The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-03-08

X,
matte chapter was added to the his
noTY Of the trial of Harry K. Thaw
Ser the murder of Stanford White
today, waen the mother Of the defend
aait took the witness stand to cOntri-
butte wsast she might toward saving
aer con 1: OR the death chamber which
Aae1Iaoces aim Mrs. Thaw's stay before
tie jury vas brief. When Mr.. Del
mas had Ceftly limited her eXamin&-
tiCu 10 he change she had npteG IN
her sons condition following his re
turn frorn Paris in 1908, after Nevelya
NCstit flaC: told him her life stCry
and when District Attorney jerome
had with great consideration, con idct-
ed a short and ineffectuat cross C.laml-
nation the mothr love welled strong
IN Mrs llaw and she felt she had not
done her al. She was lOath to leave
The N1tuesS chair
There is the question Of heredjty,
she Iuctta,ed when both Mr.. Delmas
ana Nj. Jerome told her she Dign.
step down.
y have asked yoH, madam, all thai
is considered necessary said ThaW's
attorney, with the utmost Difference.
Mis- Ttaw half rose, hesitated and
vas about TO sit down again When
tn. lea1.ng counsel for the defense
smsre: hcc his hand to assist her from
the stand.
Twice during the recital OF The
events which. had CAUSED her % fear
that all was not right with he son,
Mrs, Thaw broke down and was un-
auie to proceed. Her face flushed and
she made all effort to speak, out the
Wesds would not come. After 4 few
rtments Justice Fitzgerald asked So
hoitouay il she felt able to proceed
and Mrs. Thaw, evidently much cha
ga>ae5 that her great grief had over
eenne her strong will Of resistance,
nodded i'm the affirmative. She declln-
ed q glass of water, made an effort
suoe more to proceed but failed.
Justive Fitzgerald then interposed
a relief for which the elderly woman
tauing him must have been ceeplJ
grateful He said that as many Of the
witnesses remarks had been uttered
in q very low voice it would be nec2s-
sary to have the stenOgrapher read all
her testimony up to that time to the
jary. When the reading was ended
Mrs. Thaw had regained her COM
PosuTe and was able to proceed to the
eud of her narrative.
She said that when Harry came
home in 1903 he seemed depressed
and apparently had lost all interest
ia 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.
She told it in a motherly way of her
solicitude for the boy.
HE told me a wicked man, proba-
bly, the wickedest in all New York
had ruined his life
IT was not until some time after he
had offered this explanation CT the
change in him that she learned the
story Of the young woman who was to
baoome her daughter-in-laW. Mrs.
Thay told Of her son breaking down
at church in Pittsburg and afte1war1
explaining 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
10 meet Evelyn Nesbit and Of g:Vins
past life In New York should be a
her consent to her sons marriage
ahe one condition being that the girls
dosed book, never to be referred to
i'm any way.
Mr.. Delmas ended her testimony
abruptly. The district attorney was
sakea by surprise and began TO cross
examine Mrs. Thaw in a ver! low
vciee. He asked the conditions Sur
rounding the increase in her sons a.
Aowanceb but Mn. Delmas objectea.
Me asked what the sons income
ane@Atet to- Mrs Thaw said 1t wHss