Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-26
RUMORS OF ROWS
AMONG THE THAWS
Counsel Denies That There is
Any Trouble, but Reports
Are Still Current.
ABSENCE OF THE SISTER
Attitude Of the Countess Of Yarmouth
Continues to Excite Great
Deal of Comment.
LAWYER MAKES A STATEMENT
Attorney Peabody Explains Why the
Actress May Mackenzie Remains
In Court and Insists That
There is No Friction.
LAWYER MAKES A STATEMENT

Thaw's counsel today emphatically
denied that there were differences
between the defendants wife and
the Thaw family. The reports are
still widely current, however, based
on the attitude of the members of
the family in court. One of the re-
ports in circulation today dealing
with Thaw's motive for shooting
Stanford White was to the effect
that on the night before the shoot.
ing Thaw called on White and ex-
acted from him a promise that he
would never try to communicate
with Evelyn .Thaw again. 1t was also
reported that while at dinner in the
Cafe Martin four hours before the
tragedy Thaw intercepted note
from White asking Mrs. Thaw to
meet him.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. December 26-In the face
of the denial Of clifford w. Hartridge
of counsel for Harry Thaw that there was
any dissension among the women mem
bers Of the Thaw family, rumor was still
persistent today that all was not har-
monious between young Mrs. Thaw and
Harry X. Thaw's mother and sisters. The
foundation for the rumor is laid what
in
which 1t took rise included the absence
yesterday and the day before Of the Coun-
tess of Yarmouth and the absence on
Thursday of the elder Mrs. Thaw, the fact
that young Mrs. Thaw and her inseparable
companion. May Mackenzie, arrived to-
gether In court yesterday in advance Of
Mrs. William Thaw and Mrs. George L.
Carnegie, and the circumstance that there
was vacant seat all day between Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw and her mother-in-law and
that their conversation was not kept up
as 1t was on the first day of the trial. More
over, it was pointed out that when young
Mrs. Thaw reached the court room yes
terday she looked as II she had been weep
ing and that when the women took lunch
con In one Of the jury rooms young Mrs.
Thaw and May Mackenzie sat apart from
Mrs. William Thaw and Mrs. Carnegie
Report further had 1t that the Countess
of Yarmouth had kept away from the court
because she did not wish to appear in court
under the circumstances.
AS to the lack of cordial communication
between the elder Mrs. Thaw and her
daughter-in-law. 1t may be said that
Thaw's mother did not enter into much con-
versation yesterday, even with Mrs. Car
negie. and If the younger Mrs. Thaw talked
a lot to Miss Mackenzie 1t appeared to be
because this vivacious little woman in DUR
pie. who was once Weber and Fields
chorus girl, addressed herself frequently
to Thaw's wife. who sat nearly all day with
her eyes fixed on what was going on he
fore her. More than half the time she was
stretching forward in her seat her neck
Grained so that she might not miss a word.
Mrs Carnegie Impressed.
Mrs. Carnegie. too, was evidently ton
much impressed with the seriousness of
"""t was soihs On IN tne court room to
make much comment. In fact much of the
apparent absence of cordially among the
women might be laid to the fact that where
a. on the first day the women were In en-
tirely novel surroundings and perhaps chat
ted freely with one another to keep I'D
heart. affairs had settled down yesterday
to the solemn and dull routine that called
for little interchange of comment or
chances.
Another report current today was that
Dolphin Michael Delmas who will probably
sum up for Thaw. has said that he was not
court room, and 1t Is probably not In &C.
cordance with the plans OF San Francisco's
exponent OF the ''unwritten law" to have
In the court room when he makes his plea
for Thaws life anything that savors too
much OF the chorus girl and artist model
life OF Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
All Married but One.
The seven men already picked for the
Thaw jury passed the night In the suite of
rooms that had been engaged for them at
the Broadway Central Hotel. Court ofHeers
were with them, under instructions to en-
force rigid rules laid down by Justice Fits-
gerald and the district attorney. The
Jurors were allowed to read no papers ex-