The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
THAW MAD
FROM BIRTH
TELLS JURY

nclQent Wnen MS mOtner, III
the middle of the night, put put her
hand in bed to feel the cold features
of a child who had suddenly died, down
to the day of the tragedy.
This boy he said, took on the
brooding, the very melancholy which
came to the mother hat fearful night.
1 may be blinded by p%artisanship, but.
gentlemen, can't you see with me that
this defense is no thing born of an
exigency, to see that injustice is done
that a murder may be covered, but
born instead of the very history Of
this boy?'
Reviewing the evidence in detail and
picturing the devotion of the old nurses
and school teacher who had come from
afar to give their testimony, Mr.. lit
Teton said:
Gentlemen, you who o and listen
In sincerity may read in the footprints
of the boy the course which led him
through London. Rome, Monte Carlo
and New York in after-life."
Mr.. Ldttleton dwelt at length upon
the testimony of Abraham Beck. the
old school teacher from Pennsylvania.
THAT testimony would NEAR some
thing to me If I was sitting on a jury"
declared the attorney. There is no
more honorable man in all Pennsyl-
vania than old man Beck. His testi-
mony was all his ~own-given in his
own ~language-it was no rehearsal
when he told you what he did. No
power or earth could have induced
that honorable old gentleman, now tot
tering lear the other side, to aid in
deception, to have a hand in a murder.
Can such evidence as this be an
swered to the satisfaction of you
gentlemen by the sneers of the district
attorney? Let the prosecution, if they
have no testimony, say so and forever
silence their sneers and insinuations."
Mr.. Littleton also laid great stress
upon the letter Mr.. Beck received from
Mrs. William Thaw in 1881, when she
feared the boys mind was Affected and
begged the old teacher to bear with
him a little longer. for she did not
know what to suggest.
when the mother had appeared here
before you and had left the witness
stand" Mr.. Littleton proceeded, THE
district attorney read to you the affi-
davit she made in a certain proceeding
at the last trial. Mr.. Jerome sought, 1
take it, to have you infer that she had
in some way ~contradicted herself or
that her testimony was not candid.
But, gentlemen, l appeal from that
affidavit, made in the pardonable pride
of the mother, made in a stress of cir
cumstances, couched in the ~plethorfc
vocabulary of the conventional lawyer,
written in the tumult of a trial; | APP
peal from that affidavit and its peculiar
construction to this letter of more than
twenty-five years ago, written In the
mothers W hand, written in no con-
founding phrases of a lawyer, written
at a time when there was no peril but
the peril of h%eredity; / appeal from
that affidavit to this letter which comes
futtering across a span of twenty-five
years from the hands of a tottering
old man Of 70, like i ~benediction
out of the past to interpose Itself to
save this boy
The young millionaire has not the
slightest doubt of the issue. So sure
lis he of a verdict of not guilty that al
ready he has completed plans for flight
from New York and the unwelcome
notorioty attending the killing of Stan
ford White and the subsequent legal
battle to send the slayer to the cleo
trio chair.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has been prepar'
ing for their departure Immediately
after the conclusion of the trial. They
plan to go abroad, travelling tncognltoi
and to live at some quiet place until
the memories of the Madison Square
oof Garden tragedy and the reveal
lions following it have grown dim.
1t is planned that as soon as Thaw
Is set free he shall go with his wife TO
their home in Park avenue, where she
lives with only a maid as companion
Harry will find everything in readiness
for his departure. His personal De-
longings will be packed, ready TO send
to a steamship pier.
The utmost secrecy will attend the
fight. Not until he is absolutely GER
tain that he will not be observed VII
Thaw show himself in public. Tit
couple win be assisted by Roger
O'Mara, of Pittsburg, and his picked
detectives.
Mrs. Thaw who is as confident as
Harry that the battle for liberty is won
has discussed plans for the future will
her husband every day this week. TheS
have considered a long residence in {
Paris suburb and automobile tours II
Switzerland and Italy with all thu
luxuries that wealth Ia bring.
Thaw's confidence that an acquitta
is certain was strengthened by TN
mastery fashion in which Mr.. Little
ton began the summing UP for the de
Tense today and the evident favorable
impression he made on h jury.
A Cold Proposition.
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