Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-02
In Habeas Corpus Proceedings.
Pursues ThaW With Same
Ardor He Did at Trial.
Head Testimony That Did Much to
Save Petitioner on Ground He Was
Insane When lie Killed White.

White Plains, y. II, Aug, 2.-7The
third week OF Harry *. Thaw,s habeas
corpus proceeding to gain his release
from the state hospital for criminal in-
sane opened 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.-4httS. Jerome took UP the read
ing of testimony on tho second trial..
where he left off Friday. From the
several bound volumes lie selected the
evidence of Catherine O.Neill, a former
sseamstress i'll the Tllaw household, at
Pittsburg. This related chiefly to
5Thawfs actions during childhood par.
ticulallv 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 c. Thaw, who sat be-
hind her son, seemed about to lose con-
troll of herself. Her face flushed and
she used her palm leaf fan to hide the
Stwitchfng of her lips. Her testimony
presented Thaw as a fvictim of extreme
nervousness from birth
Jerome read successfully the testi-
4mony regarding the prisoners mental
condition given at !. the trial by Miss
Belle Moorllouses Lawrence, his kinder
BSarten teacher. in Tittsburg; ABRAHAM
r. Beck, whose school he attended in.
s1sSl-1Ss2; Miss Alice G.. Fletcher an old
family friend: Christopher BaggieIn,
steward of Thaw's Whist club in New
York. where Just before he killed White
the young man deposited three cigar
cites in the safe; Amy Gozette, n
trained nurse who attended him at
Montreal; Dir. Charles a. Bailey, a ply
sician of Albany. N ", who attended
ThaW when he was sick on train be-
tween Albany and New York in 1906 z
anthony Comstock and DR. Horatio q.
Wood. who told OF the insanity OF NOM,
hers of Thaw's family. X
EVELYN THAw's TESTIMONY. IL
From the testimony Of Evelyn Thaw.
H the district attorney selected first
titose portions which referred to her
1 husbands actions when she told him
OF her treatment by White, especially
sliis Wild sobbing. He read also testi-
slnony of 5Thaw's alleged attempt to
Kill himself with laudanum in a Paris
FiiolSl,3 dilu OF line Killing OF White,
Other trial witnesses from whose tes-
Etimony extracts We're given were Au-
gust Wiener, the Thaw butler in Wash
9tngton. Charles II. Koehler, one of
the prisoners teachers at Wooster,
Chic. university; Martin Green; c..
Thomas HanlS. New York news.
+ paper man who saw the shooting; !.
Matilda c. Stein. the telephone opera
tor in the Grand hotel. Paris, Caroline
Lowrey, witness of the shooting; Will
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 Fer
sons who saw the prisoner Just after
THE shooting told of his wild appear
ance and behavior were dismissed by
jerome with a few words each.
Some of Thaw's examinations be-
fore the sanity commission in March,
1907, followed. He told these COM
nissioners that the expression IAN
act of Providence referring to the
death Of White had no special signi-
fcance being used only for CONVENE
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