The Washington herald., 1909-08-01

Harry Thaw. according 10 all accounts.
made a most favQrable showing as to
mental alerIness nd sanity during his
examination on the stand by District At
torney jerome in court al White Plains,
n. Y. Wednesday. Although held a pris-
oner among the criminal insane by the
law since his acquittal OF the charge OF
numbering Stanford White. Thaw was
self-possessed and at ease throughout the
examination. When asked the direct ques-
ton whether he was ever insane Thaw
said that possibly he was IesaIly insane
during the half minute during which he
had done the shooting. bat from what
the medical experts had told him, he did
not believe he had ever been medically
insane. And when Jerome asked him u
he was justified IN shooting White. Thaw
replied that there is ''Eo such thing as
justification for homicide" lie added that
no one could regret the shooting OF White
more than he (Thaw) did Jerome. pur-
suing that question. wanted 20 know II
Thaw did a wicked thing IN thus snoot-
ing down an unarmed man Thaw said
he believed Jerome was wrong about
Whites not having been armed. bat 70
the question, he would answer yes"
Prior TO Thaw's taking the stand a Mrs.
Morrill, had sworn that Thaw. under the
name Of Reid, had rented rooms in her
house FOR the purpose OF receiving
young girls who came IN answer 90 ad-
vertisements 10 go on the stage. and that
there Thaw had repeatedly used a whip
I on the bodies Of the girls until the blood
came All this Thaw denied. as also the
statement that he had whipped his wife
and that on that account she had begun
! divorce proceedings. Thaws former coUu-
sci, Hartridge. had also taken the stand
against him
/ United States Senator William J. Stone
( Of Missouri got himself into the news
paper headlines. Thursday. as the result
Of quarrel with negro waiter on a
/ Pullman dining car en- route from PhiIa-
delphia 10 Washington. on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. The Senator says that
the walter. whose name is Brown. had
failed 10 execute his order for "a whisky
properly and had delayed his order for
food. When questioned. Brown had been
surly and impudent, according 20 Stone
and the latter had tnen slapped Brown g
face. Az Baltimore Brown had called an
officer. and caused the arrest OF the SEN
atOr, despite the claim Of constitutional
immunity from arrest. So the Missourian
and the waiter had 20 journey 20 the
police station in the patrol wagon. Next
day Justice Grammar heard the charge
/ the negro asserting with a corroborating
witness that Mr.. Stone had called him
an abusive name when, through an acci-
dental mixing OF orders. the Senator'S
/ eggs had been delayed. and had struck
/ him before he had time ia explain. and
/ threatened 70 have him removed When
the conductor had questioned Stone about
striking 4 man. Stone had repied IT
/ did not strike man. 7 slapped a mig
/ GER % The justice accepted the word OF
/ the Senator and dismissed the case.
/ Francis c. Baily. the man who loaded
/ the steamer Goldsboro with goods 70 the
/ value OF 100000. obtained from New
/ York dealers under false pretense and
sailed with the vessel 20 Honduras In 1905.
/ and who later escaped at night from a
vessel IN which a New York detective
/ was about to bring him back, has now
| been landed in Jail at New York TO await
/ trial. He was located by the detectives
/ on a lonely ranch in the woods Of Brit
/ ish Columbia which he had bought under
/ an assumed name.