Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-16
WHIST CLUB STEWARD TELLS OF
lNsTAMcE WHERE DEFENDANT
GAVE HIM PACK OF CIGARETTES
TO LOCK- UP IN SAFE.
JEROME TRIES TO
BLOCK QU UEsTION.
PROSECUTOR ,INvoKEs SACRED
PRIVILEGE. or PHYSICIANS re
KEEP PROFESSIONAL sEcRETs
only PARTLY sUccEssFUL,

New York, Jan. l5,--Many wit,
nesses entirely new to the case tesej-
fed at the trial Of Harry * ThaM
today and told stories OF his eccentri.
cities during the years irnmed diately
preceding the killing OF Stanford
White. They all declared to be;gin-
pressed as to. Thaw,s being irritation
al. The most interesting testimony
was that OF Christopher Baggan,
steward of the New york Whist cluh'
who told of zThaw's doings the day of
tne tragedy, and who under cross ex-
animation by District Attorney Je-
rome gave amusing details Of whist
games In which Thaw and several
men OF prominence participated.
New York, jan, 15.-Dr. Horatius
w. Wood, Of Philadelphia, was the
first witness in the trial OF Harry X.
ThaW today. Wood some years ago
made an examination OF Harriet Alice
TnaW, a relative OF the defendant.
Jerome objected to the physicians 8
testimony but was oyerr,lled by the
court as the relations between a ply.
sician and the patient didn't exist In
the case. Wood said Miss ThaW was
of unsounS mind. n. i.
Locker Cigarettes in safe. ss9
The next witness was Christopher
Raggan, steward OF the New York
Whist club. Thaw was In the club
five days before the tragedy at the
roof garden, he said, and although the
day was hot Thaw insisted on taking
screen with him wherever he went
about the rooms. He was highly
nervous, excitable and irritable and
once as he passed the witness he was
muttering, "Tnis is awful
Raggan said that Thaw finally came
to him and asked him to have pack.
age put In the safe.
What was in the package" asked
Littleton.
Three cigarettes wrapped in tin.
foil, }" was the reply.
More ThaW Eccentricities.
Miss Matilda Stein, who was q
telephone operator at the Grand hotel
| In 1908 and when sThaw was guest
there testified that she knew Thaw
under the name of Farr. She saw him
aften she said and his eyes were al
ways staring and bulging and his man
ner irrational. One morning Tfaw
put in Is telephone calls In less than
| three hours and one morning he Of.
dered breakfast three times in TWEEN,
4 ty minutes. S!tsT
On cross examination Miss Stein
| said Evlyn Nesbit was also guest al
the Grand under the name OF Farr.
Was not it the morning after she
left, that calls were put in,'' asked
Jerome. The witness was sure it was
not because Miss Nesbit put In sew
eral that day herself.
Mrs. Caroline Lowery and William
A. a. Johnson newspaper writer's who
witnessed the tragedy, testified that
Thaw impressem them as being de
cidedly irrational. Lionel Straus, u
portrait painter and eye witness, also
characterized Thaw's action as IRA
tional. Francis McGuinness. a Nom
/ Der of the coroner's jury which con
Quoted the inquest of Stanford White
testified that Thaw at the inquest ap
peared to be irrational. ,
Jury Asks Questions.
While Henry Schaefer, another
member of the coroner's jury, was
testifying that Thaw appeared IRA
tional and after the attorneys had
concluded their questions, Foreman
Grimme]s put this question for th
jury, Did Thaw's eyes appear then as
now?" he queried.
mo, sir" said the witness.
Henry w Schmall, another mem
ber of the coroner's jury also testi
/ fed to defendants irrationality.
1 Schmall said that the lawyers had
4 discussed Thaw's mental condition
after the rendering of the verdict
Here Littleton sprang something of Z
surprise by asking the witness If he
had read Jerome's comment on the
former trial. He replied in the affirm
ative.
did my remarks influence you,
! judgments?" demanded Jerome.
In way they did" Schmall said
Recess was here taken.