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That Were Not Even Hinted at
In the First Trial.
Mr. Littleton Told the Court That
Thaw Took Poiaon After He Heard
Evelyn's Story and Nearly Died
Justice Dowllng Rules Out Refereno
to Stanford White.
New York, Jan. 14. The Thaw trial
Is niovlnR with a rush. After the
tate had presented Its direct case
and Assistant District Attorney C-'nr-
van had characterized the killing of
Stanford White as "a premeditated,
deliberate and cowardly murder," Mar
tin W. Littleton, for the defense, made
the open Inn plea for the prisoner.
His promise of new evidence was sen'
sational and held;, the supreme atten
tion of all in the court room.
District Attorney Jerome, seeming
ly, taken by surprise, seated himself
In the witness chair the better to hear
the outline of the new defense.
Evidence of Hereditary Insanity,
Mr. Littleton promised to forge a
chain of circumstances and to pro
duce a line of testimony which will
prove Harry K. Thaw undeniably in
sane at the time of the homicide. Evi
denced hereditary insanity, of strange,
unusual acts of Thaw not even hinted
at during the first trial, was told of by
Mr. Littleton, who said that physi
cians and nurses who had attended
Thaw were hurrying here from Eu
rope; that teachers of the defendant
In childhood would be on hand to
give their Impressions "of the wide
eyed, distant hoy."
In conclusion, Mr. Littleton chal
lenged the district attorney to pro
duce a single reputable physician who
would say that Thaw was not insane
at the time he killed the noted archi
tect.
Mr. Littleton's speech fairly bristled
with surprises. He startled the court
room by declaring that after Evelyn
Xeshlt had told him her story In Paris
In 1903 Thaw "drenched himself with
a poison" and would have died but
for the heroic work of three physi
cians who labored over him all of one
night.
Mr. Jerome had his surprise to offer,
too, and when Mr. Littleton started to
launch into the relations of Stanford
White with the girl whom Thaw mar
ried, the district attorney was on hla
feet with an objection. Justice Dowl
lng sustained him and the name of the
architect was not linked again with
that of the defendant's wife.
Mr. Littleton touched but. lightly
upon the girl's story, as she told It to
Thaw, but careful as he was on this
point, he drew an objection from the
people's cutting officer who said:
Mr. Littleton Is now straying to a
field of stuff which In my opinion will
be excluded."
Jerome's Objection Sustained.
Again Justice Howling sustained the
objection. It was reported at the be
ginning of the trial that Mr. Jerome
would fight this year to exclude the
testimony of young Mrs. Thaw.
Mr. Littleton spared neither Thaw
nor his family hi his recital of the de
fendant's life history. During the
speech Thaw sat wide-eyed and pallid,
looking fixedly at his counsel. To
ward the close he seemed rather dis
pleased with something that had been
said and leaning forward scribbled off
a note. Mr. Littleton's speech was
somewhat dramattcand Impassioned at
times and was keenly followed by
the jury, despite the rather frequent
objections from the district attorney,
who decried the flights of oratory as
having no place In an opening state
ment of fact.
Thaw's ancestry, marked by decided
taints of Insanity on both the father's
and mother's side, according to his
chief counsel, was drawn with great
care and then the defendant himself
was pictured as irrational, erratic and
Insane as a boy, who oscillated be
tween "starshlp and madness, between
brilliance and darkness," and who
fought unavaillngly against the fever
of Insanity which coursed in his
blood at birth.
Describing the killing of White, Mr.
Littleton said:
"Thaw's madness, born and bred in
him, had been set on fire by the
stories he had heard. He had gone
to the district attorney with them
and to Mr. Comstock. They ran in
hlR head until staggering among the
chairs of Madison Square garden
yet not drunk his eyes burning like
two great coals of fire, unable intelli
gently to answer questions put to him,
maniacal In the last degree, lost lost
as he was In Rome, In Monte Carlo
and In London the blind confusion of
insanity overcame him and he fired.
"The result was not a murder, but
the act of a madman, who afterwards,
wild-eyed and Irrational, cried out in
his cell that he heard the voices of
little children calling and proclaimed
that he hud but acted as an agent of
Providence."
After his speech Mr. Littleton was
asked In what manner he would at
tempt to prove Thaw sane at the pres
net time If he offered such an accum
ulation of evidence as to progressive
insanity up to the time of the killing.
"I can only say that I will cross my
bridges as I come to them. A man
can't ride two horses going in opposite
directions at the same time," he re
plied. The outline of the defense was gen
erally considered as reflecting a de
termination of a part of Thaw'a at
torneys to prove him Insane In 1908
reeardless of all consequences.
Progress In Papal Printing House.
Rome, Jan. 14. Following the in
stallation of . electric lighting aod
beating apparatuses, the Vatican has
now installed linotypes In the papal
printing house. Cardinal Merry del
Val assisted In the work of placing
the new machines and is now giving
them his personal supervision. The
pope, who has expressed a desire to
watch the working of the , linotypes,
will pay a visit to the printing house
today
THAWSSTRANGEACTS
GPERA HOuoE LURNED.
Seventy-Five Persons Burned to Death
or Crushed In Mad Panic.
Uoyertown, Pa., Jan. 14. Between
B0 and 75 persons were burned to
death last night in a fire which com
pletely destroyed Rhode's Opera
House in this place. The Opera House
was crowded with the members of St.
John' Lutheran Sunday school who
were attending a benefit given for
Vhat church. While the show was in
progress, a tank exploded. The act-M-s
endeavored to quiet the audience,
but in their anxiety to make them
selves heard and avoid the awful stam
pede of the women and children the
oil lamps which were used at the foot
lights were overturned, setting the
place on fire. The flames Jed by th
o shot almost to the felling and
there was n wild rusj of the seven
hundred persons to escape from the
burning building. Scores of women
and children were trarVipled on and
several who escaped being burned to
death died after being dragged from
the opera house.
The fire was not got undr control
until daylight, but it was not com
municated to other property, as the
Opera House Is on a plot of grounfTDy'
Itself.
Hundreds of persons surrounded the
burning structure apparently uncon
scious of the pending danger from the
falling walls. Many parents who had
children In the opera house paced to
and fro almost maddened by the aw
ful sight.
In many cases. It Is said, entire fam
ilies have been wiped out. The scene
which followed the explosion was In
describable. Scores of persons who
were In the balcony at the time of
the explosion Jumped from the win
dows and sustained fractured llmh
and skulls.
To add to the terrible disaster the
fire apparatus became disabled and
(he structure was left entirely at the
mercy of the seething flames. It
Is almost certain not a vestige of the
bodies of the unfortunates who were
overcome by the smoke ever will be
found. Assistance was asked from
Pottstown, but before the fire appar
atus from that city reached this place
the entire structure was a roaring
furnace.
Had the women and children heeded
the warning of the cooler heads In
the audience the horrible loss of life
might have been avoided, but there
was the usual panic and stampede
which Invariably follows at such a ca
tastrophe. The flames spread rapidly
and communicated to the other parts
of the theater.
Men, women and children rushed
for the many exits and the weaker
sex and the children were trampled
and maimed in the mad rush to gain
the street.
Assistance was at once asked r
both Reading and Pottstown and spe
cial trains carrying nurses and doc
tors were rushed to the scene of the
disaster. Every home within a radius
at half a dozen blocks of the Opera
House was made a temporary hospital
whpre the wounded were rushed by
carriages and other means of con
veyance.
Boyertown is a borough with a pop
ulation of about '.',.)00 and is located
about midway between Pottstown and
Reading.
Blackmar's Appointment Confirmed.
Albany, Jan. 14. The nomination
by Governor Hughes of Abel E. Black
mar. Republican, of Brooklyn, counsel
to the public service commission In
the First district, to fill the vacancy
created by the election of Justice
Willard Bartlett, Democrat, as an as
sociate justice of the court of appeals,
was confirmed by the senate by a vote
of 32 to 15. The vote was a straight
party vote, except that Senator Fuller,
Democrat, of Brooklyn, voted with the
Republicans to confirm. The ab
sentees were Hlnnian, Smith and Wil
cox, Republicans, and Sullivan, Demo
crat.
Opinion of a Japanese Invalid Soldier.
Paris, Jan. 14. The Patrie pub
lishes a letter from a "Japanese offi
cer who wus wounded In Manchuria
ind who Is now convalescing at Nice,"
protesting against the idea of the in
feriority of the Japanese. This writer
3ays: "In the hiearehy of peoples we
ire superior to the Italians and the
Spaniards. Can the Yankees refuse
our Immigrants when they accept the
refuse and the scum of Italy and Ger
many? No one lias the right to treat
us like the Chinese, who are savages.
If the Americans persist In their pre
tensions, It means war."
Tobacco Consumed by Pipe Smokers.
New York, Jan. 14. Pipe smokers
consume more than half of all the to
bacco grown In the I'nited States ac
cording to a statement made by Vice
President Harris of the American To
bacco company while testifying In the
government's suit against the compa
ny. Mr. Harris said the American To
bacco company never has attempted
to obtain a foothold in the plug tobac
co trade In Canada, as the interests
now In control of that market appear
ed to be too solidly entrenched.
Mr. Leavitt Denies Divorce Stories.
Paris, Jan. 14. W. H. Leavitt, son-in-law
of William Jennings Bryan,
characterized as absurd the reports
that divorce proceedings by his wife
were in contemplation. Mr. Leavitt
received a letter today from his wife,
who Is at Brindlsl. Mrs. Leavitt and
the children, accompanied by Mrs.
Bryan, are going to Cairo to spend the
winter for the benefit of the chil
dren's health. They will return to
Paris and join Mr. Leavitt In April.
Mule's Kick May Prove Fatal.
Pittsburg, Jan. It. Hugh Hancock,
aged 3:i. of 10!) West Robinson street,
Nortbslde, is at the Allegheny geoeral
hospital in a critical condition, the
result of being kicked In the bead by
a mule. A calk of the nlule's shoe
broke through Hancock's skull just
above the right ear, and It Is thought
It penetrated the brain.
JTt !.
"I have here a neat and pretty little
letter opeucr," began the agent.
"So bare I nt home," said the busi
ngs ujau sail'i. "I'm niapied,"
POINTED
PARAGRAPHS
Summary of the Week's News
of the World.
Cream of the News Culled From Long
Dispatches and Put In Proper Shape
For the Hurried Reader Who la Too
Busy to Read the Longer Reports
and Desirea to Keep Posted.
Wednesday.
Albany dispatches state that Gover
nor Hughes will not seek a nomina
tion for governor.
Secretary of War Taft In his annual
report urged that the pay in the army
be increased to stop wholesale deser
tions. President Roosevelt recommended
to congress that census appointees be
compelled to undergo civil service ex
amination. Figures made public by the inter
state commerce commission showed
that one trainman out of every 124
employed during the year 1907 was
killed by accident.
Rear Admiral Brownson, In his let
ter resigning as chief of the bureau
of navlgation'declared the president's
exhibition of lack of confidence in his
subordinate destroyed the latter'!
usefulness.
Thursday.
Count Okuma denied that he urged
llndia to rise against England and de
clared his feeling toward Great Brit
ain was en' 'rely friendly.
The Mount Royal, a steamship in
the Canadian Pacific railway service,
which It was feared had gone down,
arrived safely at Qneenstown.
One thoiisand.disposse.ss notices in
Ithe New York East side rent war so
clogged the machinery of the courts
that the Issuing of them was tempor
arily discontinued.
The Aldrlch currency bill, providing
!for $250,000,01)0 addition to the na
tional bank circulation on securities
other than federal bonds, was intro
duced In the senate.
F. Augustus Heln.e, former presi
dent of the Mercantile National bank,
was arraigned on an indictment
charging him with violations of bank
ing laws in over-certifying fifteen
checks aggregating more than $400,
000. Friday.
Bills embodying Governor Hughes'
anti-race track gambling recommenda
tions wero introduced in the assembly
at Albany.
Attorney General Bonaparte direct
ed that suits be brought against many
railroads for violation of the safety
appliance law.
F. Augustus Hein.e gave bonds ot
130,000 to appear Jan. 20 for hearing
charged with overcertlflcatlon of $i00,-
t)00 worth of checks.
The conservative press of Paris and
Berlin scouts the idea of war between
Japan ami the United Slates, though
sensational French newspapers still
predict it.
Saturday.
Secretary Taft declared himself In
favor of legislation to protect, labor
against the abuse of Injunctions.
The New York Clearing House plans
to admit trust companies to member
ship if they keep up the same per
centage of reserves as the banks.
Despatches to R. G. Dun & Co. Indi
cate a slow but steady improvement in
trade and collections, with confidence
regarding future distinctly stronger.
Frank J, McBrien, n wealthy resi
dent of Richmond Hill, N. Y., was
killed while saving the life of Mrs.
Mary Sheele at a railroad crossing.
The district court of appeals in San
Francisco decided that Eugene E.
Schmit, had not committed n crime
as charged in the indictment on which
he was convicted.
Monday.
The unrest in Ireland will not pre
vent Queen Alexandra from taking a
chulse on the west coast in the new
royal yacht.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes told the An
ti-Rent League that she loved the red
flag of socialism better than the Stars
and Stripes.
A measure to exempt labor unions
from the operation of the new con
Iplracy law was defeated In the house
of representatives.
Mr. C. Arthur Pearson, says a des
patch from London, denies that the
Times will be the organ of tariff re
formers in England.
According to advices from London,
It Is expected that the Pope will soon
Issue an encyclical exhorting the
Church to prevent the growth of Free
Masonry.
Tuesday.
Justice John M. Harlan denied that
he is a candidate for the presidential
nomination.
So far as be can, Secretary Taft
has committed the American govern
ment to a promise to withdraw com
pletely from Cuba In the beginning of
spring in 1909.
The Carnegie Steel company pur
chased from Lieutenant Clelan Davis
of the United States navy an Inven
tion for hardening armor plate said
to be superior to the process now io
use.
Physicians, lawyers and clergymen
discussed the proposal to vivisect
criminals and generally condemned it
on humanitarian grounds, although It
could. In the opinion of lawyers, be
legally authorized.
Sunday Converts Union Leader.
Bloomington. 111., Jan. 14. One of
a hundred converts at a meeting for
men yesterday afternoon, conducted
by Evangelist William Sunday, the
former baseball pitcher, was John B.
Lennon, national treasurer of the
American Federation of Labor, nnd
who Is also international secretary of
the Journeymen Tailors' Union ot
North America.
"Tins (lie new minister nny business
nihility?"
''I should sny so. Ho bold us up for
f.'io Dion.- thuu wo fiQVmi IiIoj."
Embroideries Spring
Season, 1908
From St. Gall, Switzerland, our direct importation; cleared
through a large Mew York bouse.
Presented to you in all tbeir bright, crisp beauty, straight from
the hands of the Swiss maiden or matron who papered and boxed
them on an order No. 7842 which read "for James, Oil City, Pa.,
U. S. A."
Iiy far a wider and better assortment than io any past season,
and notwithstanding the advance io cost ol labor aod material from
10 to 15 per cent, less in price than last season. The beauty and
variety of the "match sets," io particular, will appeal to you. WiJe
Swiss bands, rivaling io beauty real Venise lace, though similar iu
construction and design and a great deal more dainty.
A window display aod the sample book ready fur your inspec
tion. Special. Lot ten pieces 20 inch Swiss Flounoiugs, 45c yard.
Actual value (5c aod 75o yard.
i WILLIAM B. JAMES,
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such matters as well as this institution.
The specific business of each department is handled
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