleason cut of good slice of that part
of his speech