The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-23
Over the Non arrival of Med
ical Experts
COMINGACROSSTHE WATER
Other Experts Were Put on the Stand
in the Thaw Trial To-day
and Told Of Thaw's
vagaries.

New York, Jan. 23.--Dr Charles L
Bailey of Albany, N. Y, was the first
witness today in the Thaw trial He
attended the defendant when the latter
was taken i'll on New York Central
train and considered his acts irrational
DR.. Charles G. Wagner, one Of the de-
fense's star experts, was then examined
at length as to Thaw's mental condition.
Wagner said that Thaw certainly had
q mania against all medical experts who
were sent to the Tombs to visit him, de-
claring that they were in conspiracy to
incarcerate him in an insane asylum.
He said that Tnaw insisted upon telling
him in rambling matter about CON
spiracy to hire thugs To beat him TO
death. He said he never intended at
tacking White but that providence put
the matter in his hands. In relating the
story Of his life Thaw told the witness
that he was in no sense dissipated IL
was very seldom that he drank whiskey.
The defense is badly worried today
over the delay in the arrival of the
steamer Adriatic. Two and possibly
three medical witnesses are on board and
their evidence was badly needed before
the real experts were sworn.
The prisoners mother. Mrs. William
Thaw, was on the stand yesterday at.
ternoon.
What was the condition Of health
Of Harry shortly after his birth" she
was asked.
4 think for three months he was
normal-that is, in average good health.
Then he had an attack OF congestion Of
the lungs which involved the brain and
caused one spasm.
And then after that what was his
condition as the time went on?n
"a condition Of the most remarkable
sleeplessness that / have ever known in
an infant"
Tow long did that nervousness and
insomnia continuegD
Between two and three years. He
had very wretched digestion and be-
came rather puny, except his head was
large His body was TOO small for his
head"
What was his appearance from two
- ~hA&I ftni1 " dtsti uR w i1ft W riA x
Very pale, and the head too large
and body too small, 50 that when he
ran it was an unsteady gait I
Were there any periods that you can
recall about that time, periods Of excite
ment, through which he went n
lie was liable to scream or fling him
self down with his face on a couch, and
generally in a wild state Of excitement,
and when you would ask him afterward,
What made you do SOL he would say,
j do not know what it was"
up to what age did these periods Of
excitement continue to occur ~
III could scarcely says. | suppose up
to l2 or 49,
Mrs. Thaw said that when Harry was
sent to school at the age of hc could
not speak intelligently enough for others
than his nurse and herself to under
stand But when he went to school at
Wooster, O., the outdoor exercise accom-
plished a good deal and he returned
home at the age Of Is stronger than
he had been. After that he went to the
Western university and thence to Har
ward college for a part of d year, Mrs. |
Thaw said After leaving Harvard Harry
went abroad.
"All Of his education was irregular"
said the mother. You might say de-
sultory. because he did not apply him
self regularly, nor did we wish to push |
him, because Of the temperament. The I
doctors advised us not to press himth |
old. wise. old DR.. Cody
Mrs. Thaw testified that the extreme
nervousness was noticeable periodically, I
the last fit Of excitement having been /
on his wedding day
"Iie was 50 worried and uncertain I
whether Evelyn's mother would give her |
consent. He was making his will and /
writing the eodicil and working steadily I
and in great state Of excitement all I
through the day. said Mrs Thaw
Insanity in the Family
Mr.. Littleton then called attention to
the outbreaks Of insanity in her family +
and that of her husband. Mrs Thaw {
testified that her brother, Henry Coplev, !
became weak minded at or years
Of age, and never recovered mental vigor
She had this brother in mind she said,
when she wrote to Mr. Beck. the Iron
ton, Pa. schoolmaster. saving that an
llfiit Niitl . thAiO 4tiA HtsNNM tHt NNt-
bursts of temper that Mr. Beck had
spolen Of as making Harry so unrulv
Another brother. Josiah Copley, is liv-
ing in Salt Lake City, and he had an
attack of brain fever when 20 years old
and student at Amherst college The
fever left him very nervous, Mrs. Thaw
said, and later he caught cold after an
attack of measles and developed acute
mania. He spent seven months in an
asvlum and was discharged as cured He
taught school and served in the army
during the Civil war. but Mrs Thaw
said her brother did not fully recover
from the brain fever with which he was
stricken al Amherst.
Passing 10 the strain Of insanity in
her husbands family. Mrs. Thaw said
farrv's father had sister named Mrs
Hersh. who was subject TO epilepsy from
The time she was six years old. She
died at the age Of 50.