The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-07-02
MURDER AVENGED
MANY RUINED
WOMEN
AMAZING DISCLOSURES OF BAND
ED BACcHANALS HEADED
BY WHITE.
EFFORT TO SAVE THAW
At Cost of Ills Wife's Name Who viii
Withhold Nothing IN Her Test.
mony--Jerome BACK to Con-
duet Prosecution.

New York, July Important de-
vclopments in The Thaw murder case
are expected this week. District Att
torney Jerome has returned TO New
York from his fishing trip 70 Cape
Breton and under his orders all the
circumstances Of the Killing Of White
will be gone into thoroughly.
Jerome said today that as there are
eighteen murder cases ahead Of
Thaw's the trial will probably not be
reached before October.
For the time being, at least the
actual issues involved in The murdet
committed by Thaw are submerged
in the amazing disclosures hat have
come TO light during the last few days
disclosures which deal with The I'm
meutionable orgies OF a group Of rich
ANA influential men, Of whom White
is alledged to have been the acku9wI-
edged leader Tales Of things unmen.
tionable which have been whispered
about he Tenderloin since the shoot
ing on the top of Madison Square
Garden have aow the backing Of
sworn evidence
The result Of the investigation be
gun Thursday at the District AtOr.
ney's office into The peculiar practices
which Stanford White and his friends
were said to have followed is now
known. Fully a dozen women and
girls, ONE Of them very young giris
have been brought to Mr.. Mott and
Mr.. Garean separately. They all told
practically the same story.
These witnesses say White was the
chief promoter and designer Of gath
erings where the maddest Of rites and
the strangest Of oXcesses were per
formed IN company by all present
They name as his accomplces at least
eight men, all wealthy, all prominent
and some of them famous. The list
includes bankers, business men ana
pr fessional men Of supposed unim-
peachahle standing and morals, Many
OF them are middIe.aged, and all, with
perhaps one or two exceptions, are
married
Former Judge Olcott chief counsel
for Thaw, also examined several Of the
chorns girls who are known to have
been friendly with Stanford White II
is significant thar they told him almost
identically the same things which the
other group of women have told Mr..
Mott ana Mr. GarvaY Comparisons
have already been made of the state
ments of these two sets of witnesses,
with the result hat III lawyers for
both the defense and the prosecution
are satisfied of the truth Of what they
have heard. inconceiyablo though
paris Of il seem
At Judge Olcotts office II was stat
ed that one of the men accused along
with White had sailal for Eugop
since the shooting. Another man who
Is badly needed as a witness in Tho
John Doe proceedings which air Not
is conducting has also disappeared
lie k said 10 have been the man who
acted as gobetweea in leasing ore Of
Whites several scattered studies.
The existence Of this part cular studio
has Just been learned. II Is in West
Twenty g.urth street Thd nominal
lessee was seen day or two ago, bur
now ne cannot bc found
Evelyn'o Disclosures.
These disclosures. IL is said viii
come through Evelyn Nesbit Thaw,
who will take The stand at the trial of
her hg,band She viii be The prin-
cipal witness for the defense On the
word of the only man VINO has heard
the young wife tell her stcry. 81 viii
bee the most astounding in its revela-
tions and the most disastrous in its
effects upon the repu ati01 of men
prominent in th is community that has
ever been heard inside the walls of
court house.
THIS statement va made by former
Judge W NJ X. Olco't 10 whom oyunc
Mrs Thaw made sonfession Of her
relations with White yesterday after
roon. Judge Oicott said.
Mrs. Thaw's evidence will make 2
most thrilling story-a tory tha. ISL
bound To- have a tremendous effect up
ON The jury and upon public opinion %
this community II has astomdei
me
Among handrcds cf letters written
10 Eyely- Neslit Thaw scores are
from women who aliege they have
er'de-ce agairs White ana his 80
ciates. One of the most pathetic ri
these is signed a Brooklyn Mother
u reads as follows:
Dear Mrs. Tbaw-The huHei thsf
killed Stanford White avenged more
wrongs than yours. Do not worry your
self INTO Illness; your husband will
be freed and viii walk from the court