THAW-WHITE MURDER

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 104, 25 January 1908, Page 5

THAW-WHITE MURDER

• y . -..-.j i!; WAGNER'S EVIDENCE. ' ■ LIMIT TO ALIENIST TESTIMONY. . »t y*I.EOBAPfI-i-rHESS association —cppraiGHT.; ■ (Itec. Jan. 24, 9,43 p.m.) "-NettpYorki January 24; " • At tho trial of Harry .Thaw for. the of Stanford Wjnte,, Dr. Wagner; , lunacy pert, deposed that /j'liaw told him that Wlnto nivited him in :1900'to ;ono of his partion m White's apartments in Madison Square Tower, 'l'haw afterwards saw White in a New York theatre with Evelyn Ncsbitt. Ail noquaintance said she belonged to White, and Thaw rejoined: "I don't sco how. puch a girl can care for "White, who, w)th his. rcddiisji hair, looks like air ape.". 1 ... The judgo decided to limit, the. prosacutioi] and tho dofenco to three-mcdioa): experts eapll. (/.' ■ ■' 1 , The judge- is - evidently, determined :to do withont the mass of evidence',which alioniptf|' (medicah tiperts on lunacy) -!)urlcd"at -the last jurv. Dr. Wagner is an.ialiemst -for tlie detence. At. the fli-st trial lie deposed, that Thaw, was. insane 'at, thp time pf.itho had declared that a "sudden impulse'' :mndei him slay White. .Wagnor ■ stated that Thaw; referring to the. shooting/ said'lto 1 " him vidence took charge of it.;" :, lf 'was'-an'' aqt'-of Providence. Por mv part, I would rather have had, him; (White): suffer in.,:co.ur,f;. ; iliec humiliation, the' revelation 1 of .his acts woukl have caused." : -V.-,