The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-17
doNTGoMERY.- -ALABAMA FRIDAY JANUARY

ply from any other man twenty min utes before he took the life of fell low human boing7" asked District Att torney Jerome
 No" replied the witness.
 That's ai."
 Abraham R. Beck of Lancaster coun- ty. Pennsylvania. father of former As- slstant Attorney General James M. Beck. was called as the next witness. He said that Harry Thaw was one of the fifteen boys in his school in 1881 and 1882. The memory of the boy had always lived with him. said the wit ness.
 "The boy was excessively nervous" :" said Mr. Beck. and was very unsocial and sullen and abstracted. His eyes were most striking. One of the prin- Thaw were the startling outbursts of animal-like howls. These howls would stop as suddenly as the turning off of a fountain"
 Letter is Identified.
 MT. Beck identified a letter he had received from Mrs. William Thaw. the mother of Harry, about the boys con- duct at school. and he read it to the jury. The letter was dated October l5. 1881, and was in reply to a com municatlon from Beck complaining of Harry's conduct and speaking of the distress the letter caused the parent.
 Gan you not bear with him Q while longerf" the letter from Mrs. Thaw read.
 gro yield to his wishes now and to send him home. am afraid, might ruin him. I begin to fear that his conduct and his outburatg are not all the results of temper and rebellion, but that hts mind is unbalanced. Do you think there is any danger of thatf His uncle. who became weak minded, was subject, as boy. to just such out- bursts of temper. and have a horrt- bie feeling of dread. Won't you deal gently with him for my sake? How would it do to avoid noticing him for cne dayg I really do not know what to suggest. Harry is 60 different from the other four children. He ought to have been more carefully watched and trained. MT. Thaw win be homo soon and will be able to advise with me-"
 Mir. Beck said he had had many years of experience in teaching and training boys. but Thaw's conduct was different from any he had ever known.
 T couldn't help but think him ir- rational" declared the witness. {.
 Mir. Beck Is now 79 years old. His testimony was impressive and District Attorney Jerome asked but one or two questions on cross examination.
 Annie Daggan. a sister of Christo- pher Baggan and house-keeper at the whist club. told of several instances of what she termed irrational conduct on the part of Thaw. The next witness was Benjamin Romano. former stage door keeper at the Madison Square The atre. where Evelyn NesbIt on Christ mas eve. 1903, was appearing in "A Girl from Dixie.'
 White Threntena Thaw.
 Bonan appeared at the first trial and testified that after Thaw had called at the theatre and taken the girl away. Stanford White arrived. When he found that Miss Nesbit had gone away, the witness said, White displayed q pis- t0l and vowed he would kin .that PittsburEers before that night. Thts testimony was repeated today. Bonan aaid he communicated the threat to Thaw. After Honan had been cross. exapsined the luncheon EepeaB wassor- There was some delay in beginning the afternoon session. Alr. Llttleton announced that some of his most ins- portnpt witnesses, en' route here by steamer and train. had failed to ar rive. and asked for an adjournment until tomorrow, when Mrs, William Thaw Is expected to take the stand.
 District Attorney Jerome did not op- pose the motion for adjournment and it was granted