MEW YORK MURDER TRIAL

Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 28

MEW YORK MURDER TRIAL

I MRS THAWS EVIDENCE. ' A MENTAL SPECIALISTS OPINION". j NEW YORK, February 12. j President Roosevelt has asked Mr Cortelyon (the Postmaster-geneial) if it is I possible to prevent the publication of dis- ' ! gusting details in the Thaw case. The Federal authorities have warned the newspapers that they will be prosecuted if they publish obscene matter. Judge Fitzgerald i has excluded women spectators from the ' court. I Mrs Thaw admitted passing a not© to her husband shortly prior to the murder stating that White v- was "here a minute ago. but went out again."' She said her j husband always carried a pistol when in ' I New Yoik after Christmas, 1903. The judge refused to admit the wife's testimony that the reason for Thaw carrying arms was Whites threats and the fear that he would employ malefactors to .' assassinate Thaw. Dr Wagner, a specialist in mental diseases, expressed the opinion that Thaw ' was not aware that the shooting of White " was a wrongful act. February 13. , At the trial of Harry Thaw, charged , with the murder of Stanford White, Dr j Evans, a mental specialist, deposed that j he agreed with Dr Wagner's view that Thaw did not know that the shooting of White was wrong. He examined the prisoner eight times. He at first suffered from exaggerated egotism, but gradually (

his mind passed from an explosive condition to one of greater calmness and stability. February 15. Owing to the death of a juror's wife the tiial of Harry Thaw, charged with the murder of Stanford White, has been adjoin ned till Monday.