Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-19

Me. 4u0 Wuoi0 I0L or them are In COT
 lusion with Jerome to prevent me from revealing the infamous conduct of
 Stanford White. It is all one biz
 scheme to railroad me to an asylum on
 the pretext that I am crazy About
 this time his wife arrived. After he had seen her he retired with me to | f private room and continued his conver- ! Sation with me.
 1 He said: Stanford White has made
 . business of debauehing young girls,
 He has led astray. drugged and poi
 soned many innocent young women
 who were originally pure in body as in
 mind and who were not inclined to
 crime. The lawyers I hired to>defend me, having taken my money as re- tainer, are now in conspiracy with
 the district attorneys office to sup
 press all these facts in order to protect
 Stanford Whites name It is a plot,
 and I am not going to stand It. That
 in effect made up our first converse
 tion."
 When did you return againy pur-
 sued Delmas.
 "On Aug. 21," said Evans. "Dr. Wag- ner accompanied me on this occasion.
 We saw Thaw in the hospital ward across the corridor from his cell.
 Mr. Thaw entered, with a paste board box under his arm. He seemed agitated and uneasy and had that same queer stare and that same air of exaggerated self importance which I have previously described. His atti- tude toward US was one of manage ment, as if we were infants and he was our guide.
 His whole manner was uneasy and watchful. He seemed determined to keep both of us within the range of his vision.
 Then suddenly he said: Gentlemen, this dead man whom killed, this beast, this blackguard, this creature, sought to take the virtue of every pure minded woman he met. I did the best I could to stop this thing and to save these women. I had no desire to shoot him. didn't wantfo kill him.
 I knew he was foul dog who was destroying the good name of the wives and daughters and sisters of the city of New York and of America, but want ed to do 1t legally. wanted to get Stanford White into court and expose him and stop his practices. l did not desire to Kill him. but Providence took charge of the matter.
 Tt was an act of Providence that took him of. But first I had tried to halt him by lawful means. went to Comstock, but 1t did no good. went to Jerome, and Jerome advised me to let 1t drop, saying there was nothing in the stories told him about Whites practices.
 "T went to detectives. but they said they could not get enough proper evi- dence to convict White in court, al- though they said they had discovered plenty of evidence of Whites wicked ness. I found that one of Comstock's lawyers. De Lsncey Nicoll. was also Stanford Whites attorney
 CT was willing to submit those | whom I love to the ignominy of a court examination in order to convict | Stanford White. I wanted to show that White had three ways of degrad- Ing young girls-by drugging them, by plying them with alcohol and by lur- Ing them to his dens and dives and them.'
 'Thaw expressed no anxiety regard. Ing his own personal fate while mak- Ing these statements. He showed ex- citement only when describing to me Whites alleged conduct and the alleg- I'd conspiracy which he said now ex- sted with a purpose of keeping his story from the public. I asked him why he carried revolver. He an- 'wered me as follows:
 Roger O'Mara of Pittsburg advised ne to do 70. I knew that Stanford White was hiring thugs to hurt me. several times they tried to get me in l quarrel by jostling against me. lad been informed that White had lired members of the Monk Eastman ,ang to bring on trouble with me and hen to kick me to death or mutilate ne. When l told O'Mara all this he ldytsed me to carry a gun to protect myself. I did carry it for that pur- 'ose and not with the intention of hooting White. because, as I have old you, I wanted to punish him by aw and not by my own hand
 This ended the conversation.'
 Two physicians will take the stand oday. DTS. Hammond and Jelliffe, and is said that it Yill be part of their unction to detail the improvement in 'haw's mental condition during the eriod of his confinement in the Tombs, that the stress which caused be mental explosion was removed Tith the putting away of Stanford r. White. It was also said that Mrs. ,velyn Nesbit Thaw may go on the tand today at . late hour to complete er story.
 The trial has now entered on its fifth -eel..
 Mrs. Roosevelt m.