The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-14
HARRY LOOKED
llLDEYEO WHILE
LAWYER I SPOKE
(By united Press J

NEW YORK, Jan. "a. = To clear
s.Thaw Of murder charge, LittIeton will
scsIl witnesses to prove family insani-
~ as follows: On his fathers side,
tl,e youngest sister suffered brain fe.
yer, similar to that which affected Har.
~ at the age Of five and died in an
asylum at fifty. Harriet Alice Tha",
: . cousin, 7ls an inmate of Pittsburg
ansane hospital. Horace Thaw, eou'
sin, is insane. AdoIph Thaw, insane.
Harry Travis Thaw, insane. William
TThaw, cousin, insane. on the moth
ter,s side: Josiah copTey, deIusion
sufferer Henry w. copIey, brain fe-
yer victim. Margaret coPIey's son
3 died insane.
Court convened to-day at1o:3o.0r.
John r. pemar, the Thaw family ply
sleisn, was the first witness called.
He said he had known the defendant
aimee birth and that 4arry's condition
as a child WAS nervous and that he
4 was a st. vitus dance sufferer. He
said he knew the members of the fam
ny and Henry copley, Mrs. Thaw's
brother, to be of IN nsound mind.
pr. Littlebury 8. Foster, Of the vir-
gInia Eastern state Hospital, testified
that 4arryts cousin, William s. Thaw,
{ was insane.
pr. charles r. koehler, formerly of
Wooster University, where Thaw was
Z a student, testified that Harry was
4 anaen1Fc and nervous and at all times
aeeentrlc. He said Thaw was an ex-
pceptIonally moody youth, given to
flights Of extreme eIation or gloom.
Llttleton's Address Sensational.
Yesterday after the State had pre-
scented its direct case and Assistant
\ District Attorney Garvin had charac.
:terfzed the killing of Stanford White
:as "a premeditated. deliberate and
cowardly murder" Martin w. Little
ton, for the defense, made the open
new defense. Mr.. Littleton promised
of new evidence was sensational, and
held the supreme attention of all in
the court room. District Attorney ,Je-
rome. seemingly taken by surprise,
seated himself in the witness chair,
4 the better to hear the outline of the
(. new defense. Mr.. Littlton promised
ito forge chain of circumstances and
to produce a line of testimony which
viii prove Harry K Thaw was unde-
niably insane at the time OF the homi-
eide. Evidence of heredity insanity
and OF strange unusual acts OF Thaw,
not even Iinted at during the first
trial, was told Of by Mr.. Littieton, who
said that physicians and nurses who
had attended Thaw were hurrying
here from Europe; that teachers of
the defendant in childhood would be
on hand to give their impressions Of
+fthe wide-eyed, distant boy In con-
clusion Mr.. Littleton challenged the
district attorney to produce single
reputable physician who would say
that Thaw was not insane at the time
he killed the noted architect.
Many Surprises.
Mr.. LIttleton's speech fairly bristled
with surprise. He startled the court
room by declaring that after Evelyn
'Nesbit had told him her story in Paris
In 1903, Thaw "drenched himself with
a poison" and would have died but for
( the. heroic work OF three physicians
who labored over him all of one night.
Mr.. Jerome had his surprises to Of
fer too. and when Mr.. Littleton start
ed to launch into the relation of STAN
ford White with the girl whom Thaw
married. the district attorney was on
his feet with an objection Justice
bowling sustained him spd the name
of the architect was not linked again
with that ofsthe defendants wife, Mr..
IittIeton taached but lightly upon the
girls story ae she told it to Thaw, but
s. careful as he was on this point, he
prosecuting officer. and again Justice
bowling sustained the objection.