Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-27
DR.. Sydney Russell Wells of Lon
don Told of Attending Defend
ant in England in 1899.
IN VERY NERVOUS CONDITION
Or. Frederick ]. Burton-BroWne,
Formerly Of India Service, dag
nosed Case as Mild Mania.
DR. Maurice CANA of Paris Also Wit
ncss--Dcfensc's Testimony
is Now All III.

New York, Jan. 24.--The defense in
the Thaw case completed this morning
the Introduction OF all its testimony
ana shortly before The noon recess MIR
Llttleton, chief counsel for the defend
ant began to read a long and carefully
prepared Observation-Disclosures to the
three alieaists engaged to testify in
Harry Thaw's behalf. The question
covered all the testimony in the case
and before read had been submitted
to Dist. Atty. Jerome for any objection
the prosecution had to offer, only
slight changes resulted. rs the testl-
mony in the present hearing had diff
fered from that of the first trial so the
hypothetical question differed from the
one propounded last year by Mir. Del
mas. The evidence to irrational acts
or manner. from infancy to the time
of the homicide was given precedence
over every other phase of the testi-
mony
DIR. BINGAMAN.
DR.. Charles Francis Bngaman, the
Thaw family physician of Pittsburg.
was put ON the witness stand, when
court opened today for the beginning
of the fourth week of the second trial
Of Harry Thaw for The killing of STAN
ford White DIR. Bingaman told of the
carry symptoms OF iet o'4S'''''9 "a
~ lha"' saying ne % ~ -, -
old AT the time his nervousness often
,..,o,.a,i -, oo,,,,Ieious The attacks
pot =" ~ -,,',...., a,s
usually followed various cniloreu US
eases. Thaw slept badly as q child, re-
CURLING relay of nurses most of the
inns. a.,
DIR. Bingaman SAD that III the 49,
of 1903 he was called to attend harry
Thaw in Pittsburg and treated nm lpf
/. merry BUSINESS aud melancholS,
This was after Thaw' first TRIP
abroad With Evelyn Nesbit. The VII
moss said Thaw several times in the
Tonlbs after his arrest and the defenh-
amt ALWAYS referred TO the Madison
Square Garden affairs IS The act oil
Providence"
Thaw's acts and appearance IN the
prison impressed the witness as IRA
tional.
IL was of DR.. Bingaman that Dlst'
Atty. Jerome said at the last trial when
Thaw's mental condition was under m
Vestigation, Il had rather had the
testimony OF an old praC uuoner lihe
this than all the eNeprts you could put
upon the stand" The prosecution $
REORGANIZATION today was very
brief and courteous.
,,,,,,s ot, ro<noNy
Ok WELLS W.
D.uou,trg Dr Binghman came the
80 ,,e ,oIsign witnesses. Dir. sgd
i ny D. Wells of London, who was
hex nu ~ ,t,s,,d rbaw in the English
cai ,ta, w " tbe es,Iy part Of 1899.
ca .,aSr NAV was In q very nervous
ii4;,,, - satd mr. Wells ''His pulse
,,,.,,,e1,- rand and he complain
va Vas 80 ,ains in The head. / diagnosed
bis cese as one OF mental disturbance"
,,.itnass said he found his patient I'm a
Wltliess ss'it' state despite the fact
iteu'S Ia, tnn,rerature was only 90 de.
sl,9e ma. Ni' IIn saared tbat he might harm
ts,t,,,sois Tbaw dId moi respond to
t,,d.,t,,,a,,, even oniates falling. and
~. VIZ cola he decided 10 send The
, ~ nan IN the Devonshire Nursing
y .'''ln's;., t;on,. hosritnI on n visit Inc
eS,,Dd Tbaw dancing about the room
ny, Dui'a ,S man lie reported his case
~ llHV ~, !" n has,,itaJ as autepanin,
az ~ NJ NAV an the hospital had a per-
80. ,.,,,,.,,,,,,,s ,,nn, - continued DR.
vyaiis M no complaincd that he did
,,ot have room 10 breathe. He alsr
complained Of the terrific neat ana de ,
noh ne , ,,no,, -V'VV he did not IKE IN,
nurse assigned 20 him ANA wanted IN,