The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-10
PROBING MOTIVE IN
THAW MURDER CASE
Many Young Women Who Were
Friends of White Flee
From City.
ONE GIRL TELLS OF
SCENE IN RESTAURANT
Thaw's Hate for Slain Man Said
to Be Like That OF
Maniac.

NEW YORK. July 9.-The investiga-
ton Of the District Attorneys Office 10
discover the motive for the killing OF
Stanford White by Harry X. Thaw
Is bringing to the office OF the prose-
cutor many young women OF the stage
The Broadway theatrical district has
been flooded with subpoenas. Many
chorus girls have left the city and
others remain at their homes TO avoid
the subpoena servers. Two young
women whom the District Attorneys
office has been particularly eager TO
interview are Miss Paula Desmond and
Miss Gertle Grant. 1t Is alleged that
these young women were followed ana
annoyed by detectives who had been
employed to watch White.
Girls Elude Officers.
Paula Desmond, whose real name Is
Pauline Kellerman, Is now at her home
in Kingston, n. Y. and a representa-
tive of the District Attorneys office
has gone there TO see her.
Miss Grant has been abroad for some
time. but returned last Saturday. De-
tectives were watching all the steam
ships, but the girl slipped ashore un-
seen and her whereabouts now Is not
known.
Both Miss Grant and Miss Desmond
are known TO nave Deen lTleluS VI
| Stanford White. The activity Of the
| District Attorneys Office in running
| down all clues in the theatrical district
| is largely due TO the story told AS
sistant District Attorney Garvan by
| Edna Mcclure. a show girl and former
| friend of Mrs Thaw.
| Miss Mcclure told the Assistant Dis
trict Attorney that White entertained
! a number OF guests in a Broadway
| restaurant one night Thaw saw White
enter the place. He began to abuse
White, Miss Mcclure says and said to
| his wife;
Called Him Vile Name.
There goes that blackguard now
that owned you before did"
Mrs. Thaw Is reported to have an
! swered;
Stop raking up my past Harry
That brute over there Is responsible.
Go to him about 1T
II Will" said Thaw. I'll get him
yet" ss1,,
Mrs. Lesrand Mink, the mother OF
Edna Mcclure, was with her daughter
at the District Attorneys office yes
terday In speaking OF the Thaw case
today she said
Harry Thaws hate for Stanford
White was like that OF a maniac. He
seemed possessed of consuming nor
ror of White II was plainly. mania
with him"
One Witness Missing.
The District Attorneys office also Is
searching for william Sturpts. a C.,H"
friend of Harry K. Thaw, who has dis
appeared since the tragedy. 1t is re-
ported that Sturgis had heard Thaw
make threats against Sanford White
A witness whose testimony may be OF
considerable Importance in connection
| u,It
today in the person of Warren Ham
mond, who at one time was employed
by Thaw as a valet. Until today II had
been supposed that when William Bed
ford, Thaw's regular valet, died, the
testimony of the only person who had
ever occupied the position OF q bodS
servant to the young man had been IT.
reyocably lost. Hammond, however
substituted for Bedford during three
months when the latter was Ill, about
three years ago. 1t is expected that
Hammond VIII be examined at the Dis
trict Attorneys Office tomorrow