“I have examined 800 people as to their sanity, and should know the prisoner’s condition.
“When I examined Harry in the Tombs prison after the murder his actions were irrational.”
Dr. Wiley was on the stand for the defense all the first day, and at the opening of the second day a sensation came when Mr. Delmas took the helm of the defense, and called Benjamin Bowman as the second witness. Jerome had refused to allow Bowman to
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Harry Thaw’s sister.
testify for the state. Bowman in 1903 was a doorkeeper at the Madison Square Garden Theater.
“I knew Stanford White and Harry Thaw,” Bowman swore. “A few nights after Christmas, 1903, Stanford White came up to me after the show and wanted to know if Miss Nesbit had gone home. I told him she had. He replied: ‘You are a liar.’ I told him to go back on the stage and see for himself.