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Show NEVER WANTED TO KILL WHITE Harry Thaw Told Dr. Evans That Tragedy Was an Act of Providence. t ft District Attorney Jerome Fought Hard to Prevent Introduction of This Evidence, Which Attorneys Attor-neys for Defense Bellevo Will Save Their Client. Now York. "I nover wanted to shoot tho creature. I nover wnnted to kill him. I know ho wns a foul creature, destroying tho 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 Justlco. But Provl-denco Provl-denco took charge of it; it was an act of Providence." This Is Harry K. Thaw's own story of th'o killing of Stanford Whlto. It was told by him to Dr. Britton D. Evnns, tho nllenist, last August In tho Tombs. Dr. Evnns on Monday repeated re-peated tho prisoner's words to tho Jury that is trying Thaw for hla liro. District Attorney Joromo fought hard nil Inst week against tho Introduction Intro-duction of this ovldenco which tho do- j fenso believes Is conclusive proof thnt o Thaw did not know his act wa3 " wrong. Onco tho testifying physicians physi-cians had declared that in tholr opinion opin-ion Thaw was liifcano nt tho tlmo ho mado tho statements. Ilowover, tho rules of ovldenco permitted tho Introduction Intro-duction ot tho prisoner's words. , In further bulwmking their conton- 1 tlon thnt Thaw wns lnsano when ho killed Stntiford White, tho defendant's counsel succeeded Monday in placing before tho Jury tho will executed by Thaw the night or his marrlago In April, 1905, nnd n codicil executed at tho samo tlmo. Tho will and tho codicil woro offered of-fered In evldonco ns cumulative testimony tes-timony of Thaw's mental unsoundness unsound-ness prior to tlio killing or Whlto. In " his will Thnw provided that his ex- ' ccutors should set apart tho sum of $50,000 to Inveitlgnto his death In caso ot a violent nnd suspicious end, and for tho prosecution Oi tho parsons suspected of having had n baud In hi tnklng off. In tho codicil 'ihaw left to a lawyer In Pittsburg $7,500 to ho used In so- ' curing legal redress from Stanford Whllo and one other person whoso ? namo was not allowed to bo red, for i tho benefit of four young women, whom Thnw declared had boon tho victims -or "degrading assaults" In a houso "furnished and used for orgies by Stntiford Whlto and other Inhuman scoundrels." |
