: Life Had Been Ruined. : mm———— TBARS CAVE AS SHE TOLD SAD STORY Frisoner Designated Stanford White ‘a8 “the Wickedest Man In New York" —Jerome Very Gentle Whk Aged Woman. NEW YORK, March 7.—Another dra matic chapler wis addel to the history of the trial of Harry Kk Thaw for th murder of Stauford White when the gray balred wether of the defendant took the witness stand (0 coutribole what she knew towanl saving hor way ward hoy from the death danger which menses hits Mes Thaw's slay Li-fore the jury was brief. When Delphin Del was had deftly limited ber examina: tlon to the change she had noted In her son's condition following Lis return from Paris in 1153, after Evelyn Nes bit had told him het life story, amd when District Attorney Jemme had, with the greatest respect and consider ation. conducted a short aad Ineffectual cross examination the mother love MRS, WILLIAM THAW. welled strong Iu Mrs, Thaw, and she felt she had not done her ali. She was loath 10 leave the wituess chair, “There is the question of heredity” she protested when both Mr. Delmas and Mr. Jercine told her she might step down. “1 have asked you, madam, all that is considered pecessary,” sald Thaw's attorney, with the utmost deference, Mrs. Thaw half rose hesitated and was about to sit down again when the leading counsel for the defense offered ber his hand to assist her frou the stand. Harry Thaw was all Interest. He sat facing his mother sud seemed ex tremely nervous. He rested his cheek on his hand and then bit his palls Mrs. Thaw repeated her nawe In re sponse to a question by Mr. Delmas, speaking in a tone so low as scarcely te be heard. “Harriet Copley Thaw.” Mr. Delmas stood immediately at her jsft In answer to another question by Mr. Delmas, Mrs. Thaw said she noticed a chauge in her son wheu he came to Pittsburg in 19003. He was absentminded and apparently had lost interest In life. She broke down and cried as she continued to speak of the change in Ber son following bis trip to Burope with Evelyn fo 1903, Mrs. Thaw, after recovering frow her first breakdown, seemed about to ery again and could not proceed. Jus tice Fitzgerald relieved the situation by ordering all of her testimony up to that time read to the jury. It had been given in a voice too low for the jury to hear. Mrs. Thaw then testified that Harry told ber bis life had been ruined by “the wickedest man In New York” He repeated to her Evelyn's story of her experience with Stanford White. Mrs Thaw told of Harry breaking down In church with her In Pittsburg, saying “that awful thing” had come over him and If It had not happened Evelyn might have been with them. Twice during her recital of the events which had caused her to fear that sll was not right with her son Mrs. Thaw broke down and was un- able to proceed. Her face flushed, and she made au effort to speak, but the words woul! not come. Affer a few moments Justice Fitzgerald ask ed solicitously If she felt able to pro coed, and Mra. Thaw, evidently much chagrised that her great grief had avercome her strong will of resist ance, nodded in the alirmnative. She declined a glass of water, made an of fort once wore to proceed, Lut failed Justice Fitzgeruld then interposed a relief for which the elderly woman facing him must have been deeply gratefol. He sald that as many of the witness’ remarks had been uttered (n a very low volee It would be necessary to have the stenographer read all her testimony np (o that time to the jury When the reading was ciuled Mia Thaw had regained hor comiousnee al was able to proceed to the end of her uarrntive. Mrs. Thaw told of coming to New York to meet Evelyn Nesbit and of her cobsent fo lier son's mar lage, the one condition being that the . ir) life in Now York, should he ; 0 Doon, to he referred 1 asked what the son's In: amountad to. Mrs. Thaw sald it was moderate and nothing like the sum the newspapers have so often report. Mr. Jerome next treaded upon what he must have felt was the thin- ext of ice jest he put himself ia the at- titude of attempting to harass the pa- Neshit before she became his wife. “Nothing.” she replied without heal. taney, “When yonr son returned to Pitis. burg in the fall of 1003." asked Mr. Jo frome, “he expressed a desire to you to marry Miss Nesbit? “He did." “Did be ever express a fear that oth: ers wonld prevent her from accepting him®™ “He sald that she had told him It woltkl be a very unsuitable match. 1 sald If abe came to me her past would be a closed book, Mr. White's name was never mentioned in my presence” “I did not understand, madam. what you sald about this defendant's re marks to you about Miss Neshit's mother being of no help to him > “He sald she would not help him to alse the girl out of her condition” The district attorney seemed com- pletely haflied and speedily broaght his cross examination to a close. Mrs. Thaw's story was deeply Ime pressive in its simplicity and brevity. Her anxiety to go on and tell more added immeasurably to the meaning of her presence as 8 witness. The half filled courtreom listened almost breathlessly to each word she uttered, and there was a geners! sigh of relief when Mr. Jerome announced that his brief examination was ended, If Harry Thaw's fate had been thrown into the hands of the twelve men in the jnry box as they heard the mother's story there seems little doubt that what she sald would have car ried wonderful weight with it. But Mr. Jerome gave the impression that he might use the mother's testimony ns a weapon in another direction—In hi= fight to have a commission ap- pointed to fest the present =iate of mind of the defendant. While the elder Mrs. Thaw was on the stand the district attorney engaged in a wordy war with Mr. Delmas during which be uttered publicly for the first time the threat of a lunacy commission. Mr. Delmas was Invoking The pre sumption of law that Thaw, declared insane In 1903, remalnad insane In to state conversations with her son during the Intter vear. These conver- sations were admissible only on the ground that they were the utterances of a person mentally Irresponsible. Mr. Jerome sald there was po reason why the assumption should not con- tinue down to the present day, and If Mr, Delmas’ point was well taken the trial shonld he suspended and a com- mission appoinfed. Mr, Jerome added that he was mere- ly suggesting the alternative of a com- mission for the sake of argument Justice Fitzgerald upheld Mr. Deimas’ position and sald the question of a commission was not. before the court. Upbolding the principle that the pre- sumption of Insanity continues, Jus- tice Fitzgerald seems to have placed the burden of proof as to the present sanity of the defendant entirely upon the defense. With the completion of Mrs. William Thaw's testimony Thaw's attorneys announced that they would have but two more witnesses — experts — who will be called upon to answer a newly Trained hypothetical question covering the entire case from beginning fo end. These experts are anld to be Drs Graeme M. Hammeond and Suith E Jelliffe. Harry Thaw, during his mother's stay upon the stand, seemed unusually pale and extremely nervous. For a time he would fix her with a stare, then look away and bite at his fluger upalls. His two brothers, Edward and Jo=iah Thaw, sat near him, but peither the Countess of Yarmouth nor Mrs. George Lauder Caruegle, his sisters, were In court. At the end of Mrs. Thaw's examina- tion court adjourned over uutll to- morrow morning, a death In Justice Fitzgerald's family causing an abanp- donment of today's sitting.” Battling Nelson, the pugiiist, was the center of atiraction In the courtroom, occupying the entire attention of the spectators up to the time the defend- ant was called to the bar and Justice Fitzgerald had taken his place ou the bench. Nelson sat just behind the prisoner. Mr, Jerome recalled Dr. Wigner and, que~tioning him, sald, “Do you know a disease known as circular Insanity 7° “Yes,” replied the witness “Is reasoning lp a circle a sign of circular insanity 7° “1 don't know what you wean by reasoning in a cirele.” “The kiud of reasoning you have been doing.” Mr. Delmas at once objected and ank- ol that the remarks be stricken out, accusing the district attorney of mak- ing an loference ttmt the witness was 8 vietim of cirenlar lusanity. Mr. Jerome seltlal the matter by withdrawlhg the remark, Mr. Jerome asked Dr. Wagner, “Would your opinion as to the defend. ant's condition be Influenced if you them Immune to the ¢ ect of tiquer, Is there “Nothing that I know of” “Ix there suvibing in the hypothetical question that eusbles you to tell wheth- er the defendant was iusane or druuk “There is nothing whatever lu the guestion to indicate Intoxication, mech to indicate Insanity” Mr. Jerome closed the cross exam- imation of De Wagner with several questions regarding the trial of Rich ard Preusser for the murder of John MeDonald, Dr. Wagner appeared in this case as an expert. “You testified Preusser was sane, you say ¥" asked Jerume. “Ses “And be was declared Insane?™ “Yeu, aml =¢nt to Matteawan, but he was afterward released as sane He went to New Jersey, opened a broker age office and was lntrusied with large suns of money” “Are you stalling fucls pow or what you read lo the newspapers?” Dr. Wagner admitial he read of Preansscer's release (0 the newspapers, “That is all™ said Mr. Jerome, SALTON LAKE AGAIN, Inland Sea Causes Second Fleod Damage to Harriman fleads. LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 7.-Ad- vices recelved at the Sgfithern Pacific company’s geueral oe from Salton sea say that a storm there produced high waves on the Inland sea fonned by the overflow of the Colorado river that flooded 8 portion of the raliroad tracks aud entailing some damage The Southern Pacific anbounces that the San Joaquin valley line will be closed for two days because of a land. slide at the San Fernandino tunnel The San Palro, Los Angeles and Balt Lake route I= encountering difficulty with washoutz. and all trains are stop ped The Santa Fe system Is Interrupted by a washout betweou Los Angeles and San Bernardino, but trains are runuifg, sud passengers are transfer red across the Mojave river at Bar stow, where floods have endangered a large bridge across this usually dry river, Hundreds of travelers are walling for betler traveling conditions A Washington dispatch says that when shown the bulletin suuouncing that another storm had broken over thie Saltou sea and that the Southern Pacific tracks are under water E H Harriman, head of the Harriman sys tem of rallrofids, sald: “That reminds me that I was asked by one of the Interstate commerce com missioners what 1 regarded as the greatest achievement In my raliroad experience. Mr reply was that I con sidered the closing of the break In the Colorado river ou Fel, 11 as the most remarkable achlevement of recent his tory “In the handling of rock and stone our engineers made a record which is likely to stand for many years to come. The time actually consumed in making the closure was fifteen Zays and two hours, during whica Interval 77.000 cubic yards of rock, gravel and clay were handled “Temporarily at least the Oolorado has been conquersd: bat, Hike the Mis slssippi river In its delta region, It will bear watching always" FOOTBALL IS “FIERCE” Prealdent Eliot of Harvard Declares Game Unfit For Colleges, BOSTON, March 7 Charles W. El} of, president of Harvard university, in his apnual report, which will be ‘pre sented to the board of overseers this week, malutalos that football, despite pew rules, reucilos wu updesired guaine for gentlemen tu play or multitudes of people to wituess, Dr. Eliot declares that football is properly described by the adjective "flerce” and that po gume if which recklessness lu causing or receiving bodily Lijury figures is fit for college use, Basket ball and hockey are placed lu the same class with football, snd Le advises that In. tercolleginte contests lu any cue sport be limited to two games, all other games to be Letween teams wade up at Harvard. He also describes the Yexcesses of cheering which character Ize present intercolleginte contests as absolntely unnatural” and denounces the financial extravagunce of Intercol legiate athletics “Fhe gross exaggeration of all cow petitive sports,” sayz President Eliot, “is now worklug Incaleulable harm to schools, colleges and universities, It I¥ high time that the whole profession of teaching in school, college and un! versity unite to progist ngainst the present exaggeration of athletic sports during the whole period of education and especially to bring competitive sports between schools and between colleges within reasonable limits and establish the supremacy of {utellectunl aml moral interests over physical in. terests In all institutions of education.” President Ellot's report is of espe elnl publie Interest In view of Presi dent Roosevelt's recent speech before the Harvard unlon, in which he en thusiastically praised foothall and de clared that he wanted Harvard to torn out “men, not mollyealdies” A Wreath Vor Man He Shot, BALTIMORE. March 7 — Willlam Howard, a convict now serving a twen- ty year term In the Maryland penitent). ary, borrowed £5 from Warden Weyler with which he bought a wreath to be placa] apon the coffin of ex Policeman Doyle of Catonsville. It was for put: ting seven bullets into Doyles seventeen years ago that Howard Is now Ia the penitentiary. me sive toa) RR : ry bl hg 2. The il Bia 1 # $ HIS REGULATION BILL Copies of Governor Hughes' Measure Stolen at Aibany. PACE ACCUSES STOCK GAMBLERS. Senate Committees Notifies Otto Kel sey That it Is Prepared to Mave Him Show Cause Why He Sheuld Not Be Ousted, ALBANY, NY, March 7--The sen ate judiciary committee has adopted a resolution directing the chainuan, Sen ator Davis of Buffalo, to golify Kiate Superintendent of lnsursoce Ulte Kel sey that at its regular weeting vest] Wednesday It will be prepared to hea: bln and his counsel and receive aoy | with the pending recommendation of | Governor Hughes that be Le removed | Ly the senate from the ofifcs of super inteadent of insurance Investigation of the national guard of the state, even more searching and | momentous than that contemplated by the original bill of Assem lynn Wain wright who Is also Heutenant colonel of the Tweifth regiment, is lodicated by the action of the assembly ways and means committee, which, after a hearing, has voted to report the bill with amendments for enactment. The! amendments increase the powers of the | mixed commission provided for in the | matter of examining witnesses and in crease the appropriation for the com mission from £10.00 to $15.000, At last the Albany legisinture has before It the blll supposed to embody the Ideas of Governor Hoghex a= to the regulation of so called public utilities by state commissions to take the place of the present state boanl of rafiroad commissioners, the state commission of gas and electricity, the New York city board of mpid transit railroad cotinilssloners aud the state Inspector of gas wweters Tha bil tn form as de scribed In the statement given out by Senntor Page of New York and Assem bismian Merrit! of St. Lawrence was latroduced Ly them in the two houses In the senate it was referred after Soilie to the committee un finance, and the cotnwmities voted to re port It for reference to the commitive on Judiclary for consideration of the Important legal involved, with the understanding that quently It wil return to the counitulttes, Senator Cassidy oriticised the action of the Introducers of the Li in mak ing a public statement of tx provi sions before presenting the measure to the senate “Does the senator think it i= fair to this or to any other lesly concerned with this blll" sald Senator Cassidy “to precede the introduction of the bill with a statement such as was given out by the Introducers of this Lill pre parmtory to its lutroduction =” Senator Page replied, “1 have po ob Jection to saying that early coples of this bill had been stolen and that erro neous statements were belug wade In the press for certain purposes, nnd we found that an Incorrect alstract of the bill was liable to be publisbied today, so under those clrcumistauces we on sidered ourselves Justified iu giving to thie press a correct stutewent In onder that the public might not be misled” Senator Cassidy continoed “I asked the guestion for this reason That If the threat nt the end of the re port has any force whatever then there Is no pead for any reference of the bill to any cowiulttes, but If it is pot In tended to supersede thought and action on the part of this bowly and on the piart of others interested In the welfare of this great state It seotu« to me the bill should Le referred to the commit fee on miscellaneous corporationa™ “If 1 were a member of that com mittee.” retorted Senator Page. “aod had dealt with matters before the com: mittee ax It has dealt with thew 1 wold net be anxfons to project my #elf into the limelight by trying to get control of this LiL” In the assembly the bill was referred without debate to the committee on railroads, of which Mr Merritt Is chalrman. When questioned about his meut on the senate floor that copies of this bil had Senator Page sald: “1 am reliably inforwed that of the bill was lu the possession of banking house-1 do not know which one--sald to be clase to the New York city rAliroad Interests and that gar hled versions of paris of the hill wer in elrculation. The pature of this version, especially with reference to stock mergers and holding companies made it evikleut that the stolen copy wax one of the first drafts of the hill, materially different from the final form." “Whom do you suspect of the sup posed theft? was asked “1 don't suspect anybody, Evident Iy A copy or part of 4 copy got away that ix all. We guarded the matter carefully to prevent just such a leak’ “What motive would any one have iu misrepresenting the provisions of the WINY' “Didn't yon see what happensd in the stock market? Didn't Brooklyn Rapid Tmaosit drop? Wonldn't that Ie expinnation enough?’ Early coples of the bilix ax introduc. «ll were in great demand, and a first extra edition of 1.000 eoplex was or- dered. The Lill, which was the fruit of many conferences of the Introducers with Governor Hughes and his official counsel, Ernest W. 1InTeut, marks the fesinolng of the “Intense” stage of the is wy ur fp. A ahr t of Tnsoranes Ofte Kelsey pr i HK HEKS th La debate questions sulise finance state “early been stolen 1 copy BOMB HITS NEPLUEFR"" Oommandant at Sevastopol Has Naps row Escape From Death % SEVASTOFOL, March 7—As Gen-] #ral Nepluefl, commandant of the fortress here. who has just lesen trans ferred for duty st a less hdrandons post. was driviog through the city last night to attend 8 farewell banquet at the palace given In his honor by Ad- miral Skrydioff a bomb was thrown ander his carriage, where it exploded The carriage was shattered. and the general sustained Injuries about the feet. His coachman was wonuded, a woman who happened to be passing at the time sustained serious lujuries, aud the horses that were drawing Lhe vehicle were crippled. The man who threw the bomb got away This i= ittempt made Goon, Year The general has had several sirens ous experiences while acting a= com- mandant of the Sevastopol! fortress He wan captured by the mutineers in November, 1005, but was released aft. er one day's detention. T oops under his command then moved agalust the mutineers and sutsined them after a desperate battle, and on this occasion Be directed the sinking of the mutin. oul crulser Ofchakoff In April of 190g the general had = serious conflict doinic, with former Premier Witte on a matter of policy, | and one month later he was wounded by the explosion of a bomb during a review of troops at Sevastopol A sixteen year-old boy was implicated Tn the throwing of this bomb, which was the work of social revolutionists, . TIGERS IN THE WATER. Fenunsylvania Defeated In Intercol- legiate Swimming Teurnament. PRINCETON, N. J, March 7-— Princeton strengthened her hold on first place in the Intercollegiate swim ming league by defeating the Univer: sity of Pennsylvania in a dual meet hare last night by the scare of 31 0 22 Pennsylvania won the water pole game by the score of three goals to two and won the plunge for distance and the 220 yard swim Princeton woo all the other events. Summary Eight hundred feel relay race, Prince ton wen; time, S minutes 0 15 sec onds, Fancy diving, ton, #1 points; ton, 74 points, Two hundred and twenty yards first Selber, Pennsylvania; second, Hopkin son, Pennsylvania: third, Gordon Princeton; time, 3 minutes § 43 sec. onds. Fifty yards first, Chambers, Prince tony second, Dawbarn, Princeton; third Sylvester, Penusylvania; time, 29 15 seconds Plunge for distance, first, Hopkinson Pennsylvania; second. Debow, Penn syivanla; third, Rhelastein Princeton One hundred yards, first, Chambers Princeton; second, Sylvester, Peuusyl vanla; third Hopkinson, Pennsylvania; time, 1 minute 8 seconds, Betting Again at Oaklawn, HOT SPRINGS, Ark, March 7—An Injunction was served Constable Bmith at Oaklawn restraluing bl from Interfering with operations Iu the betting ring. and after the second Prince Prince first, Deems, second. Down, * on They used small baud slates and did not lssue any tickets. In the handicap, at a mile and seventy yards, Wing Ting made all the running aud won from the favorite, Terns Rod Mrs. Burgess Leads at Chess NEW YORK, March 7.--Mrs. 8S R Burgess of St, lLouls, challeuger for the woman's chess champlouship of the United States, wade it three straight lo ber match with Mrs CP Frey of Newark, NJ. the champion Mrs. Frey having wou the first game of the series, the score now stands at 8 points to 1 lo favor of Mrs. Bur ges: who needs but one wore guwe to win the match, Thomas Had Rest of Bout PHILADELPHIA, March 7 Joe I'homas of California had a slight ad vantage over Willlam Melldy of Charlestown, Mass in thelr six round bout before the National Athletic club Tomas dropped Mellody In the open ing round with a left to the but the latter was quickly on his feet aud rushed to a clinch chin inflammable at Frisco, SAN FRANCISCO, Marci 7 Three favorites and as many outsiders dlvid od the card at Oakland. The two mille race wax easily captured by Inflamna- ble In the third race Belle Reed stumbled and threw her jockey, Gra ham. The boy escaped Injury, how ever, and the horse finished rideriess Carnegle's Pariner Dies, PITTSBURG, March T—-Colonel H J. Lindsay, forty-seven years old, as- sistant to the president of the Camegle Steel compaty, died here after an ill ness of severul months He was one of Andrew Carnegle’'s “young part wers,”” havipg entered the employ of the Carnegle company ax a telegraphar when eighteen years of age. He was active In national guard affairs and was an ald on the staff of Governor Stuart, Bei: Prentice Promoted ALBANY, N. Y, March 7—Speaker Wadsworth of the as