Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-05
THAWS' WIFE
THE MAIN WITNESS
DEPENDED UPON.
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table in front of him. his skin on his
cheeks hanging in heavy folds. Occa-
sionally he covered his flushed. sulen
face with his hands. His blinking eye
lids danced an accompaniment to the
twitching muscles at the roots of his
hair along the temples.
Mr.. Gleason quoted Shakespeare.
Goethe, Stevenson and John HAY. He
said the action of his wrongs upon
Harry Thaw's brain had been like the
torture Of the mqQisition in which a
drop of water fell at regular intervals
upon the victims head until sleepless-
ness and pain drove him mad.
Up to this time he had dealt with
Thaw's alleged wrong only in the
broadcast and most general terms.
I'VE will show said the dignifed
Mr. Gleason. that Harry Thaw has an
uncle who is now in the asylum luna
tic, We will show that there is insan-
ity on both sides of his family Harry
Thaw was born, as we will show, with
q psycopathic temperament. He was
unduly nervous as a child, and from
babyhood up he would awaken nerv.
ously"
Now Gleason had come to the real
crrx of his case. For the first time
Harry Thaw's wife was mentioned by
name.
IN 1901 this defendant met Evelyn
Ncsbit," said Gleason. "He loved her
with rs honorable a love as any man
ever entertained. He went to her moth
er and told the mother of his love. He
4 became her open and accepted suitor.
She was in need of an operation, and it
was decided by the mother that the
girl should be taken to Europe for the
operation. Mr.. Thaw as her accepted
lover went with her.
HE took her to call upon his own
sister, the Countess of Yarmouth.
In May. 1903, 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 it
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 10 him her reasons
for refusing to marry him. SEe her
self will take the stand and tell you
what it was, and you shall judge for
yourself
I'VE will show you that the things
which Harry Thlw first heard from
Evelyn Nesbit's lips led him to write
many letters and notes to the Society
For the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren-letters that will convince you of
the deranged condition of his mind.
we will show you that Harry Thaw
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
a revolver from June, 1904. We will
show further that on the night of June
- last he wore an oyercoat 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.
"We will convince you finally that
when he saw Stanford White his mind
in its diseased state so operated that he
felt il to be an act of Gods providence
to kill him and that he walked directly
to Stanford Whites side as man
might walk to meet friend and then
and there shot him to DEATH
Mr. Garvan, in opening the case for
the state and telling the story of the
killing of White, occupied less than fif-
teen minutes, and the prosecutions en-
tire case was kept within two hours.
With the exception of young White
and the coroners physician who per-
formed the autopsy and described the
wounds on Whites body, the only per-
sons called to the stand by the state
We're 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 Il fix you are in
now" To this last remark Thaw re-
piled, ,"Dearie, have probably saved
your lifcr
1t was brought out that Thaw look
ed back at his victim as he walked
away '.with a staring look in his eyes,
Mr.. Caravans outline of the states
testimony was the bricfcst possible
story of the crime. He told of Stan
ford White dining at the Cafe Martin
with his son and a 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 unomlellished language the incl
dent of the killing.
The people claimr he concluded,
that il was 4 cruel. deliberatc. mali
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