"STARK, STARING MAD."
THE RE-TRIAL OF THAW. By Telegraph.—-Press Association.— New York, January 14. Me. M. W. Lyttelton, who is defending Harry Thaw, in his opening speech to the jury, to-day, declared that insanity existed in the families of Thaw's father and mother, and that Thaw had suffered from fits of insanity from early childhood, having been stark, staring mad at the time of the tragedy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13648, 16 January 1908, Page 5
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