PRICE If you buy from COLEMAN HASSLER, > ~~ No. 118 Erie Bt, Bayre LT es T*r Win. Both Phones. YOU ‘need something to build | YOu up, to insure a healthy Appetite and to bring re- g sleep. Then why biry Stegmaiers t Extract, then 5 do ist does pit, er direct ——— PRICE ONE CEN “INSANE, HE ACTED AS AGENTOF GOD" Trial at New York-Frisener's Counsel Makes Masterly Address to Jury. + KEW YORE, Feb. “.— Moral, hered- ary and temporary inganity, no . flmeieden of right or wrong and a fon that he was an agent of Prov- idence I= the defense of Harry K. Thaw and bis excuse for the murder of Stanford White al the Madison Square Roof garden on June 23 last All this was outlined by John B. Glea- son of the counsel for the prisoner In a fantastic description of the state of Thaw's mind at the time of the shoot- Ia carrying out itz plea that Thaw killed White while temporarily Insane the lawyers for the youthful defend- ant will put his begutiful young wife on the stand today probably as ohe of the frst witnesses. It is expected that ashe will testify that relations existed between herself and White which so preyed upon the mind of the defend- aut as fo lead to the homicide. That Evelyn Nesbit Thaw had the secret which drove Thaw to kill Stan- ford White was learned whep Lawyer ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY FRANCIS P, GARVAN. Gleason, In addressing the court, In- timated that she would take the stand and tell all about it. This was one of a series of sur prises, The crowning seusation was reached when Mr. Gleason sald: “We will appeal to no higher law,” be sald, after he had paid the jurors the customary compliment. “We will not ask you to give our client back hiv freedom on any law except the law of the state of New York. “We will prove that Harry Thaw was Insane when he killed Stanford White; we will prove that he was not accountable for his actions, that he be- lieved the death of Stanford White to be an act of Providence and that he belisved himself to be an agent of Providence. 1 frankly state to you now that insanity is our defense, “We will show that his perverted mental condition existed for two years, and we will show its origin In hered- itary insanity, “Nevertheless we will show to you that despite his insanity this defend. ant had provocation aud that he did what any one of you would have done under similar conditions. “It Is a story that throbs with pas- sion and sinks deep Into sorrow and suffering as it progresses. “We will demonstrate to you by sworn witnesses that Harry Thaw was subject to such persecution and such wrong as would prompt any sane man to the course which our client pursued. , “But be was not sane. What he suf- fered and what he endured overthrew his reason, and he committed an act without being responsible for It, al- though having ample provocation, It war an act justifiable in itself, yet nevertheless performed by a man who had no control over himself or his acts at the time. "We will show yon that insanity and epllepsy existed in this man's fam!! for many years, We Intend to prove that hereditary Impulses so operated in his mind as to overthrow his reason in the hour of his stress after he had been the victim of constant mistreat- ment which continued for weeks and months and years.” Thaw sat like 8 wooden man, his arms folded, his head down like the lead of a sullen bull preparing to cuarge, his gaze fixed rigidly ou the table in front of him, his skin on his cheeks hanglug in heavy folds. Occa- sionally he covered his flushed, sullen face with his hands. His blinking eye- lids danced an accompaniment to the twitching muscles at the roots of his balr along the temples. Mr. Gleason quoted Shakespeare, Goethe, Stevenson and John Hay, He sald the action of his wrongs upon Harry Thaw's braln had Lecu Hie the torture of ile Toyuisition io which a drop of water fell at regular Intervals upon the victim's head until sleepless. ness and pain drove him mad. Up to this time he had dealt with Thaw's alleged wrong only In the broadest and wost general terms “We will show,” sald the dignified Mr. Gleajon, “that Harry Thaw has an uncle who is now fn the axylom a luna: He. a nap that there is losan: Jes of hia. + Harry crux of his case, For the first tims Harry Thaw's wife was mentioned by name, “In 1901 this defendant met Evelyn NebLIL" sakl Gleason. “He loved ber with as booorable a love as any man ever entertained. He went to her moth. or and told the mother of his love. He became her open and aceepled suitor She was in need of an operation, and It was decided by the mother that the girl should be taken to Europe for the operation. Mr. Thaw as her accepted lover went with ber, : “He took her to call upon his own sister, the Countess of Yarmouth. “In May, 19038, Harry Thaw proposed to Miss Nesbit. She refused him for reasons which she herself will tell From that moment an Idea took pos- session of Harry Thaw's mind with regard to Stanford White which In the lapse of time led him to belleve It would be entirely proper and an act ef Providence to kill Stanford White | do not Intend to tell you here what Evelyn Thaw told her sweetheart when she first gave to hia ber reasons for refusing to marry him. She her self will take the stand and tell you what it was, and you shall judge for Yourself, “We will show you that the things which larry Thaw first heard from Evelyn Nesbit's lips led him to write many letters and notes to the Soclety For the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil dren—letters that ‘will convince you of the deranged condition of his mind. “We will show you that Harry Thaw did pot abandon his purpose of marry- ing Evelyn Nesbit, but that he finally got her consent and did marry her. We will show you that he had carried a revolver from June 1004. We will show further that on the night of June 25 last he wore an ovefcoat ypon the roof of Madison Square Garden not for the purpose of hiding his weapon but because his physician had advised him to do so. “We will convince you finally that when he saw Stanford White his mind in its diseased state so operated that he felt it to be an act of God's providence to kill him and that he walked directly to Stanford White's side as a man mright walk to meet a friend and then and there shot him to death” Mr. Garvan, in opening the case for the state and telling the story of the killing of White, occupied less than Af- teen minutes, and the prosecution's en- tire case was kept within two hours With the exception of young White aud the coroner's physiclan who per- formed the autopsy and described the wounds on White's body, the only per sons called to the stand by the state were five eyewitnesses They were cross examined briefly by Attorney Delphin Delmas of the defeuse, who thus appeared actively In the proceed- ings for the first time. The witnesses told nothing that has not been known to the reading public ever since the night of the tragedy. They related the deliberate manner in which Thaw approached White, faced him and fired. They repeated Thaw's assertion, “He ruined my wife,” and Mrs. Thaw's remark to her husband, “Yes, but look what a fix you are in now.” To this last remark Thaw re- plied, “Dearie, I have probably saved your life.” It was brought out that Thaw look- ed back at his victim as he walked away “with a staring look In his eyes.” Mr. Garvan's outline of the state's testimony was the briefest possible story of the crime. He told of Stan- ford White dining at the Cafe Martin with his son and a schoolmate of the latter the evening of the tragedy. He related bow White went to the roof garden on Madison Square Garden to see the Initial production of a sum- mer musical comedy called “Mamzelle Champagne” and then related in sim- ply unembellished lauguage the inci dent of the killing. “The people claim,” he concluded, “that It was a cruel, deliberate, mall- cious, premeditated taking of a human life. After proving that fact to you we will ask you to find the defendant Rulity of the crime of murder in the first degree.” It was not until after Mr. Garvan had spoken that the prisoners wife and mother were barred from the room under the rule of excluding wit- nesses, Brownaville Court Martial Opens. SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. *.—~The court martial trial of Major C. W, Pen rose, Twenty fifth infantry, charged With neglect of duty lu connection with the Brownsville (Thx) riots, opened at Fort Sam Houston. Colonel Glenn, Taeuty-fitth fufantry, represents Major Penrose. Captain Charles Kay is judge advocate. Major Penrose was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. For ty citizens of Brownsville are here as witnesses, After the charges were read the first session adjourned. Preparing to Fight Standard, WASHINGTON, Feb - District Attorney Sims of Chicago and his as sistant are In Washington in confer ence with the administration officlals preparatory to the trial of the first of the Standard Ol cases in Chicago. Mr Sim# had a talk with the president Questions affecting the evidence to be submitted and other lmportant details are to be settled Ly Mr Sims while here, Arrested Five Bookmakers, HOT SPRINGS, Ark. Feb A deputy sheriff aud constables arrested five bookmakers at the Ouklawn race track just after the mcing opened upon the acceptance of the frst bets Me officers say they will continue to meke arrests as fast as bets are made Omnibus Lighthouse Bill Passes. WASHINGTON, Fel, “~The omnl thouse bill, carryiog a total ap of SLU fot lighthoute an iit { STATE RESTS CASE Wife of Dr. Simpson on Stand Against Him. TELLS STORYOFHER FATHER'S DEATH Winewski, Polish Boy, Only Eyewlit- ness of Tragedy and Made insane by Sight of It, on Stand. Failed te Qualify. RIVERHEAD, N. Y,, Feb. '—At the Simpson trial here Mrs. Homer, Blmp- son's mother-in-law, on cross examina- tion said that her husband had spoken to Dr. Simpson about a will, statiog that he was going to change it The withess testified further that Dr. Simpson sometimes stayed overnight in New York to make acquaintances about the hotel lobhiles, Le explained, #0 as to bulld up his practice. She sald Mr. Horuper objected to his stay- ing away from home Once Homer Pand Simpson bad a dispute over the matter, Mrs [Homer declared, and Horner sald to Simpson, “I never wanted you to marry my - daughter, anyway." Mrs. Horner denled, in answer to questions, that she had ever told her brother, Walter Selvege, that the shoot- ing of her husband was accidental. On redirect examination Mra. Hor- ner sald that two Sundays previous to the shooting Simpson had started to bring a loaded gun into the house and that Horner told him be was never to do that under any circumstances. At this point the witness was excused. Marion Walsh, a maid in the Horner home, was called. The state sought to question her as to the alleged dis- pute between Horner and Simpson over the death of Dr. Pryor, but the court sustaned the defense's objection to the Introduction of the testimony, Mrs. Julla Horner Simpson, wife of the defendant, was called to the stand She told her story of the shooting of her father in a tearful volce. Several times she broke down and wept freely Once during her testimony the prison- er's feellugs gave way to tears. After supper on the night of the trag- edy, the witness testified, her husband began toying with a shotgun. He marched about the room. playing sol- dier, and she marched after him, play- fully beating on a small paper box as a drum. A little later Simpson, ashe sald, was iu the kitchen with the gun, but came into the dining room, where her father was looking over some pa- pers relative to property iu Texas The doctor walked over to the stove and stood looking at her father, and she re marked to her husband, “1 hope you see what you are looking at” Dr. Simpson replied, “1 see a great deal” Then Dr. Bimpson took the gun and went upstairs. Horner also went up- stairs to get a drink of water. Dr. Simpson came downstairs again and sat in the dining room, with the gun across his knees, his elbows resting on his knees and his face buried In his hand. Homer descended the stairs and went out into the kitchen. Dr. Simp- son followed, carrying the gun. Then came the nolse of the shot, followed by a fall, she sald, and her father's volce saying “My God, what have you done?’ Mrs. Simpson sald that she mn Into the kitchen and asked her husband what be had done. He replied, “Don't, lon't.” Her father begged sowe one to put him out of pain. She told her hus- hand to go for Dr. Donohue. When he returned with Dr. Heyen she sald to ber husband: “Why did you 46 this?’ He replied: “Would you hang me? How could pou do such a thing?’ Later, she said, Simpson told ber the shooting was accldental In conversation with the husband carly In the evenlng he told her, she sald, he had seen a lawyer and had been assured by him that any such will as Mr Horner Intended to make could be broken “Doe you love your husband?’ was asked Mrs. Blmpson on cross examina: tion. “I do,” she replied. ln reply to further questions by the defense the witness sald that, although the relations between her and her hus band and her father had not been cor dial prior to the shooting, the two played cards and conversed about ord! lary matters The prosecution next called the Pol Ish boy Winewsk! to the stand. He was the only eyewitness of the shoot: ing and after the tragedy went insane and was removes] to an asylum, Ef forts were made to have him sworn but all attempts to qualify him failed He couM not follow the Interpreter who was present to question him, The tate then announced that It rested Its case, and court adjourned yo: Syracuse Lawyer n Saiecide, SYRACUSE, N. Y., Feb James Clark Parshall, a lawyer, forty-eight vears old, committed suiclde by shoot ing himself in the mouth. He bad once before attempted suicide, He had late Iy read of Andrew D. White 24's sul- cide In California and ended his life in the manner described in that story. Skater Drowned at Hranchport. PENN YAN, N.Y, Feb. "Charles Foster, eighteen years of age, was drowned at Beanchport through falling Into an alrbole while skating on Lake Keuka. Foster's home was in Pennsyl vania Pass Twe Cent Rate DILL JEFFERSON CITY, Ma, Feb. The house by a vole of 92 to 1 passed the bill reducing passenger rates to 2 cents a mile on all main line railroads in Missouri, Weather Frobabiiities. BUCKET BRIGADE, AT 100 YO 1. A Surprise at New Orleans Opening en Clty Park Track. NEW ORLEANS, Feh ~ <The races shifted hack to City park for their third fortnight at that track. Grace Larsen wou the LaGarde selling stakes at a mile, valued at $1.75. It was a four borse affair In the first race Bucket Brigade, at 100 to 1, Anished second, The opening even! was for three year-olds over the three and a half! furiong route. A bunch of youngsters went to the post in the first, but half were making their debut in the racing game. Lawh%s a colt from the Tholn- a8 Clyde stable, was the hero In this | race. He was heavily backed by the talent and went to the post a strong | favorite at 6 to 8. J. Lee had the leg | up oni the son of Griffin. Lee got him! off first and held the race safe, gain ing ground at every stride, and at the) end was four lengths in (front of Rock: | et Brigade, a 100 to 1 shot. La Samada | was several lengths in back of Bucket] Brigade. The winners First Race Lawless, first; Bucket Brigade, second; La Samada, third Second Race Kare, first; Aules, sec ond; Pittkin, third. Third Race Gold Proof, first; gin, second; Lady Carol, third Fourth Race-—Grace Larsen, first; Tom Dolan, second; Lamptrimmer, third. Fifth Race. — Lens, first: Captain Hale, second: Grace George, third. Sixth Race —Coltness, first; Voting, second; Nadra, third. Seventh Race -St thur Cummer, second: third Dar Noel, first: Ar Lady Ellison, Dead Heat at Oakland Trpek. HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Feb. "The first race at the Oaklawn track opening | resulted in a dead heat between Ida! May and Laura Clay, the latter a filly | starting’ fer the first time. Five books | were open at all times, as new crews Greene Made Runaway Hace, LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb “~—Fine| weather and a good track brought a large crowd at Ascot Greeno, the! second chiolce In the sixth race, made! A runaway race of it Will Not Accept Resiguations. ALBANY. N. Y,, Feb. ~.—Superin- tendent Otto Kelsey of the state insur wice department sald that Le would not accept the resignations of Messrs, Kinkead and Marks, named by Lim us Inspectors of election of the New York Life Insurance company tions have been raised” said Mr. Kel sey, “as to whether | have the right cithér to accept the resignations or ap point new men in thelr places, Accept sauce might throw the whole election into confusion.” Fourth Trial of Powers Opens. LEXINGTON, Ky.. Feb. “~The case of Caleb Powers, charged with com plicity in the assassination of Senator William Goebel at Frankfort seven years ago, called In the circult court at Georgetown today, was continued by Agreement. A special term of court will be called later, us neither side has made any preparation for the trial This will be the fourth trial of Powers, who has been sentenced to the peniten- tlary twice and given a death penalty once, To Show How Easy It Was, WOOSTER, O., Feb. ".—Simply to show that they could, Allen Meller, Harry White and Willlam Berbart, youths In jall here under Indictments for murder in the first degree, made their escape from jall by cutting sev- eral bars. The three got out of the steel cage and went down into another part of the building and gave then selves up. The three escaped from jall a month ago and were recaptured in a few hours. Triple Murder or Suicide, OTTAWA, Kau, Feb. \ The bodies of Mrs. Frank Smeck and her two chil dren, an boy aged seven and a girl aged three, were found in the home of Mrs. Smeck at Centropolis, a village twelve miles northwest of here. The throats of all had been cut. It {s not known whether it is a case of murder and suicide or of triple murder. Mr Smeck hax uot been at home for ses eral mouths, 4nd his whereabouts are not known Asansaine Fired From Ambush. LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb V.-An at tempt was made to assassinate Judge David Martin and his son, Milton Mar tin, as they rode along the highway in Knott county, near bere. Men con cenaled in the underbrush shot Milton Martin twice and seriously wounded him. Judge Martin was Injured by heavy stones which were thrown on him. There is no clew Rev. Seymoanr Raker Dead. KANSAS CITY, Feb Rev. Sey mour A. Raker, one of the founders of the Republican party, a pro-«lavery ag {tator, n Preshyterian minister and an editor of note, Is dead at hs home here: of pneamonia. He was born In Arlington, Vt, ninety-one years ago and was oue of the oldest ministers in age and point of service in the United States, Judge Bischof Dangerously I, NEW YORK, Feb Judge Henry Blschoff of the appellate division of the supreme court 18 dangervusty fll in this city. He was taken (1 Saturday with hemorrhages In the stomach, amd, al though his life was despaired of, hopes dare now entertained for his recovery Schumnnn-Meluk 111. KANSAS CITY, Feb, Mme. 8chu- mann -Helnk, who was to have given a sopg recital here last night. Is Indis Jose, 1m resilt of a cold. She cane HUGHES SWINGS AX DISMISSES TWO STATE OFFICIALS, New Regine Inaugurates Thorough Investigation of Pablic Balldiags Department at Albany and Makes Recommendations. ALBANY, N. YY, Feb "~The per emptory dismissal of Richard O'Brien of Chautauqua, acting deputy superia- and James Johnston of Albany, chief engineer of the department; a resolution requiring Elmer Blair, chief clerk of the depart ment of public buildings. to dispose within sixty days of his one third Inter. esl in A corporation whose apparatus hiss been used in the Loller Louse and another resolution declaring that state smuployee should be Litercstad any trausaction with the Are the immediate results, announced last night, of the luvestigntion by the trus tees of public buildings into the con duct of the state department of public buildings Governor Hughes announced the re sults of the luvestigation in an extend ed statement, which says in part “After a thorough Investigation of the department of public bulldings the trustecs have ordered the dismissal of Richard O'Brien, acting superintendent of public buildings, and of James Johnston, chtef engineer of the depart ment. The trustees adopted a tion that ne of the should be interested in any corporation or firm dolug business with the state or in any transaction of profit with the i state. The trustees also adopted a res i olution directing Elmer Blair, chief | clerk In the department, to dispose of a9 in sianle resolu employee state sixty days or to sever | his connection with the department a one-third Interest in the Albany In- The statement goes on fo say that ly decided that It would be useless to press either of the untried lodictments against Joseph C. McClelland, a local coal desler, who was acquitted after a trinl on charges of delivering short welght coal to the state. The district attorney advised the trustees that pel The trustees of public buildings are the governor, the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the assembly A resolution expressing sympathy with the Catholles In Frauce was pre sented in the assembly last night by Assemblyman Cuvillier of New York and precipitated a brief tilt between the Introducer and his party leader, Mr. Oliver “1 wish this resolution the committee on foreign sald Mr. Cuvillier ‘You'll have to find sowe other ref erence,” remarked the speaker. ““Thig house has no such committee Mr. Cuvillier had one hand In the alr when Mr. Oliver shouted, “I move this house do now adjourn.” The motion was carried with a shout, apd the assembly adjourued, leaving Mr. Cuvllller with his resolution ia his hand. referred to relations.” Trails Went Through Niasing Bridge. OMAHA, Neb, Feb The engine and five cary of Burlington freight train No. 45, westbound, went through a burning bridge just as the tralu was approaching Edgemont," 8. D. The cars with their contents were destroy ed and the engine badly wrecked, but none of the crew was injured. The en gineer was uns®le to stop the heavy locomotive In time to avold running on the bridge after he dlscovered it was on fire He and the firewnan Jumped and saved their lives Explosion Kills Over a Soore, ELKINS, W. Va, Feb. ‘Twenty fire or thirty miners, the majority of them foreigners, are supposed to Le dead io a mine explosion at mine No 25 of the Davis Cou! and Coke com pany at Thomas, pear here. Five min ers who were just entering the ming when the explosion occurred were tuk en out allve, but 1t Is believed all tae miners already In the mine have killed _- been County Treasurer Shoat Himaselr MARTINEZ Feb Wiley, for the past four years treasurer of Contra Costa county, shot and killed himself at his home in this city. The shooting occurred In his bedchambwr and when*his wife mn into the room he told her that he had shot himself accidentally Mr Wiley nro years of age and a native of Ohlo Cal Lieorge Was Pastor Dies In His Church, WHATELY, Mass, Feb Rev. W N. D. Dean died of heart disease in his church here, being too lil to be moved to his home. Mr. I'ean was stricken as be entered tha bullding bhefore th evening service and became so weak that his doctor thought it dangeroms-to remove him to his howe. He was about sixty vears old Apawamis Clnbhonee Burned. RYE, N. Y., Feb I'he Apawnamis clubhouse has been destroyed by fire The loss is about $30000. 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