The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-02
I HAW CASE
ENLIYENEL
Jerome Creates a Sem
sation by Reading on
Exaggerated Ego

White Plains. y, Y. Aug. 2.-The
third week of Harry X Thaw'S habeas
corpus proceedings, TO gain his release
from the state hospital for criminal
insane. opened today. Expectation
that Thaw and his wife might take the
stand again packed the court room
long before the opening of the morn
ing session. Thaw appeared refreshed
by the two days rest that have inter
yened
District Attorney Jerome took up
the reading Of testimony Of the second
trial, where he left off Friday, From
the several bound volumes he select
cd evidence Of Catherine O'Neill, for
mer seamsress in the Thaw house
hold at Pittsburg, This related chiefly
10 Thaw's actions during childhood,
particularly his fits of passion.
The story of Thaws childhood and
the Influences affecting his birth as
told by his mother then followed.
Mrs. William c. Thaw. who sa, be
hind her son. seemed about TO lose con
troll of herself Her face flushed aud
she used her palm leaf fan TO hide
the twitching of her lips. Her tes-
timony presented Thaw as victim OF
extreme nervousness from birth.
Jerome read successfully the testi-
mony regarding the prisoners mental
condition given at the trial by Miss
Belle MCrehouSe Lawrence, his kinder
garten teacher in PittsburG; Abraham
r. Beck, whose school he attended I'D
1881 and 1882, Miss Alice Fletcher, an
old family friend, Christopher BagGic,
steward OF Thaw's whist club In New
York. where, just before he killed
White, the young man deposited three
cigarettes i'm the safe; Amy Gossette,
trained nurse who attended him aC
Montreal: Dr. Charles A. Bailey. ply
sician of Albany, n. Y, who attended
Jhaw when he was sick on train be-
tween Albany and New York, in 1906,
Anthony Comstock and DIT Horat,o c.
Wood. who told of the insanity ol mem
bers of Thaw's family
From the testimony of EVELYN
Thaw, the district attorney read first
those portions which refer 10 her huS-
bands actions when she told him OF
her treatment by White. especially his
wild sobbing. He read also testimony
of Thaw's alleged attempt 10 kill HIM
self with laudanum i'm a Paris hotel
and Of the killing OF White.
Other trial witnesses testimony
were given. among which was the
Thaw butler in Washington; Charles
+. Koepler, one of the prisoners teach
ors at Wooster university: Martin
Green. c Thomas Hanley. New YORK
newspaper man who saw the shooting
Matilda c. Stein, the telephone oper-
ator in the Grand Hotel, Paris; Caro-
line Lowrey, witness of the shooting;
William A. Johnson, New York news
paper man, who saw Thaw just before
he killed White, and Lioneh Strauss,
witness OF the shooting. All said
Thaw's actions when the ymet him
were irrational a long discussion oil
the priosner's actions after the shoot
ing was dismissed by Jerome with
few words
Some Of Thaw's examinations be-
fore the sanity commission in March.
1907 followed He told these commits
sioners that his expression, AN act oil
providence" referring 10 the death oil
White, had no special significance be-
ing used only for convenience
Cur purpose" Mr.. Jerome told the
court 'is TO show that concealment
OF delusions is by no means an uncom-
mon thing among paranoiacs and that
this act OF providence idea was used
by the prisoner al the very commence
ment OF the thing"
The sanity commission, Jeromc's
reading Of the report showed, tested
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