The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-28
RUMoRs ARE MANY.
Police Place Little Credence in Any
of Them.


inquest and the meeting of the grand
jury today both to formally name the
murderer of Stanford White divided
public interest with the developments
of yesterday when an insanity com mis-
sion declared Harry K. Thaw sane. and
Mrs. ThaW visited her husband in his
cell in the Tombs prison. There was
much speculation today as to just what
position Mrs. Thaw would take when
she appeared before the grand jury
today. It was asserted that the wife
had told her friends that she would go
to prison rather than testify in the
grand jury room where proceedings
are secret and where the only counsel
! is a representative of the district attor-
ney's Office.
Mrs. Thaw has told a most intimate
friend that she will stand pat and
| refuse to say anything no matter how
| Important the question Mr.. Mott or Mr..
Garvin may put to her. This assertion
is said to have been brought from
Mrs. Thaw by the intention of the dis
| trict attorneys Office to make her
witness for the prosecution. Assistant
District Attorneys Mott and Garvin, 1t
was said today, are determined that
the woman shall be examined before
! the grand jury, where she can be put
under oath and where it is expected to
learn from her enough to establish the
motive for Thaw's killing of White
Mott says Mrs. ThaW can not claim the
privilege of refusing to answer ques-
/
man accused of crime, and that this
privilege is extended only to what are
known as confidential communications
! between husband and wife If she re-
fuses to answer other questions she
can be committed for contempt OF
court
She may. refuse to answer questions
on the ground that answers might
tend to degrade or incriminate her and
also she has the right to refuse to an
sWer questions on the ground that the
answers tend to convict her of a crime.
Mrs. Thaw Won't Answer.
It is also understood that Mrs. Thaw
| told her husband when she called upon
him in the TOmbs yesterday tnat she
would obey the subpoena Of the grand
fury SO far as calling at the grand jury
room was concerned but that under no
/ circumstances would she permit any
/ body to question her and that If the
acting district attorney insisted on put
1 ting questions to her she would posi-
4 lively refuse to make any reply to them
! As the proceedings in the grand jury
room are secret no announcement OF
the testimony in today's examination
/ is expected.
/ only witnesses sufieient to establish
/ the fact Of a crime and who committed
/ it will be called. the district attorney 8
| Office not wishing to disclose It's Whole
hand either at the inquest or grand
( jury inquiry.
The district attorneys Office compile
/ ted the examination of the more I'M
portant witnesses discovered yesterday
/ and Immediately shifted its attention
/ to the investigation of the relations ex-
! isting between Evelyn Nesbit and STAN
ford White prior to the marriage and
the attitude assumed by Thaw after ne
4 had made her his wife.
It am investigating every story re-
1 garding the life and dissipation of the
parties to the tragedy" Mr.. Mott said
/ There are many of them get new
/ tale every minute, and so far neither
the police nor the force of this Office
/ has been able to substantiate one OF
them.
.9The report that White made an in
sulting remark about Mrs. Thaw on
/ the night of the shooting, which was
/ overheard by her husband is groundless,
SO far as I have been able TO learn
IT am perfectly satisfied that nothing
/ that happened Monday night had any
I thing to do with the shooting. The
| deed was planned before then That
1 White talked about Mrs. Thaw after
her marriage is heard on all sides, but
/ have been unable to run down sin
/ gle specific instance in which her name
| was mentioned by him in a derogatory
manner. I never knew of case IN
which there were so many rumors
which were without grain Of truth "
She sleeps Little.
] Mrs. Thaw seems to be living on the
/ excitement of the moment. It is said
at the Lorrain. where she is staying,
/ that she sleeps little and every possible
/ moment of her time has, so far, been
taken up with consultations with her
! friends and with the lawyers employed
/ by her husband. She looked even more
| careworn yesterday than on the day
before
! Thaws interview yesterday wit n the
ailenists who called to examine him. Al
/ ter some trivial conversation he turned to
DR.. Hamilton and asked; Doctor, will
Yes answered DR.. Hamilton, handing
Thaw lighted it. took few deep pufrs
and then looked at DR.. Macdonald and ex-
Z suppose you are too wise to smoke
7 try to do such things in moderation, .
I returned DR. Macdonald.
And you think people are superior who
I 90 not smoker pursued IhaW, nut IS II II
I not distinctly normal for men to smoker
4 NormalT calculated DR.. Macdonald.
rs it distinctly normal?" Thaw went
/ on, for male human being to be born
without the habit of smoking and without
sufficient prediction to acquire the
After a slight pause DR. Mcdonald re-
piled:
Some. show. NO preference for tobacco,
Mrs NAV has been instructed by her
husbands g counsel to furnish him every
/ scrap Of writing she has from White. She
has promised to look for more of the let
+ ters. A man connected with the Equitable
1 Life Assurance company said last night
/ that Stanford Whites life was insured in
that company for S199.000 All ef the poll
+ icies were made payable to his wife
/ It is believed that White was heavily in
sured in other companies as well None Of
the Equitable policies had been taken out
recently, so far as could be learned.
Mayor Is Ousted.
ere Haute. Ind, June 2s-The city
/ council in the Impeachment charges
/ brought against Mayor Edward J. Bida-
man found him guilty as charged and
/ declared him ousted from office. Bida-
/ man was impeached for alleged failure
/ to enforce certain city ordinances.