Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-27

rather excited. but also appeared to be
sticking by her husband. 6he has told
Wants 70 pe asT ey sn =. s
witness in regard TO some OF the matters
affecting her husbands case. Whether she
WIN DO this depends upon the advice the
lawyers give her. They are to make every
attempt to prove Thaw insane.
Tomorrow's coroner's Inquest.
The evidence In the case concerning the
relations OF the girl with Stanford White
before she married Thaw and other points
which might show a motive are not to be
brought cut in public just yet II the pres
ent plans are carried out Through an
arrangement made with the coroner bv
Acting district Attorney Mott the only
evidence which will be brought out Mt the
inquest VIII be that relating to the actual
shooting. There will be the testimony OF
several eyewitnesses TO this. ana the tes-
timony OF the doctors as to the effect OF
the shots Thaw fred into Whites BODY
Al THIS WIZ, of course. be public The
Nesbit woman Will not under this Mar
tell her story at all in the coroner.s conr,
with other wftnesses-the detectives expect
10 nave many OF them. She win he taken
. =, once before the grand jury. All the tes-
tiniony will be brought out In private he
Iore that body. and It is the expectation
oI ,ne district attorney that Thaw will be
indicted the same day.
Inc insanity Investigation.
Fohowing the indictment OF Thaw. which
expected as matter OF course. there
VIZ 10 an inquiry into his sanity This
'ti oe conducted by experts emplo, ed by
."e prosecution and the defense The belief
is that II VIII take at least four weeks III
.ne prosecutions experts decide that he Is
insane he will not be tried In that event
the story OF the shooting-the real stow
which is whispered already pretty reneraI,y
IN the Tenderloin-would never be brought
out officially. eH'
:, NEITHER the district attorney nor the DO
nee nor the coroner believe for a minute
that Thaw Is legally insane. They do NOT
1e that such a plea will hold water
win the evidence thus far in hand the dis
lie9 attorney believes that he Will be tried
"''o convicted OF murder in the first degree
Denies He is Drug Fiend.
Inc experts who are to examine Thaw for
the prosecution have already been decided
on. They are Drs. Mayor. Mcdonald and
fant- Their services were secured yester-
oay and Thaw was not In his cell in the
ionlps, to which he was sent by the cor
oner, but a few minutes before Drs Nc
him. -0o" a.
From one of the doctors who saw Thaw
IN ms cell yesterday 1t was learned that the
latter denied that he was a drug fand
which has been the rumor in the TenderIoin'
he insisted that he did not use drugs st ALI
he insisted. also. in response to a few
questions put TO him in the short examina-
tion today that he was not a drink fiend
hls attitude, according to this doctor was
that of a man who resented the imp,,ta-
tion that he insane He had ali the
signs, according to this doctor of one who
ao Leo gay life, but no convincing signs of
insanity ~
Although the police and the district at
t to have got pretty good account or
the movements of both Tthaw and his vic
tim on Monday night preceding the tragedy
on the roof of the garden. bunch of de-
tectlVes were sent all through the Tender
loin yesterday to trace Thaw's doings back
t ,;d TWO weeks or more They had instruc
lions to subpoena any one who has had
much to do with him in that time The
idea In this Is both to combat the insanity
theory and to have further evidence Of
shooting.
Several OF Thaw's friends have been
found already. They have said that. while
Thaw appeared to be brooding over some
thing at times. he never was heard to
threaten White. At the same time, weeks
ago, he was heard to remark that White
was dirty
"Blackguard" Story Denied.
The two men. 1t would appear had moth
Ing TO do with each other, though they
frequented the same places. 1t is the po-
lice theory that it was the sight of White
at the Cafe Martin Monday evening that
started Thaw off on wild desire to avenge
what he regarded was a wrong that White
had done to the Nesbit girl before she be-
came his wife.
Although an alleged interview with Thaw
made 1t appear that the Nesbit girl had
helped to infame her husbands feelings
by a note which she passed around the
table to him, and in which 1t was said she
called White that blackguard," the police
say that no such thing took place and that
Tyhaw did not make any such statement.
Such a note would be very important as
evidence. The police under Captain Hold
gins after they had worked on the case
all the afternoon, declare the interview
story about the note to be fabrication
put in the mouth of Thaw.
While Mrs. Thaw was at Lawyer Della
fields Office yesterday afternoon reporters
asked her how her husband had come to
kill White.
II believe Harry must have been mad It
is too terrible to think Of she said
White and Miss Nesbit's Friendship
According to the story of those who knew
of the history OF the character in the
tragedy, the girl came to New York with
her mother six years ago, just after her
fathers death, and was living with her
mother at 247 West 22d street, when she
began to attract the attention of men who
roam the town. She was a girl then with
her hair down her back. Through friend
she got some pictures of herself in one of
the Sunday newspapers. The mother was
having-a hard time to make a living for
herself and her daughter, and after awhile
she consented to the girls posing for some
artists. From that II was but a short step
to the stage. She appeared in the wild |
Rose in a small dancing part Stanford |
White, as usual, was at the shows opening |
night. Her acquaintance with him is be-
lieved by many te-have dated from then.
The first thing the friends of the girl |
knew she had been taken out of the show !
and with her mother moved UP to the |
Audubon apartments, on Broadway. Then |
she was sent to a girls school at Norris |
town. n. j. 1t was generally understood |
among all those who had met the girl that |
Mr.. White was paying for her tuition at the |
school and was responsible for the girls |
sudden change In circumstances. She went
to this school one winter. She was not |
often seen with White, but their friendship |
was SO well known that 1t was the general |
talk of Broadway. She dressed beautifully |
and attracted great deal of attention soon |