Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-19
THAW'S STORY TOLD.
"Slaying of Stanford White
 an Act of Providence"
DR. EVANS TELLS OF HIS RAyISCS
Accused Held He Was Victim of Je- rome Conspiracy-ExDert Says He Was Crazy When Married
 and win Was Made.

rome Conspiracy-ExDert Says He Was Crazy When Married and win Was Made. NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-For the firs
 time since the fateful tragedy on tn, Madison Square roof garden, whel
 Stanford White was shot and killed Harry Thaw's own story was told ir
 court. It is remarkable narrative and as 1t was unfolded by Dr. Evans on the witness stand in the criminal branch of the supreme court it created almost as much surprise as the story told by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. and il was listened to with breathless inter. est.
 Thaw's will and codicil were admit ted in evidence at the session of court after Dr. Evans had testified that Thaw was of unsound mind at the time they were executed.
 Thaw's will was made at the time of his marriage to Evelyn Nesbit in Pittsburg.
 The codicil was read first. It pro- vided that the sum of $7,5O0 should be set aside to be used in the prosecution of Stanford White and another man who, Thaw wrote, through an elderly woman, lured young girl to house and then ruined her.
 Thaw also referred in the codicil to other cases for which he said White might be prosecuted There were four of these cases mentioned.
 No names were read in court except Whites.
 Thaw also willed $2,5O0 to each of these persons: Anthony ,Comstock, Dr. Parkhurst Frederick Longfellow, his lawyer, and Pittsburg lawyer. This money was to be used for the prosecu- ton of Stanford White.
 In the will, which Mir. Delmas read, Thaw set aside $5.000 for his wife in lieu of dover. He also gave $50.O00 in trust for his wife and provided for an income of $500 year for her brother, Howard ,Nesbit.
 The last clause of the will left the residue to his wife in trust and guaran- teed an income of $12.OO0 year if she remained unmarried and $4O00 a year if she remarried.
 Lawyer Delmas succeeded in over coming District Attorney Jerome's ob- jection to admitting as evidence the conversations held between the pris- oner and Dr. Evans on the occasion of the visits of the doctor to study him in the Tombs shortly after the mur. der.
 Dr. Evans told how Thaw insisted that he was the victim of conspiracy between his lawyers at that time and the district attorney, who, he said, wanted to railroad him to a lunatic asylum to save the name of Stanford White.
 '"rhe prisoner told me-" said the doc tor, ''how he had sought the aid of An thony Comstock to prevent Whites further interference with young girls, how he had laid the matter before the district attorney and how he had hired detectives. who learned enough to es- tablish the character of White, but failed to get enough evidence to secure a conviction in court.
 He told me he did not intend to kill White. He sought to degrade and expose him in court, but Providence in- 
 "Thaw said that Roger O'Mara. the Pittsburg detective, had told him to carry . revolver, because he was be- Ing tracked by emissaries who he be- lIeved were in the pay of White and that he knew Monk Eastman's gang had been hired to kill or maim him."
 When the doctors surprising testi- mony was concluded he summed up by saying that some of the statements of the prisoner were clearly insane de- lusions. Dr. Charles c. Wagner, another of | the experts for the defense. was then called to testify along the same lines. The jurors entered just after Justice arrived. Mir. Bolton. whose wife died last Thursday. had his old the eleventh in the line of he box. He looked little older and ] little grayer-fhat was all. He had old the justice he was ready to go on with the duties of juror.
 Dr. Evans was the first witness. He aid:
 My first call was made on Aug. {. I vent mp 10 his cell in the Tombs. ac. by Mir. Hartridge. and was introduced to Thaw. He asked me to ome into his cell and made room for ne to sit down on his bunk. His eyes were wide open and staring. showing much of tine whites. He was very lervous. shaking his head and shifting lis gaze constantly.
 As he sst down alongside me he aid to me: You have good sane eyes. ihey are not like .Dr. haUiiltcn's eyes. think pr. Hamilton has crazy eyes did not discuss this proposition with Jim.
 'I asked him how he felt. Thaw aid: I am the victim of a foul con. piracy. Lewis Delafield and the firm f Black. Olcott. Gruber & Bonynge re in a plot with Jerome to railroad ne to an asylum without giving me rial or permitting me to tell the judge nd jury the true inwardness of this flair. I am not insane. IL is sll rot to ay I am insane. They are prosecuting
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