Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-15
PROVING LEGAL INSAN :
|TYF0R HARRY THAW.
Physicians, Instructor and Nurse Tell
Of Boyhood Eccentricities- Jerome
Partially Blocks the Evidence.

pared when Horace ThaW was admit
ted to the asylum on the ground that
they were heresay. Mr.. Littleton took
an exception to both rulings
DR. Littleburg S. Foster Of Norfolk,
Va, formerly of the Eastern State
Hospital for the Insane at Williams
other cousin of the defendant was con-
fined, next was called to the stand
DR.. Foster was asked to identify the
records Of the asylum as to the admit
lance of William S. Thaw and did so.
When the record was offered in evil
dence Mr.. Jerome objected on the
ground that it was not competent tes-
timony and was sustained.
Mr.. Littleton here recalled DR.. Demar
and succeeded in circumventing the
former objections of the district attor-
ney as to John Ross. DR.. Demar said
he ceased to be Ross physician after
the latter was committed to the insti-
tuition for feeble minded where he is
still g patient. He was allowed to tell
OF Ross, mental condition and declared
it unsound, the symptoms being manila
cal
Charles koehler OF Wincna. Mimi, {,
teacher at Wooster University. Woo
ster, Chic. in 1885, when Harry Thaw
was q student there, took the stand
and was asked to tell his impressions
of ThaW as boy of 16 or II years of
age.
Harry Tlaw always had a nervous
gait and walked jerkily," he said. His
eyes were striking, his complexion
f1,no iD
was distracted and Indifferent. His
eyes usually had fixed staring gaze
Mr. koehler said he set down many
of Thaw's eccentrictes in a diary,
which was destroyed ten years ago.
Thaw's mind always worked slowly and
ne had great difficulty in following any
demonstration-his manner was IRA
tional.
Cross-eXamined by Mr.. Jerome, Mr..
Koehler said zoo boys came under his
care at Wooster and since that time us
teacher he had been thrown in con-
tact with 1900 boys or more. The wit
ness insisted, however, that the mem
Org Of Thaw-a pale faced, twitching
lad, stood out above the others. When
Jerome asked if the witness had car
ried Thaw along in his mind as "a
horrible example, Mr.. Littleton OBJ
jected ard was sustained by the court
koehler said he had often used
Thaw's case as IN Illustration.
He was asked to whom.
ITO a boy named Bingham" began
the witness.
What Bingham" demanded Jerome
1.-The police commissioner"
Thaw himself Joined in the general
laughter but looked annoyed when the
| witness said he had used the defendant
as the example. as the son of a rich
man.
At the conclusion of Koehler's testi-
mony. the luncheon recess was taken
Dr. Robert Fl. Chase. superintendent OF
| the Friends Asylum for the Insane al
Frankfort, near Philadelphia. where Har-
riet Alice Thaw. a paternal aunt OF the
| accused. is confined. was the first wit
ness at the afternoon session. He said
| he knew Miss Thaw and had examined
condition. Invoking again the confi,len-
tiaI relationship of physician and pa
tent District Attorney Jerome prevented
the witness from saying what the mental
condition was
| Mrs Amy Gozette, the trained nurse
who attended Harry Thaw at Monte Car
| 10 in 1897, followed DR.. Chase on the
stand Mrs. Gozette is an English wo
man by birth but now is resident OF
California.
Continued on Page Twelve.)