The Western news., 1907-02-13
THAW Will TESTIFY
WILL TAKE WITNESS STAND
In HIS own DEFENSE.
For Killing Stanford White in New
York City-He Will Tell of Evelyn
Nesbits Refusal to Marry Him Be-
cause of Her Assertions With
Architect White.

New York.-Harry X. Thaw will
take the witness stand to deliver the
final blow in his defense for the kill
ing OF Architect Stanford White. Judge
Dolphin Delmas, chief counsel for
Thaw. has practically decided that the
millionaire defendant should become a
witness and corrOborate the testimony
given by his chorus girl wife.
Harry thaw will tell of Evelyn Mes
bits refusal to marry him because of
what she termed her degradation at
the hands of Stanford White. He will
tell the jury how the fragil child, in
fearful words, that day in Paris, sob
bingly told him of her shame and ruin
"a story that burned in his soul and
famed the fire of a consuming hatred
for the architect. Thaw's lawyers will
seek to show by his testimony that he
brooded over his wifes wrongs, that
the white specter of a girl came to
him at night and in his waking hours,
and with the hallucination that Stan
ford White was pursuing his wife with
some subtle poison.
ering at him in the roof of Madison
Square garden Thaw will tell the jury
that he believed that, as the "agent
of providence" he was directed to kill
the architect. Within a minute after
the shooting Thaw said to his wife:
at is all right, dearie, | have probably
saved your life"
l.. Iii
plotting to murder Evelyn that caused
ThaW to make that remark, that for
a long time was one of the mysteries
in the case.
May Gail Anthony Comstock.
Should Anthony Comstock, head of
the anti-vice society, recover from an
attack Of pneumonia before the con-
clusion of the Thaw trial he will be
called as a witness for the defense and
will, be himself says, give startling
testimony to COrroborate the testi-
mony of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
1t is expected his testimony will sur
pass in dramatic interest that told by
Evelyn
point toward suhstantiating the de
fendant's insanity. He hopes to secure
Jeromes consent for its introduction
''The will of ITSELF" said Delmas, is
sufficient evidence to show the effect
of Whites cruelties on Thaw's mind.
Three justices of the supreme court
whose names are withheld, express
hn int hnE In;,o 1r
gain new trial, even if convicted this
time. on the grounds of slight error
A fatal error made, they claim, in per
mittiug Evelyn to lean forward in the
witness chain and whisper to The
prosecutor the names of men and WON
en- she knew involved with White.
was previously agreed between Coun
sci that these names should not b,
mentioned.
Dolphin M. Delmas and Henry Nc
Pike, counsel in the trial Of Harr.
Thaw, who have announced that the,
will not return to San Francisco a
the close of the Thaw trial, hav
taken lease for term of years ol
a large suite of offices in the u.
Realty building. now being erected a
Broadway and Cedar street, Mr. No
Pike, in confirming the story of tn
lease, said: Eyes, we have decide
to remain in New York and will ad
to our already large library complet
set of eastern reports"
Mr.. Delmas' fee in the Thaw case
it has been stated, is one of the lars
est ever paid in a criminal case i
the state of New York.