The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
YOUNG WOMAN OF THE STAGE Subpoenaed to Tell of
 Thaw Case. MANY CHORUS GIRLS IN HIDING Efforts to Find Paula Desmond and
 Gertie Grant.
 - The Mother of Edna Mcclure Declares That Harry K. Thaw's Hatred of Stanford White Amount-
 ed to Mania.
MANY CHORUS GIRLS IN HIDING

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 New York. July s.-The investiga- discover the motive for the killing of Stanford White by Harry Tbaw. is bringing to the office of the prosecutor many young women of the stage. The Broadway theatrical district has been flooded with subpoenas. Many chorus girls have left the city and others re- main at their homes to avoid the sub poena servers.
 Two young women whom the District Attorneys office has been particularly eager to interview are Miss Paula pes- mond and Miss Gertie Grant. It Is al- legged that these young women were followed and annoyed by detcctives who had been employed to watch White. Paula Desmond, whose real name is Pauline Kcllerman. is now at her home in Kingston. N. F., and a res rcsentative of the District Attorneys office has gone there to see her.
 Miss Grant has been abro Id for some time but returned last Saturday. De- tectives were watching all the stear1- ships, but the girl slipped ashore un- seen and her whereabouts now ,s not known.
 Both Miss Grant and Miss Desmond are known to have been friends .,f standford White. The activity of the District Attorneys office in running down all clues in the theatrical district is largely due to the story told .Assi:.- ant District Attorney Garvan by EjLo Mcclure, show girl and former friend of Mrs. Thaw.
 Eve Carriages Ench Night.
 Miss Mcclure said that when Evelyn Nesbit was in the Wild Rose Company both Stanford White and Harry Thaw were pursuing her. There were two cabs at the stage door for her every night and two punches of flowers White won at that time. and he took the girl from the stage and sent her 10 school in Pompton. N. J. She was taken i'll while there and underwent ar operation, Then White sent her and her mother to Europe.
 Harry, Thaw learned of this. and went abroad. He met the girl Tn Paris and Evelyn went with him, leaving Mrs. Holman, the girls mother, penniless in Paris. She had to cable White for money to get home. Evelyn tired of Thaw's conduct abroad and left him. When she got home she went to stan-i ford White and told him of tho treat ment to which she had been subjected by Thaw White then took her to his attorney and had her draw up the af- fidavit which is now so badly wanted by the prosecution. Thaw followed her home and atfer some time she rejoined him and they went abroad together.
 Miss Mcclure said that Evelyn was on the point of leaving Thaw after q bitter quarrel when he offered mar riage to her.
 Miss Mcclure told the Assistant Dis trict Attorney that while entertaining a number of guests in Broadway res taurant one night, Thaw saw Standford White enter the place He began to abuse White. says Miss Mcclure, and said to his wife:
 There goes that blackguard now that owned you before I did" Mrss Thaw Is reported to have answered.:
 stop 'raking up my past. Harry. That brute over there is responsible. Go to him about it."
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 Mrs. LeGrand Mink. the mother oe Edna Mcclure, was with her daughter at the District Attorneys office yester- day. Tn speaking of the Thaw case today she said:
 Thawss Hatred for White.
 Harry Thaw's hatred Tor stanfoZd White was like that of a maniac. Ee seemed possessed of a consuming hor- TOT of White. It was plainly a manta with him"
 The District Attorneys office ..lso Is searching for William Sturgis. close friend of Harry K. Thaw, who has dis- appeared since the tragedy. It is re- ported that Sturgis had heard Thaw make threats against Stanford White
 James Lederer, theatrical manager of Phildelphia and brother os George Lederer, prominent as a theatrical men- aeer. was subpoenaed today to appe1: at the District Attorneys office tomor- row in connection with the Thaw case. James Lederer was manager of the Wild Rose Company. when Evelyn Nes bit Thaw, the prisoners wife, was member of 1t.
 witness whose testimony may be of considerable importance in cqnnec- ton with the Thaw-White case was found today in the person of Warren Hammond. who at one time was em- ployed by Thaw as valet. Until to- dav 1t had been supposed that when William Bedford, Thaw's regular valet died. the testimony of the only person xvbo had ever occupied the position of q body servant to the young man had been irrevocably lost. Hammond. how ever. substituted for Bedford during three months when the latter was i'll ahout three years ago. It Is expected that Ham rnond will be examined at the district attorneys office tomorrow.
 Among the persons questioned by Assistant District Attorney Garvan to- day was Charles Harneli, who was em- n1oved by Stanford White as a secre- tary, While MT. Garvan refused to say what the examination disclosed, 1t is understood that Harnell intended to contradict the current reports of much that was discreditable In MT. Whites private life
 Mrs. A. B. Schwartz. who lives in West Thirty-second street and who is an Intimate friend of the Thaws, will he questioned Dy Mir. Garvan tomorrow. If is said that shortly after Harry Thaw and Miss Nesbit were married, Thaw Threatened in Mrs. Schwartzs presence to shoot Stanford White and 1t is to ascertain if this threat was actually made that Mir. Garvan will question Mrs Schwartz.
 Mrs. Thaw spent an hour and a half with her husband today. As she was leaving the prison she remarked to a friend: Harry set 7ls to be in good spirits"