The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-18
JEROME WAN IS EVIDENCE
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 Thaw, did his acts and appearance inn press you as rational or irrational?' asked MT. Littleton.
 "Irrational." declared the witness. Miss Fletcher told of seeing Thaw at his mothers home in 1903. Thaw said he had had an awful experiences; that he be- 1ieyed he had a terrible disease of tine eyes and thought he was going to die in fact. he wanted to die He mentioned Evelyn Nesbits name frequently. but his talk usually was tdo incoherent to follow His eyes looked without seeing apparent 1y.
 On cross-examination, Miss Fletcher said that although she had been frequent visitor at the Thaws'. she had never known Harry to be placed under restraint in any way.
 Mrs. Thaw In Court.
 Mrs. William Thaw. mother of the de- fendant, who reached New York last night at : o'clock from Pittsburg, was at the court room early today, ready to take the stand when called. She plainly showed evidences of her recent illness.
 Mr. Jerome wanted to know if the wit ness impression of Thaw was only of 0 nervous, eccentric man. or a person of un- sound mind.
 He impressed me always as a person who was not rational" declared Miss. Fletcher. "IIe often acted oddly, and would leave his meals untouched.''
 While she had made no tests by which to judge of the defendants senses as to taste. distinguishing of colors, etc., the witness was not willing to admit that she had not noticed that his sense of pereep- tion was different from the normal per son.
 Did you ever counsel with his mother as to Thaws mental condition?'' asked the prosecutor.
 T remember his mothers anxiety and her speaking to me about it.'
 Do you remember anybody you ever discussed the matter with?"
 q never discussed Harry Thaw with anybody"
 Idea of lrrationality.
 Mir. Jerome asked many questions as to the ideas of irrationality the witness entertained and then started to inquire as to whether she had ever before ob- served a young man very much in love with Q chorus girl, when Justice Bowling interrupted to say there was nothing in the evidence so far as to any chorus girl. Well said the prosecutor had you ever before observed d young man who told you of a beautiful woman who had been greatly wronged?"
 Miss Fletcher insisted that Tlaw's talk constantly was incoherent, with ire quent shifting of subjects. She could not recall any particular occasion on which there had been violent outbreak of un- inteligibility
 Nurse on Stand.
 Catherine O'Neill, an elderly wo- man, who was nurse in the Thaw family for six years and took charge of II. K. Thaw when he was between and years of age, testified as to the child hood of the defendant She described him as very nervous and moody.
 The nervous outbreaks occurred dur ing all of the years the nurse WAS in the employ of the family. causing her to reach the conclusion that Harry's mind was affected.
 District Attorney Jerome sought on cross-examination to show that Thaw was simply a child of a nervous, excita- ble disposition with an ungovernab ble temper. The nurse admitted he showed all of these tendencies. It was necessary she said, to call in the family physician after the outbreaks. Thaw suffered from St. Vitas' dance following scarlet fever.
 Evelyn Thaw Called.
 MT. Littleton here caused a ripple of ex- citement by calling Evelyn Nesbt Thaw to the stand It had been said yester- day and again this morning that she would not be a witness until next week. Young Mrs. Thaw, in her blue school