Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-16
SOPOUNDS OF BEEF
Sent Evelyn Thaw by Harry tc
Tempt Appetite When She
Was I'll.
ONE OF MANY STRANGE ACTS
Teacher Shows Letter from Mother
Which Notes Fear of Loss
of Mind.

New York, Jan. 16.-More evidence
as TO alleged irrational conduct on the
part of the defendant was offered at
the trial of Harry X. Thaw today. The
most impressive witness being Abra-
ham r. Beck, uncle of former Assis-
tant Attorney General James Beck.
Elder Beck taught a select school of
Is boys in Pennsylvania in 1881 and
1882 and young Thaw was one of his
pupils.
shows Letter from Mother.
Beck described Thaw as of an un-
governable temper and produced a let
ter from Mrs. William Thaw, mother
of the defendant, who said she feared
Harry's mind was unbalanced. He
was so different from other children.
One of Thaw's eccentricitieS which it
is said would soon be testified to, was
| the sending of Si pounds of beef to
Evelyn Nesbit one morning when she
was i'll. The attorneys have the re-
ceipts for the meat.
| Mother May Go ON Stand.
Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the
defendant, is now i'll New York and
it is said she will be called as 4 wit.
ness this afternoon or tomorrow.
| Has a Bad Day.
| Harry X. Thaw had another disa
greeable time in court yesterday, foI
he had to sit all day long and hear
witness after witness tell of the &c
centric and violent things he had
done, and express the opinion that he
was irrational.
He was visibly depressed by what
he heard. But hs counsel Were
pleased, because when the day had
ended they had made considerable
progress in the work of piling up evi
dence on which they expect verdic
of acquittal on the ground of insanity
Despite the objections of the dis
trict attorney, Alfred Lee Thaw, {
second cousin of the defendant, wa:
allowed to testify that his father
William S. Thaw,- cousin of Harry!
father, died in an insane asylum a
Williamsburg, Va.
The witness also testified that hi
Iown brother Horace S., died at thu
lage of %, in another insane asylum
at Staunton, Va.
The records of these institutions re
counted the same things also were ad
mitted in evidence
The physician who examined Hal
riet Alice Thaw, a half sister of VIII
lam S. Thaw, was also permitted t
state that he diagnosed her afflictiol
as dementia.
Weird DOings Related.
} A large number of witnesses too
, the stand to tell of the weird doing
, of Thaw at various places and times
The most interesting of this grou
r was the steward of the Whist clut
who told of Thaw's strange appear
ance and excitable manner at tn
| club the afternoon before killing StaI
ford White.
| His testimony was supplemented b
, that of the telephone girl who was &
= the Grand hotel when Thaw and Mis-
, Nesbit were staying there; that of
witness formerly employed by Thaw
mother as butler; that of several NOR
persons who saw the shooting an
that of nine members of the coroner
jury before which Thaw appeared 500
r after the killing.
n Suggests Alcohol.
The district attorneys efforts larg
lily were confined to attempting
f show all the eccentricities thus test
fled might have been, those of a ma
n who merely was nervous and diss
v pated, but not necessarily insane.
$ Justice Dowling is getting man
n anonymous letters bearing on Il
e Thaw case A man who said he W;
It Cole White and who refused any fu
n ther information about himself insis
: ed on sending to Justice Bowling
n letter saying Stanford White had re;
ly committed suicide. He was Sc
=lto Bellevue for examination.
There is chance that young MI
Thaw will take the witness stand {
Friday if the witnesses from abro;
do not arrive by that time. If th
do, she will not testify before Monda
Ma. D:a> fnr N,t;on.t Guard