Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-05

 FRANCIS P. CARAVAN.
 Gleason, in addressing the court, in- timated that she would take the stand and tell all about 1t.
 This was one of series of sur prises. The crowning sensation was reached when Mir. Gleason said:
 We will appeal to no higher law" he said, after he had paid the jurors the customary compliment. We will not ask you to give our client back his freedom on any law except the law of the state of New York.
 We will prove that Harry Thaw was insane when he killed Stanford White; we will prove that he was not accountable for his actions, that he be- lieved the death of Stanford White to be an act of Providence and that he believed himself to be an agent of Providence. I frankly state to you now that insanity is our defense.
 "We will show that his perverted mental condition existed for two years, and we will show its origin in hered- itary insanity.
 Nevertheless we will show to you that despite his insanity this defend ant had provocation and that he did what any one of you would have done under similar conditions.
 "It is story that throbs with pas sion and sinks deep into sorrow and suffering as 1t progresses.
 "We will demonstrate to you by sworn witnesses that Harry Tbaw was subject to such persecution and such wrong as would prompt any sane man to the course which our client pursued.
 But he was not sane. What he sui fered and what he endured overthrow his reason. and he committed an act without being responsible for it, al- though having ample provocation. It was an act justifiable in itself, yet nevertheless performed by man who had no control over himself or his acts at the time.
 "We will show you that insanity and epilepsy existed in this mans family for many years. We intend to prove that hereditary impulses so operated in his mind as to overthrow his reason in the hour of his stress after he had been the victim of constant mistreat- ment which continued for weeks and months and years"
 1shou- 1tEn xraadan man hfa arms folded. his head down like the head of a sullen bull preparing to charge. his gaze fixed rigidiy on the table in front of him. his skin on his cheeks hanging in heavy folds. Occa- sionally he covered his flushed. sullen face with his hands. His blinking eye ids 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 Inquisition fin which a drop of water fell at regular intervals | uIBU Nut NlClllu urdu uuNh rtcfVfcss- ness and pain drove him mad.
 Up to this time he had dealt with rhsw's alleged wrong only in the Droadest and most general terms.
 "we will show said the dignified Mfr. Gleason. "that Harry Thsw 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 a psycopathic temperament. He was nnduIy nervous as a child. and from babybood up he would awaken nerv- ,usly.-
 Now Gleason had come to the rsD | crux or his case. For the first ttms Harry Th1w's wife was mentioned by name
 "in IglI this defendant met Evelyr Nesbit.- said Gleason ~He loved hei with as honorable . love as any mss ever entertained. He went to her moth CT and told the mother of his love Hs became her open and accepted suiior she vas in need of an operatiou- and i vas decided by the mother that ths