Milford chronicle., 1908-01-17
SEEK TO PROVE
THAW WAS INSANE
Defense Promises New Testimony
in Famous Trial
PROSECUTION RESTS ITS CASE

New York, Jan. 1.-THE Thaw trial
moved with a rush. After the state had
| presented its direct case and Assist
ant District Attorney 'Garvan had
characterized the killing of Stanford
White as "a premeditated, deliberate
and cowardly murder" Martin w. Lit
tleton, for the defense, made the open
ing plea for the prisoner. His promise
of new evidence was sensational and
held the supreme attention of all in
the courtroom. District Attorney Je-
rome. seemingly taken by surprise.
seated himself In the witness chair
the better to hear the outline Of the
new defense. Mr.. Attleton promised
to forge a chain Of circumstances and
to produce a line Of testimony which
will prove Harry K. Thaw undeniably
insane at the time Of the homicide
Evidence Of hereditary insanity and
Of strange, unusual acts Of ThaW not
even hinted at during the first trial
was told OF by Mr.. Littleton, who said
that physicians and nurses who had
attended Thaw were hurrying here
from Europe; that teachers Of the de-
fendant in childhood would be on hand
to give their impressions of "the wide
eyed, distant boy" In conclusion, Mr..
Littleton challenged the district at
physician who would say that Thaw
was not insane at the time he killed
the noted architect.
The outline of the defense was gen
orally considered as rejecting a de-
termination on the part Of Thaw's at
torreys to prove him insane in 1906,
regardless of all consequences.
Charles H. Kohler, of Winona, Mimi,
who acted as instructor to Thaw in the
Wooster (O) university in 1886, and
Mrs. Amy Grozette, of San Mateo, Cal |
who attended Thaw as a trained nurse
at Monte Carlo in 1897, told Of the
young mans eccentricities and de-
clared that his manner always was ir-
rational.
DR.. John T. Deemar, of Kittaning, |
Pa, one Of the Thaw family physicians.
also was heard. as were the attending
physicians of three institutions for the
insane where members of Thaw's faTu-
lily, on both paternal sides. were con-
fined. District Attorney Jerome by un
expectedly invoking the sacred priv
ilege Of physician and patient blocked
much of the testimony as to unsOund-
ness of mind in the Thaw family, but
the calling of the witnesses and the
questions they were allowed by the
court to answer left the desired i'm
preston upon the Jury
Martin Green and Thomas B. Hanly,
two newspaper writer's. who were on
the Madison Square Roof Garden at
the time of the tragedy, were iext on
the witness sstand. They both testih-
ed that Thaw was irrational in ap-
Dearance after the shooting; that his
eyes bulged. and that he seemed to be
under a great nervous strain.
Assistant District Attorney Garvan
made the address for the prosecution,
ind the calling Of witnesses followed.
First in order came an architect who
lad drawn a diagram of Madison
Square Roof Garden. where the trag-
sdy occurred, and then came James
Jlinch Smith, Whites brother-in-law.
Who was on the roof garden on the
light of the shooting, and who talked
With Thaw just before the killing.
Nothing new was developed
The jury is as follows:
Charles F. Gremmels, ship broker,
Oreman.
Arthur R. Naething, employing
,aker.
George W. Cary, dry goods.
George c. Rupprecht, salesman.
John H. Holbert, mineral waters.
David E. Arrowsmith, manager.
William F. Doolittle, auditors clerk.
William H. McHugh, clerk.
Frank J. Howell, manufacturer.
William Burck, assistant secretary
:. M. c. A. I
Francis Dovale, real estate. :
James A. Hooper, meats and provi- {
Ions. !