The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1908-02-02
EXPERT AND FOR
EJGN WITNESSES
ON THE STAND IN THE THAW
TRIAL
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JUDGE QUESTIONS EXPERTS
They Testify That Thaw Was Insane
At the Time He Killed White and
the Foreign Witnesses Declare
That There Was No Alcoholism.


amined today and all testified that
If1aw was so far insane at the time
OF the shooting as not to know the
nature and quality OF his act or that
it was wrong Judge Bowling ask
ed a number of questions of the ex-
pepts to develop the kind of insani-
ty Thaw had, and the likelihood OF
its recurrence. One of the foreign
witnesses testified that it was of the
rccarrent kind, succeeded by inter
walls OF insanity. 1t is expected that
the case will get to the jury by We'd
nesday. The prosecution will now
have three experts to testify on its
side.
DR.. Chales w. Francis
Bingham, of Pittsburg, Pa, the
Thaw family physician was put on
on the wi-o,s. se&nf when co.:rt :e
sumcd today in the trial of Harry K.
Ths,w for the killing OF Stanford
Write
DR.. Bingham FOLD of the early
symptoms of nervousness in Harry
Thaw, saying he was first called TO
attend the boy when he was three
years old. AT that time his nervous
ness bordcred on commissions. The
attacks usually followed various chill
drerr's diseases. Th;aw slept badly as
a cfaild requiring a relay TOT nurses
most OF rhc time
DR.. Bingham said that in the fall
OF 1903 he was called 20 attend Har-
~ Thaw in Pittsburg and treated
him for nervousness and nelancholia.
This was after Thaw's first trip
abroad with Evelyn Nesbit
The witness saw Thaw several
times in the Tombs after his arrest
and the defendant always referred to
the Madison Square Garden tragedy
as an act of providence.
It was DR.. Bingaman that District
Attorney Jerome said at the last tria,
when Thaw's mental condition wa
under investigation: I had rather hav>
the testimony Of an old practitioner
like this, than all the experts you
could put upon the stand.
Mr.. Thaw was in very nervous
condition said Mr.. Wells. His pulse
was extremely rapid and he complain
ed of pains m his head. l diagnosed
mis- case as one of mental disturbance
On one of his visits to the defen-
dapt, witness said he found his pa
tient in highly excitable state, dc
spite the fact that his temperature
was only 90 degrees. He feared
Thaw might harm himself
Thaw did not respond to treatment
even opiates failing, and DR.. Wells
said he decided to send the young
mad TO the Devonshire Nursing asso-
cations hospital.
On another visit he found Thaw
dancing about his room like a mad
man. He reported his case at the
hospital as acute mania
Mr.. Thaw, at the hospital, had an
enormous room, said DR.. Wells, but
he complained that he did not have
room to breathe He also complain
ed of the terrific heat and demanded
that twenty tons of Ice be placed in
his room. He didn't like the nurse
assigned to him and wanted to EN-
ploy a while staff Of nurses so he
might find one he liked.
When ne was in the bed the pa
tient's eyes glared into vacancy. The
acute attack at the hospital contin-
ued six dys. He had no fever at anv
time. His talk was largely incoherent
There was no. evidence of alcoholism
During your entire attendance on
Mr.. Thaw in 1890. doctor what con
dusion did you reach? asked Mr.
Littleton.
diagnosed his case as acute re
current insanity.
On cross-examination, the witness
said Thaw remembered the. things
that happened during his outbreak
and was anxious to apologize, es
peciaaly TO nurse whom he felt he
had offended.
Miss Lillian T. Macbride, of Lon
don, professional nurse, as she de
scribed herself followed DR.. Wells
she was ca led in to attend Thaw a.
IS nurse IAs,re was no evidence o.
alcoholism. H impressed the wit
ness as irrstionziA
The third Of the foreign witness,