Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-02

I White Plains. y. u. Aug. 2-;The
thi.d Week OF Harry *. Thaw's habeas
corpus proceeding to gain his release
from the state hospital foi$criminal in.
sane opcned today. Expectation that
ThaW and his wife might take the stand
again packed tho courtroom long before
the opening OF The morning session
Thaw appeared refreshed by the two
days rest that have INTERVIEWED,
Dist.-Atty. erome took up the read
ling pf testimony on the second trial
where he left off Friday From the
several bound volumes he selected the
evidence OF Catherine sO'Neill. a. former
seanlstress in the Thaw household, a t
Pittsburg. This related chiefly to
Thaw's actions during childhood, par.
Eticularly his fits Of passion.
+ The story Of Thaw's childhood and
The influences affecting his birth as told
by his mother then followed.
Mrs. William G. rhaw, who sat be-
mind her son, seemed about to lose con-.
troll of herself. Her face flushed and
she used her palm leaf fan to hide the
twitching of her lips. Her testimony
presented Thaw as aivictim of extreme
nervousness from BIRTH
Jerome read successfully the testi-
smony regarding the prisoners mental
condition given at the trial by Miss
Belle Aloorhouse Lawrence, his kinder
sgarten teacher in Pitt sburg; Abraham.
{ r. Beck, whose school he attended in
slSSl-1SS2: Miss Alice C.. Fletcher, an old
family friend; Christopher Baggiem,
steward of Thaw's whist club in New
p ork, where just before he killed White
the young man deposited three cigar
cites cite IN the safe: Amy Gozette, a
trained nurse who attended him at,
Montreal; Dir Charles "a. Bailey, a ply
stefan of Albany, Ny. !, who attended
Tllaw when heGwas sick on a train be-
4twean5 lbany and New York In 1906:
Anthony Comstock and DR.. Horatio g..
Wood, who told of the insanity of mem
+ bers of Thaw's family.
EVELYN THAvy,s8 TESTIMONY.
s From the testimony5of Evelyn Tbaw
X the district attorney selected first
L those portions which referred to her
husbands actions when she told him.
Of her treatment by White, especially
his Wild sobbing. He read also testi-
slr1ony of Thaw's alleged attempt to
lNillfllliiiseIlt VIII Id uQanum In a Paris
hotel, and OF the killing OF White
Other trial witnesses from whose tes-
I timony extracts We're given were Au-.
gust Wiener, the Thaw butlerin Wash,
Hington, Charles i. koehler one of
the prisoners teachers at Wooster
Ohio, university; Martin Green; G..
y Thomas Hanly. a New York news
paper man who saw the shooting !;
E Matilda G. Stein. the telephone opera.
tor in the Grand hotel. Paris. Caroline
I.owrey, witness of the shooting; Will
T liam "A. Johnson, New York news
paper man, who saw Thaw just before
he killed White, and Lionel Straus.
witness of the shooting. All said
Thaw's actions when they met him.
were irrational, A long list of Per
sons who saw the prisoner Just after
the shooting told of his wild appear.
ance and behavior We're dismissed by.
Jerome with few words each.
Some of Thaws examinations be-
fore the sanity commission in March.
j 90T, followed. He told these COM
missioners that the expression IAN
act of Providence referring to the
death of White had no special signi-
ficance being used only for convent.