Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-02-09

of the stories related 10 him by Evelyn
ten on loose sheets Of paper partly
typewriter and partly in handwriting,
with many interlineations.
Feared Assassination.
According 10 reports today the will
is expected 10 show Thaw feared as
sassinatiOn and that in it he ordered
the sum of $4,000 TO be devoted to
the prosecution of the assassin, or in
vestigation Of his anticipated assassin.
Among the other provisions is one SET
ting aside a fund of $4,000 for the
care of women who he believed have
suffered through Stanford White The
names of these women are reported to
be given in the will.
Provides for Nesbit Family.
1t is also reported the will contains
provision for the education of Howard
NeSbit, and an allowance for the care
of Evelyn's mother during her life
| The income from the remainder of the
estate is bequeathed to Evelyn.
AuiHehticiiS Dthieu
Thaw's will was dated April 1, 1905
Counsel for Thaw today not only de
clined to make public the text of the
: will, but declared the alleged provis
ions of it made public We're inaccurate
a report was published here today tha
la large fund had been collected 10 cleal
Whites reputation of the injury in
! flictcd by the story of Mrs. Evelyr
: Thaw The story lacks confirmation.
May Put Thaw ON stand.
| Another report published declared
Thaw will be put on the witness stanC
in his own behalf. to testify that sine,
his wife told him her story as related
in court he has been visited by visions
which warned him his wife's life wa
in danger from White. This report i
also unVerified
jerome i'm right Place.
New York. Feb. 9-The nature o
Jeromc's cross-eXamination of EvelyI
Thaw is the principal subject of di;
cussion today. The district attorne
has a difficult problem TO face Wit
the truth or falsity of the stories tn
witness has testified as having toll
her husband, he has nothing TO dc
The statement that she told him thes
things Jerome cannot possibly di:
prove.
May Find Flaws in story.
His strongest chance in cross-eXan
ination is TO make her stumble in tn
story as she has told it, with the gel
8 tie guidance of her husbands alto
r neys. or compel her TO tell him othe
things about her past life which woul
tend to minimize in the jury's min
the effect of the story of her relation
: with White.
= May Attack Reliability.
He can introduce evidence, if he ha
it, generally affecting her credibility q
= a witness before the main statement
in her testimony, stories which mad
her recital perhaps the most strikin
ever heard in a court in this cit
J. White himself, if he were alive. coul
y not go on the witness stand and den
them.
J. The point in the case is not as
o the truth of these stories, but as
/ their effect on Thaws mind.
Explained to the Jury.
This fact was impressed on the jun
u yesterday when the court, at the r
l. quest of Jerome. informed the jury II
der the law the prosecution could n
" introduce evidence with the object
i disproving any statement that MI
> Thaw has made except the stateme
y that she told her husband all Il
things she testified to.
VIII Object to "TattIe."
That Jerome will strenuously obje
:, to further introduction of what
= terms "tattle of the tenderloin," W
=; plainly shown yesterday when
claimed, and was sustained by {
= court that as yet there has been
IL Han n TT n AI000 Hl1k