The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-05
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eyes on the table by him, and did no
once look at the witness. Youn
White said he is 10 years old and
student His mother, he said, resides
ut Cambridge, Mass. White was or
the stand but few minutes. He tolt
of accor- nanying his father to tn
Cafe Martin for dinner, and said tina
when he left him to go with his chum
q boy FAMED King. TO the New York
roof garden. it .sa5 the last time he
saw rs fatner alive Thaw's attorney
did not desire to examine the
witness and he was allowed to leave
the stand.
The second witness was WarneI
Paxton, engineer of Madison Squars
Garden, eye witness of the shootin
and arrest of Thaw. He said when
reached Thaw's side he was detaine
by a fireman, employe of the gardes
who asked him TO hold Thaw Will
they searched for policeman. The
were in front of an elevator and THAI
Baid to him: I'VE have got to
down in the elevator. Why can't w
go now" Paxton said he replied tina
It was a good idea and they started
down. We went into the elevator,
witness continued, and Thaw admitte
that he did II, saying, RE ruined m
wife" woman witness thought wa
Thaw's wife replied, But look at tn
fix you are in now" and Thaw replied
10 her: We'll Dearie, have probablv
"a
floor Thaw requested some one to tel
ephone to George Carnegie, his broth
er-in-law. that he was in trouble. The
witness identified a plan of the roof
garden and pointed out the position of
the actors in the tragedy. He was not
cross-examined.
Other witnesses examined for the
state were Meyer Cohen, who saw the
tragedy; Henry s. Plaese, owner O.
the stage production at the garden.
who was with Cohen; Paul Brudi, fire
man, who took the revolver from
Thaw: Edward II. Convey, garden
employee A. l.. Debes, the policeman.
who arrested Thaw; DR.. Leblanc, cor
oners physician who conducted the
autopsy on Whites body; DIR. Pechner,
who examined White after the shoot
ing and pronounced him dead, and Pc
liceman Debes, recalled. after which
the prosecution rested. 1t was 12:45
O'Clock and recess was taken till
o'clock p. m.
Immediately after the recess. John
II. Gleason of counsel for Thaw made
the opening statement for the defense.
Mr.. Gleason began his address by
saving the defense will be based on
"tro constitution and the law of the
In al state or New York. and said
Thaw was suffering from insanity.
hereditary in nature. when he shot
White He declared that Thaw be-
lieved he was acting on the word OF
providence WREN he killed White; that
he acted without malice. and did not
krcw 80 $500 ~r quality of his act
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw is to go upon
the witness stand. A declaration to
this effect was the most sensational
portion Ct ~. Gleason's address to the
jury. o. point Mr.. Gleason said:
This dant met Evelyn Nesbit
r 1870 loved her as honorably
ed woman who is his wife He
81 - her mother in March, 1902, and
told her he wanted to marry her
laughter.
About that time, however, Evelyn
Nesbit underwent a severe operation
which confined her in sanitarium I'M
i'll the following spring. In June,
1908, this young man again asked this
roung woman to be his wife. She re-
fused. Now, gentlemen, what the
were behind that refus-
II you will learn from her own lins.
will not take time to go into details.
rhe reasons why she did not wish to
marry him she will tell you with her
)wn lips"
Mr. Gleason declared that the de-
tense rested entirely upon the consti-
-ution and laws of the state of New
York. To these the defendants
counsel made confident appeal.
Upon these laws" he said, 1--WE on
v rely, and we dismiss entirely from
Iur thoughts, and ask you to dismiss
entirely from your contemplation, that
his defendant or his lawyers claim
he protection of any other law or
higher law than those of the state
After paying the usual tribute to the
ury. Thaw's advocate took up the
character of the testimony TO be intro
luced He referred to self defense,
nut emphasized the proposed proof of
insanity as the means of clearing
Thaw. He said in part
We will rely upon all defenses
which we may be able to prove under
,ur plea of not guilty; upon all cir
tending to show that the
defendant acted without malice and