Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-02-14
FIGHT OVER WILL
THAW'S WILL SAID TO CONTAIN
SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS
MRS. THAW MAY BE EXCUSED
Nife May Not Go on Witness Stand
Today-Fund for Whites
Victims.

New York, Feb. 9.-Doubt and spec
ilation exist tonight as to Just what
,ourse the defense will take In the
case of Harry X. Thaw, when the
rial is resumed before Justice Fitz-
gerald In the criminal branch Of the
supreme court on Monday morning.
When court adjourned Friday, 1t was
The intention of Mr.. DelmEs, who
now Is in absolute command Of the
defense, again to place Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw on the stand to con-
tinue the narration Of the story upon
which the prisoners life depends.
District Attorney Jerome had pro.
tested against any further defamation
Of the dead just when the Friday ad.
Iournment was taken and had been
Epheld by Judge Fitzgerald In his
contention that a broader founda-
don" of insanity should be laid before
"the loose tattle of the tenderloin,"
should go on record.
The course to be pursued Monday
depends greatly upon the attitude OF
District Attorney Jerome, who de-
clared he could have offered testi-
nc at the very outset on the ground
nony at the ervy outset on the ground
that the alleged insanity of the de-
ien@~rt had not been established but
haG lefrained from so doing because
Of the fact that he knew the testi-
mony as to her revelations to Harry
rhaw must come out some time.
If Mr.. Jerome persists on Monday
morning in his objections to the line
Of examination indicated by Mr.. Del
mas question as to stories concern
ing young women other than the wife
IF the defendant, Mr.. Delmas will first
attempt to get In evidence Harry
rhaw's will which was ruled out on
Friday because the many interlinea-
tons in "this somewhat cumbersome
document" as Mr.. Jerome referred to
t, had not been sufficiently proved.
This will consists of about sixty
pages, some closely typewriter and
others In the large handwriting of the
defendant. Justice Fitzgerald held
that the will must be shown to have
/ been in its present condition when 1t
was signed. One of the witnesses to
the Instrument, Miss Pierce, who
was put upon the stand for few
moments in the forenoon, declared
she had not read the will at the time
Of witnessing Harry Thaw's signature
and was not sure that the interlinea.
tons and erasures were the same as
at the time of the wedding in April,
1905. Harry Thaw himself suggested
that the witness be asked If some Of
the writing in the will had not been
In her presence. She replied that
there was considerable writing being
done, but she could not remember
what 1t was.
Mr. Delmas is very anxious to have
this will go in evidence, believing II
will go further than any other docu
mentary proof he can produce to show
the effect Evelyn Nesbit's story of her
treatment at the hands of Stanford
White had upon the mind Of the de-
PENDANT. Although counsel deny that
the Information is altogether accurate
it leaked ont today that one provision
In Harry Thaw's will is the setting
aside of the sum of $4,000 for the
prosecution of all persons who may
be concerned in case of the death of
the testator by violence. The prob
able instigator of the anticipated act
of violence Is said to be revealed in
the provision. Another paragraph in
the will, it Is reported, made provis-
,, ion for fund for the benefit of the
young women who, the will declared,
suffered treatment at the hands of the
dead man similar to that of his wife's
The ssrain of the last few days, in
which Mrs. Thaw has been made to
live again the hours when, according
to the confession she has sworn that
she made to Harry X. Thaw, she was
the victim of the architect'c lust, has
told severely on the young woman. 1t
was stated that the prisoner had de-
manded respite for his wife.
Upon her visit to the Tombs Satlir-
day, Mrs. Thaw told her husband that
she had suffered greatly during the
ordeal and Thaw communicated the
fact to the attorneys. He told them
that his wife was almost Ill, and re-
qrested that she be given an oppor-
tunity to recover.