Show JULIUS T DEAD detroit jan 15 julius T ors a noted sculptor father of clarl male arb ohp dlo last night at hi MANY WITNESSES WHO NOTED irrational CONDUCT more insanity in the family Is disclosed A witness aad a laugh new york jan 16 many witnesses new botho case testified at the trial of harry K thaw today and told stories of his eccentricities during the years preceding the killing of stanford white they all declared he impressed them as being irrational the most interesting was that of christopher baggan a steward of the new york whist club who told of thaws actions the day of the tragedy and who under cross examination by district attorney jerome gave amusing details of whist games in which thaw and several mon of prominence participated new york jan 15 the skeletons of ancestry the basis for ahe defense of insanity in the trial of harry K thaw for the killing or stanford white will continue to be exhibited ln court today ly the attorneys for the defense are laying bare that history of the thaw family on both the fathers and mothers side which was only hinted nt in the former trial then the defense was a brain storm now it is hereditary insanity an insanity which the defense has stated began long before harry thaw was born and which up to th e present at least they have riol attempted to put an end to whether later they will claim that thaw is pow sane is a matter wholly for speculation A man whose school classes harry thaw attended when he was a boy aej a woman who nursed him when he was in monte carlo years ago have already been called to ane witness stand and have told of the actions which they believed snowed thaw mentally unsound the dei enss has promised to put forward several other witnesses to testify io his mon dial condition long before tho night ot the tragedy on the madison square garden roof and it Is probable that some of those witnesses will be called today mr littleton Is beginning at the very earliest period of thaws life possible and will so far as he can introduce his evidence in chronological order down to the night ot the killing mrs mary thaw the defendants mother t lg announced will come to new york n spite of a serious illness and will again testify in an attempt to cave her son from the electric chair at the former trial her testimony was of minor importance add she was compelled by her sons law yora tp leave the stand before she haa told all that she wanted to tell whether or notsie will now be allowed to go into the story of the ity in her family cannot bo told until ahe takes the stand new york jan 15 dr horatius Horat lus W wood of philadelphia was called to the stand as the first witness today dr wood acme years ago made an ex of harriet alice thaw a relative of the defendant district attorney jerome objected to the physicians testimony but was overruled by the court as the relations between and patient did not exist ln this instance dr wood said that miss thaw was of mind the next witness to be heard told of new eccentricities just before the killing of stanford while he was christopher baggan a steward of the new york whist club thaw was in the club on june 20 1906 just five days before the roof garden tragedy although the day was hot thaw insisted on taking a screen with him wherever he went about the rooms ho was nervous excitable and ir retable rl table and once as he passed tho wit ness waa muttering this is awful that thaw finally came up to him and aked him to have a package put in the safe what was in tho package asked LUtle toh three cigarettes wrapped in tin fol thang eyes the said had a peculiar stare A telephone message came for him and when the witness touched him to attract his attention thaw trembled all over thaw waa in the club rooms nearly every day did thaw impress you as rational or irrational irrational on cross examination witness said ho had known thaw for fourteen years abay was in the club playing the day of the tragedy tra eedy asked h 0 else was there tho witness said captain wharton john A drake and johnf B gleason Glo ason one ot counsel to thaw at the first trial at other times he said mr gates aad mr wore present bu they always appeared calm they asked mr jerome yea and thaw was nervous yes and they were playing for money 1 donic know you an idea 0 o tsar I 1 am not supposed to havo any 1 I know you are not supposed to havu any but as a matter of fact you the rules forbid playing for money ir the ourt officers had to suppress frequent outbreaks of laughter did thaw and his party have anything to drink on juno 25 oil all sorts of mineral waters and hat else unless they had it with them wo berve anything but mineral waters at the club air but every member has a locker yes sir and they keep all they want in the locker yes sir I 1 guess so sir and drinks were served from tho lockers that day 1 I really dont know at bridge thaw was generally ablo to hold his own the witness guessed the witness said thaw had been more or less nervous ever since ho had known him thaw was at the tele phone for the better part of an hour the day of the tragedy and the witness hoard him repeat that as awful thaws nervousness increased noticeably during the last few years yesterday afternoons proceedings john T doomar thaw family physician was the first witness called to the stand today dr deemar testified he treated harry thaw for st altus danco and measles lie re testimony aal told caiso or attending members of the copac y family the mothers branch of the defendants antecedents dr deemar said a brother of the older mrs thaw bo came an imbecile dr C G wagner of binghamton N Y and mr smith ely jelline Jell lne two alienists of the defense were present dr deemar was asked as to the present mental condition and whereabouts of john ross a paternal cousin of the defendant but district attorney jorome objected on the grounds that the doctor obtained his information while acting in a professional capacity and it would require a waiver from his client before he could testify justice dowlong sustained the objection over the protest of mr lettleton on cross examination district attorney jerome drew out the fact thai henry copley while incapacitated for mental work was never confined in an asylum dr wm W S butler of roanoke va former president physician at the western lunatic asylum ata un lon va where horace thaw a paternal cousin of harry K thaw was confined was the next witness when he was asked as to horace thaws condition up to the time of his death jerome again objected and was sustained the district attorney also successfully cess fully objected to the introduction of evidence of the commitment papers prepared when horace thaw was admitted to the asylum on grounds that it was hearsay mr lettleton took an exception to the ruling dr L S foster of norfolk va or merly of the eastern state hospital for the insane at va where wm S thaw another cousin of the defendant was confined next was called to the stand dr foster waa identify the records of the asylum as to the d of wm S and did so when the record was offered in evidence mr jerome objected on the ground that it was incompetent testimony and waa sustained mr lettleton hero recalled mr deemar and succeeded in circumventing the former objections of the district attorney as to the case of john ross dr deemar sax ne ceased to be ross physician after the latter had been committed to the hope institution ution of feeble minded he was allowed to tell of ross mental condition and declared it was unsound charles koehler of winona glnn who was a teacher at wooster university ver sity wooster Wo ostor ohio in when harry thaw waa a student there took the stand and was asked to tell his impressions of thaw as a boy sixteen or seventeen years of age jerome objected but the witness was allowed to proceed harry thaw always had a nervous gait and walked jerkily he said his eyes were striking afe complexion anaemic his manner in the class room was abstracted and indifferent his eyes usually had a fixed staring gaze there was never any warmth in his eyes no illumination mr kochler said ho abet doah of thaws eccentricities in a diary which he had destroyed tea years ao thaws mind always worked slowly his mind was irrational cross examined by district attorney jerome mr koehler said boys came under his care at wooster and since then as teacher he had been thrown in contact with 1500 boys or more the witness insisted however that the memory of thaw a pale faced lad stood out above the others mr koohler said ho had only used thaws case as an illustration he continued on pago six THAW DESCRIBED AS A PECULIAR FELLOW continued from page one was asked where and whom and to whom to a boy named bangham began the witness what bangham demanded jerome the police commissioner thaw himself joined in the general laughter robert H chase superintendent of the friends asylum for the insane near philadelphia where harriet alice thaw a paternal aunt of the accused Is confined was the arst witness at the afternoon session he said he knew miss thaw and had her from time to time as to her mental condition invoking again the confidential relations of physician and patient jerome prevented the witness from saying what the mental condition was mrs amy gonotte Go the trained nurse who attended harry thaw at monte carlo in 1897 followed dr chase on the stand mrs gonotte is an english woman by birth but now is a resident of california district attorney jerome objected to any testimony from mrs gonotte unless thaw in open court waived the point of privileged consultation as between pauleni and nurse which Is the same as with a physician justice dowlong asked he witness if he desired to enter a waiver 1 I do said thaw mrs gonotte said that while under her caro and with a temperature of degrees thaw dressed one day and stole out he was ono two hours and came back in a highly nervous condition mrs gonotte said that while thaw was derher un caro he impressed her as being distinctly irrational L green a newspaper man who witnessed the tragedy and last year that thaw acted in a thoroughly irrational manner was on the stand today he described thaws appearance pe arance us badly mussed up and irrational ho was with hanley another newspaper man who testified that thaw was irrational here mr littleton asked for adjournment journ ment until tomorrow because ot the non arrival of certain out ot town witnesses and it was granted by justice dowling some men who soy just what they think are men of few words |