Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-05
The Impression is That Not Half
OF it Has Yet Been Made
Known Publicly.
IT WILL BE OF HER WRONGS.
Thaw Himself Depends Upon His Wife
To Turn the Tide From
Him.

the trial of Harry X. Thaw begins to-
Gay TO forge the links IN the chain of
circumstances which II Is alleged dis
ordered his brain and led to the mental
explosion which claimed Stanford
White as its victim. The evidence
promised TO be introduced to bear out
the claims SGT forth in the opening adj
dress of Thaws attorney. j. B. Glea-
son, TO the jury yesterday afternoon,
has lent great human interest to tho
trial' and there is an impression that
Evelyn Thaw will tell a story the half
or which has not yet been publicly
known.
THAW DEPENDS ON HIS WIFE.
IL is apparent that the defendant de-
pends upon his frail little wife to turn
me tide for him. IT will be her wrongs
II there were any. which Is to impress
the jury 'rhaw believes he will show
that any man placed IN the circum-
stances where he found himself must
nave lost his mental balance, and acted
as he did Upon the effect of her sto-
ny, barring the whole of her past life,
the prisoners fate, In large measure,
rests, though the picture of his white
haired, elderly mother taking the Wit
ness stand to save him from felon's
death. is expected to have weight with
the jury. only man with a venerable
mother can appreciate.
THAW's INSANITY.
1t was claimed by Mr.. Gleason yes
terday afternoon that Thaws insanity
began 10 be apparent some three or
four years ago. He met Evelyn Nes-
bit in 1901, so it is to be Inferred that
his mental disorders had their begin
ming subsequent TO the meeting of the
two young people and the attachment
Thaw formed for the girl. i'm this way
the defense hopes to build up the theo-
ry that Thaw lost mental polse
through worry over the wrongs he felt
his Wife had suffered at the hands OF
another. The attempt VIII be made
To prove that Thaw's insanity was due
To heredity as well as stress. so seri-
Gus was his disease that he believed
that he was called upon by Providence
to commit an act which In man Of
sound mind might be termed murder.
rhaw's counsel having resisted the
| attempt of Dise.-Arty. Jerome yester-
| day afternoon to have the defense dis
| close its list of early witnesses. in or
Ger that the prosecution might be ready
for the cross examination of such as II
intended TO submit to that ordeal. re-
fused this morning TO indicate the or
der IN which they viii introduce the
testimony necessary 10 build the struc-
ture by which they hope to free Thaw
OF criminal guilt.
MOTHER WILL TESTIFY.
Mrs william Thaw and Evelyn Nes-
bit Thaw are both expected TO be early
witnesses. 1t has been reported several
times from Pittsburg that the elder
Mrs Thaw has been urged by persons
of influence not 10 allow the plea OF
hereditary insanity TO be entered in be-
half of her maynard son The disre-
gard this woman. whose social ambl-
tons once knew no hounds. and whose
daughter is the wife of an English earl
now feels for all the things that once
seemed sacred and dear, when they
stand in the way of the life aud liberty
of the son on whom she has lavished
fortune after fortune, Ia Illustrated by
the fact that not only did she consent
TO the plea OF insanity through heredlty
but will actually take the stand to Of
fer whatever testimony is within her
power to help make this defense OF IN
sanity a tangible thing. Those who
have followed the case since the trial
began have shown the greatest respect
for the heartbrokon, -burdened
mother, and they frankly express SYM
pathy with her over the odeal OF the
witness chair. II viii be a mothers
love for her son, and Mrs Thaw Is
willing TO make any sacrifice that lies
within her power to be enabled to
make this appeal to the T. men who
hold the fate of her boy in their hands.
EVELYN GROWS PALER.
Little Evelyn Thaw has been grow
ing paler day by day as the time APP
proaches for her TO take the witness
stand. She will be at the mercy of
determined prosecutor who realizes the
weight OF the story she VIII tell the
Jury and he win leave nothing undone
TO upset It. Young Mra. Thaw's life
will be as an open book TO Dist. Atty.
Jerome when he takes her In hand, and
begins 10 ply her with questions. His
detectives have traced her life from
early girlhood. She is now but 70 years
of age but has lived the life Of thrice
those years.
she win tell you with her own lips
the reason why she declined TO marry
Harry Thaw when he first asked Ter
10 become his wife" Atty. Gleason has
promised the ThaW jury,
suffice IL to say that the reason had
10 do with an experience In her life as
ISOLATED with STANFORD White
CRUCIAL FEATURE OF DEFENSE.
II Is this part of the story which VIII
be the crucial feature of the defense
What young Mrs. Thaw has TO tell the
world when she takes the witness chair,
she has told no one but her husband
and his lawyers. They alone know the
story which Is TO be unfolded 20 the
Jury as the WEES share IN the plea for
his life.
The promised Interest OF today's pro-
ceedings resulted I'M great pressure be-
ing brought to bear on The court Off
GERS for the privilege of entering the
courtroom hui Justice Fitzgerald. who
IA presiding at the trial has determined
10 adhere to his rule Of excluding the
public. The witnesses have also been
cNcuded by order OF the court. MIS-
Thaw and the prisoners wife had 10
go with the others.
MARY S. ANTHONY DEAD.