The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-14

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knew Henry Copley, Mrs. Thaw's
brother. TO be of unsound mind. Jer-
ONE objected to Littleton bringing in
insane persons no closer related than
Copley, and the direct examination
Tended Jerome asked as to Copley' 8
exact mental condition, discovering
Copley was unable TO work. DR.
William F.. Butler, of Roanoke, Va,
testified as to the insanity of Horace
Thaw, son of the first William Thaw,
latter much squabbling.
Case for Defense.
After the state had presented its
direct case and Assistant Attorney
Garvin had characterized the killing
|of Stanford White as "a premeditated,
deliberate and cowardly murder"
Martin w. Littieton, for the defense,
made the opening plea for the prison.
|er. His promise of new evidence
was sensational and held the supreme
attention of all in the court room.
District Attorney Jerome. seemingly
taken by surprise, seated himself in
the witness chair better to hear the
outline of the new defense Mr.. Lit
Teton promised to forge a chain of
and to produce a line
OF testimony which wiz lrove Harry
X. Thaw undenis' insane at the
time Of the homicide. Evidence of
hereditary insanity and OF strange.
unusual acts of Thaw not even limited
at during the first trial, was told of
by Mr.. Littleton, who said that phy-
|sicians and nurses who had attended
Thaw were hurrying here from Eu-
rope, that teachers of the defendant
in childhood would be on hand 10
give their impressions of 1.-The vide
eyed, distant boy" In conclusion
Mr.. Littleton challenged the district
attorney TO prodtce a single reputable
physician who would say that Thaw
was not insane at the time he killed
the noted architect.
Mr.. Littleton 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 ply
sicians who labored over him all of
one night.
MIR. Littleton spared neither Thaw
nor his family I'M his recital of the de-
PENDANTS life history. During the
speech Thaw sat wide eyed and paid,
looking fixedly at his counsel. Toward
the close he seemed rather displeasedI
with something that was said and
leaning forward scrubbed off a note.
Mr.. Littleton's speech was somewhat
dramatic and impassioned at times
and was keenly followed by the jury
despite the rather frequent objec-
tons from the states attorney that
the flights of oratory had no open
statement of facts.
Thaw's ancestry, marked by decid-
ed taints OF insanity ON both his faith
er's and mothers side, according to-
his chief counsel, was drawn with
great care and then the defendant
himself was pictured as irrational, er-
ratio and insane as boy, who oscil-
lating between "starship and mad
ness. between brilliance and dark
ness fought unavailingly against the
fever of insanity which coursed in his
blood at birth.
81 make no claims for this defend
ant above those of the average man
as to morals or virtues" declared Mr.
Littleton. 'But say his life history
is enough to free him from the
charge that he was responsible for
his act. Add to his history the heart
breaking episode of his love for the
young woman who became his wife
and of her recital to him of a story
which, flashed to the four quarters OF
the globe. made all the world that
reads stand still and wonder, and i
shall have no hesitancy in asking you
III YOU have not a reasonable doubt as
to whether he was sane the night OF
this deplorable tragedy and upon
that doubt ! shall ask you for YER
diet of not guilty
Mr.. Littleton told Of the trip
abroad taken by Thaw in 1899 when
he was III and insane at Rome, Monte
Carlo and London, being under the
care of physicians and nurses at each