The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-07-29
WILL CO THROUGH
ORDEAL. ON
STAND
IN HEROIC EFFORT TO SAVE HER
HUSBAND is MRS. THAW'S
DECISION.
STILL SEEKS EVIDENCE
Does District Attorney TO Show That
Whites Murder Had Been
Planned for More Than
a Year.

q year.
New York. July 2S.-Harry Kendall
Thaw charged with the murder Of
Stanford White, has oecome the hap
plest prisoner in the city prison since
his reconciiatid1 with his mother,
and the compromise e:ected yesterday
by which the Thaw millions viii be
available for his defense in any necas
sary amount.
II want to tell The story Of the
manner in which stamford White
tIeated my wife. was his utimatum
why don't you do as your mother
dcsires?' said his mother. Mrs. VIII
liam Thaw plead temporary in.
sanity at first and then tell your
story.
plead not guilty. Thaw insisted
and after that anything you like 50
long as ! get the opportunity of tell
ing what | know about White"
In that case Evelyn win have TO 50
the stand was suggested
Evelyn is ready was the purpor
Thaws return.
She was there to plead for herslef.
nd her smiles told the answer Eve
lyn Nesbit Thaw Is ready to take the
stand in the defense Of her husband
Todty she reiterated the fact in most
positive terms.
She realizes fully he posit on in
which she win be placed. She has been |
warned that the cross examiners Of /
the district attorneys office are re- I
lentless when their reputation + at
stake
Braves All For Love.
This slip of a girl, whose peculiar
and unusual beauty has aroused
lists Of two continent knows that
certain chapters Of her life which she
had hoped were forever blotted out
will be renewed when the fire of ques
tions begins. She eems 60 have COME
TO her own at last and that own is ar
overwhelming love for the man thai
occupies cell No 220 on "Murderers
Row in he Tombs prison.
There was no prisoner in the Tombs
who caused his keepers less trouble
than Harry Thaw. From the time he !
was brought there on June 26. from
the "TenderlIin" police station, he en-
tered the model" prisoner class.
He feels that he has at last won his d
point. which was that he should not t
al any time be sent 20 the State Asy. a
mm for the Criminal Insane at Matte .
wan. The chair has no terrors for him t
for in his own mind he is certain of L
quittal at the hands of the jury
which win try his case. 4
Even m plea Of temporary or emo C
iionaI insanity which has finally q
been decided on. 4, distasteful to him b
He valves this point In order to gain Ii
the more important one Of escaping n
an examination of a commission in "
lunacy. 81
In the meantime the developments q
Of the past few da:-s nave had their y
effect in shaping the policy OF the DIS
trict attorneys office There is n C
doubt that Mr. Jerome's young men II
feared the decision Of a commission h
in lunacy. This was Harry Thaw's o
sure way of escaping the electric ST
chair. He chose TO not take it. and the o
district attorney sees the opportunity q
for sensat' onal cCaviction.
His First Effort. 4,
r. will frs. endeavor to prove that n
since Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit were ii
married in Pittsburg in 1905. abso b,
mfely no eTori was made by stanford Al
White TO continue his friendship with rt
the former chorus girl. The district at r;
torney's deputes declare they have
this proof Thaw's personal unset
Clifford " Harridge. says he does +
not care what evidesce the prosecutor !
has on this point: ne Is prepared TO
oyerbalance il.
Undoubtedly Evelyn Nesbii Thaw D
mother is at this time extremely hos
tile to her and - Thaw's defense
waether thi. A lry wiii continue
until the trial la1,e in October is IN
question. II is not uG.iKely that Young
Mrs. Thaw viii make a tcip 10 PITTS ~
bug 10 talk over here differences with o.
her mother and endeavcr tO enlist y
Mrs Holman on Thaw's side in the ~
legal battle that will follow unless N
commission in lunac steps in cL
The district attOrnes office is now OF
an work on a chain e, evidence which iii
The assistants say viii prove that IN
Thaw had been after White for Is IS
months with the idea Of driving him Of
in 20 exile or ruining him socially. It he
Is on these facts and Whites alleged
lack Of interest since the ThaW mar &
rage that the pr0secs:son hopes 10 at vi
least "harg~ any is--y before which 70