The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-03
MURDERER s MOTHER.
HEARS OF TRAGEDY

1EAh0 VI lhAuEUI
Continued From First Page.
move will be made to bring the young
murderer to trial by force Of public
sentiment.
Thaw's friends and advisers are con-
centrating their attention upon the
task OF proving that White deserved
his fate by attempting to enforce his
attentions upon the wife of another
man; or that he verbally attacked her
character as % wife with intent to be-
smirch it. - g.
K. Not-Guilty Plea Stands.
Counsel for Thaw decided today not
to &c ia take advantage Of the reservation
entered formal plea Of not guilty.
Under the reservation they could have
made any one Of three moves. They
could have demurred to the Indictment:
made motion for the inspection Of
minutes Of the grand jury, or entered
plea OF insanity to the Indictment.
The matter was permitted to 90 by
a aHtault; +o5 aowevert the time limit ex-
ing been taken by Thaw's attorneys.
The report of the detectives detailed
to watch Stanford White at the re-
quest Of Thaw is now in the posses
sion. OF the district attorney. 1t was
handed to Assistant District Attorney
Caravan today by the superintendent of
the agency by whom the detectives were
Mrs, Thaw made her usual daily
visit to her husband in the Tombs to-
day. She remained with him for some
time. NJ
When Mrs. Thaw Tells All.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has supplied the
most important links to support this
defense. She has been thoroly and
fully interrogated as to her relations
with White after her marriage to Thaw
She has been made to describe every
detail Of her first meeting with White
when, she came to. New York, supply
| details, dates and incidents of her va
| rious meetings with him, the names
of men and women she met at his stu
| do, and in the apartments Of other
men; but more particularly every de-
tail touching upon her meets with him,
the t me Of day, place, date and cir.
cumstance Of her communications of
any sort with White after her marriage
to Thaw.
| The result Of these interrogations
covering four sittings with her counsel,
has been six pages Of fooiscap paper
closely typewriter.
She was "on the rack' for two
hours and her examination was as thoro
as if it had been conducted by the dis.
trict attorney. Every statement of fact
made by her has been investigated.
Was Near Collapse.
AS q rule she has borne up under
it with courage, sustained by her de.
I sire to save her husband from the cleo.
| trio chair. But she was on the point
i of collapse today. -
During her examination she was
asked if she did not write two letters
to Stanford White on Friday and Sat:
. urday before the murder. She replied
that she did not. The question and
ment q Of ON" one Of Whites friends that
Mrs. Thaw had written White two
1 notes, and failing to obtain an answer
had visited him at his studio on Sat
urday.
| She declared that she had not seer
White for more than two months except
| at q distace, until the night Of the
It was DEVELOPED today that Thaw'.
lawyers have in their possession a rims
taken from the finger Of White by thu
| coroner and turned over to Thaw Z
lawyers by one Of the lawyers first tt
appear in the interest Of White.
/ Showed Trend Of Mind.
That proceeding was extraordinar,
enough in itself, but the act is Of i'm
defense. The ring is probably unique
specimen Of the goldsmith's art. It il
Of massive gold and bears upon IT.
broad crest three fgures-two womel
and one man. The figures are infn
itesimal in size, tho perfectly formed.
; The trinket is one that could no
very we'll be worn in polite society, no
= the subject by it accurately described
or discussed in public way. The work
the cost about $4,000. -: =
} TT is said to be Of very. ancien
' pattern, dating from "a period -whe7
J there were no Anthony Comstocks t
{ prevent connoisseurs from gratifying
{ bizarre taste for such trophies.
The value Of the ring to the defens
3 is that it will serve to illustrate tn
eccentricity Of White s mind and ten
), to strengthen the statements that h
Of pleasures he is alleged to have al
q Not Married Abroad.
> District Attorney Jerome is bitterl
+ disappointed because of the sudde
. death Of William Bedford, who for th
past seven years has been employed a
valet by Harry Thaw. Now, that b
q is dead, his affidavit, which is in til
g possession Of Mr.. Jerome, cannot b
: read at the trial.
: The district attorney had expected t
s establish, thru the testimony. Of Bee
:, ford, the relations that existed betwee
:, Evelyn Nesbit and Thaw before the
:. were married. ~.-..
When Thaw and Miss Nesbit r.
turned from Europe, about eightee
f months ago, it was reported that the
= had been married abroad. Such r.
!. port was given out later by Mrs Thav
!. the prisoner IS mother. At that time
a was also announced from Pittsburg thu
!. Mrs. Thaw, sr., had insisted on a se
= ond marriage in this country and
q ceremony was performed in the hon
a city Of the young millionaire.
According to Bedford's affidavit
! there was onlv one marriapa cerem m