Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-16
TIA w FAMILY
SHOWS faint
OF MSAM7 Y
SERVANTS SAY HARRY WAS
IRRATIONAL
SECRETS OF LIFE AT CLUB ARE
EXPOSED
TeIeuhone Girl Tells of Prisoner and
Evelyn NesbIt Living at Hotel
Under the Name OF
Farr

"And Thaw was nervous?
Eyes"
"And they were playing?"
81 don't know"
Haven't you an idea7"
mo, sir. 1 am not supposed 10 nave
any,
II know YOU are not supposed to have
env but as a matter of fact haven't
your
"The rules forbid playing for money,
sir"
The court officers had to suppress fire.
auent outbreaks of laughter.
ibid Thaw and his party have any
/ thing to drink on June 2o2
'Ohs all sorts of mineral waters
! "And what else?'
Nothing. unless they had it with
them. We did not serve anything but
mineral waters at the club, sir.
but every member has lockerT
Eyes, SIR
and they keep all they want in the
locker2"
Eyes, sir; guess so, sir"
and drinks were served from the lock-
ers that day."
at really don't know" At bridge Thaw
was generally able TO hold his own, the
witness guessed
Thaw Nervous
The witness. said Thaw had been more
or less nervous ever since he had known
him. Thaw was at the telephone for the
better part Of an hour the day or the
tragedy and the witness heard him re-
peat THAT is awful"
Thaw's nervousness Increased notice-
ably during the last years the witness haa
| known him.
Miss Matilda stein. who was a tele-
phone operator at the Grand Hotel In
| iqA3 and 1904, when Thaw was guest
there, testified that she knew Thaw under
the name of Farr.
She saw him often and his eyes were
always staring and bullying. His manner
was IRA honal. one mornlns INA" pue
in seventy-ive telephone calls In less
than three hours. One morning he or
dered his breakfast three times in twenty
| minutes. -
| ON cross examination Miss Stein said
Miss Evelyn Nesbit also was a guest at
the Grand under the name of Farr.
| Wasn't 1t the morning after she ie1i
that the seventy-five calls were put in?'
asked Jerome.
The witness was sure it was not. be-
cause Miss Nesbit had put In several
calls that day herself.
One, the witness remembered, was tc
Burr Mcintosh.
Mrs Caroline Lower and William A
Johnson, newspaper writer's, who wit
messed the tragedy, declared in turn upor
the stand that Thaw impressed them as
decidedly irrational.
Lionel Straus, a portrait painter ane
eyewitness who testified at the first trial
also characterized Thaw's actions as ir'
rational.
coroner's Juror Testifles
Francis McGuinness, who was a mem
Der of the coroners jury which conducted
the inquest as to Stanford Whites death
testified that Thaw at the inquest ap
peared irrational, while Henry Schaefer
another member Of the coroner's jury, ties
titled that Thaw appeared irrational a
the Inquest. and after the attorneys haC
concluded their questions Foreman Grem
meIls put a question for the jury:
''Did Thaw's eyes appear then as now?
he queried
mo, sir said the witness.
Henry w. Schmell another member o
the coroners jury, also testified as to th'
defendants irrationality.
They all said the jurors discussed
Thaw's mental condition after rendering
their verdict
Here Mr.. Littleton introduced something
of a surprise by asking the witness II h
had read Jerone's comments on the for
nner trial. He replied in the affirmative.
II "Did my remarks influence your judg
ment?'' demanded Jerome.
|, s'Tn way they did," Schmell said.
Alfred Lee Thaw Of Richmond. Va,
third cousin of the defendant, took tn
stand at the beginning of the Afternoon
session, and in response to a series o
questions from Mr.. Littleton gave the his
tory of the Thaw family. His father
William s. Thaw, died insane in VIII
iiamsburg, Va, after nineteen years II
! the asylum, and his brother Horace die
insane at % years of age at Stanton
! Va. in the hospital there. Harriet Alic
Thaw is the witness fathers half sister
The great-grandfather Of both the wit
ness and Of the defendant was Benjami
Thaw. The commitment papers Of VIII
liam S. and Horace Thaw were intro
duced and received in evidence. Severa
z additional members of the coroner's jur
were called to the stand and all agree
that Thaw was an irrational man tn