The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-30
LITTLETON PLEADS FOR
 LIFE OF HARRY K. THAW
CONTINUED FORM pOGE I. )

CONTINUED FORM POGE I. that injHstlce is done or that a murder may be covered but born instead of the very history of this boy?'
 Reviewing che evidence in detail and picturing the devotion of the old nurses and school teachers who had come from afar to give their testimony, Mir Littleton said: "Gentlemen. you who look and listen in sincerity may read in the foot prints of the boy the course which led him through London, Rome, Monte Carlo and New York in after life.''
 MT. Litteton 'dwelt at length upon the testimony of Abraham Beck, the old school teacher from Pennsylvania.
 Beck's Testimony.
 "rrhat testimony would mean something to me if I were sitting on a jury" de- clared the attorney. "There Is no more honorable man in all Pennsylvania than old man Beck. His testimony was all his own-given in his own language--it |. was no rehearsal when he told you what he did. No power on earth could have induced that honorable old man, now tottering near the other side, to aid in deception, to have a hand in mur- der.
 Gan such evidence as this be answered to the satisfaction of you gentlemen by the sneers of the district attorney? Let the prosecution. if they have no testi- mony, say so and forever silence their sneers and insinuations." Mir Lttleton also laid great stress upon the letter MT. Beck received from Mrs. William Thaw in 1881, when she said she feared the boys mind was, affected and begged the teacher to bear with him 0 little longer, for she did not know what to suggest ''When the mother had appeared here , before you and had left the witness stand" MT. Litteton proceeded, "the dis triet attorney read to you the affidavit she made in a certain proceedings at the la)st trial. MT. Jerome sought, l take it, to have you infer that she had in some way contradicted herself or that her testimony was not candid but gentlemen, l appeal from that affidavit made in the pardonable pride of the mother; made in a stress of circumstances, couched in the plethoric vocabulary of the con ventional lawyer. written in the tumult of trial; I appeal from that affidavit and it's peculiar construction to this let ter of more than % years ago. written in the mothers own hand; written in no confounding phrases of a lawyer; writ ten at a time when there was no peril but the peril of heredity I appeal from that affidavit to this letter, which comes fiuttering across a span of 25 years from the hands of tottering old man of 70, like a benediction out of the past to in- terpose itself to save this boy"
 Every Mans Burden.
 MT. Lttleton told of the delicate line that sometimes separated the sound and the unsound mind and declared that every man has the weight that may some day break his heart that some day might send his brain crashing toward insanity. Thaw's school days failure, MT. Lit tleton traced his travels through Flu yrit a and told again the incidents that the foreign physicians testified to.
 "The coming of these physicians was met with the usual sneers and insinua- tions of the district attorney that they might be charlatans, or shysters,' said MT. Llttleton, 'but when they appeared before you there came not word to question their standing and reputation. Every witness we have produced has been answered by sheer or an insin- uation, but in no other way. But sneers and insinuations do not meet the re- quirements of the law, which demands evidence and proof. l want you to hold the district attorney to that rule as hard as you have held me to the pro- duction of proof.
 "wrere is the district attorneys proof? Where are the scientists, the books on in sanity with which he has shown such thorough familiarity in the past? Where
 
 them--who appeared at his behest at the last trial and are still available? Where are they? Why are they not here to answer our case? You, gentlemen, will remember that in opening this trial I challenged the district attorney to pro- duce d single reputable physician who was willing to say that Harry K. Thaw was not insane when he killed Stanford White. I repeated the challenge day after day and the prosecuting officer evaded it. Now, at last, he has laid down in the face of it."
 When the luncheon recess was or dered MT. I.ittleton had not yet reached the point of Thaw's meeting with Evelyn Nesbit.
 Throng of Curious.
 The crowd that besieged the door of the court room at the beginning of the afternoon session was nearly twice as large as that at the opening of court and the police maintained order in the corridors with the greatest difficulty.
 Resufnng his address, MT Littleton referred to the testimony of Miss Alice Fletcher of the Smith sonian institu-