The Detroit times., 1908-01-14
THAW's TEACHER
PICTURES HIM 4 !
DEFECTIVE
CHARLES II. kocHLER TELL
HOW, AS A YOUTH, pEFENDAMx
APPEARED IRRATIONAL. uN
ABLE TO CONCENTRATE.


part OF District Attorney Jerome. eus
tanned by the court, Attorney Littleton,
Harry Thaw's chief counsel today sue
ceeded In adducing testimony from
witnesses which went to prove that
Thaw's blood contained the faint o.
hereditary insanity and that In his
early school life he was regarded by,
at least one teacher as irrational. At
first 1t looked as though Jerome had
succeeded in keeping the defense from
establishing the hereditary faint, but
later questioning brought out replies
that tended to substantiate the de-
lenses theory.
he following excerpt from the tSS-
timony OF Charles III. Kochler. man
aser of a business college, at vannUn-
ma, Mimi, and formerly a tutor IN the
academic department of Wooster, o..
university, where Thaw was a pupil.
gives vivid picture OF the fiabby-
minded state of the young heir to mil
lions:
o-oo you know the defendant
Harry X. Thaw?
Ayes, ! met him at the university
In 1886. He was under my Instruc-
ton for about period OF three
months.
Q-How old was he?
About rs to ~.
Q-What was his appearznce7
A-He had q nervous, Irregular. xln-
gag gait; his eyes were rather stary,
his complexion anemic.
o-What did you observe @ TO HE
manner
A-one day he was playful; the
next, moody.
o-What was the condition Of HE
eyes7
Az fixed stare.
Q--And his MOUTH
Alt twltched at times.
o-Was there any incoherency In
his specch7
Ayes, sir; II was manifested at
the blackboard while he was attompt-
Ing to give an explanation Of
a problem. He would thrust some IT..
relevant matter into the expianatiou.
10 was never really satlsfIed
that he could concentrate HE mind ~.
any one thing. assss' ". E 49, Z. ~
Q-Did you think him irrationaif
Ayes, always thought him IRA
tlonaI.
Death In the electric chair or the
horror of Matteawan. Is the alterna-i
tive that would seem inevitable for
Harry X. Thaw, after listening to Mr.
Lttleton's address to the jury. late
yesterday afternoon.
Harry Kendall Thaw has oscillat-
ed between briIliancy and madness
since he was a boy" said Mr.. Little
49,. In t.-~ - -
what was TO be proved 1t followed
an oratorical account to the jury, last
ing an hour and half. wherein be-
promised to produce witnesses and
proof that his client had been hope
lessly insane since birth. frretriev-
ably aifected by hereditary faint OF
insanity from both sides OF his family.
But Mr.. Lttleton will contend that
Thaw's insanity was not Of q perman-
ent nature--that 1t only required
some great shock to restore him TO-
his proper senses--and that shock
came. when, after months OF brood
ing over the wrongs, real or fancied.
suffered by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw at
the hands of Stanford White, the
story was told TO him in. Paris. Then
Thaw found White on the roof or
Madison Square garden and killed
him.
A commission appointed by Judge
Fitzgerald at the last trial found
Thaw sane and the Tombs physician,
DIR. Mcclure, who has had Thaw mn
der his observation for more than =
year. will testify that Thaw is now
sane.
Family Physician Summoned.
The first witness today was DIR. J..
T. Deemar. of Pittsburg, the Thaw
family physician. who was In attend
ance at Thaw's birth.
Insanity experts and detectives to
substantiate Martin w. Lftt1eton's
plea OF unsoundness OF mind at the
time young Thaw shot Stamford
White, arrived at the court house be-
fore the case was called. 1.aS
DIR. Chas. G.. Wagner. of Bingham
ton, N. ", head OF the state asylum
for the insane, was the first to APP.
pear. Roger O'Mara, former chief o.
the Pittsburg police department. was
also early In the court room. DR..
Smith Ely Jelliffe, another alienist for
the defense, was also In court. DR..
Britton ID. Evans. OF the Morris
Plains. N. Y, asylum. the other scien-
fist, who was also at the nrst trial.
will testify.
The gist OF DIR. Deemar's testimony,
called out In answer to Atty. Little
toms queries. was as follows: That he
found the defendant. Harry X Thaw,
when boy. 10 be unusually nervous,
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