The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-05
One of Architects Letters, Iden-.
titled, Read in Court at
Sanity Hearing.
81 HAVE A BAD CASE
OF .WRITEPHOBIA'"
Slain Man, in Writing to "May,"
Said: "a Dose of Help Is
the Best Medicine"

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Aug. 5.-By
admitting in evidence a letter written
by Stanford White to a young woman,
Justice Mills today widened the scope
of the hearing in the petition of Harry
K. Thaw for release from the Asylum
for the Criminal Insane. The name of
the person to whom the letter was ad-
dressed did not transpire. It's intro
duction was in furtherance of the de-
clared purpose of Mr.. Morschauser
Thaw's counsel, to show that the beliefs
OF the petitioner regarding practises of
White and some of his wealthy male
associates were based on fact, and not
as the State holds, simple delusions of
disordered mind.
David n. Carvalho, the handwriting
expert, was the first witness called to-
day. Mr.. Carvalho sat by Thaw all
through the first romicide trial, and to-
day he testified that Thaw was "wor-
RED by his counsel. He spoke little.
said the witness, and made his sug-
gestions mainly by notes. "There was
wrangling among Mr. Thaw,s counsel
all the time" said the witness
Letters Genuine, He Says.
The witness said sixty-eight letters
purporting to come from Stanford
White were submitted to him. and he
pronounced them genuine The witness
told of Thaw having discussed with him
letter alleged to have been written
by White to girl whom Mr.. Carvalho
mentioned as NAV" Thaw had said
this girl told him that she had burned
the letter because she feared if her
father saw it he would kill both White
and her
The letter was dated Asril II, and
was assfollows:
i am the most awfullest fraud
when 1t comes to letter. writing. 1t
is mouse. l have what Peter Dool-
ing calls 'writephobia,' and a bad
case, at that. I am glad you are
having such q good time. A dose
of hope, after all, is the very best
medicine any of us can take. =
BY the way, when is that fall boat
going to sail? The social whirl has
opened and is really quite good.
Seriously. when are yoI coming
back? Lovingly"
Instead of name the letter was
signed with what the witness described
as a "hand opened with what looked
like porcupine quills extending from it."
Jerome explained that this was STAN
ford Whites regular signature in letters
to his friends.
Tells About s.Sue Parker,
Mr. Carvalho then took up the Sue
Parker episode. He said that a
woman of this name made a sworn
statement as to events alleged. to have
taken place between her and White.
She produced a bundle of letters which
she said White had written her, and
offered them for sale to ThaM's attor-
ners for $1,000. The letters were finally
bought, said the witness, for $500, with
the understanding that the owner was
to receive $500 more if they could be
said he saw the money paid at the
office of A. Russell Peabody The
woman's affidavit, Mr.. Carvalho said,
described in detail how White had first
met her when she was II years old, and
later taken her to. place known as the
Eagles Nest" and given her wine.
Thaw took the stand long enough to
identify the letters as having been
given to him. When Mr.. Carvalho re-
sumed, he testified that he had told
Thaw that he believed these letters
We're Whites, and that in a measure
they substantiated Miss Parkers story.
Cross-eXamined by Jerome, the wit
ness admitted that there was nothing
improper in the Parker letters