Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-14
JURORS WIFE DIES,
THAN TRIAL HALTED
Adjournment Taken Until Mon
day After Brief Session
Today
PNEUMONIA KILLS MRS. BOLTON
Husband Summoned From Court and
Arrivss At Bedside as She Expires
Mrs. Thaw's Mother May Testify and
Dispute Some Of Eveiyn's State
msnts-Dr. Evans Examined Briefly.

New York, Feb. 14.-Mrs. Joseph b.
1 Bolton, wife of juror No. IL, died OF
pneumonia today, shortly after her
husband had been summoned from the
Thaw trial. court adjourning in order
that Mr.. Bolton might be excused.
Mrs. Bolton, who had been uneon-
scious all forenoon, died just as her
], husband reached her bedside. This
afternoon the Thaw case was ad-
journed until Monday on account of
{ the death of the jurors wife. The other
! eleven jurymen were released from
4 confinement.
Jurors Leave for Home.
Judge Fitzgerald permitted the
!, jurymen to go to their homes until
I Monday, after scautioning them against
reading the newspapers or talking with
any one about the trial.
New York, Feb. IA report is
again current that Mrs. Charles j.
Holman, mother OF Evelyn Nesbit
sThaw, will be called as q witness for
the state by Jerome. It Is stated Mrs.
Holman, since the revelations made by
Mrs. Thaw, has expressed desire to
be called as a witness and she Is said
to have told representative of the
district attorney she wished to deny
\; certain portions of her daughters tes-
9timony.
All twelve of the Thaw jurors were
on hand at the opening of court this
morning When Thaw came into court,
he seemed to take special interest IN
\ juror No. II, looking at him hxedly.
Mr.. Bolton was serious, his eyes being
directed to the floor. AS Justice Fitz-
gerald took his place on the bench.
Delmas asked that Britton D. Evans,
alienist, be recalled for further direct
examination.
..You have stated in your testimony.
Doctor" said Delmas, that on the first
three visits to Thaw you formed an
opinion as to his mental condition. Was
that formed in part on oral state
ment p
Yes"
..were the oral statements necessary
to you as a scientific man to enable
you to form this opinion?'
"They were very essential
Jerome said he would offer no OBJ
lection to conversations with Thaw
Adurin1. Evans first three visits, as a
result of which the alienist had de-
clared 1t to be his opinion that defend
ant was at that time Of uusound mind.
Evans was about to relate converse
tfons when information came that
] Juror Bottoms wife was in. q critical
condition. Justice Fitzgerald thereup-
on ordered a recess until 2 o'clock this
afternoon to permit Bolton to visit his
home.
Hrhaw Bill" introduced in House.
was. -1lgton, Feb. 14.-Representative
Wharton of Illinois introduced reso-
luton in the house today authorizing
the president to exclude from the
mails any and all publications "con-
tanning revolving details" of the Thaw
case and other cases of similar ma
ture.
3 Following is the text of the joint
resolution!
whereas, the public sense Of de-
cency and morality has been grossly
outraged by the. publication in detail
of the most revolving features in the
evidence in the trial 81 Harry K Thaw,
now in progress in the city of New
York, and which reveals the depth Of
moral depravity, degradation and de-
generacy on the part Of Stanford White
unequalled in all the annals of our
criminal history; and,
Whereas publication in detail Of
the loathsome and licentious acts of
said White, in a long and uninterrupted
career of debauchery of girlish virtue
and chastity, must of necessity have
demoralizing influence on the youth of
the land; therefore, be 1t
Resolved, by the senate and house
Of representatives in congress assem-
bled, that, as protection to the honor
and good name Of the womanhood of
America, the president of the United
States is hereby authorized and en-
powered to exclude from the mails of
the United States any and all publica-
ttons containing revolving details of
this case and others of similar ma
ture."