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Show ITHAW TRIAL FAST DRAWIItG TO CLOSE Only Testimony of Alienists Remains Re-mains to Conclude the Defense De-fense of Accused. LETTERS TO (MISTOOK ARE FEATURES OP DAY Thaw's Mother Gives Evidence Contradicting Her AiUdavit Made a Year Ago. IEW YORK, .Tan. 22. The ond of the second Thaw trial ib fast approach-. approach-. iug. This was indicated Into today when Dr. Charles G. Warner, the ilrst . o the alienists io be called by tho defense, took the stand for his pro-' pro-' .liminary examination. Anthonj- Corn- stock, vice-president; of tho Society for the Suppression of Vice, had been heard as a witness earlier in tho day, and Mrs. William Thaw, mdthcr of tho defendant;, had completed her testi-"mony. testi-"mony. The kindergarten teacher who had charge of Harry Thaw as a lnd I of G also testified, and the day marked , a long strido toward the conclusion of I ho colcbrated case. Mr. Coni3tock78 testimony, while new, had been discounted by the known facts of Thaw's appeal to him to assist as-sist in closing up tho houses where Stanford White was alleged to have maintained elaborate furnished apartments apart-ments aud where young girls woro said to have been mistreated. More letters in Evidence. A dozen letters Thaw wrote to Com-. Com-. srock regarding the matter, giving a detailed description of tho Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street house, were admitted in evidence and read to tho jury. District Dis-trict Attorney Jeromo seemed as pleased as the defense with the let-j.ers, let-j.ers, and later in the day read into the record himself most of Mr. Comstock's replies to Thaw. The witness indicated indi-cated in his testimony that nothing over came of the complaints, legal evidence evi-dence being lacking. Mrs. Willinm Thaw, siill unable to wall: unassisted because of her roccnt illness, was not long upon the stand. She told of Thaw's carl3' life, of in-. in-. Uuencos before his' birth and of tho mental unsoundness of two of her brothers. She was not cross-examined. Mr. Jerome contented- himscif with reading to the jurors the affidavit mado by the elder Mrs. Thaw Inst vear when ' the question of Iter son's sanity was before a lunacy commission. In that affidavit she declared that in Iho direct di-rect line of descent there had been no insanity in Marry Thaw's family for four generations. As to tho collateral col-lateral . cases, Mrs. Thaw said in the aflidavit there were but two and they worc easih accounted l'or In her statement to tho commission, Mrs. Thaw also resented the insinuations which she said she had been compelled com-pelled io suffer because of the newspaper news-paper reports of insanity in the family, fam-ily, and she assertod that there were no family secrets to hide and there was no skeleton to be bared. 1 frW Expert Testimony. Mr. Littleton ma' continue with e.x- Aj p MtS ' port testimony tomorrow, or ho may Icli Itfl " offer as witnesses tho doctors from ftt? W Homi. Paris aud London who arc to :ti: K I testify briefly of attending Thaw in "uh l i those" cities. Another doctor is ex W mt ' pecti'd to testify about an outbreak uh' on a traiu, and that will end all save B ML tjhe expert testimony. K.jPj Today tho codicil of Thaw's will was MaThx placed "in evidence, but the will it- Vfiji pelf was temporarily ruled out. bc- lUjl en use of the insufficiency of evidence Mm showing its custody since 1905. Mr. IvI'V Littleton paid that. he would supply fUH: this tomorrow or Friday. |
