The Cairo bulletin., 1907-03-09
JEROME s PLANS
STILL A MYSTERY
MUCH SPECULATION OVER WHAT
HE WILL ATTEMPT TO
PROVE IN REBUTTAL.
SEPARATION OF THAW'S
Is Said to Be the Hope Of Defendants
Family-Claim Marriage Could
Be AnnulIed-Deln1as To
Make insanity Pea.

New York, March S-The defenst
in the Thaw case estcd today anC
adjournment was ordered until MoH
day morning The courr proceedings
occupied less than Eyc minutes anC
jerome r turned at once to his Office
and began preparing his cumpaisp OF
rebutal les imonl
Almost his first move was to have
a subpeonae served upon MIS-. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw requiring her to pro
duce in tn court any letters she may
have in her possession written by
White, The district attorney had May
Mackenzie notified to be in court
Monday pr pared to go upon the wit
ness stand She is an intimate friend
Of Thaws wife and during the first
stages of the tia he two were in.
separable.
Just what Jerome intends to prove
or viii b allowed to prove on rebut
tai remains as dep a mystery as ever
The pr. sec tors plan Of campaign
may be entirely changed at any time
by an adverse dec sion from Justice
Fitzgerald.
Hops to Separate Thaw and Wife.
There we,e many rumors current
today Of serious estrangement BE-
tween the defendants family and his
wife, and of a report desire of the
former to bring about separation of
the young couple in the event Of a
verdict acquitting fhaw of the charge
of murder Young Howard Nesbit, |
brother Of Mrs HAIRY Thaw is quotel
as saying:
The Countess OF Yarmouth has
said that she will nor turn to Eng. |
land until her brother and my sister
lta' pvea" sSF'.s atrd did not know
of this until my retur~ -,..4-a
last Sunday As soon as arrived |
here | went 10 the hotel Lorraine to |
warn my sister but Delmas would not |
let m see her alone | did not want |
any of the lawyers present while !
talked to her. because | knew they |
would probably deny it, am sure |
that If my sister &new of the plans |
being made against hsr she would as
sert herself at once and not remain |
passive as he has been so far
Marriage Could Be AnnuIIed.
1t has been matter of comment
that as two xpe:ts have declared |
Thaw to have been insane at the time !
of his marriage the ceremony might |
be declared void and annnulled. I'm.
der this rule the will and codicil in |
which Mrs. Thaw is left the main por
ion of husbands estate, are also
void
Howard Nesbit Sees Jerome.
Howard Ncsbit was with the dis
trct attorney today and il Is said
he will be called TO the stand to tes-
tify that his sister told him Thaw had
treated her c.uelly WINE abroad in
1908 b cause she again would not
Tell lies about White, Jerome hopes
by the brother to corroborate the tes-
timony he expects to elicit from Abra-
ham Hummel the latter being un1 ri
indictment at he present time FOX
alleged subordination of perjury IN
The Dodge Moresc divorce tangle.
,Jer1m adheges to his prediction of
last night that the case might be Civ
en to the jury by Friday
Despite Jeromo's hope for termna
ton of the ca within the next week
fcE Of thos who have kept track of
the progress of the trial are willing
to hazard a predict on that the end
is less than two weeks away Be
fore leaving for his home in PittsbuGg
today, DR.. c. C. Wiley. the first alien
is PIT upon the stand by tn defense
gave out for publication a letter sent
him by Delmas. Thaw chief counsel.
The latter after stating that the
expert testimony given by Wiley had
been fully confrmsd d by that of alien
fists subsequently examined. contain
81 the following somewhat significant
sentence:
Plea to Be Insanity.
They have but reiterated your op-
inion that. upon th facts of the case
The defendent at the ime of the hom-
icide was Of unsOund mind"
From this expression by Delmas ,f
would appear that he does not ex-
pcct to use a plea OF justification" IN
his appeal to th jury but rather
hopes to convince them that Mrs.
Evelyn Thaw' story about White
temporarily unbalanced the husbands
mind.
ILLINOIS BEATEN IN DEBATE.