The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-06
DEATH CRIES DISTURB THyN Negro Died iu rombs
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  WAS ABOVE WHITES SLAYER Private Detective Examined by
 District Attorney.
  Says He Was Engaged by Architect to shadow Husband of Chorus wo-
 man Through Agency of Hummeil. H
WAS ABOVE WHITES SLAYER

New York, July 5.-Robert Cam bridge. a negro prisoner. who occu- pied cell in the Tombs just above that of Harry K. Thaw died suddenly early today. The negro was stricken during the night and the rest of Thaw and the other prisoners was broken hy the groans of the dying man and the scurrying feet of guards and at- tendants through the corridors. Cam bridge finally was removed to. the prison hospital where he died. Death was caused by uremic poisoning.
 Assistant District Attorney Garvan said today that there was no truth in story which had gained wide cfrcu- lation to the effect that the district at possession of an affidavit said to have been made by Mrs. Thaw before her marriage in an action she is said to have contemplated against Harry K. Thaw. Mir. Garvfn said that there had been all sorts of rumors of the existence of such an affidavit but that the district attorneys office had been unable to ind any trace of any such paper or any reason to believe that it existed.
 Private Detective Bergoff, who was engaged to shadow Harry K. Thaw on behalf of the late Stanford White. was exanfi led by Assistant District Attor- ney Garvan today During the exami- nation he said that he was engaged to do the watching by Abraham H. Hum meil of the local firm of Howe and Hummell, and Delancey Nicoll, to both of whom he furnished copies of his re- ports on the work accomplished.
 MT. Garvan sent both to Mir Hum mell and Mir. Nicoll for the reports In question which he now has in his pos session. but to which he has not yet given his attention
 Judge oIcott said today that Mrs. Thaw's statement of several days ago in which she declared that she and Thaw were married in Europe and that the ceremony in Pittsburg was per- formed solely upon the request of Thaw's mother. was made under mis- apprehension. He said that the con- fusion arose through Mrs. Thaw's mis- understanding q question on the tele- phone and that as a matter of fact the Thaw's never were married in Europe, The first and only marriage ceremony was the one performed at Pittsburg.
 Roger O'Mara, former superintendent of police of Pittsburg, who had been summoned here by counsel for Thaw, had conference with Judge Oleott this afternoon. Mrs. Thaw was present during part of the interview and had a talk with O'Mara. The detective will immediately start west in charge of 8 corps of men to gather all possible tn- formation that will help Thaw to gain his freedom.
 Thaw, his counsel former Judge Ol- colt, and Mrs. Thaw held long consult tation in the Tombs today. At its con- clusion, Judge Olcott said he wished to add his own denial to that of As- sistant District Attorney Garvin with reference to the story of the affidavit alleged to have been made by Mrs. Thaw In a contemplated suit against Thaw previous to their marriage.
 You can't make the denial of that story too strong too positive" said Judge Olcott No such affidavit ex- fists nor was any such suit instituted or even contemplated. The story Is an absolute lie manufactured out of whole cloth by some enemy of Harry Thaw."