Bellefonte, Pa., February 22, 1907. I ————— Thaw Declared Providence Forced Him to Shoot. PURSUED HIM BY LEGAL MEANS Alienist Testifies Prisoner Told Him He Hoped to Bring Architect to Trial and Humiliate Him—Will and Codicii Admitted in Evidence. New York, Feb. 19. — “This man (meaning White), the dead man, this creature, the beast, the blackguard, sought to take the virtue of every pure-minded woman that came into the sphere of his observation. I tried to save them with all my power, but I could not. “I never wanted to shoot at the cre- ature; I never wanted to kill him; I never had a desire to do him physi- I knew he was a vile crea- ture, devouring the daughters of the cal harm. fathers and mothers of New York, of America, but I did not want to kill him, trial. I wanted to bring him before a court so that his infamous life would | be exposed to the public and he would | be brought to justice. “But it was not to be so. “Providence This was an act of Providence. If I had my own way he would have suf- | fered the humiliation which comes with laying bare such a vile and in- | famous life before the court and pub- le.” This is Harry K. Thaw's cwn story of the killing of Stanford White. It was told by him to Dr. Britton Evans, the alienist, last August in the Tombs. oner's words to the jury which is try- ing Thaw for his life. District Attorney Jerome fought hard last week against the introduc- tion of this evidence, which the de- fense believes is conclusive proof that Thaw did not know his act was wrong. Once the testifying physicians had de- clared that in their opinion Thaw was insane at the time he made the | statements to them, however, the rules | -of evidence permitted the introduction of the prisoner's words. In further bulwarking thelr conten- tion tial "Thaw was iusane when he killed Stanford White, the defendant's counsel succeeded in placing before the jury the will executed by Thaw the night of his marriage in April, 1905, and a codicil to the will executed at the same time. -h Again Mr. Jerome fought the evi. dence, but he significantly withdrew his objections after Dr. Evans had giv- en it as his expert opinion Thaw was insane at the time he executed the will. The fact that the district at- tornoy seems disposed to let in testi- mony of every character provided there is a preliminary opinion from the witness that the man was of un- sound mind at the time to which the testimony refers, was taken as fur- ther indicating that Mr. Jerome may at the psychological moment, if he deems his hand strong enough, demand the appointment of a commission to pass upon Thaw's state of mind at the present moment. Thaw's Will Read. The will and the codicil, as read to the jurors, was offered in evidence as cumulative testimony of Thaw's men- tal unsoundness prier to the killing of ‘White. In hig will Thaw provided that his executors set apart a sum of $50, 000 for the purpose of investigating his death in case of a violent or sus- picious end, and for the prosecution of the persons suspected of having had a hand in his taking off. In the codicil Thaw left to a lawyer in Pitts- burg the sum of $7500 to be used in securing legal redress from Stanford White and one other person, whose name was not allowed to be read, for the benefit of four young women who, Thaw declared, had been the victims of “degrading assaults” in a house “furnished and used for orgies by Stanford White and other inhuman scoundrels.” The names of the four young wo- | men were mentioned by Thaw, but were not made public. ~queathed sums of $2500 each to Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, Anthony Comstock and a lawyer named in his codicil, to be used in discovering fur ther alleged misdeeds by Stanford White and securing redress for the women. The trial entered its fifth week. The «opening of court found Attorney Del- - mas again in his accustomed place at the head of Thaw's counsel table. Dur- | Ing the day there was no surface indi- - cation of the storm which it is said raged among counsel for the defense - during the latter part of last week « mfter the trial had been adjourned be- - cause of the death of Juror Bolton's ~ yife. Mr. Bolton was early at the - criminal courts building and said that he felt perfectly able to go with the It was decided that the jurors 2 Thaw Complained to Jerome. Dr. Evans, who has been by far the most important witness for the de- fense among the medical experts, de- I wanted to bring him to legal | took charge of him. | Dr. Evans repeated the pris- | Thaw also be- | and that the latter had told him to let the matter drop; that there was noth- ing to it. He also complained to An- thony Comstock and to a detective gency. Lively Cross-Examination. District Attorney Jerome cross-ex- amined Dr. Evans briefly on the one point, of his opinion that Thaw was pf unsound mind at the time of exe- cuting his will. The prosecutor and witness flashed fire at the first con- tact and there was every indication that when Mr. Jerome unde.took Dr. Evans’ cross-examination in general the proceedings would be as lively and interesting as any ever heard in a local court room. Dr. Evans met the preliminary attacks boldly, and seem- ed as ready with his wits as the dis- triet attorney. This was illustrated when Mr. Jerome in a tone of aggra- vation asked the witness: “Well, what can you say?” “There are many things I could say, but I am not permitted to say them,” ! retorted the physician amid laughter, | ITALIAN SHOT AND CUT TO DEATH “Black Hand” Murder at Glenside, Near Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Feb. 18.—Thoroughly convinced that the murder of an un- known Italian under unusual circum- gtances late Saturday night, near Glen- side, a suburb, was the result of a “Black Hand” plot, the police authori. i ! ties here have been asked by the Mont- | gomery county officials to help run | down the murderers. The Italian was inveigled to a lonely spot on the road | to Glenside, not far from Edge Hill, | where there is an Italian settlement. | There he was set upon and shot many | times. His body was then hacked and | cut in a most inhuman manner. i | The murdered man, whose clothing | | was of good texture and whose gen- | i | borer, rode out toward Glenside on a; | trolley car from Germantown to the | | scene of the murder, with seven men, | | who are believed to have planned his | | death. The eighth man left the car | and apparently started toward the | | Italian settlement in Edge Hill, when | Peter Rollo, a watchman on the hail- | | road, saw the seven men pitch upon | | the murdered man. A number of shots | | were fired, and the unknown struggled | | with his assailants until his coat was | torn from his body. The murderers | fled, and when the suburban police ex. | amined the murdered man they found that he had been cut on the head and | body wiih a rnoteliet and slashed with | a stiletto. JAP WORKMEN BARRED San Francisco Scheol Controversy ls Now Settled. Washington, Feb. 19—Japanese chil- | dren are to be admitted to the white | schools of San Francisco, under certain | restrictions; skilled and unskilled la- | borers coming from Japan are barred | from the mainland of the United | States, and American laborers, skilled | and unskilled, are to be excluded from | Japan. This is the basis of the agree- | ment between President Roosevelt, | Secretary Root, Mayor Schmitz and the San Francisco school board as an | adjustment of the anti-Japanese agita- tion brought tbout by the segregation of Japanese children in the schools of San Francisco. The agreement means that the schools of San Francisco will | be conducted in the same manner as | they were before the board of educa- | tion adopted the resolution last Octo- ber providing for the segregation of | the Japanese, except that adult Japa- | nese who are in primary grades must | continue to attend the Oriental schools and that Japanese children under 16 years of age will be admitted to the classes with white children of their own ages. | | | KILLLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Axle On Car Broke and Occupants Were Thrown Out. Wellsboro, Pa., Feb. 16.—Hiram Pickering, of Tioga, was killed and Dr. 8S. P. Hakes was severely hurt in an automobile accident on a bridge over the Elk Horn creek, a tributary of the Tioga river. Pickering and Dr. Hakes, who is president of the Orange Na- tional bank at Tioga, were making a sharp turn in the road to take the ap- proach to the bridge, when an axle ‘on the motor car broke. The machine crashed into the bridge rail. Pickering was tossed over the abutment and fell upon his head. He died without re- gaining consciousness. Dr. Hakes was also tossed from the automobile, but | he escaped with several lacerations and contusions. i 39 DEAD IN MINE EXPLOSION | Reach 70. | Monterey, Mex., Feb. 19.—A dispatch to the News from Las Esperanzas, Coa- huila, says that 29 men are known to ; house Casualty List In Mexican Disaster May | be dead and 12 injured as a result of an explosion of gas in the coal mine at that place. The list of dead and in- | jured may be extended to 70, as that number of men are believed to have been in the mine at the time of the accident. Mrs. J. D. Rockefeller Ill. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 16.— John D. Rockefeller, who has been here for a menth, left suddenly for New York on receipt of a telegram announcing the dangerous illness of his wife. He was not accompanied by any of his family. He had expected to remain until after the winter had passed. | Went Insane Over Thaw Trial. insane over the Thaw trial, Joseph Lerdolph, of Janesville, Wis, was taken to the Mendota asylum. Ler dolph talks only of the Thaw trial and says he has'$100,000 to help out “Eve lyn and Harry.” Madison, Wis., Feb. 19.—Violently | TWENTY DEAD IN WRECK 147 Others Injured When New York Central Electric Train Was Deralled. New York, Feb. 18.—Twenty dead, two fatally hurt and 145 others more or less seriously injured, is the result of the wreck of an electric express train on the New York Central rail- road at 205th street and Webster ave- nue. Of the large number of injured, 50 are, according to hospital and police reports, seriously hurt. Most of the others are suffering from lacerations or shock and will recover. The train was made up of five coaches and was drawn by two mo- tors. At ‘Woodlawn road the four tracks run through a rocky cut and take a sharp curve. When the train reached the curve it was running 48 miles an hour. Both mo ors and the smoking cars swung safely around the curve, but the cars following left the rails and plunged over on their sides with a terrific crash, tore up the tracks and after sliding 100 yards collapsed in one mass. The rear car, containing more wom- cen than the others, suffered the great- est as it overturned, and before the breaking of the coupling released it from the cars ahead it was literally torn to pieces and broken bits scat- tered for 100 feet across Woodlawn avenue. Durng this distance men, women and children who had escaped unin- jured in the overturning of the cars were dragged to death. For the entire distance the track was lined with the dead and dying. In being dragged along the cinders and coal dust had been so ground into their faces and the exposed parts of their bodies that it was with difficulty that the rescuers could tell whether they were white or black. Many of them had their cloth- ing torn off and were almost nude D. | eral appearance was not that of a la- | when found. “JUDGE PAXSON'S WILL TNVALID Testament of Ex-Chief Justice of Penn- sylvania Set Aside. Philadelphia, Feb. 19.—The absence | of necessary subscribing witnesses caused Judge Penrose in the orphans’ court here to declare invalid a clause in the will of the late ex-Chief Justice Paxson, of the supreme court, be queathing $1,500,000 to charity. The | will provided that $100,000 be set aside for the founding of an agricultural school for boys. After the death of the widow the residuary estate was to be applied to the same charity. Mrs. Pax- son died shortly after her husband. Two nephews contested the will, which | was properly drawn, but Judge Pen. rose held that the bequest failed be- cause the document had not been wit. nessed by two persons as required un- der the act of 1855. Edward E. and Henry D. Paxson are the chief bene ficiaries under the decision. WOMAN KILLED BY DYNAMITE Two Children Also Badly Injured In Explosion Which Wrecked Home, Lebanon, Pa., Feb. 16.—Mrs. Zeller, the wife of John Zeller, of Annville, near here, was instantly killed by an explosion of dynamite at her home, and their two children, Lydia, aged 13 years, and Mary, aged § years, were so badly burned and lacerated that there is little hope of their recovery. The was wrecked, Zeller placed three sticks of dynamite in the stove to thaw and went to work, neglecting to teil his wife that the dynamite was in the oven. Lydia, the elder of the children, was fearfully cut about the face and body and was terribly burned, her clothing having been ignited by the explosion. Mary, the other child, had a large gash torn in her back, and there are cuts and bruises from her head to her feet. Her clothing also caught fire, and she was badly burned. BLACK HAND MEMBERS HELD Eighteen Italians Must Face Charges of Robbery and Attempted Murder. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Feb. 16—Eighteen Italians of the 23 captured at Browns: town, near Pittson, on Thursday last, were held on the several charges which have been preferred against them; five of the 23 were discharged from custody, and four others who have since been arrested were com- mitted to jail to await a further in- vestigation. The hearing was held in the corri- dors of the county prison, at which time there was unfolded a tale of rob- bery, attempted murder and general terrorism that proved astounding to those unfamiliar with the actions of the Black Hand element in the upper end of this county. Witnesses testified that the order had a membership of 500, with branches at Buffalo, Roches- ter, New York city, Scranton, Wilkes- Barre and a half dozen other cities. * Grief For Wife Killed Him, Belair, Md., Feb. 19.—Rev. William Francis Brand, D. D, for many years rector of St. Mary's P. E. church, at Emmorton, Harford county, died, aged 93 years. He failed to rally from the shock and grief caused by the death of bis wife about a week ago. Dr. Brand was born in New Orleans, but came to Maryland when a young man. He was ordained to the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal church in Blast Oddly Roasts Him Alive. Allentown, Pa., Feb. 18.—As Felix Sandys, a cement worker at the Le- i i i i ! { i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i | | | | { GO TO-DAY TO YEAGER & DAVIS =————GREAT INVENTORY SALE- From February 15th to March 2nd, 1907, we will sell all leather goods at the fol- SHOES REDUCED. lowing reduced prices, for cash only : Men's, Womens’, Boy's, and Youths’ Department. Men's $5.00 Shoes, all kinds $3 4.50 “ . 4 . 4.00 * ' 3 he 350 “ o 3 4 3o0 ‘f 5 2 xt 2.93 * $* 2 * 2.25 ‘f 4 2 $s 2.00 * 4 I 5 X.83 + 4 I 4: 1.78. ¢ “" 1 Boy's 3.50 * “ 3 i 3.00 * ‘“* 2 . 2.50 ' 2 # 2.25 ue 2 #t 2.00 ‘* 4 1 % 1.78 'e 1 ‘“ .50 * $e 1 st £28 * $s 1 Youths’ 2.50 * # 2 #* 2,00 4 5 1 * 75 4 1 1.50 *“ *¢ I “ 1.25 * “ I Womens’ 35.00 ¢ & 4 $e 400 * id 3 ' 330 * . 3 i Womens’ 3.00 Shoes, all sizes 2 " 2.95 . 2 ‘ 2.50 .“ 2 ie 2.253 * ul 2 “ 2.00 * “ 1 ‘i 1.75 ‘ ‘i i $e 1.530 o 1 4 3.25 ¥ '" 1 Misses’ 300 * $e 2 i 2.50 “ 2 3¢ 2.00 * # 1 $4 1.75 a" a 1 i L3O 4 1 4 1.25 i" 4“ 1 $e 1.00 %% 4“ Childs’ 2.50 4 2 £ 2.00 * i 1 ot Ls " 1 o“ nso $e I ! . 1.25 © a 1 | 4 1.10 * 4 hi “ 1.00 * “ | # 00 * 4H / ‘ 8g = ’ i ‘“ . ‘“ i Baa 70 48 25 00 80 50 30 10 70 25 50 25 10 90 25 So 50 30 10 95 Qo 8o 75 65 33 50 These goods are all warranted clean and cannot be replaced at the prices we are We still have a few of the job lots offered at 75, 98, 1.29, 1.59, 1.69, asking. 1.79 and 1.98. No premiums will be given on goods at reduced prices. YEAGER & DAVIS OPEN EVENINGS. nm I CR. ————— ‘“‘Prevention is better than cure.” Itis also a great deal cheaper than cure. That is one reason why Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser should be in every home. It shows how to get health and how to keep it. Its 1008 pages are full of helpfal information on all questions rela. ting to health and disease. And tnis great book is sent free by the anthor on receipt of stamps to defray expense of mailing only. Send 21 one cent stamps for paper covered book or, 31 stamps for cloth. Ad- drass Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. — Mr. Carnegie gave a lake to Prince- ton. Now he has given aswimming tank to Yale. If his aqueous gifts continue to diminish in the same proportion, Harvard may expect a new water-cooler presently. Coal and Wood. EPoWVarp K. 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