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Remarkable Contrast Presented by the Mothers in the Thaw Trial, _ One Fighting Loyally For, the Other Covertly Against Se ce SS ef Mrs William Thaw, Waiting Patiently to Be Called as Witness in Defense of Her Son, Devotes All ot “Her Time to: Him. SECRETLY ATTACKS DAUGHTER Besides ‘Giving. Information to forome: She "Sends Her Son to Prove That Girl Who Supported Them Is Unworthy "of Belief. By Nixola Greeley =Smith. T used'to be the custom at the ] theatre. to introduce contic “™- features in the interludes of tragedy, to cheer up the audience. Apparently this .programme 1s still considered imperative at great murder trials. . At any rate, it is pursued at the Thaw trial, where what-is known -irreverently- asthe “bug” testimony has been put on now that the curtain has dropped onthe’ tragedy of the wife, Evelyn Thaw, and has not yet risen on that -of_the-mother of the defendant, Interest in the case halts while the District-Attorney and Dr. Evans split hairs and are likely to con- tinue splitting them for some time to come. For a little while it was interest- ing enough. These two men ‘are known to be personally unfriendly, and for the first hour or so of the ~ encouiler—the end of which | is not yet—the Thaw jury straightened-up- _and looked interested, and occasionally laughed heartily at the verbal — “bout, which only needed to be divided into rounds to possess all the ____ interest of_a_real_prize-fight. THE TWO MOTHERS IN THE CASE. But all this has passed awa: Mr. Jerome is gray with fatigue and stim wit determination, “whtto Dr. Evans 18 fresh” and rosy, and so evasive that I’ fear the District-Attorney will never be able to pin this || particultr “bug” down long enough to chloroform and classify him. Meantime interest centres {nu the forthcoming testimony of Mra. WilHum Thaw, the defendant's mother. Excluded from the trial, she passes day ~after-day-in-the-wi(ness-room-walting-to-bocallod_to-give- whatever testt=- mony she can to save ker <on, Public opinion i divided as to Evelyn Thaw. But there can be no two “opinions as to Harry: Thaw's mother, a fine, strong and brave Old lady, who, after taking the second place in her son‘s love which all mothers must Qrsume sooner or later, sees herself even val his supremest tragedy Trele- Ty gated to a-minor role. + Harry Thaw owes his present plight to Evelyn Thaw, ___be must owe deliverance from it. if delverance comes. The mother may help, but St Js the wife alone who can saye, ONE FOR THE OTHER AGAINST THE CHILD Not in all humanity Js thero a greater contrast than between. the two mothers in the Thaw case, the white-hajred Mra. William Thaw, wife ofa <-millonalré, daughter of a distinguished editor, and a most devoted mother; -and the young, yigorous Mrs. Holman, whoso fifteen-year-old ‘laughter’ worked as a modo} to support the family and became the Telgning to: >of the Tenderloin at.an age whon other girls are still in boarding: ce a ‘Qne- ‘of these mothers reads in an Rgor ot apprehension eve; uttered In: the tourt:rcom or about. the .caso Phleh-may- aye or oF tedden “her #02: idemn ‘The other put in the hands of the District- Attorney the which was his most powerful weapon in his terrific cross-¢: dangtiler Byelyn, ind sent her gon iioward to New YX == for=the.-prosecution, saidras Thaw; &-atalely,-old-fashioned, phitanthrople woma: more” horror at her son's predicament than Mrs, Holman, acest, —th oundings in which Evelyn was reared, could-hare OX D4 i thesrevelation” of hier dalighter’s shame—it, indeed, she had aa _—knawledge. of It. a8 she claims, zoe eeviiras Yet the sheltered Mrs. Thaw ts at her son's r helping him in every great and Utue way her sees Hk eeel \ And-the younger end more worldly Mra. Holman, havi 5 ng a: _eutor-ngainst her daughter, stays In Pittsburg, armed tho pz But to her also memorand im examination of fork to tastiry m, must fecl tar 136: "0S0~ CHURCH STATUARY DESTROVED BY FIR | Art. Warerooni Seared by Blaze Which Causes a Wild Scramble for Safety. 1ADelayed Investment! | ts the SS man who has the — Courars to “ACT” rather : than “DREAM” that suc. | ceeds. Not only "read" but \ “ ’ 1 a i nea World, Real el many. thouxan q cot woud quickly ; : H Ae mente Svinee y the tims the: nechen waa Injuredy-thers exeltement and a! { he Sind, eaca poison | the uppor Moora of the burning. bullae The binge started dula cheap of! eeisfor tn the rear. room of the art! Lich. {wild scramble “MRS.HOLMAN, STANDING ALOOF,| 0 wault. wielding of the broken banister, he hold THE EVENING WwoRL D. FRIDAY, 7 MARCH 1, | CIALZEOR NS a LOL TAD MAID LASHED: DENTIST WITH ‘WAP—NOW TRUCE Wielded Lash and Doc- _ tor Struck Back. The white flag im flying at No. 004 Lexington aventie. to-dny, after a bat- tle in which a dog-whip and a section of atalr-ralling played a prominent part. The truce was effected in Yorkville Dr, Jacob Schnaler, a dentist, offices in the house, occupled by Mra. Adelaide Fleisch, and the doctor alleges the servants of Mrs. Fleisch pay no eart patrons, of the same nort before. On: the other hand, Mra clares_ that the dentist expecta. malds to-servé-nim “Just as if he paid | thelr wages," and none remains there Tong. = Brae Fretseh engaged: “Aguee-Foxre® Fleisch de- | her} truly muscular young woman, as a servant, a fortnight ago, A man, who said ha had a “jumping Tooth,” rank | the dentist's bell yesterday and Miss | Fox went to the door, The patent any tered-siitel 4 Tot Rt apr Babnatar tt much trouble fetowed. 5 Mrs. Fax Lashed Doctor. ‘Miss Fox armed hersel¢ with=a' Wo) whip, which may “have been provided | forosuon-a-contingenty: snd. eheIealred:| Dr: Belinater: thus: “Tako this, you tooth pulllageawish= gold plugging—swish—crown making— ew isl pw isn ‘The dentist hastened to the Yorkville | Police Court-and- gota. elmmmons for Miss Fox. Mra. Fleisch went ito court} with her. wence a> broken» banister and said the | dentist had knocked her "through the stairs" because she had not admitted the man with The Juinplng oorh, “The missus ordered me not to walt on—on the doctor. Bo I didn't," added Misa Fox, combatlvely. — : Magistrate Walsh held Dr, Schnaler tn. on Misa Fox's charge of ax- Carefully studying her and her her In $20. ball to keep tho peace. Dr. Sthnaler, who prompt, gave “ball, sald to-day, “L leased that parlor floar for five years, The owner wants to get me out; so they ore making things pleasant for me." MOURNED AS DEAD, _HE IS MUCH ALIVE. Lester Bernd, Who Was Thought to Have Drowned -in Chicago, Js in New York, Loster Dernd, formerly of St. Loutx and Liter"of Chicago, whose clothes were found on the banka of Lake Mich- igan elghtoon months ago, abd who was thonght to have committed sutelde, ts now, lving,in thia city, He has avaumed anotaer name and ts Lying very quietly, cabiérnd was recognixed bya fornicr attention to his He has had much trouble | 7 fto ve In Cle | side permanently Jn Ww k. Hanno | Kd_net want to live ‘n_New-York—He ipreterred his home city, - Cleveland. | County, 07 Mins Agnes produced as evi-¢ AUGUST BELMONT IS | MRS. DAN HANNA NOT OID NOT ent Mrs, Hanna Cause of Trouble. Mbs. Dan Hanna ts In her New York home, No. 10 East Thirty-el@hth atreet, tovdays"and the reasons for her desiro tovdivorce her biisdiind, the son of the late United States Senator, became known, TUhas been ald that the fret Mrs. Dan Hanna, who-ls now Mra, E, K Btatlo, of Cincinnatl, was the cause of the planned divorce of the sscond_ wife, ‘This te emphatically “denied, ow known that Hanna and his beautl- ful wife separated because of the wifn's socal ambitions and. her—uttorrefusat} ind, She wanted to re- where iis’ bualneas Interests are oon tered and where his mother lives. Mrs.-Hanna-Witt Keep Chita, Tho troubles of the Hannas w Clned THO WOeKe ARS al Gefam: ference In Now Yorks Strung precwure was brougt upon-them to make up. Hanna {a sald to have been per- bin hor deturmination. to-Uve-in-t |New York, while her husband—wagjuat-| az-determined not to leave Cloyaland | JAC that conference the grounds for-at- | jVorce were decided! Mra Haina will, It Is announced, allege thcompati Dility,—AS-the-Juivs of Now -York-dy-not resopilze that wn grdune ov divorce, it Was decided to fie the sult In Cuyahoga i ToMIsHWaNKa-WI! be con: | ceded the custody of their onv obitd, a daughter, Afterthe conference Haina returned | to Cleveland, “When the newa of bis | separation from Mra, Hanna leaked. out he returned to his stock farm at Ia. venna, O, ‘Ilo was found there yerter- day, Dut “all he would say way that if his’ wife had fled sult ior divorce it Wis news to him. Andrew Squire, of Cleveland, attorney for Mr. Hanna. refused to say a word about the jm- pending divorce, and Mra.” Hanna's jawyer, James I. lfvyt, was equally reticent. iy One of Mrs. Hanna's Cleveland friends, grently concerned over. the | annéduncement that she intend. her huaband for’ divoirce, seat a ene gram to heron Wednesday to ‘tte Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, Atlantic City, where ‘she hax been’ stopping This friend-received -an—answer to th telexram yesterday, Mrs. Hanna a: sho h: not yet started: the sult and did ‘not-aay> when the papers would be Mra, Hanna's mother, Mrs, Charles Gordon, who Ix stoppin, at the Port land Hol on West | Forty-asventh atreet, towddy it-wam drupe that Gausghter had: decided to suo cor d voree. NOW A GRANDPA. Announcement Made To-Day of} Birth Saturday of Daughter to | Wife of Belmont, Jr, | father. al {Belmont _t3 a”: Fernvacter, his, wrifeie: and) four friend yesiorday, 1Ws-family, whlch Ls daughter! was born to) Mrs.” Atqut ana shee pour? (He two ppar | one of pie nidat, promment. in Bt. Louk, HAGE Jn, On) Saturday. Mat, but no i: weil Want et és 3 Wer ‘AL broekfant, navesy inal “lane ich ead plane the | phblleanaguitcenont was mais of bis He ey fo tings $2. saad the. hallieayn HOR eet ine anti toa: : ‘ and were, compelled to vag the Balmonty home, 20140 ant - “fourth: dtrepy tt raul nald to-day 'Social-Aspirations of Pres=| and ft is] 1907, THE TWO MOTHERS IN THE THAW CASE. WILLTLTALL DAA TAED TO RAY Siok WOMEN UT PLAN DIVORCE NO, 2 Sons “of Rich Landiady | First Put Furniture on Walk. The courts are being appealed to to- {day to prevent. the immediate Mapas: wessing of. glok Mra-.eirones De Walaa, |from her apartments at No, %0) West | Fifty-sixth:stree feally-fil-and—only—the return of he | husband y: rday saved her and her four ilttle chil | the street wita thelr belong Without’ warraat of law a tating themselyes marshals, the {wo sona of the owner of the hou attempted to cje=t tho. They had ady carried household effects into the + were onthe point—of tak less woman, cot and all, husband, after” a trait work, arrived. Ie threaten the brothers Hf-(Hey placed -@ hand 0: left) rooms, The building 4s Dnioks a Wealthy worm who eral -houxes in the -nelght Saturday Clyde Dssoks. 1 De Poe would: hay /by the: y-month. On Charl appeared and tol her she would have to Jeave on Tue: day, imposzibte tox econ, taken Il at Amsterdam ayenue andi One Hundred and Sixth —atrcet went home In a carriaye, Dr. Rovert Moore, ‘on the first Moor of the Trooks house, attended Mrs, De Forge, He found that an operation was necessary, and while the woman was under the Influence of ether Charles Brooks entered and r monstrated, Moare angrily. rep that Mra, Ds was too Ii ta ber moved for many da Tt was aft this that De) Forge same home to find his furniture on the sidewalk, Representatives of the New York Ay- soofation for the Improvement of the Condition of thy Poor, tho Soclety for the Enforcement of Just! and tho} Police Department, we Minto the caso yesterday, and Dr, Moore signed a certificate ata the woman cannot be removed £ a hays the cot on wi eis WIth hs Tho My the Nop, or | | j | | | that Invalids and ath cics alilfe drink White Rose “Ceylon Teat As Wholesome as Delicious. Seehy INTO STREET WOMAN ARTIST MISSING, SENDS i iMrs. AnHOneaie tia Dis- appears on Eve of Mon- treal Exhibition. Mrs, Arthur-Behenna, a famous art- tst_and noyelixt. ts mysteriously iiss. | dug from. Montrea iso Ouse Hhe has 4 brother in tile eltyy but he knows, The woman ts crite) en from belng put upon » [Her at Ottaw he ywho hax nn office |= nothing of her whereabouts, Ahur-Belenna—jast May—exh tures in the Tiffany studio and Some years ago a. pyture of Mrs, jter Palmer, Shela nC, is a Mer home 4s tn Sout! thaw be apd wae Es tday SA] ple-} nted Pot- SOU aro putt "3s hot know, what sept that Mra a ene The Dintrihution of Wealth, | t¥rum the Washington Ster-) + This world 1s made up of a various lot—| And tho thought Js distressing in-| vho need very much more than But And tote who have more than they need of a saving of Leg of Young Lamb, Loin Lamb Chops, Philedejphia Capons, : Fine Roasting Turkeys, Yachts and Steamships, 223 2 SSeS enna STRANGE OTE | his wife and another over the youn a, put.out. the fire of the roam, ftrrire-srarsoid.-ted hg-lodas-of tn aianc ‘MOTHER AND pucuTER MEET | DEATH BY FIRE Miss Nellie’s Hair lenited,, an d Mrs. Regan Went — to Rescue. -DRESS: SHIRTS Meet -the— highest- expectations of the most critical dress- ers. In the best shops $1.50 and. “more. : , CLUETT, PZABODY @ CO, MAnCHs GP ARROW COLLARS FLAMES CAUGHT DRESS. Each Woman Fought to Saye Other Till Both Fell Dying —Two Othexs Burned. Nelle of No. were and” Miss Regan, mother and daughter, fj Taylor street, Witttamavors, burned to death if thelr home trying the daughter's Sine geyte n’btove. The Mra, Peter Regan to save each other wh ght fire while paring a meal at the hair husband _and-father, Peter Regan, six ¥ to put our The the two wom TREMENDOUS REDUCTIONS: Any $30, $35 or $40 SUIT IN THE HOUSE RE Sica 8] Q. 50 39-41 CORT” ANDT ST. 183 EROADWAY. Mine Kegan, wlio wan Uitily-one Tad Waated ter ar ta9 and It was hanging loose about shoulders and nearly ty: and was atiil in bed. ‘The mother was in a distant room when she heard Ret dau calling for help, She ran‘ to The kttchen-and-naw—Miza—Nehie's—iatr ablaze, the girl frantically trying to beat out Ue, flame with her hands, Mrs. Regan, with Ner apron and skirt covered the daughter's head, but the fire caught the fabric, and by that the had also been communicated to tho clothes of the younger woman, mother, regardless of her_own. ty, sought to ave her daughter, while Miss Regan, forgetful of her own pain. and danger, .andearared ta push her.mather-away.and_at the/same tine put out the flames that were killing them bath _— 3 The two women, in thelr wild fright and-agony, rushed about the little roont and communtcated the tre to a number (of papers lyIng around. The sone was RUMTOVALINg them when, awakened by tho acreams, Itegan Jumped out of bed Will Exenine Your Free amitont charge, [OUR REGISTERED PHYSICIANS Ril and ran to the Kitchen, His daughter had AW. chen he got‘ . bs ! Hen whea he got there and his wife tae waa roasting In the blize of her clothes, Med Dut still struggling to smother with her Sine ast her at Tae father's thin garments caught the blaze Instantly, but, heediess of him) went fortiankets—and—threw—o1 Gp & Z i TABLISHED. : Nearly-50 Years. 223 Sixth Avex Below 15th St. 450 Sixth Ave., Below 22d St: N74. we Below 33d St. won Ie wan too late, for both were unconsclous and near to death, Regan’s Injuries were wuch 9 blazing U7 Bway, Astor House Block. ee Kitchen ho could not_save-himsslt, “bu : os heard the noise and camo to his 5 Cortlandt St., wear Broadway, resus and with great difficulty extin- pees | gulsheq the flame. Engine Company No, M1 soon arrived and a Ittle water hee matism in wife, The brothers, thwarted. the home, .w aided ures, with’ the-exteption-of-} cartying the furniture into the |t ature, were on” hand, mi a riotichia if |. Stei gerwald Packing Co. ECONOMY! Give us your Sunday Dinner order and we will -~2¢ to 8c PER POUND Saturday’s Special Offerings Legs of-Choice Canada Mutton, Maryland Geese @ Ducks, Special Cut Prime Rib Roas:, Special ~ Prices given to Hotels, oopltnlcrsttereied tt : Oe OM AG. Oe a TIURE. Ov. : and pronounced, the tw nese AS Fearn een pT [totter 4 Fiylig the FURLONG TO DIE MONDAY, stats ie Blow ana ay arden Jou: of Sing Sing. 9 "i ‘ ahd SRUTAIST by Part. ies BMSLLS,! 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