The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1907, Page 3

bkFHE EVENING “WORLD MONDAY, FEB RUARY 4, Thaw Told His Wife After He Had Killed Stantord White that He Committed the Crime in Order to Avoid Taking - Her Life - STANFORD WHITE'S SON FIRST WITNESS IN THE THAW CASE ‘Garvan Opens for the Prosecution and . Presents His Evidence to Prove ‘Architect's ‘Murder. All ‘With- in Two’ Hours. The-first-witness<called-for the State: was Lawren oe pment Grant White, iz son’ df ‘Thaw’s victim, He was questioned’ by Mr. Garvan. Q.-You-remombor June oS jast? AL phere “ta” your ma. Thaw tu: do. Sle entlamen who- came, J) Q, Your father lett st. Ji Lan Sacer en rerrnnen “Anland, that day? A. Yea, t morte | ‘anu. the. ¢ name te ak See oe ss patent lf #—Uhey—jofs—and wont hack | Q. When did you come to New York is ‘ that day? ALT left? at 2 ovclock in the EOE COREE Cate aflernoon. 7% sa 1 ‘ot -No. The witness sald he and hls friend, | Borty-aeeond ptreet, mar King, ‘met White's father and jad al 4 pba eli iherin br te discussion with him after theatre (ck- vente Anata ets had been pureliased. He testined | the ro: Of the.ke tit that the thres went’ to tle Cafe Martin [ic sxe Tan thers Sorlee sy Hea cacvalnncs: , Jac hen pointed ut on "a Wawra Q. What umo did you ley Cand e Thaw ands tata cnel +A About twenty-five minutes as he walked dowa int He testified that iis father | clea Sauiddeniyannd a sasked but few, quer him and his chum tn die carriace to | Raab AN tC BULReE ner wee The“ Governars Son. playing ety aU Se im the New Amsterdam roof garden, and Hundred and rect ale th employed by Harris & Co., Hewes wish Chana then went awny himself. Q. Where did you go aft “AJL went with my party ward Cian for halt we went to the railroad my friend was to take train Q. Where aid you go th turned to oureity “tom TwentyArst street. The witness was at liome whon heard of his father's death play’ to the Har tfon, w i muldnight the AL I re- “2b Haets Nv At the end of young Mr. teatimouy Mr. Garvan looked e@ounsc! for Thaw, but Mr ut hia arms in this A. He did not. af No, @ Prospect ave- © Bronx, a member of Denartment for seventeen years, next witne shook his head, indicating fense did not with to Warner Paxton, of Thirtieth street, h Madison Square’ Hoot toon years, was Q. Did. you. know Shears gyment at the G! Q. Were < dupe Bian? The witnera ment-ot-seat ag June " Jnow paid. m'zelle hampagne of wule es close night wut £ was the first thi @. Did you know the d Tothaten 4 you ki White entered AT er Mr. the dete ndant? y about ant Amin f Gh Where Was, the Roeaw him? A. Sia pret side of the tab! swas sitting. . Juat describe from t Q. How aid’ you Kee fire White site! defendant atandins 1 didn't the = firet eo WaAN Al towards AYA Stadt an eto: ts a firat Seveht sti Describes the down, 1 saw ain your pow collect my | away: 1 Jand_M Mon T had to a pantie. sepsea 1 OM Antt a the wi Thaw do? He took the 1 Is your—pl, walked direc a bia’ yo 3. Did you hear dete: walked very 3 ting? Ow Qetio tight on-abd-t habs happeed {ror walked up-to-hym hat hold of hime Str of -the-Garden- Theatr tains tink noebty Hiren! wife nt th man called Brady. Mr, Conway narked t Ug Ax mee Lo would take Thaw. ies j while he got nn. Mice aid rea, | de Wi AL TDoafan't hear | Bd-hessaldshe- would get_a- polenman | Ris H ay “soon ax ho possimy, could. eta | OD | Rot to Ro town the-etevie Ne Pettit tie Hie oat fire Lc esae Sat: thay ray \Garvan’s Tragedy of a Pretty Face That Caused the Roof Garden Murder of Stanford White BY WT. SMITH, $00 TOT EE rere eer re RIANGOS———— ~ ty Nin“ ifetime. “AD Yess str: QF Who took charge of the body then ‘Omticer-Martm— yates — Mr Delman said fe WAR no ques oH untiy uw parted? A: Bim as Taroags th Mreccplatol shot wounds.” |), Nett chat was on the Innor angie eye and the bullet-had_ been |poemediated geo {UiNerted backward—to-the-base-of-thn {he Aaa ieeee Raaiscn fakull, wolne through to. the base of | jadison | the. brain second wound was on Piomay | (he right sde of the upper tp between Uie aagle of the ona andthe mouth, t taking a backward and. up- arse. and lodging in. the base skull The third ava* a feah Pistol Pus Endward 11 that ot= the wound six inches long on the fuiner side | of tho right’arm.” 1 mit he shot nt Anke id. te e_mot_of- th denon the Goten— amd Me toatter Mactson_Bquare! tarry was—a as with On Thaw repea the. sevrrat Aided nothing to’ th MPatle sna recalled, 2 Hoth Seasel Y to this d defendant's | physicians Mrs. | wito that the most generous Q. What did eh Ay Bho fats! passavant Home why did you do that? “what-did-be- Bay? A MeBays—; nt” That ix all he said. That ts all. The prose- and ell forgetting tt: thi n_ by Within th —-—— t= s Opening Address for State in the Fhaw €ase. should be an honest: example of the and . oat to wh COO erty turned-around-and= shot Mr. eeye> Ho shor onith-amdonee—agaitic —& him again. loliberate. mailo'd } murder and we shall ask guilty ROCHESTER, Pna., victim_of ‘epilepsy jthat-ahe feared it could never be cured pcgustons~ afterward the offer, for her sorrow White i8)-to-atreThaw-after-the- marriage te him again” In- tio Mriottesn.| travelled with on the Mr, White tun c L 1 A. | tion as to the identity of the hody and Died to the floor deat, 1ratie when they fame vack to New that Was fright | declined to cron#-examine, ey TRE defendant turned the pimtol up| Yor aE See rf In hia hand and started to walk away. | ": that; I gm} Pesulta of the Artopsy. (ate had-dote what he had inten ed Starved and “Grilled.” fused, RA imothy Lehane. of No. 1368 | to qo, and the audience knew whet he ay "t i ston avenue, Coroner's physician (nad done. He walked away until a| TWo days after the axon: Ataas: Tas to the autopsy on Stanford Imroman threw Mie arma around itn |son Square Garten roof detectives body on-June 2, {and he was placed under arre: from the District-Attorney's office ar- 2 f murder } MOTHER SAID THAW WAS AN EPILEPTIC. Fob. ee eWwist - sl pemee hy The tee bullets found by Dr. Lehane {Sears ago Mrs. Mary Thaw, the mother 4 Peet we be Laine nd a sealed envecops containing —t—-of—Harry—Kondall—Thew, announced |#een Mc. Garvan nor had he been ques- was fred I lin PoP a cient A. Well, 1/pdAveue Meat tine. "A Avout a1 |other found by. the” underaker” 9) mat gho would give $10,00 to any per- | UoRed by anybody alse. pu thosahjece.d Heht-overSehind him-and-tcok-the | Quayno was-with him at-tho-times|_@;Waat_catised_the death of Stan-|#0n who could cure epilepsy, In the| When Bedford arrived at ithe Lor- earelens} ref DORA AR Obed ms pe “time? rota White, In your opinion? A, Cer-| presence of a number of peaple who wern| Taine the servants’ dining-room was Q. Was he turned over to yout A. Yes, | sprat Temnorrh eae arate ronnie thelthen organizing the” Passayant Home | slowed, and “as he was feeling -alek an! : ; pistol rounds e . fer Epileptica, in this place, Mra, Thaw| weary he-went to bed without any- Stok iw dd you place him unde hore Was no cross axamination— Epiloptica, Is place, aww | fownr i aay jencon dition’ of, eT Ur toa Bae Savin n testified to be-|made her offer, saying that her son} thing to eat. Ho-was awakened tho and In order: to: stimulate. tnterest :amors. ‘Thaw became one of ench year aho has sent a large cheek to the institution ta help maintain It, apport the | *mination. He singgered hgme to tho Epil and | lorraine. Nellie Leahy saw him that night. She was-alurmed At hin Condition. She tried year when welghod| ‘0 get him something to eat, but the past week a representatlve | of the Thaw attorneys In New. York has n here and {tls belloved that seve- [ral persona wha heard Mrs, ‘Thaw talic tef-her—apis condition years nro wit Grand LAU EaLy. Operations of Bredergy pear al 4 —Many Mra SAYS 30 DEGRE KILLED THAW Nellie Leahy. Makes the Accusation that It Has ‘tened: His Demise. | |ANOTHER WITNE GONE James ret ‘Smith, Brother-in- Law of White, 1s Out of — i ) Jurisdiction. ieee One witnesshally wanted the Diatrict-Attarney “Was missing’ ‘to-day! + ot tn'| ip Thin wan James C. Smith, brot! Stanford White's widow. Ife ta! now 1 “ot Fea Ot the —sabpocm: On the day of the shooting: Mr. met Hatry ‘Thaw and had a con ton with him. : Actew days after Snvith took ship for Europe rea the shooting /Mr. | and he has steadfastly refused to return It het could be got to appear for the prose j{eution it Is said that Mr. Jerome youll | prove that on the very day of the shooting Thaw discussed justifiabl fhiomtetde with- Smith. : + Nellie Leahy formerly Mrao’ TTarrs] Thaw's maid, has routed the forcen of Exstrict-Attornes Jerome Assistant. Distriot-Attorney Garvan will long re member ber oe mast _strenuosa.(n: Hidde te lus ever ationinted to rt the thind deg Misa —teatiy to-day char methods employed by Mr. Garvan a his aleuths in wetting the testimony: 0! Wittam= tearera were aibie forthe Hinesn which the Englishman's, death a reaulted short time after the arrest of Harry Thaw, . ‘Tht fa the story whe tells: William Bedford bad been in Marry Thaw's employ for nea: He was a model sery and devotea to Thaw, When Harry Thaw was about to marry Evelyn Nesbit the valet was threatened with digmissal because he was opposed to the idea of having “a womati about the place.* _fond of Mins Nesbit," sald, "buba it iter aingie. However, he became equally devoted eight years. ne m-| moon and wai Otel ih tived= atthe Hotel Loraine and took Bedford out of bed. They escorted him to Mr... Garvan's office, where he was. told to walt. At lunch timo Redford {auggested that he be allowed to Ko out and. get sochething to eat. They told him to, wait a minute. He waited all (he afternoon) He was not permitted to leave the Criminal -CourteBuidwin Until late in the-evening,- Hy -had--not: in 1 | next morning by the nnd taken to Mr. Garvan's office again. Laic..in—the afternoon the hungry valet who had tad nothing to-ear in two. days aml who was i and weak was put through—a-gtuetting -crosmex me detectives ig { SeTvanta’—aiping room was ctosed—a0- She togk” a” plate of wtrawherries= left): {rom Mra. Thaw's dinner and gave n to the valet. The -next-morning—Bed Han trom hla bed Mrs. rd could not Yat ¢“wWeat 1907. ENGLISH VALET Smith | | [the tawyers for-the-igfenes will have thel: (urn, | Mr. Gleason, Mr, }who-hides-a-very-keen-mind-behind.a cheruble aspect, Peeelonc Hitler esnae ncaa cay plaTaTN cotillon leader, lOherastos Who Fi Figure at the Thaw Trial, -as They Appeared ‘to. the. Trained Eye of Miss Nixola — Greeley- Smith. CALLS LAWYER DELMAS AN ORATORICAL DARK HORSE, _ Likens Dan O'Reilly | to a Cupid Who Fre- quents Broadway, and- Praises Young Mr. Garvan, : Thaw's Lawyer Pays Tribute | To Miss Nixola Greeley- Smith- Delphin Michael Defma World reporia 3 n “What strick'me most foreiblydn the accounts of the Thaw: trial I have read is the remarkable power of analysis and description dis- J. Piayed-by the women writers. —Such-abitity to-depict- “and-porttay-2 attitude and expression of the defendant; to mage s of the mentality of each juror; to pick out, the most striking. characterictics of the lawyers engaged on both sides, would have set the old world aflanje a century ago. It is marvellous. “The -men-engaged-in-reporting-the-trial_have-done_excellent work no doubt; but without any disparagement to their powers, 1 must admit that the women writers, with their stronger emotional nature, have presented the more attractive pen pictures, and without drawing any invidious distinctions -I-would-say-that-the writing cf Miss: Nixola Greeley-Smith is a most admirable illustration of feminine intuiti Brought to a logical conclusion.” deading counsel for Thaw, said to a ene; to study Bsr Nixela Greeley~Smith. HE ~ prologue is over. This morning the curtain was lifted Wor the reartiator Harry Thaw: The scene is the largecourt-room on the right of the Criminal Court Building, the.room where, if you iwalk by, you see pale green shades, some of the -mlowered to the win- dow ledge that the light may not bother District-Attorney Jerome's eyes as he “paces up and down in- Mr. Garvan, blond, clean shaven —and with the distinction of appearing= most spick and span and tmmacuinte—z ef a roomful of fastidiously dressed = men, war tho Stato's spokesman. He ; {s an extraordinarlly earnest youns~ man, apparently in the early thirties,” and $f I were on trial I would be more afraid of him than of Mr, Je- rome, because Mr, Garvan takes him~ self and his office most seriously and , belleves In both, while deep down in’ the District-Attorney's heart, I im- agine, lurks an easy, cynical tolor= © ance of human weaknesses not conststent yh —satentiess: ne — thefr manifestations. in tha individual. HARTRIDGE THE WOMEN 1S FAVORITES These two occupled the centre of the stage this morning. Later on ‘These are Mr. Hartridge, who Delmas, Mr, McPike, Mr. Peabody and Dan SL looks like a midle-aged Cupid that-has spent some time on Hroadwa; ‘Thoro-tx- sir Hartridge, clean-cut, southern protic and athletic Agurel i earily tiret-in he hearta of Lhe wonten spectators,-one-of whom, th-t-moed~ of uftor-luncheonrontid Jecldad that he resembled the only man she | ever loved, while another tikes him because she mys he bears a stikiigyy likeness to her husband. Mr. Hurtridge resembles Venetine, the pagan here of "Quo V Defure he was converted, If you reud “Quo Vaiis" you'll mehiber t % ce interesting= young mtn; = - here fs Jonn B. Gleason, white-hairpd, with a uotnted veard,. very coure Bhd discinetly ofd-sckook in his ae f anioMr Peabody, whose-obtet= hings to-Harry-‘fhaw, blond; goode——~ loukthg, with a-soclety aspect that-mikht lead a #tranger.to plaace him RB DARK HORSE. AN-ORATORICAT 4he defense. ker avinoy these = : Sed ene Senor aS: be culied to New York Yo" cae tere eo Hlin-ai surnmened theta elise sThere- ta Peimes the eratorfeal-dark horse trom. California from_whoa. atone dL ta0k en te thie a It Your : or a a —————— SST Se BE reef Sroak-things Are and who rally looks Ike Napoleon without tryin tame up we Rot on.” The re fv Foreman, and ot voll, i (otconalder itt A enoacd hiv complaln cae -appenatel tins PHe-bas-pren that-give color ta> ont ee i que ores Paral sala w er ech vera tiiite ia} Hep CORLO US THRONG Agnosed his complalntgs appendicitls. |" 0 o amor frequently heard 1p coure that ie nasa romantic history. His ase mupposed from the conversation | \ Cloge an 1° [you have =H i BESIEGES COURT.|.” Death Followed Quickly. | sistant, Mr, MePike, has the g/neral appeararce of Vice-President Foirhanks one of. them was Mrs. Thaw, The other} a chan [Proceedings of the pa , =i Thin man Has ‘been terribly wea “| These men-are all-erenped-at-atabdle abont thelrehent, Harry Thay, Sa two wereatrungers, but 1 thought they | ables Ww meicsvalNinatimo!Inconvenlense tocwhte ; ened by his recent experience and tt] of Thaw sits the row of falt women relatives—hi art! im and Key hat he twelve jur . After vn peacerul ant 2h his mother, wesyrutipeta inaitha) elevator: cWhat Land looked at the erie soueh enabled Ine that pn of the pedby oc thin rite eee eee tal Uime tn tneir [!% doubtful {he can stand an opera-rsistors, and the pole-faced wile, reutd whom the whole tragedy revolves i happened gh. the way down the ol myself, but daya will in Zany way be allowed ea eppey EEL) Fis ‘ant multe in the Brondway Central Hotel, | Un" sald Dr, MeWilama: On a Ine with the connsel table are two other tables at which tha yatort AL Mr, Thaw admitted ple. Wher t jinnuence vour-minds or le COW danthiniaaolised And after breakfast read the expur-;—*-fe’ days after the operation word! newspaper men sit ana weite alld Jong, ‘The matter-of-fact impersonal Killed to “Save Wife.” oki over om i, de ad | the considera{lonof thie eso, becaus rate | gated maraing papers and then walked |WAS fent to Mex, Thaw that Hedford| attitude of these young men, “presumably the best reporters In New York, Mr. Delmas: One moment; 1 object} fae mite) = ¥ 4 catee vat (ie HRpoTtehee yorenars wn to the ‘ eof. Cupl. | waa dying.—Bhe—went_to-the Ereabycitn to-me-one of the moat _Hteresting phases of tho trial Mdst_of thom have. — to that. What did he nay? : Thee Stine aa ; A ke killed, with ration and Willian Jo 13 and’ his five -annint=pterian Hijspital and\tateed to him Hel sosteted at su any triais, have sean so many men doomed or delivered: hy etree OE Cosh eas Ny sud inlowty. ter te shoot | ton ne Racninerent Ny tattion, and 1 toto Kill, orn antw of the court squad. Capt. Lynen | asked ler to” seo that his Innurnneet the law, Miat they seem to have lest 10 nome extent the sense of tragedy, and fo you or what he said to her, and what | hedidberore, eee [called forth. It ts an Important enlhe deena A sald that all were {n excellent healt, | was sent to him wife and children in| take the Thaw triilas they would a politienl convention or x mothsrs* cll % 0 OE tahima Acie did} QiDid-he throw oul his a | a nalinportantnensen\ (motel tnls, Bity fia mort Mr#, Eyelyn Nesolt Thaw, wife of the| England and requested that his vody| meeting or a dog-fhght, nply part of the day's routine. tr because he ruined my The| amo atten Ames Ley wis AFmME at any | both to the vefendant and to the People Of MeKtlm, Mead & Wilts | defendant, with her faithful chum, May|be sent there, It was difficult to get} sts Jeay anid. You, Harey Dut took At) there with hin right ama ane out from lor the State of New York Ge theo Be UPAR SUS TO Rea ee rey CNte aie, got to tho building potore 1y | around the English barrier against’ the THE WOMEN IN THE) CASE. z CR AE cid anya: WAN right, rari t | ACA De ta LneoN Cut ls Aina, not ype] XOW must understand that the pur-| went to tila home In St. James L. | Waa no policeman (admission ‘of bodies, but Atrs, ‘Thaw| ‘Ihe women of the case yuu know already—Hatry Thaw's thother, stout, i have probably saved your’ life, Qawhen rade ithe pose ment of the criminal and spent Sunday | w his wife any rt them Sram stig . ej had it arranged. stately, silver-haired; the Countess of Yarmouth, rather tneffectively thet time the elevator was dow’ meee te i tae He made the re-lIaw Is the protection of woclety, and children, On Mondey morning Wo ‘re-| trance, out thes were put to no incon: |had it areangeds | stately, a et eo Pern Rt er _ fut as we stepped off Mr. Conw Raine wan namie Red (my wire?” TA, therefore the murposs of an individual | gummed, to hin work in this élty.” On| venience, ‘ax the usual crowd had t As few days latter, the body ‘was sent|inretty;, hes alster, Mrs, Q: arnegte, with a less regular but somewhat j) fan oMcer appenred. I sald, OrAnK wn dig "Four thee eee | prowocution fe moe, to. puntan an Indie Metehnd eeeeoR he seen OM Its | FECGAINC EEE, exctude every |SNAY, ME Garvan summoned Nalllo| gweoter face, and Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, tho pale, pretty, child wife around /) vidual for hia criminal acts, not alone! nineteen, a, student In Harvard College |one ‘from the court-room with the ex-| Leahy, Mise Leahy, ia an Irish tans. pene the whole tragedy has been woven. . ~|asat, not for revenge, bat co serve as ANd hs fon'a chum, “a young mar [cotton of the talent hone who| She waded Into’ Mr. Garvan thn 5 A deterrent to othdrs who contemplate | Gent at tila Fee ee ee ne rd ae ey terrain the | ovclone accused him of murdering: Bed: 1 | ‘lerime, and Nence to act as a protection {turned trot college at the end ofthe | coming pf the first day an re} 1 trint| ford: and eroded auch ae Was ii | i human life and property In a com-|collega year and spent. Sunday with | they Were aasalled by A horde of gien | was: urged to reave without throwing |f y. eave j Ae I TH JAPAN! ] Junltyy Resa Toeee ee Bien toraayy At the summer llome inj ane. women. vainly seeking admittare, any ight on the domestic lito of the { Like a stanch friend, you \ {i }CAnd_as.oach criminal case Is Import-} oo, haws There was a similar disturbance | d |The three went to dinner together. 4 can always depend on Fant both to the eo and the poole! 3 G A ¢ lon each of, her tree successive appear- Oil veevea ti Sona in tmemitide | Mie Me thceat Matin ands,goune | GEN, HOLABIRD; VETERAN) ahcen In the Dlntct Attorney of, Ko Employes” References Reguied q the offen: the water agals vit sixth street and Broudw y. where the wu finally abandoned as a 1 OULD mean employment for many *|titwtitinttrdite Meath ei Ae a ab ty 'za) _ ARBLY QERIGER) DEAD. See Sie | = an able-bodied man, but who wants | nd {i fale. the just and. the cerca purchased theatre Ucketg. per tes, the hoxaver willy apoeariat| VW iitc INOSE: OR to wait such an indefinitely “Ian epuon vf tin eriminal HEA cieneehecalnnere ati: wile laroys | ecekany ne trial aso witness for t | Al time when through, yesterda 18 Onto rthe magni uae [with tio othe theatre to) gal I he will be a strong wit A World “ Help Wants ” erday's, | ho importamla mts {pack to Muctin Garden'and uk, | of the oldest lerrown Untied. (nae ot thaitclale ey on ea || ' i : The hapectahn a aate Ne nded to root, where Uhere waa | States army officers In Uie country ee Te ee ar aniston th | CCU or HIME fy lcs, Cotolecug Po, &4 a haar a cl se iiss ~ tho In Mgnt of A play called, | former Quarterinagtercenyral, -died knew. Mrw. bite and | — wy And pro pipishmert npARNe a Fi thiar ehiy Westar watt orice hon a at prtant, two rows of tables with | neas, tn bis leth ow and) quarre 1 Work of A’ All ind Ma * ‘He'In ina that the punteh: | en and at one of thess| be buried in the Sold.ers’ Home Ceme-} tnother when Stante Uniformly Excellent, 1 Ss ay 2€ Mant of crime ts to serve Hs AN exAM=| Mr. White sat down alone at a able | tery Tuesday, Gen Holabird prutu:| or In the. family, | H d t O 2 ble Dthe Deane Heethomaniention bt and Taated his Head on hs bane Fated trom Naat proline in Ma neras | Ror Sho elu mio i 3 ne defendant was. therg Ww mown In lerary ‘lteles aa tbe tras: | In” Boston. a duiticulty ex rt a mce § fon and more people It becomes mare Be and two frends, Beale and Cah lator of Gen. Jomials "Treative caping them in Yew York, but will ap-| = a oan 37-: 39, RTADEN Lane NEWYORK got up from the trl rh tr — wot Up he tril on a subpoena trom Wants Work. Wondere BRANCH FULTON STREET, BKLYN, worth