The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-21


President Manuel Amador of Panama,
left for his home today
President Amador has been abroad
on a four-months tour of Italy ana
France, and was much pleased at the
reception given him everywhere. On
his return to America he was receiy-
ed by relatives at New York and
Washington and dined with President
Roosevelt.
President Amador is seyenty-four
years old and declares he does not
intend to let the younger people take
up the work
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van, lis insanity The material facts
are admitted. Insanity, let me assur
you, is not to be defined as what you
or ] might think. 1t is not what ply
sicians or metaphysicians may tell us,
or what scientists or pseudo-scientists
may describe. Insanity, as we have
to deal with it, has been defined by
the legislature of New York. The law
is wiser than we are. We must obey
it and live under the law. The law
says that the only person excused from
criminal responsibility is he who is so
deficient of reason that he does not
know the nature or quality of his act;
that the act is wrong. With this def
milton, and this definition alone, of the
law l ask you to judge of all the acts
of this defendant the night of June %.
1906, which is the night on which he
killed Stanford White"
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw listened to the
assistant prosecutors discussion of
the actual details of the tragedy with
tense drawn features Josiah Tnaw, a
brother, and Mrs. George Carnegie the
sister, completed the usual family
group. Thaw sat with eyes fixed upon
the prosecutor, his head rested upon
his right hand After describing the
killing of White, Caravan declared IN
conclusion that, judged by any court,
the prosecution believed the homicide
could be explained as a "premeditated,
deliberate and cowardly murder"
Littleton said there would be no at
tempt to invent any kind of extraor-
binary mania, despite the fact that
District Attorney Jerome had intimat-
ed in his questioning Of jurors that
some such thing would be tried lie
then sket2hed Thaw's life from the
time of his birth.
On the fathers side of the family,
he said, a relative became insane at
five years. A cousin of the father died
insane in an asylum in Virginia. Har-
riet Alice Thaw, still on the fathers
side, is in an asylum in PIttsburg, sui.
fering with decisions of persecution
Harry Thaw, a cousin, also is insane.
rom the father Thaw inherited his
nervousness.
Saying he would like to be spared
the recital of the de,.cate details, Mr..
Littleton next told of the insanity
which he said existed in the mothers
family. Mrs. Thaw would come in,
sick though she is, to tell her story.
The attorney dwelt at length on the
subject of hereditary insanity and OF
small chances of the boy to escape the
destiny forged for him from his birth
His mother" continued Littleton,
will tell you of the strange Vagaries
Of the boy, whose mind at times fash
ed with the brilliance of a star but at
other times was wholly deficient, Her
entry in the diary the day Harry Thaw
came to school will tell you a quiet,
distant, wild eyed boy came today who
could not speak a word that any Of us
could understand
Littleton followed Thaw's career
through other schools and said he
would produce the boys teachers, who
would tell of his strange actions. AS
a boy Thaw Travelled abroad with his
parents and at Rome and Monte Carlo
was under the care Of physicians. The
doctor who attended him at Rome anC
the nurse who watched by his bedside