The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-01-23
He Told DR.. Charles Wagner
He Wished He Would Die
And Then His Trial Would
Be Brought to an End.
EXPERT WITNESS SAID HE
THOUGHT THAW CRAZY.
Saw Him on Train and De-
PENDANT Muttered Mean
ingless Sentences and Took
Dose of Morphine.

New York. Jan 23.-Dr. Charles
Bailey of Albany. n. y, was the first
witness in the Thaw trial today He
testified that he saw Thaw on the
train in April of 1906. He acted
strangely and he thought him crazy.
! He uttered meaningless sentences and
the doctor gave him morphine DR..
| Chas Wagner, of the Binghampton
asylum for insane. said he visited
| Thaw in the Tombs. The prisoner act
ed in superior manner and said he had
tried to send White to Jail but that
Providence had taken the matter in
its own hands"
| The witness described other visits
he had made to Thaw in the Tombs.
The prisoner said he was afraid he
would get pneumonia and die and then
| his trial would be stopped and
rich criminals concerned in the ruin
ing of girls would be spared an expos
ure.
Mrs. Belle Moorehouse Lawrence of
California, Harry Thaws kindergarten
! teacher, told of the peculiarities OF
lher pupil now on trial for the murder
of Stanford White, yesterday after
noon.
Harry was delicate child" she
said, with large head. He was al
ways brooding; he would stand with
his mouth wide open and his eyes were
| +N
me he was 3 years and II months old,
but his speech was unintelligible. Aft
err three weeks I found he had a Ian
guage of his own. had to give him
private lessons"
| DR.. Charles Wagner. superintendent
of the state hospital for the insane at
Binghampton, n. Y, one of the alien
lists for the defense who testified last
year, was then called to the stand
AIienist on Stand.
| DR.. Wagner testified about the sew
eral visits he and Dir. Britton D. Ev
ans paid to Thaw in the Tombs after
the homicide and their physical exam
nation of him. The testimony closely
followed that of last year. Mr.. Little
ton said DR. Wagner had been called
out of turn in order to occupy the last
half hour of the session. When ad-
iOurnment was taken until tomorrow.
Justice Bowling granted permission
that the witness be withdrawn for eX-
| animation later in the case.
Thaw's Mother on Stand.
Mrs. William Thaw, still unable TO
walk unassisted because of her recent
Illness, was not long upon the stand.
Mrs. Thaw told of waking up one
night, shortly before Harrys birth,
and finding that her eldest child, an in
FAINT, was dead in bed. The nervous
shock was so severe, she said that for
more than seven months she scarcely
slept at all. AS an infant Harry Thaw
suffered the most remarkable sleep
lesSness she had ever known in a child.
He was nervous, and instead of sleep
ing at night, would insist upon being
propped up to a sitting position in bed,
his eyes having wide-awake express
sion.
The mother went into the deails of
the defendants early life, telling Of his
various ills and never ending attacks
of nervousness. The first teacher he
ever had was Miss Bell Moorehouse
Lawrence, when he was years of age.
Mrs. Thaw then told of the various
schools the boy had attended from
time to time.
Mrs. Thaw also testified as 10 the
| unsound mental condition of her broth
ers, Josiah Copley and Henry w. Cop,
ley, and stated that her husbands sis
ter. Mrs. Hirsch, was an epileptic.
District Attorney Jerome waived
cross examination of Mrs. Thaw under
agreement of the defense to admit into
evidence the affidavit the mother made
last year before the lunacy commits
sion. which was inquiring into her
sons condition Of mind,
Mr. Jerome began TO read the affida
Wit 10 the jury as Mrs. Thaw. still
/ showing the effect of her recent illness
= document Mrs. Thaw declared that III
the direct line of descent for four gen
eratious there was no epilepsy or in
sanity in the family of the defendant
AS to the epilepsy of Mrs. Hirsch. the
afhant stated that her children were
entirely free from any faint of the dis
ease. showing clearly that Mrs
Hirsch's attack was due to scarlet fe
yer in infancy and not from inherit
ance.
The defendants grandparents OF
both sides" continued the affidavit
were universally respected for theil
, weu-balanced qualities OF head arC
heart.
Had Brilliant Mind.
AS to her brother Josiah, Mrs. Tbap
declared in the affirmative that the
boy had a brilliant mind and was al
= assiduous student. His commence
ment day Grafton Of Amherst was 81
: splendid an effort the judges decided
= unwisely not TO place 4 time limit up
}. on him. The result was an attack o
l brain fever, followed by three days o
{ acute mania. Josiah was in the asy
- 1um seven mouths. when he was dis
charged as cured. He enlisted in tn