THE THAW CASE.
Received February 12, 10.6 p.m. NEW YORK, February 12. n President Roosevelt has asked the Hon. G. B. Cortelyou, PostmasterGeneral, if possible, to prevent the publication of disgusting details in the Thaw case. The Federal authorities have warned the newspapers that they will be prosecuted if they publish obscene matter. Judge Fitzgerald excluded the women spectators from the Court. Mrs Thaw stated that her husband always carried a pistol when in New York after Christmas, 1903. The Judge refused to admit th.e wife's testimony that the reason for carrying arms was White's threats and the fears that he would employ malefactors to assassinate Thaw. Wagner, a specialist in mental diseases, expressed the opinion, that Thaw was not aware that shooting White was a wrongful act.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8357, 13 February 1907, Page 5
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128THE THAW CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8357, 13 February 1907, Page 5
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