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Show b m&lie aiorstkoughttither expressed r implied.- . , : ; XHcUw Tbaw Jnajjie.-' 'vyb7i that bub shot Stanford Whit hsiwas ina.ne. The question that will arise, is. r' you satisfied bejoad a reaaonable. doaot, that this bub was not. inaantt It not too should gire him the benefit of this donbt." When Mr. Gleaaon attempted to fire something of the defendant's history, saying he is SO years of sge, and that Harriet K. Thaw, the daughter of an aunt, is confined in aa insana asylum, Mr". Jeroma objected. . f Mr. Gleasos explained that he would show there was insanity on .both sides . of the defendant 's family, aid on this assertion he was allowed to proeeed. - "Harry Thaw," continued Mr. Glea-son, Glea-son, "met Evelyn Nesbit ia 1001, and fell honorably In love with her. He went to her mother in 1002 and told her he' wanted to marry her daughter. "The girl soon thereafter, it so happened, hap-pened, waa in the hospital to undergo a serious operation. It was understood when she bad recovered from the operation opera-tion that Miss Nesbit waa to go to Paris, and Thaw was to go along, as the avowed suitor of tho young woman. "We will show that in 1903 he asked this young woman to marry him. 8he refused. Why she refused you will hear from ber own lips. She will best tell her story. Suffice it to say that the reason was one connected with an experience in the life of the girl with regard to. Stanford White. His Mind Diseased. "That Thaw suffered from a diseased mind we will show you by the testimony testi-mony of his mother, his doctors and by letters he wrote to the Soelety for the Suppression of Vice in this city. When yeu have heard all this testimony testi-mony it will be impossible for you to say the act of this man, for which he is now undergoing trial, was that of a sane person. Working in his diseased brain we will show vou were many things connected with his past life and that of his wife. They culminated in the explosion which caused this defendant defend-ant to kill Stanford White. "His diseased brain guiding him, he saw what was a demon glowering at him. Acting upon the delusion that his act would he an act of providence, he walked coolly and deliberately to where Stanford White sat and shot and killed him. He thought the act was right and not wrong. "He had no idea of evading the consequences. con-sequences. Still regarding himself as the agent of Providence he stood there, held his pistol aloft as if mutely to say: " 'It is done; it is right; It is not wrong.' " Mr. Gleason spoke for an hour and fifteen minutes. INSANITY, NOT A "HIGHER LAW," SAYS GLEASON NE'V YORK, Keh. ."John R (.Ira-s.n (.Ira-s.n of Thaw's rnuDst-1, matie th rpn-iri rpn-iri addrr?' fir th (Irfprnf before the adjournment of tourt yesterday afternoon. after-noon. "I)i.'ahue your rairi'1?, gmtlemn of the jury." h? began, "of snv Ha that "thf defen will rely upon anything any-thing liut the constitution and the laws of the imperial State of New York. You must dismih all idea that we ar to import into thi State any so-railed higher or unwritten law. We will relv upon all th- defeii that the law allows. al-lows. "One of the law on trial here is the law as to insanity. Mr. (lleason de( ia.-e 1 that it would be fhonn that Thaw believed he wa acting upon a view of Providence when he killed White, and he had suffered from temporary or emotional insanity for years, al'o that it would be shown tha Thaw acted in self defense and without malice, believing threats had been made againt him by White. Didn't Know It vu a Crime.. Mr. (Jleason paid that Thaw did not know the nature or quality of his act at th time he committed it. "When you have heard all the testimony tes-timony in this cas and come to judee this ilefendant, I am sure you will he of the opinion that the defendant's attitude at-titude was one of insanity and not one of crime. "Thaw believed that Stanford White had wronged him. The defendant was suffering with hereditary insanity which we find existed in his family. When we show this instanity in the family and then show you this man ' act, you will say it was the act of an insane man. You, gentlemen, will understand un-derstand this better than the experts. You will understand the stress. "Heredity and stress are the two great causes of insanity. This defendant defen-dant suffered from a great stress of mind. His brain was in a whirl of madness. "We will not rest the evidence of insanity upon any single act, though eminent specialists on brain disease have long held that insanity may be defined by a single act." "An insane man," said Mr. Oleason, "mav exprert the utmost abhorrence of afl crime, yet when the insane impulse im-pulse comes it separates the act contemplated con-templated from th general idea of crime, and the general consciousness that murder is wrong does not enter into the act at alU "Our law declares that a killing is inurder when the man who commits the act is of sound mind, and when there |