THE THAW TRAGEDY
PUBLICATION OF DISGUSTING DETAILS. PROHIBITED BY FEDERAL ______ GOVERNMENT. FURTHER. EXAMINATION OF MRS THAW. AN INTERESTING ADMISSION* A MENTAL SPECIALIST'S OPINION. I M¥ll!ii3!.
Received 12, 10.C p.m. New Yogk, February 12 President Roo'eTclt has asked Mr Cortelyon, if possible, to prevent the publication of disgusting details in the Thaw case. The Federal authorities warned (lie newspapers that they would be prosecuted if they published obscene matter Judge Fitzgerald excluded women spectators from the court. Mrs Thaw, in further examination, admitted passing a note to her husband shortly prior to the murder, stating that the b (meaning White), was here a minute ago, but sent out again. Her husband, she said, always carried a pistol when in New York, after Christmas 1903. The judge refused to admit tLe wife's testimony that the reason for Thaw carryin? arms was White's threats, and fears 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.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 13 February 1907, Page 3
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175THE THAW TRAGEDY Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 13 February 1907, Page 3
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