Show SENT EVELYN ONE eccentricities OF HARRY THAW at school he howled like a wild animal and his mother was alarmed new york jan 16 more evidence as to alleged irrational conduct the part of the defendant was offered at the trial of harry K thaw today the most impressive witness bolufe abraham IL beck an uncle of former assistant attorney general james M beck the older mr beck taught a select school of fifteen boys in pennsylvania in 1881 and 1882 and youna thaw was one of his puella mr bock described thaw as a boy of ungovernable temper and produced a letter from mrs thaw mother of the defendant fen dant who said that she fearba 1 harrys mind was unbalanced ho was so different from the other four children one of mr thaws eccentricities which it was said will soon lae testified to was the sending of eighty four pounds of beef to evelyn nesbit one morning when she was ill the attorneys have the receipts for the meat mrs william thaw mother of the defendant is now in new york it is said she will bo called as a witness this afternoon or tomorrow mcw york jan 16 with some or the same testimony that was introduced at the farst trial and with numerous witnesses who are appearing for the first time the defense in the trial ot harry K thaw for the killing or stanford white continues to pile up i evidence intended to show that the young defendant was not mentally sound when he fired the shots which caused the death of the architect to fillin the time until the appearance of witnesses who are on their way from europe mr littleton 1 haws chief counsel is putting on the stana witnesses who detail in somo basea Act shat in themselves beem of little importance but which the lawyers be if eye will in the aggregate the stories of the more important witnesses this morning august weber who was a butler in the house occupied by the thaws in in new york resumed the stand to finish the story which he began yesterday little incidents in ahw s life at that time as recalled by the butler incidents ot J ids nervousness his forgetfulness and his seeming irresponsibility are counted on by the defense to show that for a long time preceding the j night of the actual shooting of white i harry thaw was mentally 1 it is evidently the object of taie de fonso as planned by mr littleton to bring before the jury every person who knew thaw throughout the years before the tragedy on the madison square roof garden who is prepared lo 10 detail any incident which even in the remotest degree might lend to convince the jury that the defendant was house servants abid club servants teachers and medical 5 attendants in fact all classes of people who knew or saw harry thaw have been subpoenaed by the to add their testimony to that of the men and women who wore actual witnesses of the shooting in the effort to show that not only was he irra ional at the time ot the shooting but that his irrationality on that occasion was only the continuation of irrational acts which marked his life for many years before and which were the result of inherited insanity an insanity which existed in hs mothers as well as hig fathers family before he was born august weber the former thaw butler who yesterday testified to various incidents in the lifo of harry K thaw during the early months or 1903 was recalled to the witness stand when the trial opened today he waa asked by mr littleton Litt loton of the defense it thaws actions as ho observed them while employed in the washington and pittsburg houses am pressed him 1 as rational or irrational irrational replied the witness promptly district attorney jerome tuen began his cross examination he had the witness repeat several of the incidents ho related yesterday afternoon and was naked 1 he considered a 5 tip from thaw as irrational act it seemed queer for what I 1 did replied the witness the witness declared that thaw was not dissipating and seemed healthy when he know him but always was nervous and excitable christopher baggan steward of the new york whist club was recalled fo give tho dates of thaws vials to ache club in itoi and mr jerome brought out from the witness the fact that he was able on each of hose occasions to piny bridge whist tho best players in tho club hayi nond A brown a music publisher and eyewitness eye witness of the killing of Stun ford white waa called and testified 0 o thaws irrational appearance on tho roof gurden brown said ho knew thaw personally and saoko to him during an inter mission in the performance but could not get a coherent reply did you over try to get a coherent reply from any other man twenty minutes before he took the life of a fellow human beng asked jerome no replied the witness al abraham it beck of lancaster county pa father of former assistant attorney general jamea B beck was a the next witness 1 he said eliat harry thaw was one ot the boys in his school in 1881 and 1882 the memory of the boys habits had always lived with him tho witness said tho boy wag excessively nervous said mr beck and was very unsocial and abstracted his eves most striking ono of the most principal things I 1 remember about him was the spasmodic and startling outbursts of animal alko howls theao howls would stop as suddenly as tho turning off of a fountain continued on pago five HE SENT EVELYN LYN EIGHTY FOUR POUNDS OF BEEF I 1 continued from page ono I 1 yesterday Yest arday afternoons proceedings now new york jan jail 15 16 adhering strictly to their promise tc to interpose no other defense than that bof insanity in a behalf of their client the attorneys att orneys representing harry uthaw at ills his trial today continued the examination ot witnesses who swore that young thaw I 1 at various time in his life appe appeared arez 1 to them as irrational and mentally unsound practically all of the testimony was entirely new to the case and had to do with acts down to tho the day of the tragedy itself then came the declaration of the ten tell men who who sat on the coroners jury during tho he laqui inquiry 1 ry into stanford whites death all of whom declared that tha th defendant the day following the shooting acted irrationally ills hie manner and appearance wore were such as fo cause calisa the inquest jury to discuss his state of mind after their formal verdict had been rendered in the days testimony there wat wai more delving dolving into the history of tho thaw family alfred ue loo thaw ot ol richmond va a third cousin of tho the defendant taking the stand and telling of the taint of insanity which had caused PI his father and ana brother t dlo dia tri iii atte asyl asylums unie some of thaws alleged eccentricities revealed for the first time were related today by christopher baggan steward of the new work whist club by miss matilda stem stein a telephone operator Pc and by august weber a former butler in the thaw household thaw spent a portion of the afternoon of juno 25 1906 at tile the club and at that time a few hours before the tragedy was pictured by the steward as being highly nervous and frequently exclaiming this is awful he asked the steward to have a valuable package put into the safe after tho the shooting sho oung tuo tile package was wag opened and found tu contained three cigars wrapped in tin foil district attorney jerome in cross examining the club steward brought out the fact that thaw played bridge there with many prominent men the witness declared lie he was not noi S supposed UP to know what mr thaw mr gates mr schwab anti and the others played for but he was sure nothing brif mineral water was ever served at the tables the telephone operator told of thaw putting in 75 calls one morning at the grand giand hotel and then forgetting all about ab out them the butler told many details of thaws life at home lu ill 1903 and was still under examination when adjournment was the separate incidents of alleged allege 1 irrational conduct on the part ot the defendant were being put in evi evidence deace by mr littleton as the foundation for the expert testimony that Is to come he also hopes to ad accumulate cumulate such a mass of testimony as to thaws erratic conduct as to make it impossible for the district attorney to fulfill tile the task the law places upon him ol 01 proving thaw sane beyond every reasonable doubt criminal lawyers of prominence who are e following the case outlined by the defense and who are arc taking in into to consideration the fact that a specific plea of insanity has been entered this year declare d that acquittal under the circumstances can come only with the added clause on account of the ilia insanity of the defendant at the almo the act was committed committe df it la if declared would compel the presiding judge to commit thaw to mattl caban asylum whence a fight to prove hil present anity sanity s and thus gain freedom would have to be conan conducted acted through habeas corpus proceedings dings new york jan 13 11 on acoss ex aini amina nation Uon miss liss stein said miss mias alve I 1 lyn yn nesbit also was a guest at n t the grand under the name of farr it the morning after she left that the seventy five calls were put in asked jerome tho the witness was sure it yas as not because miss nesbit had ri put it in ill several calls that day herself one the witness remembered was to burr witness had known him miss matilda stein who was wag a telephone operator at the grand hotel in 1903 and 1904 when T thaw haw was a gu gues esi there testified that the cho knew thaw under the ithe name of farr Sh him often and ills eyes always staring and bulging his hl s manner was irrational one morning thaw put in seventy five tel calls in loss less than tareq hours hom I 1 1 I 0 ono do he ordered ills breakfast three times in twenty min mrs caroline lowrey lowree and william johnson newspaper newspaper writers who witnessed the tragedy declared in turn upon the stana that thaw impressed thorn them as decidedly irrational lionel straus a portrait painter anti and eyewitness eye witness who testified at ane first trial also characterized thaws actions as irrational I 1 francis mcguinness McGuinn who was war a member of the coTo coroners ners jury which conducted the Inquest fas to Ston StAn tord VI lites death te testified stifled that thaw at the inquest appeared irrational while whiled henry schaefer another member or of the coroners jury te testified stifled that thaw appeared irrational at the inquest ano that after the attorneys had concluded their question forman Gr emmells put a question tor for tile the jury did thaws eyes appear iten as ab now lie ho queried no sir said tho the witness i henry W schnell another member of the coroners jiu y also testified lied as to the defendants irrationality they all said that the jin jurors discussed thaws mental condition conkli tion after ron rendering dering their verdict here mr littleton sprung something ot of a surprise by asking the hii ax ness if he had read Je jerome comment on the former trial lie lepied in the affirmative did my remarks influence your judgment demanded jerome in a way they did Sch said recess alfred leo lee thaw of richmond va a third cousin of the defendant too took the stand at the beginning of the at ter and in nag response to a set tes or of questions from mr littleton gave the P history of the thaw family ills his father wm win S thaw died insane in williamsburg liams lian burg isburg va after nineteen years in ill the asylum and lit his s brother if horace C died insane at 23 years of age at staunton va in tile the li hospital there harriet alice thaw is the witness fathers half sister the great grandfather of both the witnesses bior x or tho defendant was benjamin thaw the pap papers is of wm S and horace thaw khz were introduced und and rc received in evidence several additional members of the coroners jury jur y were ct c called t ailed to t the he stand and all agreed that thaw was waa in an irrational man mail the day following the shooting one of tile the witnesses witness es called call C d sald said he was sure that thai T thaw hav was absolutely crazy new york jan 15 cole whites letters etters in more ore amusing than threatening en I 1 ng in one lie he wrote nobody in the world knows why stanford white lost his life I 1 cole white must know or lose my own life will you send me a card of admission to tie the trial and send it to cole white care general delivery new york city and oblige the last letter which precipitated the arrest was sent to justice do aling today and was as follows 1 I am the man cole white who wrote you two letters letteri and have received no answer I 1 am the cole white who must find out why ahr mr white lost his life or loose rny my own will you see me and let me speak foia few minutes and then 1 you oil will know whether I 1 a am right or wrong prong atten after tile the co coroners Ju jurors roes ten or of then had been disposed of sir littleton called august weber to the stand weber served as a butler butir in the thaw house in lafayette S square q u a e 1 washington nta s h i n gt oi 1 front from january u n t t lr i il ay 1 1903 9 0 T the h e witness said he formerly was in the employ of senator foraker of ohio he related india many instances of what ho described as a ir A rationality on tile tho part of the defendant thaw would order that no dinner bo be prepared certain evenings and a few hours later would come in and demand to know why there was fiath ing to eat ho he would call tho butler out of his bed and give him 5 for some trilling service thaw would sometimes pace the floor of tho dining room in ehte midst of dinner muttering to himself once thaw called for a carriage at S a in and when told ofie one was not available became hys and fell prone on a couch during the irrational outbreaks the witness said bald thaws eyes kainey and had a vacant stare weber was still on the stand when 1 ment until tomorrow mo morning riling was taken s |