Show NEVER WANTED TO Kill WE I Harry Thaw Told Dr EvansI That Tragedy Was an Act of Providence I District Attorney Jerome Fought Hard to Prevent Introduction of This Evidence which Attorneys Attor-neys for Defense Bellevo Will Save Their Client New York = I never wanted to shoot tho creature I never wanted to kill him I knew he was a foul creature destroying the mothers and daughters of America but I wanted through legal means to bring him to trial I wanted to get him Into court to bring him to justice But Providence Provi-dence took charge of It it was an act of Providence This is Harry 1C Thaws own story of tho killing of Stanford White It was told by him to Dr Britton D Evans the alienist last August In the Tombs Dr Evans on Monday repeated re-peated the prisoners words to the jury that is trying Thaw for his life District Attorney Jerome fought hard all last week against the Introduction Intro-duction of this evidence which tho defense de-fense believes is conclusive proof that Thaw did not know his act was wrong Once the testifying physicians physi-cians had declared that In their opinion opin-ion Thaw was Insane at the time he made the statements However tho rules of evidence permitted the Introduction Intro-duction of the prisoners words In further buhvavklng their contention conten-tion that Thaw was Insane when he killed Stanford White the defendants counsel succeeded Monday in placing before the jury the will executed by Thaw the night of his marriage In April lDO and a codicil executed afj the same time The will and the codicil were offered of-fered In evidence as cumulative testimony tes-timony of Thaws mental unsoundness unsound-ness prior to the killing of White In his will Thaw provided that his executors ex-ecutors should set apart the sum of 50000 to investigate his death incase in-case of a violent and suspicious end and for the prosecution ol the persons suspected of having had U hand In hU taking oft In the codicil 9 haw left to a lawyer In Plttsburg JTfiOO to bo used In securing se-curing legal redress from Stanford White and one other person whose name was not allowed to bo read for tho benefit of four young women whom Thaw declared had been the victims of degrading assaults In a house furnished and used for orgies by Stanford White and other inhuman scoundrels |