Spanish Fork Press | 1907-02-07 | Page 2 | Trial of Thaw Begins

TRIAL OF THAW BEGINS Defense Will Rely Upon Plea of Hereditary Insanity New YorkThe state laid its caGe against Harry K Thaw on Monday a plain unemotional story of the shooting on the Madison Square t arden ar-den roof Tho defense replied with a plea of hereditary Insanity It was assorted that Thaw In slaying White believed he was acting as agent of Providence that real or fan clod wrongs committed against him by the architect and former friend of his wife had caused the impulse to kill When the deed was done Thaw made no movement to escape its consequences but stood as if mutely proclaiming to the world The deed la done It was right It was not wrong