The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-14
After a Brief Conference
This Course is De-
Cided Upon.
PRISONER DEPRESSED
WIFE BREAKS DOWN
Bursts Into sobbing When Tax.
ing Leave Of Her Husband in
Tombs for the Day Her II,
Brother Admits Lying VI.
and Asks Thaw .s
for Money.

NEW YORK, April 1a.--sotting al
rest all riimors as to their present irl 3
Stentions, yJ. Russell Peabody, associated #
with Dolphin NJ Delmas. chief co unsel e
for Harry X. 4Thaw. said to-day, after
o forty-flve-minutes conference with
tho prisoner, that an application for
&Thaw's release ON ball would pe made.
/ He declined to go into details re esard-
4 Ing this action. There were various N
8ru1nors during the day that habeas
corpus proceedings might be brought.
and 1T was reported that the Thaw
fnn1ily stands ready to furnish bail
iii almost any amount to secure tho
young mans release. I, IS ! ,s,St
II District Attorney Jerome announced
that he would make q strong fight
against tho granting OF ball to II tho a
prisoner and added to ( this statement
that he intended to prosecute him for
murder In the first degree, This lat-
ter assertion was In the nature OF q re-
ply coming to q suE Egestton that he had
COMPROMISED with the defendants
counsel on q plea of sanity and would
agree to send Thawl to a Mat tenwan.
H T he next developmento OF the day came
when Mr.. Penbod " loft ThaW saf ter
late visit. and said in reply to q ues-%
5tions as to the stories that rhaw had y
changed his counsel: 1s5S .3as sss
mir. T haw autllorizes me to say I hat
up to the present time he has made no L
change or counsel. y on may say that
as emphatically as you please. OF
course we don Il know w hat will hap-ss
pen next week y IA!
How does Thaw take the sltuation2"
the lawyer was as ked. 6l3,s #
.'He Is very muc h distressed and feels H
badly about It, Mr.. Peabody replied.
A fpr
wee he said i " have no fixed \
|fpro gram. IA On d Monday we shall lS- get
and decide wh hat is best to-
be done s5s
Mrs. Thaw Breaks Down.
Mr.. D emas held a long conferences
with Thaws t. day, and Mrs T Thaw saw
her husband during the visiting g. hours
Altogether Hurry T ThaW spent a quiet 4
day in the Tombs. The influx OF matt
8at all deliveries which has Kept him
busy since he first went to a Gel j. was 5
diminished somewhat to-day. Instead f
OF the 100 letters which he received
every morning up to the day Of the
| verdict, only twenty-nine came In this
forenoon and the other dol lveries had 4
also fallen Oft. l5s 4StS
Mrs. Harry Is. Thawg was somewhat
wan and worn when she ppeared q; at
tho Tombs day and i broke doWns
completely while she was taking leave
OF her husband. They were standins9
before the door OF It Thaw's cell talking
when tho young woman buried her
face In her hands and began to sob. 2 /
5rhaw tried ito comfort her, but she
could not control her emo tlon. She
WIS still weeping when Commi ssi ionerS
OF Prisons Coggey, who was u making
his regular Saturday inspection OF the
IT o1nbs @ came upon the couple IN tho <
corridor. Tho commissioner talked
with Their, q moment and then escorteds
Mrs Thnw to the lower 8corrid 70 r.
As she was leaving the prison y g she a
was asked II 1T was true ttat she s was ~
going out Of the city#for q time to re- 4,
eover from the effects 4 Of the long
strain "No," she replied, ut is not
true. I am going to stay right In tho
city where belong, SO as to pc near
my husband"
Howard Nesbit's Letter.
"a letter written by Howard Nesbts,
brother Of Mrs. Evelyn Thew, to Harry
Thaw. was made public to-day, 1t Is said.
Inv some OF TEnw's counsel. In IT the
yo,1nr man wrote that when White was
shot he thought it would be heroic TO-
stand by {"the man whose memory to me-
WAS so precious" When District Attor-
lney Jerome took his statement Howard
1 N Gsbit5 wrote: slS ssY s85SS
II told him what Florence told me-
or. mt least. was supposed to have told
me. I will put it more strongly and say
she never told me anything against you
that would tend to hurt you IN any way.
| I lied, thinking 1t would help the man
| I thought was SO good. A 8
AS to his subsequent attitude toward
Ihis sister and Thaw lie wrote: "Afts7
| Florence told her story ntthe stand, be-
| lieve me. i was with her from that time
on--heart and soul. ! never Intended to-
say one word against llcr II put on ths
stand: ! would have forgotten everything
| + knew;I would have pcrjured myself
! out and out, II you wish to call II peT-4i
jury.
Young Man Wants Money.
| He declared that he Wrote to Evelyn
that he was sorry and asked har for
1 500 to pay deots he had contracted
In New York, but he added. "she seems
to be somewhat bitter at me yet, and
will not see me. she answered that
she did not have the money! Perhansl
he was wrong In coming to New York;
but his parents were responsible for
that, he wrote. adding that he is.lnaws
true to Thaw's cause. FIe then ap.a
peas ia Thaw for the money which
| Evelyn did not send to him, and dos
clnres that he would rather XII him
self than go to certain persons In
this city for help" that he Will not
write homo for money, and at times
has felt "like ending II all"
Jurors Story Unique.
Il A unique feature Of the case, and onal
which has caused conslderab blc- excite-
ment IN legal circles to-day, 10 the
publication OF n sisned article by onss
Of the jurors. giving a complete story
4 of the dellherationa.i In tho juryrooH
This is snld to be the first time such
La thing ever occurred In this uris,s
\, diction. AS q r.s,lc the juries IN sreat