The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-16
Personal and Club Servants Re- veal Eccentricities of Thaw Not Heard in First
 Trial.
IRRATIONAL OUTBREAKS
Highly Nervous Before Tragedy and Kept Muttering, This is Awful' -Coroner's Jury Thought
 Him UnsOund.

l ly to their promise to interpose no oth CT defence than that of insanity in be half of their client, the attorneys rep resenting Harry K. Thaw at his tria to-day continued the examination o witnesses who swore that young Thav at various times in his life appeared to them as irrational and mentally un sound. Practically all of the testi mony was entirely new to the case anC | had to do with acts down to the daA of the tragedy itself. Then came the declaration of ten of the men who sal on the coroner's jury during the in quiry into Stanford Whites death, al of whom declared that the defendant the day following the shooting acted irrationally. His manner and appear. ance were such as to cause the in quest jury to discuss his state of mind after their formal verdict had been rendered.
 In the days testimony there was more delving into the history of the Thaw family, Alfred Lee Thaw of Richmond, Va, third cousin of the defendant, taking the stand and telling of the taint of insanity which had caused his father and brother to die in state asylums.
 Some of Thaw's alleged eccentrici- ties, revealed for the first time, were related to-day by Christopher Baggan, steward of the New York whist club; by Miss Matilda Stein, a tele- phone operator, and by Per August Weber. a former butler in the Thaw household. Thaw spent portion of the afternoon of June 25. 1906, at the Whist club and at that time-a few hours before the tragedy-was pictur- ed by the steward as being highly n 'vous and as frequently exclaiming this is awful" He asked the steward to have valuable package put into the safe. After the shooting the package was opened and found to contain three cigarettes wrapped in tin foil. District Attorney Jerome in cross-examining the club steward brought out the fact that Thaw play ed bridge there with many promi- nent men. The witness declared he was not supposed to know what MT, Thaw. MT. Gates, MT. Schwab and the others played for, but he was sure nothing but mineral water ever was served at the tables.
 The telephone operator told of Thaw putting in 75 calls one morning at the Grande Hotel and then forgetting all about them. The butler told many de- tails of Thaw's life at home in 1903 and said Thaw would order that no dinner be prepared on certain evenings and a few hours later would come in and demand to krow why there was nothing to eat. He would call the butler out of his bed and give him s for some trihing service. Thaw would some times pace the floor of the dining room in the midst of dinner. muttering to himself. Once Thaw called for a car riage at 3 a. m, and when told one was not available, became hysterlcal and fell prone on couch.
 During the irritational outbreaks the witness said Thaw's eyes were shiny and had a vacant stare.
 Weber was still on the stand when adjournment until tomorrow morning was taken. The separate incidents of alleged irrational conduct on the part of the defendant was being put in evi- dence by Mir. Littleton as the founda- ton for the expert testimony that is to come. He also hopes to accumulate such mass of testimony as to Thaw's cratic conduct as to make 1t impossi- ble for the district attorney to fulfill the task the law places upon him of proving Thaw sane beyond every rea- sonable doubt'
 Crlminal laweyrs of prominence who are following the case outlined by the defense, and who are taking into cop. sideration the fact that a specific plea of insanity has been entered this vear declare that acquittal under the cir can come only with the added clause, "on account of the insan. ny of the defendant at the time the act was committed" This, it is declared would compel the presiding judge to commit Thaw to the Nattewan asylum. from whence q fiebt 70 prove his present sanity and thus gain freedom would have to be com iucted through habeas corpus proceed ngs