The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-07-27
THAW NOT WORRIED
OVER CRUELTY
CHARGES
MADE AGAINST HIM BY THE
WOMAN WHO FOLLOWED HE
AND EVELYN ABROAD
OEFIED COURTS ORDER
Did the District Attorney When Hs
Took Testimony of the Mas
seuse--TriaI to BE
Very Soon.

New York, July 2G--It was eyIdent
today that Harry Kendall Thav was
not alarmed al the statements an
affidaYita which the d strict Aitor
ney's office has secured from women
whom White sent to Europe to en-.
deayor TO break his hold on Evelyn
Nesbit. who has since become his
wife.
Thaw and his personal attorneys
leyen consider these affidavits as inn
pC rtant links in the chain of evidence
that they hope to bring before a jury
TO prove hat Thaw, beng emotional
ly insane, was justified In hooting
the noted architect
This belief will not prevent pro-
test TO the court ON the charge thai
an order Of Judge Blanchard was
| futhessly violated by Assistant Dis
rict Attorney Turnbull when he took
| he affidavit Of Anna Crane, u MATS
| ,auc whom White sent 10 Paris ie
/ 9o4, instructed, il Is said, 10 spare
40 expense 10 break mp the friendship
between Thaw and Eeyelyn Nesht,
| rhaw's personal attorneys consider
| he taking of her testimony a most
serious violation Of the court order
although they will not say what steps
| they Will take 10 have the district al
torney or his assistants punished
| Mr. Hartridge, In statement made
oday, declared most decidedly that
rs client would 20 to trial early III
,ciune Without eoing into detaf
le denied most Of the churges which
ave toen made agginst Thaw since
10 Shooting
Never Whipped Her
partridge declares that Harry Thaw
'ovcr whipped woman and that no
not degenerate. Mr. llarridge is
onfident that The yourg pit sburger
an be acquitted before inry. and to
'ay seemed more determined than
yer TO resist any app%cat on for
commission in lunacy
Despite he developments In the
ase Thaw'e Immediate family still
'eaye 10 Judge Olcolt and the dc.
nse which he has demanded from
he beginning Judge Olcoit's posi-.
on IN this acccrdf ng to a close per-
anal friends, who is also criminal
'ttc;uet,
we will first prove that Thaw IS
insaae. after that any evidence that
nay tend to prove Justification sim.
ply adds strength to our contention Of
insanity"
II was reiterated tonight that the
10 make an attempt 10
secure nnacy commsslo 10 ad.
'udge Thaw insane had been, dropped.
7ven 10y the counsel retained by Mrs.
William Thaw. iTmItu
Il T. understood that the counsel.
'onsisting of former Judge oicott and
ference J. McManus have decided
hat such a motion would meet with
Ultimate defeat and therefore II has
hecu eliminated
rhaw will be allowed 10 20 TO trial
~ he desires
Mrs. william Thaw did not go near
he Tombs today. Her Immediate re-.
atlyes say that unless Harry lndi
'aics desire TO tee her She will no
sit his again until iust before he IS
allied ip answer 90 a commission Of
llicnists. which The court will doubt.
ess appoint 10 examine into his san
~. She is in retiremen. al the sum
uer home Of her daughter Mrs. Geo.
q Carnegie. al Ro lyn Long Island
A Masseuse TestifIes.
Backed by The charge that the dis
rict attorneys Office was continuing
IN investigation which ThaWs attor
.eys declare Is mosi unjust % the
.r soncr and contrary % the law
which declares man i-nocent until
e is proved guilty Mr. rrunbull. ~
cromes taft today Def Il be known
the criminal courts building that
is mysterious witness of Tuesday
.as Anna Crane. a masseuse wbn
'-mcrly treated Evelyn NeshH wheu
lc Fas under the protection II stan
'rd White and when ho paid ihe
lis
Accord uE to the accounts which
sme from the criminal courts brHf
x Mis- Crane told a remarkable
ory she made an affidavit that IN
lris Harry Thaw mis.rcsfe1 MS wife
ost cruelty She Saws be- Whip1ei
.r heat her. locked hc- in rGer
"a generally made Der ffe miser
Be-
Even in tho district 'iurneris nfsrt
s. Crane uunan's sfatrmeHf IS fsk
with a grain 81 sail On the frst
ace she uas brought there by 7. I.
.rghof-. a detective who vas euPioT-
by Stanford White 70 shaiow