The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-10-14
Attorney Who Saved Murderer
From Chair Gives His Opinion
of Former Client.

LONDON, september ~ -dartln
Littleton, the New York lawyer who
defended Thaw at his second trial and
secured a verdict of acquitta of the
charge of numbering the architect
Stanford White, is at present in Lon
don. The other evening he said to a
representative of The Daily Mail:
1.-The recent developments in the
Thaw ease do not in any way concern
me professionally, as / ceased to act
for Thaw Immediately after his ac-
quittal He belongs undoubtedly to
an abnormal type of man. He Just
missed being strong man, and, miss
ing it, Heaven only knows what lie
hit. He reasons accurately enough
when he begins 10 reason, but no one
can tell where he is going to begin,
whether at the right or wrong point.
His conclusions are usually logical and
his premises anything he peases. The
trouble with him is that he can t stop
thinking; he suffers from press of
ideas the proportionate value of which
he is incapable of Judging.
Thaw's Brain Storms.
"The world laughed great deal at
the alienist who described his disorder
as a brain-storm, but in my experience
of him that is precisely what it is. His
mind is in n perpetual tumult, which at
ITS highest point sweeps him along be.
fore it.
His egotism is something appalling,
but it has the virtue of saving him
from mclancholia and giving him the
comfortable assurance that whatever
he does is right. He has a morbid
dread of ever being ignored and would
rather be pursued by all the prison
and asylum authorities ON the Amer
lean continent than be overlooked.
He really thought that in killing
Stanford White he was acting the part
of modern st. George, so much so
that he insisted on his counsel in the
first trial drawing public attention to
the resemblance. 1t was not personal
revenge or "the unwritten law or
anything of that sort that made him
kill White, but the conviction that
there was no other way in which he
could champion the cause of injured
women.
Greek History Student.
People seem to have the impress
sIon that he is drunken degenerate.
That is absolutely not so. He has
studied art and music, he will talk for
hours about the barbarian conquest of
Rome. he has climbed all the biggest
mountains in Europe except the Mat
terhorn, he has very profound knowl-
edge of Greeian history, and used to
be great connoisseur in tapestries,
furniture, and so on. He is SIX feet
tall, good loking, with strong, earn.
est face, rather large deep brown eyes
that dilate into a fixed stare under the
pressure of excitement eourtly man.
ner, and is very fond of recalling all
the notabilities he has met and known.
He has prohapiy solved more of
the bridge problems set by the New
York sun than any man in America.
lie is an ncessant reader a good talk
or ON general subjects, aud man in
whose company you might spend many
hours without noticing anything
strange except that he apt 10 talk
and worry excessively ovtg unimport
ant details.
'lf We're asked on oath whether
considered IL safe ipr Thaw 10 be NJ
large I should say that nothing short
Of the pioyocations he endured before
the killing of stanford White woull
make him danger 10 anyone.