Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-15
But Jerome Will Strongly
Oppose Thaw's Request.
Officially Announced There Will
Be No Change In Counsel.
Thaw Greatly Disappointed at Yer.
dict But Has Hope.

New York. April 14.-Setting at rest
all rurors as 10 their present inten--
tons, A. Russell Peabody. associated
with Dolphin NJ. DelmaS, chief counsel
for Harry X. ThaW, said late Saturday,
after 45-minutes conference with the
prisoner, that an application for
Thaw's release on bail would be made.
AS 10 what steps will be taken he de-
olined to say. There We're various
rumOrs that habeas corpus proceed
ings might be brought. and it was said
| that the ThaW family stands ready to
furnish bail in almost any amount to
secure the young mans release.
Dist. Atty. Jeorme announced Sat
urday that he would make a strong
| fight against granting of bail to the
prisoner and added TO this statement
that he intended to bring him to trial
again for murder in the first degree,
this latter assertion coming in reply
| 10 Il suggestion that he had cOmpro-
| missed with the Defendants counsel on
n plea of insanity and would agree to
send ThaW to MattCaWan.
The next interesting development of
| the day came when Mr.. Peabody left
| Thaw after a late visit and said in re
ply to questions AS to The stories that
ThaW had changed his counsel.
Mr. Thaw authorizes me 10 say that
m to the present time he has made no
| change of counsel. You may say that as
emnhatically as YOU please. OF course
we don't know what will happen next
week"
How does Mr.. Thaw take the situa-
&, Tho In Wac acl.pd
"IIc is very much interested and feels
very badly about it, Mr.. Peabody re-
piled.
Asked as to the program for next week
he said:
1--WE have no fixed program. On Mon
day we shall get together and decide
what is best to be done"
Mr. Delmas held long conference with
Thaw Saturday, and Mrs. Harry X. Thaw
saw her husband during the visiting
hours.
A somewhat sensational development of
the day was the publication Of q letter
said to have been written by Howard
Nesbit. Evelyn Thaw's brother, explain
ing his position in the case and asking
for money from Thaw.
Altogether Thaw spent a quiet day in
the Tombs. The influx of mail at all de-
livcries which has kept him busy since he
first went to a cell was diminished some
what Saturday. Instead of the 100 letters
which he received every morning up to
the day of the verdict but % came in
Saturday forenoon and the other deliver
les had also fallen off.
! Mrs. Harry X. Thaw was somewhat
wan and worn when she appeared at tho
Tombs, but seemed in good spirits Other
! members of the Thaw family remained
at their hotel.
A letter written by Howard Nesbit.
brother Of Mrs Evelyn Thaw, 20 Harry
Thaw was made public Saturday,. Is j.
said, BY some Of Thaw's counsel. In it
the young man wrote th.l- when White
was shot he thought it would be heroic
TO stand hy "tne man whose memory
to mo WAS so precious" When Dist
Atty. Jerome took his statement, How
ard Nesb:t wrote:
II told him what Florence told me-
or at least was supposed to have told
me. | 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 it would help
the man I thought was so good
rs TO his subsequent attitude toward
his sister and 1haw he wrote:
After Florence told her story on the
stand, believe rle. ] was with her from
that time on-heart and SOUL never
intended to say one word against her il
put on the stand-i would have forgot
ten everything l knew would have
perjured myself out and out, if YOU
wish to call it perjury.
Il am not and was not afraid Of Je-
rolre. another thing I wish you to bear
in mind, and thai is that | was influ-
creed lay artful and designing persons.
who urged me on TO take the stand that
l did.
II love and cherish Florence as any
brother should, ana it breaks my hear1
To think | cannot see her. l want to see
her and tell her how sorry / am She
would listen to nc, ! am sure.
II believe you right and justified in
Going what YOU did and you are now in
my estimation more than a hero. I look
upon you now rs q man fully sane and
capable Of holding your own in every
crisis"
He declared that he had wrote to
Evelyn that he was sorry and asked
her for 500 to pay debts he had con-
tracted i'll New York, but he added.
she seems to be somewhat bitter at
me yet. and will not see me- She an
swered that she did not have the
money"
Perhaps he was wrong in corning to
New York. but his parents were res
ponsiblr for that, he wrote, adding that
he is now true to ThawS cause. He
then appcPl' t. Thaw for the money
which Evelyn did not send him, and
declares he would rather Kill him
self than go to certain persons in this
city for help that he will not write
home for money, and at times has felt
like ending If all