The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-02-15
THAW'S TRIAL IS
HALTED BY DEATH.
WIFE or JUROR BOLTON PASSES
AWAY AND OTHER JURORS
ARE LIBERATED.
OUTCOME is UNCERTAIN
But If Case is Resumed Monday eve.
iyn Nesbit Thaw VIII Probably
Tell the Rest Of Her
Tragic Story

| New York. Feb IA Another tra4ia
chapter IN the history B fthe Thew
White episode was writ today
when death stepped IN to hall the
famous trial in its fourth week. The
wife Of Juror Joseph b Bolton. pass
ed away this afternoon. soon after
her husband mad reached hsr bedside.
| he had been summoned from thu
!court room whore the trial had been
ID progress less than is minutes.
f, Formal announcement OF Mrs. B0l-
tons death was made In court short
/ ly after p. m he hour set for tho
afternoon session and Justice Fitzger
aid Immediately ordered adjourn
ment until next Monday The court
also ordered wilh The consent nf THE
counsel that the other eleven Jury.
men be given Their liberty and no ion
ger be held together
Thaw Shows Sympathy.
During the brief morning session.
INhen Dpt9a had taken his place In
he box raaw fixed the juror with his
gaze as he entered ID was not
stare Of curiosity or concern On ID
his own weifara that the defendan
turned upon he juryman bul there
seemed rather TO be a light OF sym.
Dathy in the eyes OF the man accused
If the murder Of White
Dr. Britton p Evans, supagiaa m.
ant Of he New Jersey State Hcsp
al fer the Insane was recalled ~
,ontinue his direct examination an9
vas abo8t TO detail events Of his FIRST
visit to Thaw on August 4, when
the summone for Juror Bolton cams.
An adjournment was taken untll the
| Afternoon. When court reassembled
Mrs. Bclton's death was announced
md case adjculned until Monday.
Outcome is Not known.
Whether Bolton Will return To The
Jury box Monday and the trial ~
resumed or whether a new jury win
he secured and the case gone over
again. is not known
II the trial Is resumed Mrs Thaw.
vll in all probability be the frs wit
1ess call.d after the evidence Of DIR.
evans Is completed.
First Mis- Thaw will retell those
hings concerning Stanford Whites
reatmeu; Of other girls. which were
he subject of frequent talks between
her and her husband She viii tell
IF those incidents limited at by Del
mas on Monday when Stanford White
spoke of her husband disparagingly
by the bsdide Of May Mckenzie
when she and Mrs Game met White
IA the theater. when Thaw told her of
the hired thugs who were following
him and Of his appeal to the Society,"
'or the Supp ssion OF Vice to arrest
he course of Stanford White
Many special details not yet re-
vealed are said to be on the point of
exposure and Delmas will bring hem
out 10 The last letter in the effort to
set Harry Thaw free
When she has said the last word
his behalf the young wife win
face Jerome for the mot bitter ordeal
iu her own young life. Il ems 70 be
generally mn les ood now that Ie-
rome viii not snare her Reduced
No The last analysis. the story Of Eve
y1 Nesbit Thaw is the keystone cf
the defense. II IL is not broken down
Jerome realizes that the accused will
90 free
Much Depends Upon wife.
on the other side the defense r al
ICES equally well that In The manner
in which young Mrs. Thaw conducts
herself under cross-exam' nation res
their hope Of victory. Jerome sin
neglect DO means o. send the rit
from the witness stand q broken. ais
credited woman-heinless and hore-
less Deluas wiH neglect no m ans
saffrlard and protect her. Ma
Thaw herself. -ccied Cor the o-ieal
viu summon an Of her resources -
met the attacks of the prosecution.
IN her ewes VIII De- constantly the
ran tr save whose life she he's ven
+rred everything IN iris -=eue1-
dos rugE'e of mans nits aeainst
q woman's love tla ir-Cr VIII Dr. The
a-b'trrz Hanrr ere man ~ho faes
not have to sir by anu uatea tae
contest