The Cairo bulletin., 1907-01-30
FEAR CLUTCHES
WIFE OF THAW
FORMER ACToR-LOvER USED BY
JEROME AS CLUB OVER
EVELYN NEsBiT.
TWO JURORS EXCUSED
Talesmen Selected Early In Sessions
Released From Duty-Fight Es.
pected to Begin In Earnest
Thursday.

New York, Jan. 29.--That grim and
pitiless stage manager, Fate, today
gripped Eevlyn Nesbt Thaw by the
shoulder and led her to the brink al
the chasm which yawns between hes
and her husbands life.
He ct the stage with diabolical
cunning and lifted the veil for but
an instant, yet in that instant the girl
wife OF the young millionaire saw
and understood
1t same without warning. deep and
sinister, this first tragic note of the
trial which is under way and but few
of those in the court room understood
It's meaning before il had rolled on
and out leaving an echo in the wildly.
beating heart Of the despairing Young
woman alone.
At the side Of a District Attorneys
detective "Handfome Jack" Barry
more, artist, actor, matinee idol and
man about town, strolled quietly into
the cour' room.
Presence a Warning.
UnCstentatiously he took seat
among the thinning group OF tales.
men. Probably not more than half A
dozen people in the trial chamber
knew him. But Evelyn Nesbit Thaw,
knowing him, must have marked his
advent we'll and shuddered at It.
To Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Jack Barry.
more was an apparition and a menace
"a warning and a threat
In the days of her prosperity the
Great White Way knew lack and
Evelyn as sweethearts. She had not
Thaw then. Barrymore and White
were friends, and the three met FIRE.
quently at the mad. glad revels OF
the roysterers.
Barrymore passed out OF her l,fc as
Harry Kendall Thaw entered II, and
she knew him no more until today.
What he knows is secret which
they share now with one other--Dis-
trict Attorney Jerome, locked IN whose
safe Is a sworn statement which Bar
rymore has entrusted 10 Jerome's
Keeping be nsed II necessary.
Secret Gnaws at Heart.
And that Is The tragedy Of It. For
he mission OF Barrymore is one of
His advent today was to
warn Evelyn Nesblt that he is at hand
md she must sit in the court room
inowing his presence. with their sec.
ret. whatever It may be. gnawlng at
ier heart.
She alone knows what he can tell
Ie alone knows what OF truth there
nay he IN the story which shc will
'ell--he and the District Attorney.
VIII he take the stand? He will
Sait for Evelyn Nesblt Thaw TO testi
y. Then will he take the stand?
still he will wait and note what testi
nony EVELYN Nesbit Thaw gives.
Jack BarTymore's part In the treg
'dy waits on Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. up-
N whose lips may hang the fate of
Ter husband. And he sits and waits
n the trial chamber. while Jerome
Iolds The written statement IN his pos.
essiOn and Evelyn Thaw halls ON the
rink OF the chasm with grief and
espair in her heart
Evelyn Stands Alone.
What matte II two Jurors were e.
ured today? It but hastens The dav
{ her trial.
Harry Thaw passed back over the
fridge Of Sighs at the close OF the |
ay with a smile OF contentment on
is face. With heavy hear and down
ast eyes his young aud beautiful wife |
ragged her leaden feet from the
ourt room and went home to struggle |
ith her problem alone. The clever. 1
~t lawyers IN the world cannot as. |
1t her. She must fight out the bat /
e alone
Aud fighting however desperately /
be may. before her always is Barry /
iorc. waiting. waiting to see what she 1
ill say.
1brrc more jurors remain tn De So /
Ired to complete the twelve into /
hose hands Thaw's fate viii be On I
ustcd. Today's del,ing brought two /
.ore into the uet-vhile two Arthur 4
Campbell, superintendent of tele- /
hone construction and Harold n. /
ai-c. a printer and publisher OF a 1
amphlet circulated in Wall street,
ere excused These jurors we're Sc
.cted during the early days Of the pro
eedings |
Two Juors Are Excused.
The announcement. made during the 4
TteruOon session created much excite.
.ent and Is the first big surprise Of
ic trial This leaves the situation a.
was yesterday-wit three more
.Tors TO be chosen The action was
ken by Justice Fitzgerald after a
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