The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-31
THAW'S MOTHER SNUBS WIFE.
BREAK FOLLOWS PRTsONERS RE-
FUSAL TO NUDGE.
Another Plea to Accept Olcott's Advice
without Avail-Thaw Says Through
His Counsel Thai No Detectives Arc
Now Working for Him in Pittsburg.

announcer f1ea TO ACCept OicOttt AuNtco
without A~vail-Thaw Says Through
His Counsel That No Detectives Arc
Now wording for Him in PittsburS.
Mrs. William Thaw vent to the Tombs
yesterday to make another plea to her son,
Harry Thaw, that he come over to her view
that he should accept the advice OF Black,
Oloott, Gruber Il Bonynge In preparing
his defence to the killing Of Stanford White.
Thaw wouldn't bulge from his attitude
that his killing OF White was justified, and
his wife stood by him and opposed the
entreaties Of his mother.
Az a result there was a break between
Mrs. Thaw and her daughter-in-law-the
hrst open one since Mrs. William Thaw
returned from E%urope-and when Mrs.
William Thaw left the Tombs she deliber-
ately, In the opinion OF those who saw 1t,
snubbed Mrs. Harry Thaw.
When Mrs. William Thaw got to the
Tombs 1t was evident that she was weak
and not entirely recovered from the illness
that kept her at the home OF her daughter,
Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, at Roslyn,
l.. l. She was accompanied by Mrs. Car
negie. Mrs. Thaw went TO her sons cell.
Mrs. Harry Thaw had arrived about ten
minutes DSlOL6 LIST, ChO Woo v
with her husband when Mrs, William Thaw
Mrs. Carnegie came up.
Mrs. Thaw at once renewed the pleas she
has been making to her son for two weeks.
Thaw showed the same stubbornness In
resisting and opposing his mothers advice.
1t is said that yesterday he was even more
vehement than on former occasions and
when his wife openly sided with him he
practically said that he didn't want to be
bothered any more on the subject.
Mrs. William Thaw was quite angry over
the attitude Of her daughter-in-law. She
showed signs of having been crying when
she left the Tombs and Mrs. C%arnegie's face
was hidden by a heavy black veil.
Mrs. Harry Thaw had hurried down.
stairs before this and Mrs. william Thaw
passed her without seeming to recognize
her.
Mrs. Harry Thaw went to Warden Flynn
and pleaded to be allowed to use the prison
telephone, saying that she had an urgent
message to deliver. er request was
granted and she called up her husbands
lawyer, Cliff ord W. Hartridge. He hurried
to the Tombs and had a consultation with
her and his client. As Mr.. Hartridge left
the Tombs ne said he would give out a state
ment at his Office. When the squad Of re-
porters got there they found this type
written statement:
Clifford w. Hartrid ge announces that there
are no detectives working in Pittsburg on
behalf of Harry X. Thaw. or in his interests.
except such as may be employed by or con.
nected with Chief Roger O'Mara.
What prompted Mr.. Hartridge to make
that statement he would not explain, nor
would he comment on what had happened
in the Tombs. 1t was surmised that Mr..
Hartridge referred to a story from Pitts,
burg that a detective agency there mad
figured 1t out that Thaw's motive for killing
White was that Thaw's mother had cut
of his money supply and when White heard
Of it he tried to win Evelyn Nesbit from
her husband. Thaw probably saw the
morning papers and was angry when he
learned that detectives employed by some
body else were working on his case.
1t is known that the Oloott firm has been
gathering every little thing that would
show that Thaw has been insane for years
and that he was nsan when he killed
White. That is the theory on. which the
of Mrs. William Thaw, and 1t Is known
h they have accumulated a great deal
concerning Thaw's acts, not only in public
but in private.
On the other hand. Thaw and his counsel,
Mr.. Hartridge, are working on the PROPOSE
ton that Thaw was provoked into killing
White by Whites actions and that while
Thaw might have been temporarily insane
when he killed White, he was sane before
and Is sane now.
Ex-Judge Olcott said yesterday after
noon that he was going to have a talk with
Mrs. William Thaw. Assistant District
Attorney Caravan did not go to his Office,
but stayed at home going over a lot of
statements from witnesses and documents
which nave accumulated in his absence
in the South and at Hartford Nothing Of
any importance will be done by the District
Attorneys office until Justice MacLean
decides on the temporary writ Of prohibi-
ton issued by Justice Blanchard.