The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11


defense other than DR.. WHEY win be
plased on the stand. They win be
shown Harry Thaw's letters to his
lawyer and his wife and then will be
confronted by a hypothetical question
embracing the wife's story of her *.
sTience with Stanford White, the
other details surrounding the case,
and ultimately the shooting of White
on the Madison Square Garden roof.
The defense will have a broader
foundation for the hypothetical ques-
ton when Its next alienist is put on
the stand.
1t is said that District Attorney Je.
rome's REORGANIZATION Of Mrs.
Thaw will be brief. The District AT.
torney, being barred by the rules If
evidence from attempting to contro-
vert any of the things Mrs. Thaw says
she told her husband, will confine him.
self to finding out If she told Harry
Thaw all the story she repeated on
the witness stand.
II he can trap the witness into an
admission that she might not nave re-
lated some particular detail to the
defendant before the killing OF Stan.
ford White Mr.. Jerome may ask that
all her testimony, from first to last,
be stricken out.
In that event, however. she nigh,
again be called and go over the ground
again. It is thought to bee certain
that no attempt will be made to of.
set any OF her testimony by calling
chorus girls or others who might De
expected to know something about
the events related.
4 Mr.. Delmas, Clifford Hartridge and
John B. Gleason, three of Thaw's at
;torneys. this afternoon demanded OF
the police of the Third district numer
Gus articles which they claim are alb
solute proof of Architect Whites al
LEGGED atrocious acts in his gilded den
in the tower of Madison Square Gar
den. The secrets of the lofty room
are said to be In safe at City Hall
Two officers took from the atelier
of White the articles which Mrs. Eve
lyn Nesbit Thaw told of on the wit
ness stand Thursday. Mrs. Thaw dc
scribed Whites bedroom with mir
rors to the right and left, in the cell
ing and on the floor, and locked draw.
ers built into the walls.
| Police Conceal Evidence7
Each of the articles taken by the
detectives from Whites den is said
to bear the name OF young woman
printed in ink and date. The name
of Evelyn Nesbit, 1t is said, was in
scribed one one of these.
The police, 1t is said, refused tc
turn over the evidence to the lawyers
Saturday. Thaw's attorneys said they
would ask Justice Fitzgerald TO issue
a search warrant or writ of man
damus.
| According to well defined report 9
large fund has been raised In New
York to counterfeit the evidence and
cause the stain placed on the name Of
Stanford White by Mrs. Thaw's con
fession. The fund ls said to be in the
keeping of prominent lawyer.
comstoek Believes Evelyn.
: Anthony Comstoek, head OF the So
} ciety for THE Suppression of Vice, w'ne
Is Ill of pneumonia, said he believed
every word uttered by Mrs. EvelyI
Thaw on the witness stand.
81 know that Stanford White was
. a human monster said the patient
81 know that much of what Mrs. Har
!: ry Thaw has stated as a witness IL
: true. know that Stanford Whites
: den In the tower of Madison Square
, Garden was as she has described It
| And what know / learned after
, had been given the first ciews by Har
ry Thaw.
My first knowledge of this cast
; dates from the summer of 19O5-abou
. year before the killing, should say
One afternoon a tall, well-dressed
I. well-bred young man came to my OF
fee. He seemed to be laboring undeI
excitement and 1t was evident he wal
. desperately in earnest.
"He opened the conversation by asl;
ing me If vsre interested in tn,
. suppression of vice. Then he wanted
10 know If my society gave special at
tention 10 the arrest and punishment
of men W preyed upon young girls
,II fold him II did. He iumnad n,