Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-08-13

cestofs was very insane. on the mater
lai side, two uncles were of unsoundl
nnhd, each at least for a portion of
ms HE and on his fathers side an aunt
was at least an epleptic and perhapsl
insane and some more remote relatlvesI
were undouhtc ly insane, though as tol
thcm the evidence is not clear but therel
mad been insanity in other ancestral
INES not common to the prisoners ownl
descent
AS young child, he was physically
weak and punN, exceedingly nerNousI
ana abnormally wilful Older, he was
subject to violent spells amounting al |
most to paroxysms of excitement With
out any naturally adequate cause. Hel
lattcndcd various schools for different
periods from the age of 6, upward, but
made little progress in study. WhileI
at school, especially in his early years,
he had frequent outbreaks of uncon-
Uollabe excitement in which physi-
Ical appearance was wild ana staring
Continuing his history of Thaw's
life, Justice Mills says:
about 1901 he became enamourcdl
OF a young woman, Miss Nesbit whom
! he afterWard married. She was then
him, the mistress. or a mistress of SIAN
! him, the mistress, or Il mistress of SAN
! ford White. She soon assumed thatl
relation to ThaW and obviously to ac-
count to him for her former position
with White, told him various wild ana
grossly improbable starics of the in
ception of that relation Although he
Thaw evidently was himself far from
a i
or soon thereafter became engaged in
practices of perverted character. as
revealed by the testimony of the i'm
moral woman, which with the corro-
boration, afforded by other evidence
in the case appears credible, he gaNcl
absolute credence to the tales told him
by Miss Nesbit about White. He OBJ
tanned similar information as tol
Whites conduct with few other
young women, either directly from
them or through Miss Nesbit, all of
which Information was of the same .
wild and improbable character; evi-
dently to any normal mind, grossly eX- ,
aggerated TO all, however, he gave
implicit belief His mind became abso
lutely possessed with the stories. He
not only believed them in their entir-
ETY., but deducted from them conclu-
sions as to the practices of White fari y
beyond II belief in ii normal
mind W. rant
From t rrges separately made a
by these few, imittedy immoral wo- O.
men, he concluded that White maiu- ii
tanned several places in New York city "
where he accomplished by force or byl n
drugs. the ruin of respectable young II
American girls as it were, by the
Wholesale Such belief. to such an ex /,
tent was plainly a deluson.
His dolusons as to the practices oil
White were not shaken by the failure t,
of the Investigations made by the de- p
tectives and public authorities and his
delusive belief in his special mission a
continued to possess his mind. In thatl c
mental condition. at the roof gardenl a,
he came into the presence Of White,
doubtless Unexpectedly and shot him m
to death in spectacular and thcatri- m
,al manner. In so doing he believed
he was acting as the agent of proVi- di
lence and performing a praiseWorthy al
act, like that of David in staying Coli N
lth. or st. George in killing the dra &C
gon." Va
Regarding Thaw's suspicion of a
conspiracy against him. by his early it,
the court says pa
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# tbc homicide was of the kind known tr'
&c naranoic and not at all of the er
brain storm'--sane. half a minute and tn
insane HAIR d, minnie aftcrward-vari- in
.tv If any sncb variety really exists. pl
.Thc ycrlic, or thc iury was plainly cr
bv Tho evidence. not merely at
< an expression of reasonable doubti TN
.ut ,,.cn os an affirmative finding of fol
bc roct of insanity ha
81, js trro +b,t tho new tostimonvi !
moi, this trial.introdhced in behalf oil tn
he nriqonor tends 70 materially lin
ar. ~ bis,nr, Of his carly life as ha
Ln,. stated am convinced. how iot
,.or tba+ In s,ch variance if is Vrrvl erl
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