The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1907, Page 3

THE EVENING WORLD, Thaw’ s , Strange Love Letters and His Remarkable Will Operating = To Develop Character for a Man Who Was Believed to Have None THAW PARTY. OF MAY MACKENZIE. ———_—_ +++ ‘Sane or Insane, Public Opinion Is} Veering Around to a Belief That the Young Spendthrift Was Ac- tuated by Chivalrous Impulses OLD DOCUMENTS PROVE DEEP ¢ SINCERITY OF HIS PURPOSE Long Ago He Planned. to Avenge Manner the Wrongs He Believed © - White to’ Have Inflicted on z Innocent Girls, hero: on June 25 last, an alleged ‘assassin, the-other justi- man who, his wife told him, had etrayed-her: to agree. But yesterday they found . one, and-united-in -acclaiming the quiet heroism ~ of a- small; gray, bald- Bolton, No. 11 of Harry Thaw’s jury, who had put aside a great people of New York and to-Harry Thaw. NOT LOVE BUT DUTY HERE. 7 = Most heroisms as well as most crimes ure committed {n the name of That word, symbol of all that Is ‘greatest and basest in human life, weed t: Lanter kite asthe excuse of-hie-crime-againat— Erelyn Nesbit, It supplied the motive which urged Harry Thaw to put White to death. But it has no place in the clear, cold nobility of tho _deyenth Juror, who, losing; what he most cherished In all the world- ber= | ~ Yaips because of the Thaw trial, did not allow the death of a beloved wite} to swerve him from the performance -of his duty to the people and to Harry/ Thaw. The act of this small, every day business man was performed without “hope of favor or reward unless he found it Inthe glance of mingled syr- pathy and gratitude which swept Harry Thaw’s face wheu he came into court and his big eyes rapidly scanned the jury-box-to-eee if No. 11, upon whom the wholé trian! suddenly hung, was in his place. To-day finds this anxiety over. Tho trial {s again in full awing. Love. “was, its: the prosecution of Lis murderer should he be murdered, -as thé will | Fevealod he feared he would ve, We know that the codicil provided chivalrously for hail a dozea youtig: woiaen, reputed victims of Stanford | While, to the end that they might obtain legal redress for the outrages to which the -defemdant eyidenus supposed themto-have-been-mubjected- A STRANGE FEATURE OF THE CASE. And from this, and evidence praviously admitted, springs the most re- markable feature of Uie Thaw case—the public rehadiiitation of a man’s | character through his trial for murder! Harry Thaw may bo insane or he may not be—his Jury must determine that; but there fs litte doubt that when the jury has brought in its verdict the young man will stand higher in the Subic dulnd ear at tithe besiuning ~Or bis triat.— We thought of him then, tiost of tas Asa glided dodauchee. The slories of his scolding’ and beating young women were printed and we lent them | the easy credence we arc apt to give to tales of evil. —Since the trin) hegauwe-have read the young man‘s strange Joye Jetters ———“to- Evelyn NecbR-aid-vie-Hiran ger-wiH-and-codieh-edmitted- yestérdiy. Ail} thes Instruments have been declared by experts for the defense to contain | evidences of Siisane de “Dut so tar, the tarpursce renultin, delusjons were fine and chivalrous, fnoemuch as they urged provision tor! avenging young girls who. the defendant fancied bk been _grlévoo: wronged: Sue RVEREAS A Nee. a Tho.loye-letters to. Ey: vlyn Nesbit, though often cfiude-and incoherent. breathed «strong, genuine, Whalé-sonled ‘devotion. The codlell-of the wilt, though perhaps “baseg on 1 imaginary ¢ offenses of Stanford White, showed ‘a ‘disinterested desire to avenge the weak and helpless who Thaw fancied | hhad-beenirreparably injured, THAW NOT ACTING A PART. “On” Mie “tack of the-evidence-ne “given” up ttl to-day two Opinions of 122%, Evelyn Nesbit are possible. You may belleve hor story in {ta essentials, as I confess, [ do, und feel for her an Infinite pity and understanding: or you niay dlsbelleve it aud grin enrdontcally at st, and call the tale of horror ghe told # plece of clever acting. But no one would lefters or when he framed that remarkable will. + Insane or not, he was in these Instances absolutely rincere, Always at least he had the courage, and, In the codicil of his will, the nobility of his: delusions, ‘Crazy Harry" may have been tilting against the windraill of his own fantastic dreams, The Don Quixote of the Tenderloin may have broken lances for persons who would have preferred him to open bottles. He may havo slain « great genius as the result of unjust and ingane sus- picion, though I do not think so, If halt of what Harry Thaw bolleved of that so-called great genius is true it would have been a crime against womanhood to let him lift his head An the sub-cellare of the world, Years ago an Indubltable genius was sent to prison by the English people. He went where he belonged, and from the depths of his humiliation and’ despair flowered that blood-red tose of eyil, the ‘Ballad of Reading Jail,” and later the “De Frefundus,” frail, broken Illy of repentenoe, pader than the dead soul from which {t sprang, —There were persons. then—there are _mope_persons_now-—who thought that great genius a victim, In my opinion thoso who urge Stanford While’# eminence as his de- tn fonse reason no better. It may bethat he was the Innocent victim of Harry ‘In Lawful For many months—ever ce the: slaying of Stanford White in fact—public opinion has been divided into two factions, one deploring the death. of. ~a--so-called genius -at-the -hands._of fying the killing by a husband of a On-no-point—have- these two factions hitherto been able headed,..unpretentious .man, Mr. private grief to do his duty to the} & from these; *o y Tirry Thaw was acting whet he wrote his love- i TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, AA | WOMEN IN THE ANTE- ROOM OF ‘COURT. MRS. GEORGE CARNEGIE. MRS. WILLIAM THAW. EVELYN THAW. [Plan of Thaw - Lawyers to Prove Him Sane Now Counsel for Harry Ths 1 elation over the fact that at last what they believed to be conclusive evidence had been given-to the jury that the prisoner was suffering a “parent” delusion -on the night he -killed-Stanfornl Whiteand that _he-had since tully_recoyered -his-normal— senses. 5 The expert evidenee.of Drs. Britton D. Evans-and Charles Wagner: at Thaw's delusion fegarding White and the lesser ones Lanising-from-it kept growing until they-reached-the explosive ‘point-on the night’ of the killing. And White having been. killed “by an act of | Providence’ the: delusions were gradually effaced and, Harry Thaw. | remade into a sane man. _ District-Attorney. Jerome's supreme effort wil be in: the direction ‘ot an assault ‘on this theory. His battle avith the Thaw xperts in the cross- examination 1s awaited’ with keen interest by thase who have been-fol- lowing “the trial Judging-from: the single tilt he had: with Dr. Evans yesterday jt is expected that Jerome's ‘agile wit will-not ils own way. to-day sho was *Thaw's wilhand its remarkable codicil have been admitted-as evidence. ve EVELYN — THA Lnow that. the young man now ou trial for his tfe-set aside $50,000 for | ‘She D exactly; [think jtwil Did Stanford White come there wehlie. vou. were visiting May: Mackenzie? ‘a. Dia you atter that visit relate to Har: mt na Lat | Gone: oF raliempled todo to zai of White's Action. you Windly= tell it~ to [isa hat Es told “him Miss —-Mackénzie written me a note asking me Ge ; to.see-her,-and i -had.gos lthat, ebout a minute after | IT wae thor Sir, White came tn, and the room w very,-Very. amvall.anshwe could no, had to stand up besiae bh Stangord White spok and I merely an: ~ “Phen he ineia-eb one taking my cap off—[ had sho jeccount of my fliness and w and ene he tried to put round and have me ait down he bed. beside. tim, nd T told him so continually. Q. And this you related’ to afr, Q) When was it, how soon after it] ai happened, did you relate sthat to pre Dh? A. Immediately, ment hom una frat the hoapital. M thaw during your _mar-| allude to your Ni-health? hatr on! Thaw? Ail this took place ment—In. hen I ame. home to the cause of your ill-health Berets sinceonmection, with Btan ae 054 it Sou tate what he sald My Uipfect?, A He aatd mil. ry Upon eeAtad come from him—all my not deing aw strong aa L would havo been, @Q. They came from what? A. From nite ald. wnat you know one Shubert? A. T knew a Mr, Shubert—« theatrical man- jr you ever tell Mr. Thaw {any Ou eV hat a Fe a Mon with Stanford es to" the oventa of Christmas ‘icaao ate to the jury ve Ahir tbat ate ane cals tol eee, ie ir. ue vas there that flat Oo anager, 1a trea. Wi aw and Branford White con ‘Thaw's delusions. Perhaps Mr. Jerome will prové it.” But as the case Glanifs’to-day, Harry Thaw’s (rial has done more to rehabilitate him than , | © estore the reputation of tho man he kUlled. ANH Harry, Harry the theatre at night, and he sald ford White on nly, what you told ie ina GP ine BN Ne (Continued trem Be: eT thet c and 1 wouri no! wren 1) | STAND TELLS MORE OF WHITE'S CAREER oo petro the’ Mind of Her Husband, eclares. nd Paze.) that he ont Jumplag ua tras Sal non as comt jin pormned. Verve hush eat fomething, continually talling acemed very much angmethin, mid. THAW. TOI,D HER T i QoWhat Fyouhave marracis wi on hls part to nienemeryt for tt charged him with at had LY reat many Q. WIN sou" plenan pels dory-as Tr wy pouilblo, ide them as much as you Mr. tha, wferency thins may elles lon with dalety fort » Proventl oly poet alldr>n— at OF RIS SPER ALS. fase begin with what. if anyt Thaw ON Ra to his eftorts In . Comstock, of ng back id about 4a him: excited tnd’ Ne waa ver’ to-any bring Stanford (Wi ant which having done? t be, will of Crue Sou Vrevenlion-af Vice. i S"DelmancWell, nome ty 9 charae, what Mr | Se Tate, the a A ever, well what did Mr that xubsort to read and Kaclety the. mdetety, ror haw We gave ms fd che waa sanding but ett Q. Te that the aame paver T you the other day? A. T think O. Proceed then—and told you sending: that paper? To thie noclety? or the poclaty; T don't kno’ fentlone’ Mr, Commtark's nme, did mention some society. from-that_iime_on_ne fotion. or in accurt or oscration from that 3 success, Hemet with a mroat oppaattion, a and [told -bhlm= he vould. | That, Blanford White Influential very rich and sere oud rete to aiop any work that {9 enough, say to you about the nocl- or rowhich Mr. Comstock romie--Plense fix the date, te of the conversa: . It was In 1965, the early Now & paper to some -I don't remember the namo of wax nomething like roctety for tho prevention of something, Q. Ho mays vou n paper to rend? Yon, showed Ro. he war "ACT: don't re- member whether he aald afr, Comatose | 4 whe ar he wt he Secured Little Results. Now, ,then, what did ho tell you to his efforts_and Re to tholf success or fll auocess in ad or operation A Wate did not seem to have. much Asal of niway: hada Eiener tried fo to ‘Stories of Wrong Done to Her allt Others by Architect Constantly in ¢ peop! ‘personal @ any tilt wad “by Mr. Mubject! of an. in connection wit t him on, accou: ). Were Sinen cron tigie fo. time nientioneal I d_the pager a fae alles tL thit paper Darts wil and as read yesterday? iF Clerk: Penny produced th handed It Doli T will ask you to glance an rapidly tas you-ean over this -papor merely the purpose of looking at the namen of | the young women mentioned there. (The} ch bas! E TAD EVER DO. UE—STHRORIND, = Th Ttold Str, Miia tha said sald thay had a terri Hie pir kor" into trounla- ja let of gold p About. ler-clothes-or ae hing-of the! red ite fina beer thescn Xes,-end-}asid— ia S18 White tht he was, A having ruined tia gieT UNA sughed about thay tion T hat waa al had with Mr. wfore Jt leave that subject, I un tn 1008 When did she say Whit fix the you tel! Mr Mr. Stanford t Twon't- say ius m the ex rhe Wild | Howe Q Did" the, y told by Mr. sy ule Thaw's ‘presence: a lam. in Wiring ty thee ond. | ner pare [witness takes the paper and looks over) Q. tthe same for some mii statement--made= by Mr. rten} Case. Q.In—that connection was_there any Thaw-to— yo The “Ple-Gir! and=by yout at, asked My. ite wit the trouble wie after, abd Kittin honor} sof the bout It, He| Thaw ) but later we talked more hat -vaw allof-that-converad~ date Whe Waters? or told! your own | works Was T7ua_ PLACH Np BE, AND HE WOULD Gt AS TIME WENT ON and ruin a 5, nut only gicle who bat pure gicla who ver femitian Moret mt the hatide-of Bale and'then he maid that after Wiite, waa tired of them “they anide tind fell) Tower Wer He maid he ont Ne tov lite, bat he might a fell send ni straint to perdition. SILLY RUMORS AS | THAW WANTED TO EQUITABLE LIFE, COM STOCK TO PROBE | ~ QUITABLE LIFE, = THREE PLACES. Bea One_ Starts. Report--That~#: The witness then Identified the paver Receiver Is About to Be Toaw had sown (0 nec ws one ae was Koln to -aend to ome soctety or Appointed for It. eS Comatocé.and My. Deimas pur froin -ovideue. Dirk. Thaw Bald Site was shown the paper oy Thaw TC Pitte Ourg, early In 103, she believed.” Air Delmag~then—reed-tie-paoer to Sas. -about Ao Hele AON Lory i a Life Assurance Boclet; { noes."" the paper bedins, | 01 3 mith a ciestiOnesennt art and Tterature ‘When told of the reports, Paul First, Stanford. Whites place in M President of the eoctety, wala: won Square Tower. Probably bt te n= | tne ett oauible for you to retorm It.) aot op impending. epeiren: ridiculous.” Mr. Morton faded the: ‘Second, No. 2 Weet ‘fwant) ourth __of no sorporation atrvet. ia ‘consecrated to oralen W word which was more solvent "ted, lees likely to €o into the used for wrorging young calver thd the Equttable. ae Pea fa thier mace KICKED AWAY-CHAIR 10 HANG FROM DOOR. SHAT 6 rj room with the swing was o: Vinlted, then withdrew ths questor fe ou may.croas- oe ‘The —Dintrict#Attors {Tike to reserva hia mination, and Men had-no obsection. the stand. the witness lett th ig, blctures unon te ae hough Indecent, are bo Tite Mey ctater nhs mrouna, Hoot TOV Ors viol onale. toy store, Beside 2 Weat ‘wenty-fourth isa door that} aks “upstalrn, oa 21] ¥ My CF QE THE AS | tng ke UA Tela ketene show | : the distetbutfon of the roo eae SHS Minh pack oom haw a inoe, but at tx |Despondent Butcher, Out of Work, HE “tHE ry TC aa eV GR es i ded Gan bone allah es Takes His Life at his Home AT WUT, “AND IP WAS — TH * Work ‘outside “have heart nT pes orkmen outside have in Jersey City. il iciria scream there. t} Drog_Young-Victins: Desiindent. because ke wee ont work and, unable to find any one willing to engage him, August Boucher, sixty- three years of age. 2 bucchoy ed at No. 7 Washingion sirce ¥ City, ended hin lit nging bimself int hia home: roucher.toM_Wie “Their custom ts to drug the victim— usually an American rirl, innocent ana Of ~adeut-fifieen-years. There ls no escapg lexcepliwindawsi7 anditheseirion mit regret that ley canl aa there Is only] y Jaa secret yard tow covered — (Another rketen | a cloned yard. t: from tha fe with mirrors above’ | of, the room.) And T think there ts stim top floor ~/ Witte Taree studio with » wwing. Six y{ or feven erlminal scoundrels control | day When he got_up she déss this rom and three or four decent | coveted her husvaia Babeing YOUN men sometines frequent It, and ered 0 a . 1! occasionally a ntranger, However, tnix | 00 Of the front-rgom. ‘There, was ‘a! a fo Waa pariiy dismantled tires years, foe fastened to a knob of the door on one aide, and thin had been passed up . when workmon got the police to _| tnabiee, It partly closed several] and over the top of thé}door, and the There Mw neck. Me had to stand on uw ketok tt Ged Bs Shale and one of the chije sat Neowald the frome time ELT NAMES d . — HAMILTON. FISH, be eh —Thre-Prepte dent rent to the Senate teday the nomi atlona of Hamilton Fish to-be Assistant paBurer of th ed States at Nei Trea tates at New i od dren ranfor “a ad heen a, ni vomeundinirestonaariehe Fe canines guns ROOSEY i was told th y y Murlding an “And A moat necre 2a ar four—of t ime not re far mann Ame Kcoundrels.+ w It Tt contains) t $3; 958 F FOR A | A BOY’S LIFE. —— In the cae? for © Tawyer Toulw § NA This room fury bathroon-and at hater Ans} ARE damages kKelr for. of —tem-yrar-ot Rains the Tidson ia bathe trees piched toa ber a0 Bereich pamcng or a 1 Frentiontn hie [Ol WHat: whybody @- young’ girt bet ent on —Wag-the: Teme of this young: kenown-te MrT} OW exactly. Q Tam not calling for the nam Lonts-spoxe or her ae tie “pte xt 1 Qc And Ag spoke of her as the girl’ too? A, 1 don't. remember her-name; Q. And f may ask you then, In order | ;to—satlsfs— the District-Attorney, het. * You. seooenixe- tho names of any of | the ones mentioned in the jcodiell aa th Da anne Cat s between you and your hus and—Juat what you sald. what ne aatd aly 10 on wirbjeot in your presence Mr. Jerome—Fix the Ume, as near Q I may ask——, A. The fret Lime wo talked about it was in 1, In White Boasted’ of It. {Pari Q; What waa then sald? A. T think Mbegan with Mr. Thaw jwhat-otheroRirin {> knew suffered ax I had from Stanford White. and to tell him of the ones I know, I mentioned this one girl. 1 told him that I had-tat heard this story from some girl in the theatromin the Knicker- bocker Theatre—and that night. when Stanford White 9 to my dreesing room I asked him about {tl anked him what was the ato ut the “plo girl," "and he nald, "Where did you hear thai?” I’ sald I’ had heard {t in the theatre, and then he told me about tt Q. Tell us what you told Mr. Th that Mr. White had told you? told Mr. Thaw Mr, White had WHAT WAS IT? AHR what t IN AND THAT RO CONT 1x SE’ NTHE aie SOMEBODY PEN, AND THAT WL OPENED THIS LITTLE GIRL. BrOOD perry nandon! BEAUTIFUL FIG SHE WAB AN ARTIBTS MODEL; AND THAT “IT y 4 WAS THE DEST STUNT TE DONE AT SUPPER; h Dyand he sald: D about {tt usually made tee tay gave the mother sof the boy! las the 1 Mrs. ‘Thaw ifthe THE SAD EN DING OF “PIE GIRLS 11F Qo Now, wae there anorner conver {tion-onsthe tmatter? ASTHe Wild Was Ho-Pittsborg-utres-we had ted ME ; and th: {ried tat ee had m und! that aftor the found oul hin ato and bad left The wald thal stantord Walke ord (do anything for her atten ow. Were he names aid t gitly-other White mi had died” in want, at his One moment: we cannot have any T think, str, What ad you a i where aud time? aariecateunaorhy madam, An | can do no eralize we will huve to by content that.A, Well, there way constant Wersa tion about it It would Utterly | Imponsible for mo to Rive any one | date or time. But tt was after my mare riage, when Mr, Thaw told. me ‘that Stanford White ought to be put in the penitentiary. yoms you can, tire than? ar war fa ot tS know ha. ya the. namestat ALcWelle ne: aasa Sane OC White ought to be in the henltentiar heveata fom these girls BN that I Rin help, to. do. yy hat 1 co: a | h I wad ‘about my: veia public scandal, What can 1 What can't Gor! Wanted Her to Help. Proceed, madam; he yald what? aid that'l abpuld do everything Hid, becalino When hy talked so. 4 Iréd= to gut fie mind on other 2 Pin ae ¢ mien rid-he notlosd Twas tr to Ret a other things, was try BALD WAS IN DE PENITEST TARY, AND 5 her |) | | question, A.) 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Mail orders filled. «The Or- thought It was pretty |rine Co., Washington, D, C.. or Rie gh we had no Idea of us- | ker's, Hegemun’s and Caswell Mas- Ing {t regudarly. But when my hus- | sey's Drug Stores. band came ‘home ut night he asked | —— for Grape-Nuts, “Tt was the same next day and J had to get it right along, because when we would get to the table the | ‘Have you any — Grape- | Nuts’ was ‘are thing. So I be- xan to buy {t by the dozen pkgs. | “My hustand’s health began to {mproy right along. I sometimes offended when I'd make somo- NEI eRChOUEK CNG HaUIdcTINes forta'l change, and still hear the same old lau Ott any Grape- ‘ aa writes: My husband's Health was jho Nad no appetite for any coutd-get-for-him, tt seemed: "te was hantly able to work, taking medicine continually, and ne soon as he would feel better would | be -|g0 to work agaln only to sive up in few weeks. He suffered severely 2 gtomach trouble. Tired of everything I had been | able to get for him to ent. one day seeing’ an © advertisement) about} fot some for him to poor, hing was 1 that can T “He got so well that for the last | two years he has hardly lost a day | from his werk, and we nre still us- ing Grape-Nut me given Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read | the book, “The Road to Wellville,’ in pkgs. “Thero's a Reason,” plical afford Bie Jolt Hellet wit ware, hy New York Clix, have everything Frans ates i i Breiman maid ho PON hirer Fa POTN Of Tee other afd Rouchartad-mate-faat-mboug————— the