THE THAW TRIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3782, 25 January 1908, Page 3

THE THAW TRIAL.

Comstock’s Evidence. New Yol . January 23. At the trial of any Thaw for the murder of . Stanford White, ' further evidence was given for the /'defence. ' Anthony Comstock, president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, : testified that Thaw called onhirq/im 19,04 (jtwo years prior' to'f he; £nd , complained that a gang or six ;of . rich criminals conducted _ orgieis and drugged and ill-treated young girls at two houses in New York. Thaw, told witness that, one . room was furnished like a forest, fdth secret-stairs leading to another room, Aung , with mirrors. The rich criminals drugged the girls, ’ .who were unable to escape, as the doors were difficult to find. r , . Thaw also described a third room approached by a door con- ‘ cealed behind a picture. He de- ■ dared that' the room contained valuable French patntings of pe- ' culiarly infainOus suggestiveness. Thaw gaVe the names of five girls wfio had been victims ,of these. ineh.:: ;He dffefed to supply secret service funds, and suggested that Miss Helen heiress -and philanthropist—m ight be asked to subscribe. . : 1 . Anthony Comstock further de- : posed that he never gained admis- . sjrain to the house Thaw referred to. :.. : . . ’ . .. " Thte prosecution . insisted that Thaw’s communications to Comhim' to be sane.-