Show LITTLETONS S PLEA PLEAS PLEA FOR THAWS S LIFE Devoted Efforts to Showing He Was Insane When He Killed Stanford White INSANITY WAS HEREDITARY Wil for fur til Id tl Irmo 1110 Him 1 Jury hl to Ob cro Ordinary Hulls 1 I I New York 1011 Jan Jamm Jai 29 9 Martin W V Lit Littleton Lt chief counsel for Harry K I Thaw today loday tOlay mado his ide appeal to lo the Jury JUI which is Li L to pass Judgment on omu his hii client Before a u crowded courtroom the lie attorney devoted himself himsel to lo dom dem that Thaw was WIl charl m san suno when ho he li killed Stanford White Mr Littleton that tha ma 10 seri semi serious ous ou efforts of ot the defense had hael been buon mot met only by sneers and ali insinuations from flOI DWI Diat Ally Atty AU Jerome Thaws Insanity he said q not a I ii tIling thing born beta of at an al exigency but was W grown by heredity Into the UIO very history of or the Ow moan man Mr said he lie waw waH convinced the defense laud had produced facts to the end to show shiow Thaw Insane beyond all ni doubt though the Iho law lied hud hul not 1111 IU that duty duly dut upon II it I Ii it I was 11 for or the tile prose prosecution cution cuton to prove Thaw sane sano Rie anti and a Mr i Littleton asserted that he ho could not un d how Mr Jerome could coull come co ne before tho the jury jur and hu lie hod ful Ui filled the thus burden upon ullon him hills and ask for Harry Harr Thaws conviction of ot murder Tho Thu ho speech WAS w listened to with close cloe attention by b the th Jurors SI AS IN t DEMAND Df Mm The fhe demand for fol seats scats at the tho hue Thaw haw trial today toda so ito 10 far fur exceeded tIme the tl capa capacity city cl of the tho court count chamber that the tue police olce In iii II charge had hn their hands hamida full ful in handling tho time disappointed crowds For the thie first Time Inie since the taking of ot testimony was Wis begun Evelyn Nesbit Thaw occupied a a seat Sl l In tho the court courtroom courtroom room Mrs Jl William Thaw the moth mother er or Mrs lr George L 1 Carnegie the sis ter and Josiah Thaw a n brother also Iso were Vere In the family group Tho liar bar against women was WI sus RUS suspended rind Cn thoro there ero many man of ot thom them themon on hand when whon Justice took t ok his isis place on tho the hooch bench Attracted by b Mr 1 reputation ns os nn on In ora orator orator tor ton prominent lawyers and men of ot affairs from all ni parts of tho the country were irene welO included In the thio court room 1001 throng LITTLETON BEGINS It I was vas 1050 when Mr Littleton arose aro and began his hula plea to time the tw Jury JUI In tn behalf of ot Harry HaI Thaw Diet Alls Atty l Jerome who made lade a point of ot remain remainIng remainIng Ing lag away front from fl tho the court curt room throughout tho the summing up of ot Mr 11 lr last year ell was absent when court convened today toda st Garvin look took copi COlli copious one ous 0 notes of ot tile the address s of ot the scum coun counsel sel sd for the tho defense defonse Mr Ir Littleton ld he ins naked asked nothing more than that thai the Iho Jury observe ob ee in 1 reaching Its verdict the ordinary rul rulof rules s of any 1 ordinary mini In Jim an UI ordinary court count of an un American community He lie Hl cautioned cauto nod the thc Jurors to kp clearly before thorn thol the tho fact fiLet that thai the tho of at Innocence nc Is IN always with the defendant until ull ho lie 10 Is proved gult guilty At lomo length Mr 1 Littleton ox the doctrine ot of reasonable doubt In lit 11 n a it case of this kind li ho said where Insanity is IR the tho plea piOl It Is I hot not Incumbent upon the thc counsel for the thin defense defenCe to establish defendants In insanity sanity beyond a reasonable iii al although I though thought I 1 think thin I 1 can point out to you ou I that wn wo have done nil all al of at that thai The Tho law ia places the tIme burden n upon tile the prose prosecutor Iros to prove to you 01 beyond mill all 11 yolk rea reasonable rel doubt that the th defendant d was sane anne THAWS HISTORY 1 Mr Harry Harr Thaws history Ii from frol th I hi tints time tl of o tho Ito I prenatal to I Incident when his hil mother In the tho of Ct tho time night put out her hand in II bed betl to in feel the time cold coll features or of O u mu child chili who had hu suddenly died down Iown to tho thin thoda day da of ot the tho tragedy This boy ho hB said eald Bal took on 01 the thin brooding tho the very vor melancholy which to time the mother that night I 1 may bo ho blinded by b partisanship but gentlemen cant you see BOO leo with mo me that this thiN defense Is not a IL thing thin born horl of ot exigency to co ee that Injustice In is II done dono or that a IL murder may 11 hr b m n it hr n nhom bon luor instead of or time the very history of ot this thin boy bo the evidence clence In Itt detail anti and a nIl picturing tho the devotion ot of the ha tIl old thIns nurs nurses es ca und and teachers who lino hUt rn m unto from afar to give testimony Mr lr ton said Gentlemen O you who look and lud listen In sincerity nutty may 11 read In II the footprint of o tho the boy 1503 bo the course which led I him through London Homo Borne Monto Curio Carlo and Now ow York In after life 11 Mr Littleton dwelt at nt length upon the testimony of ot Abraham Heck Beck time old teacher from from Pennsylvania That testimony t would menu sonic some something thing to 10 mo inc If tt I were on k t hu jury u declared the tite attorney There Them heN Is no more unon honorable man muon In iii II all 11 Pennsylvania P than tItan old man Dk HIl was all al his hum own given In hl his own It was no n re ra 10 whets whon he Iw told laId toll you oU what wilLit he Ito did tild No power wor on earth could havo hat that Ihl honorable old oll gentleman now tot toning near nl the lists other othel cub fildo to aid all In II deception ll to havo hao a hand hald In a I murder PROSECUTIONS F m Cnn evidence OB mis ni thus thin bo lie an nn to the tho Int of cit r you YOI oi gon hy by h thin sneers or of If time the th district Lot the tho Iii prosecution If limy Uw havo no ito 10 say Hay 11 no so n mimi and I ne forone silence and Mr Ir Littleton muse laid grout tress upon 1111 tho the letter I lor Mr Bol received from rain William Thaw In iii 1881 I WIliam 1111 II whon she oho 1110 said ald aie slit foil red th tin Iho bays yN mind wax wn affect 1 and 11 banned the thu old to tl boar with lh him hll IL a little lite stir fur he did Id not lCt know what to 10 suggest When tha tho i Item hud mm bills lucre limo you mid ii a 11 hud ha d loft lut thu Ih t hut VIMO v I I K ate Mr II i l Littleton II 11 1 I lon proceeded time tho district attorney lead t to y 01 u til alil al davit dm mado In bum a it procedure at lit lt tIme tho tho lust bruit trial Mr Ir Jerome lou ht I 1 take tako I it t to have you 01 inter Infer Unit she Mho Had In iii II rOII WiLY way wl y h 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