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Mrs. Thaw Has n Turned Over
Letters to the Defendants
/ Lawyers That Will Dis
close a Motive for Whites
Murder
ONE DATED A WEEK AGO
IT is THOUGHT THE REsTAUR-
ANT MEETING MAY HAVE RE
SUITED FROM IT-INsANITY
TO BE PLEAD.

SUITED FROM IT-INsANITY
TO BE PLEAD.
NEW YORK. June 81. 19O6.-In the
letters which Mrs. Harry Kendall Thaw
turned over yesterday to Delafeld &
Iongfellow, counsel for her husband, it
is believed that new light is thrown on
the motive Thay had for shooting down
Stanford White in Madison Square roof
garden. At least one of these letters is
said to have been written by White to
Mis-. Thaw Within two weeks. 1t was
concealed from Thaw by his wife, the
story goes. so that he might not suffer
any anguish. but it was found later by
Thaw and drove him into state of in
sane frenzy.
This letter may have had something TO
do with the meeting between Thaw and
White in Burns's restaurant on Sixth
avenue above Forty-second street late on
Monday night week ago. According to
a report White went there at the request
of IThaw and the two men sat together
till about 2.30 o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing. 1t is believed that Thaw then
warned White against persfsrently all
noying his wife. That the police attach
much significance to this meeting in a
Sixth avenue restaurant was shown early
this morning when Detective MCGEE was
sent there to learn all the details of the
meeting between the two men.
The detective was sent out after a
conference at the West Thirteith street
police station by Assistant District At
torneys Garyan and Turnbull ana In
spector SciTEAittberger. The representa-
ti1es of the District Attorneys office
had gone there before midnight and ask
ed for Capt. Hodgins. The Captain was
not around and Garvan and Turnbull
busted themselves with looking over the
record of Thaw's arrest ip the blotter
and conversing with those who saw him
when he was first brought to the station
Inspector Schmittberger joined them at
1 o'clock and it was soon after that De-
tective MCGEE was sent to the restau-
rant.
The conference broke up at 2 o'clock
and Mr.. Garvan and Mr.. Turbull de-
clined to say anything about the subjecr
under discussion. Inspector Schmitt-
berger was asked why McGee was sent
to the restaurant and he replied, eyas-
lively, that he had gone there to get
something to eat. Then the Inspector
said
New developments in the case and
the stories of witnesses whom we have
not questioned before seem to be in fa-
yor of the defendant can't tell what
new information We have, but it will be
made public soon through the proper
channels.' .
Mrs. Harry Thaw remains in seclu-
sion at her apartments in the Hotel Lor-
raine. With her are her friends Mr..
and Mrs. GeGorge L. Carnegie. 1t is
said that after the inquest tomorrow
Mrs Thaw will go with the Carnegies
to their country home at Roslyn. T.. i.
1t is thought that Mrs. Thaw will not
be asked to appear as a witness at the
Coroner's inquest, but will go before the
Grand Jury, whose sittings are secret.
The proceedings, so far as can be seen,
will consist first of an indictment to
which the plea of insanity will be made.
Then will come the inquiry into the san
ity of the prisoner, and this may take a
month. What follows then is only a
matter of conjecture. If the inquiry as
to Thaw's mental condition shows him
to be insane it is hardly probable that
tbera Will he any trial