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fkVORs FOR THAN
5 TO AN EARLY TRIAL
/ Of Willie Must Take His
|uPn 10 tne Courts viii
Ordinary |y Criminals! 10
F1F - - : - y
DAs FOR me MAN's DEFENSE
rtan' Witness in the Case, Ao:
Ied Mans Valet Dies In Hospital.
feet'ves Tell How Both Men
Iployed Them and What They
to Earn Their Pay.
tBy Associated Trcss.)

Wy associated ErcSS.)
wv YORK. N. Y, July 2.-Tha.
Is no prospect of a speedy trial
Harry Kendall Thaw was AN.
led today by District Attorney
he. who returned to town for
Jays to devote his personal at.
III to the case.
Ing to the fact that during tho
Ter there are only two parts of
ourt of general sessions in SEES.
and that the trial would prob
last two or three weeks, the
ct attorney decided not to ad.
the Thaw case on the calen.
Thaw will probably be ar.
ed before October.
death today of Thaw's valet,
am Bedford In the Presbyterian
tai from complications following
operation for appendicitis. re-
an important witpess from the
Assistant District Attorney
in today gave out the last
hent made to him by Bedford.
Thaw No Drug Fiend.
i'm him Mr.. Caravan said he
bd that Thaw was not addicted
" drug.
ford declared that he had not
as the "go-bctween" for White
7 Dotes to Mrs. Thaw. He had
no notes passed, he alleged.
rhaws, he said. never quarrclcd.
! the revolver the valet supple.
fd his previous statement that
had carried revolver for
or four months by stating that
had carried weapon for about
years.
connection with the European
Pf Thaw and Miss Nesblt he
that he had accompanied Thaw
that Thaw and Miss Nesbitt
occupied adjoining and connect
rooms. The only marriage he
heard of. he said. was the one
had taken place at Pittsburg
White, he said. had never called
Mrs. Thaw to hiss knowledge.
White Hired Detectives,
Garvan examined today F. l..
sff, private detective, who
tier an exciting day In this suit
Sand Stokes lunchcd together In
home Fisk had fitted up. Here
passenger arrived with the news
k Fisk had caused the issue of a
sh warrant for Stokes on an in
plent by the grand jury charging
( with blackmail. Stokes rushed
The Grand Central hotel, where
was living, and shot him on tho
tease. There we're no known wit.
les to the inception of the ac-
I shooting. stokes always claim,
that he had acted In self-1efensc
/ that Fisk had been the first to
y a revolver. To the argument
Fisk's pistol was never founl
fes retorted that it had been
tted away by mysterious woman
had appeared on the scene i'm.
lately after Fisk fell.
It the first trial tho jury failed
agree. The second. ended OH Jan
1873, with a verdict of guilty OF
Fder in the first degree. Stokes
er lost his nerve. He sat in stony
n until all the members of the
y had been polled. the twelfth
b answered yes" he arose slowly
|, facing Mr.. Beach, now one of the
hsel for the prosecution. but form
a friend of Stokes and his coun.
in a civil suit, said, in deliberate
ents:
Attorney Congratulated.
Well, Mr.. Beach, l must say you
81, done your work well. l hope
have been well paid for it,
hen lie sat down. Mr.. Beach
de no reply, but his face turned
little away from the prisoner
trlct Attorney Fellows then rose
explain that Messrs. Beach aud
lerton had not been employed by
Fisk's family, but by the coun'
to assist in the prosecution