Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
COUNSEL NOWAT ODDS
Dolphin Delmas May Get Out of
ThaW Case.
OBJECT TO INTERVIEWS
Given Out by Californian's Law
Partner.
REFLECTIONS ON MR.. JEROME
Many Think Defense Has Been Badly
Handled-Trial to Resume on
Monday.
REFLECTIONS ON MR.. JEROME

| Special Dispatch to The Star
| NEW YORK. February 16.-Delphin NJ
| Delmas may be dropped today from the
counsel defending Harry X. Thaw against
the charge of numbering Stanford White.
A conference is to be held between the
New York lawyers in the case and the
Thaw family. and the matter will be set
tied there. Henry McPike, the partner of
| Mr.. Delmas, already had been declared,
| upon the authority of Mrs. William Thaw.
to have no standing in the case
The trouble has arisen over a newspaper
| interview given out this afternoon by Mr..
Delmas. Exactly what it was he said has
not appeared, but 1t is understood that he
spoke very freely of his colleagues. The
| statements were repeated TO Mr.. Hartridge
by the reporter to whom they were made,
and at once Mr.. Gleason and Mr. Peabody
were called into conference They went
over to the offices OF Messrs Delmas and
McPike In the Equitable building at about
o'clock this afternoon and an exceed
ingly animated discussion ensued between
the lawyers until 7 o'clock.
Mr. Delmas denied having made any such
statements as were attributed to him but
Mr.. Hartrdge brought forward proofs
which he considered conclusive Word was
sent to Harry Thaw In the Tombs and he
sent written permission to Mr. Delmas to
use his discretion about retiring from the
case. Mr.. Gleason went up tonight to talk
the matter over with Evelyn Nesbt Thaw.
and Mr.. Hartridge called upon Mrs Will
liam Thaw for the same purpose
Friction Has Been Growing.
While the disagreement as far as Mr..
Delmas is concerned only came to a head
through the interview attributed to him this
afternoon, the dissatisfaction with Mr. Nc
Pike began through certain statements pub
lished as coming from him in an afternoon
paper on Friday. They represented him as
saying that the defense had already beaten
the district attorney to standstilI and
that If he applied for a lunacy commission
1t would be Ibis last desperate gasp" He
was also represented as saying that In ex-
Guiding certain evidence of Dr. Britton D.
Evans the district attorney committed the
most grevious error that Mr. Delmas or
myself have ever heard of in law" and he
and his partner had come from the far
west to teach him law.
Great exception was taken to these opin-
ions by both the Thaw family and Messrs.
Hartrdge and Gleason. 1t was pointed out
that Mr. McPike had really nothing to do
with the case. He was in court simply as
the partner of Mr.. Delmas and was seated
at counsePs table as a courtesy. He was
not retained for the defense and had no
IN tic
Consequently. the following official state
ment was issued this morning by Mrs WILL
lam Thaw:
Mrs. William Thaw wishes il to be I'm.
derstood that the only lawyers retained as
counsel for her son are Messrs Hartridge,
Peabody, Gleason, Delmas and O'Reilly.
Any one else sitting by courtesy in court
and making statements in advance of evil
dence does so without warrant and It
might be regarded s a breach of confidence
If such statements were founded on fact
Mrs. Thaw is moved to say this because of
the published statements of the methods
of the defense, whether assumed or false"
Conferences Today.
Mr.. Delmas this morning made a special
effort to see Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw He
telephoned to the Hotel Lorraine before 10
O'clock but found that she had already
left for the Tombs upon her regular visit
to her husband. He had intended to ask
her to come to his of13ce at the Equitable
building and. as he missed her. he dis
patched a messenger to catch her before she
entered the Tombs. Mrs Thaw was evil
IDENTIFY not at all pleased at the summons,
as she has SO little time to see her husband
on Saturday, but at length yielded to the
messengers opportunities and went to Mr.
Delmas Office where she was in consulta-
ton for three-ouarters of an hour.
1t was suggested that the conference
might be about the stories connecting the
name OF Evelyn Nesbit with the Lederer
divorce case, but Mr.. o Reilly, who came
in while Mr.. Delmas was still in converse
ton with Mrs Thaw, denied that that was
the case.
On his return to his office, Mr. Delmas
met a reporter from morning newspaper
and had conversation with him. AS soon
as 1t was finished the reporter hurried over
to the Office Of Mr.. Hartridge at 149 Broad
way and asked him wha. he had to say
about the matter. Mr.. Hartridge imme-
dia tely sent for Mr. Gleason and, with Mr.
Peabody they went into conference.
Meanwhile. a number of other reporters
called on Mr. Delmas and asked him what
ing. He said: All I have said to any re-
porter today is that If Mr.: Jerome brings
an application Tor q commission OF lunacy
we shall use every effort to defeat him"
He then went on to answer a number OF
unimportant questions about the conduct
of the defense.
Stormy Session of Counsel.
At O'Clock all the lawyers met I'm Mr.
Delmas' Office and he asked how IT
was that he had granted the interview In
question According to the statements
given out afterward he strenuously denied
that he had said anything to which his
colleagues could possibly take exception
Then Mr.. Hartridge produced proof that
he could not deny. The meeting was ex-
ceedingly stormy and lasted for nearly
three hours.
1t was decided to lay the whole matter
befors the Thaws thmselvas. and II 10 en-