Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-01
| WHITE FEARED
FOR HIS LIFE
Startling Story Told by a Pri.
vate Detective.
BOUGHT HIS PROTECTION
White Thought Thaw Crazy and In.
sanely Jealous.
WOMAN TO GO ON THE STAND
Former Judge olcott, the Prisoner.
Counsel, Declares That Mrs. Thaw
Will Tell Thrilling Tale.
BOUGHT HIS PROTECTION
White Thought Thaw Crazy and In.
sanely Jealous.
WOMAN TO 60 ON THE STAND

NEW YORK, June 3o-The decIara,,o,
attributed to counsel for Harry X rbav
thet MRS Thaw viii be the prlncinaI Wit
ness Tor the defense at her husbands trial
ior the murder of Stanford White and that
she VIII tell thrilling and tremendous
story opening the eyes of New Workers.
ana people all over the world" attracted
the greatest attention OF any of the pub
hshed developments in the case today.
A Detectives Story.
Some interesting sidelights were throw,
on the Thaw-White tragedy today by a
private detective. who declares that ba
was employed by White as a bodysuard for
more than year before the shoo.iny IN
long, formal statement which appears In
the form OF extracts from, tho dsteo+,,.a,,
diary, the detective says that White nm
ooubtedly feared Cor his life; that hr tool,
minute precautions to guard against a sur
PRISE; that equally ingenious nlans xpsra
made by a corps of detectives eInnio,,sa h,,
Ihew TO Keep track of Whites movements
ahd mat on the day that White was sbot
n. ne hao decided to apply to the authorities
to prevent the continuance of the esnionars
10 which he had been subjected.
Paid Out Over $4,000.
According to the detective, White maid
'ou. over 5000 between February a. 1905.
anu 'he Gay or his death in the protection
OF his person and for the shadowing of the
oetectives who were pursuing him. The
detective thus describes a meeting be,waen
White and himself when he told the archi-
tect that Thaw was the employer of the
oetecuVes who were annoying White, Ac-
cofdlng to the statement, White said ..r
suspected 1t all along. This man Thaw is
crazy he imagines that / have done hin,
some wrong. used to know his wife r
peIriended her and her family Thaw IA
insanely Jealous Of his wife He douhttess
iMaslnes that l am meeting her and he
l',I, aIre zoo am not. My friendship for the
terest, and since her marriage She has ra-
paid my Kindness by annoying me greatly
oy making remarks to different acauafnt-
ances OF mine, such remarks Intended 70
arouse the Jealousy of her husband. / cam
not understand 1t, 1, never knowingly in
all my HE injured man or woman
To Take Final Action.
Ihe statement concludes with an extract
from the detectives diary to the effect that
on June 20 White said he had decided II
was lime TO close up the matter White
SAID ne was nervous wreck and that on
.he Following day-Tuesday-he was going
to take Anal action In the courts That
night he was shot,
FORMER Judge Oicott. of counsel for
Ihaw. Is quoted as saying today:
MIS-. ihaw VIII be the PRINCIPAL witness
IN ner husbands defense. She will tell a
thrlihng and tremendous story. cannot
make the details public now, but her testi-
lilony VIII open the eyes of New Workers
and people all over the world"
Mrs. Thaw visited her husband a,r,,, g.,
him. " 4i'ii WITH