The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
SENSATIONS PROMISE
 TO STARTLE WORLD
Mrs. Thaw Will Tell Things In Testl- lying In Defense of Her
 Husband.

New York, June 30-The declaration at. trlbuted to counsel for Harry K. Thaw that Mrs Thaw will be the principal wit ness for the defense at her husbands trial for the murder of Stanford White, and that she will tell a thrilling and tremen- dous story, opening the eyes of the New Workers and people all over the world, attracted the greatest attention of any of the published developments in the case today.
 Second in interest was the statement of a private detective that he and others had been hired some time ago by White to learn the identity of several men who he believed to be shadowing him. The de- tective says he found the men were em- ployed by Thaw to watch White. When he reported these facts to his principal, he says MT. White exclaimed:
 "I suspected 1t all along. This man Thaw is crazy He imagines that I hav' done him some wrong"
 Mir White talked along in this strain for some time, denying that he had wronged Thaw in any way and declaring that his early friendship for the Nesbit
 
 a fatherly interest. The detective added that White had talked of appealing to the authorities to have Thaw's detectives taken off his trail
 Thaw spent a restless night in his cell owing to the intense heat in the city prison. He was visited early today by Mrs Thaw, who remained with him for an hour and a half.
 Interesting Side Lights on Case.
 Some interesting side lights were thrown on the Thaw-White tragedy today by a private detective, who declares that he was employed by White as a bodyguard for more than year before the shoot ing. In long formal statement. which appears in the form of extracts from the detective's diary, the detective says that White undoubtedly feared for his life: that he took minute precautions to guard against a surprise; that equally Ingenious plans were made by corps of detectives employed by Thaw to keep track or Whites movements, and that on the day that White was shot he had decided to ap- ply to the authorities to prevent the con tinuance of the espionage to which he had been subjected.
 According to the detective, White paid out over s6}OO between February 14 190o, and the day of his death in the protection of his person, and for the shadowing Of the detectives who were pursuing him.
 The detective thus describe a meeting between White and himself when he told the architect that Thaw was the em- ployer of detectives who were annoying White. According to the statement White said:
 Said Thaw Was Crazy.
 T suspected it all along. This man Thaw Is crazy He imagines that I have done him some wrong. I used to know his wife. I befriended her and her fam fly Thaw is insanely jealous of his wife. He doubtless magines that I am meeting her, and before God I am not. My friendship for the girl was taken from a purely fatherly interest and since her marriage she has repaid my kindness by annoying me greatly by making remarks to different acquaintances of mine, such remarks intended to arouse the Jealousy of her husband I cannot understand it. I never knowingly in all my life injured man or woman"
 The statement concludes with an ex- tract from the detectives diary to the effect that on June 25 White said he had decided 1t was time to close up the mat ter. White said he was nervous wreck, and that on the following day Tuesday he was going to take final action in the courts. That night he Was shot.
 Former Judge Olcott of counsel for Thaw is quoted as saying today:
 'sMrs. T'haw will be the principal wit ness in her husbands defense. She will tell a thrilling and tremendous story. cannot make the details public now, but her testimony will open the eyes or New Workers and people all over the world.
 
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