Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-10
PROBING THAW MURDER CASE
Young Woman Followed by Detectives
Now Wanted by States Attorneys
PnrsBURG MAN THREATENED WHITE
Woman says Thsw said He would
shoot the Architect-secretRry
of murdered Man f.
Questioned.

NEW YORK. July e-The investigation
Of the district attorneys ONCE to discover
the motive for the killing OF Stanford
White by Harry Thsw is bringing to the
ONCE Of the prosecutor many young women
NJ the stage. The Broadway theatrical dis
trict 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 ONCE has been
particular to interview are Miss Paula
Desmond and Miss Gertle Grant. 1t Is
alleged that these young women We're fo,-
lowed and annoyed by detectives who had
been employed to watch White. Paula
Desmond. whose real name is Paulna
Kellerman, is now at her home in King
ston, N. Y, and a representative OF the
district attorneys Office has gone there to
see her.
Miss Grant has been abroad for some
time. but returned last Saturday. Detec-
tives were watching all the steamships,
but the girl slipped ashore unseen and
her whereabouts now is not known.
Both Miss Grant and Miss Desmond
are known to have been friends Of stan
ford White. The activity Of the district
attorneys Office in running down all
clues in the theatrical district is largely
due to the story told Assistant District
Attorney Garvan by Edna Mcclure. a show
girl, and former friend Of Mrs. Thaw.
Tbaw shows. Ill VIII.
Miss Mcclure told the assistant attor-
ney that, while entertaining a number of
guests in a Broadway restaurant one
night Thaw saw Stanford White enter
the place. He began to abuse White, Miss
Mcclure says, and said to his wife:
There goes that blackguard now that
| owned you before 1 did"
Mrs. Thaw is reported to have
answered: stop raking up my past,
Harry. That brute over there is re-
sponsible. Go to him about it."
81 will" Thaw said. 81 will get him
yet"
Mrs. Mcclure, mother of Edna Mcclure,
was with her daughter at the district at
] torney's Office yesterday. In speaking of
the Thaw case today she said:
Harry Thaw's hate for Stanford White
was like that of a maniac He seemed
possessed of a consuming horror of
White. 1t was plainly a mania with him
The district attorneys office is also
/ searching for William Sturgis, a close
friend Of Harry X. Thaw, who has dis
appeared since the tragedy. 1t is re-
ported that Sturgis had heard Thaw make
threats against Stanford White.
Another Thaw valet.
| witness whose testimony may be Of
considerable Importance in connection
with the Thaw-White case was found to.
| day in the person Of Warren Hammond
who at one time was employed by ThaW
as a valet. Until today It had been sup
posed that when William Bedford. Thaw's
regular valet, died the testimony of the
only person who had ever occupied the
position of a body servant 10 the young
| man had been irrevocably lost Hammond
however substituted for Bedford during
| three months when the latter was i'll, about
| three years ago. 1t is expected that, Ham
| mond win be examined at the district at
torney's Office tomorrow.
Among the persons questioned by Assist
ant District Attorney Caravan today was
Charles Harnett, who was employed ny
Stanford White as a secretary 1t is under
stood that Mr. Harnetts testimony tended
TO contradict the current reports of much
that was dlccredtable in Mr.. Whites pri-
! Vate life.
Thaw Threatened white.
A Mrs Schwartz. who lives in West
| Thirty street and who is an init.
mate friend of the Thaws, will be ques.
| toned by Mr.. Garvan tomorrow. 1t is
said that shortly after Harry Thaw and
Miss Nesbit were married Thaw threat
ened, in the presence of Mrs. Schwartz II
shoot Stanford White, and It is to ascer.
tain IL this threat was actually made that
Mr.. Garvan Will interrogate Mrs. Schwartz
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