Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-20
THAW WEPT
Recital of Wife's Troubles Ois- iurbs the Alleged Slayer of
 Stanford White
JEROME IS WORSTED

New York, Jan 20-When the trial of Harry K. Thaw for killing Stanford White was resumed at 1O:2O this morning, Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called to the stand to repeat her story of a year ago. District Attorney Jerome immediate ly renewed his motion of last Friday afternoon that the public, including the representatives of newspapers, be excluded from the court room. He cited criminal case tried in Monroe county several years ago as precedent for excluding all per sons except those immediately con- cerned with the trial.
 MT Littleton, for the defense, said he desired to leave the matter en- tirely in the hands of the court. District Attorney Jerome declared he understood MT, Littleton to join in the motion when it was made last Friday and did not quite grasp the change of front.
 'I said on Friday" retorted MT Littleton, that l would like to spare Mrs Thaw from the gaze of the idly curious, put as to all points of legality and propriety 1 reiterate what l said then that the matter rests entirely with the court"
 Justice Bowling said he had con suited all the authorities cited. by the district attorney and could find no warrant under the constitution for excluding the pub lie from capital case. The harm done by publishing the details of revololting testimony he added, was more than offset by the safe guards thrown around a defendant by granting him "a speedy and public hearing"
 ''The court will not exclude any one who conducts himself with pro- priety."
 MT Littleton then asked Mrs Thaw to tell the story of her experience with Stanford White as she told it to Thaw in Paris in 1903 when he asked her to become his wife.
 Mir Jerome was at once on his feet with a strenuous objection. He argued the matter at some length.
 Here is a recital of years before the homicide declared the prose- ,cutor. .'and I contend that it does not come within the limits of any precedent that know of. It certain ly does not. come within the Wood case where the man to whim the story was told was so mentally affect ed that he immediately went of and killed a man. This recital by this witness Is too remote. tl is absurd on the face of 1t to say that this con- versation three years before account ed for the insanity of the defendant at the time of the killing. Certainly, | under the widest expension of the Wood case, we ought to have some scientific testimony addressed to the court-not to the jury; that a | conversation of three years standing | could have any effect upon the de- fendant's mind.
 Justice Bowling interrupted the dis trict attorney to say that he found nothing in the authorities nxing time limit to conversations or statements inducing or tending to induce insanity. l He thought the Wood case covered the . point and overruled the objection. Young Mrs Thaw was suffering to- day from a bad cold and coughed fre- quently while testifying. In response to questions from Mir LittletOn. the witness told again. but more briefly than last year. of her experiences in the 25th street house where she was taken to lunch with Stanford White and drank champagne.
 Evidently induced by Mir Jerome's constant objections aud his manner of