The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-01-19
THAW' s BRIDE IS
A TONIC TO HIM
SHE SEES NOTHING AHEAD OF
STANFORD WHITES SLAYER
BUT AN AcoUlTTAL.
HIS SISTER ARRIVES
May M'kenzie viii Be Star Witness
For Defense--Another New
Witness Turns Up in
Pittsburg.

New York, Jan. tS.--As the day for
Harry Thaw's trial for his life draws
nearer the figure of the little girlish
woman, his wife, to whom life has
been 50 sweet and IS now SO bitter,
becomes more and more interesting
No woman ever had a task ahead
i that's dragged 0 hard at her heart
strings--days ahead under staring.
crowds. when she must not seem to
mind the stares at all; days thead
under rigid inquisitions. under which
she must tell into the public ears
every little privacy of her life that
her Interpreters seek to make her tell
and withal she must ask no sympa
/ Thy.
Must Be Brave.
But she must bear it all brayely
and go ahead for the sake of her
precious goal that she would reach
he saving of her husbands life.
A woman in her position is robbed
Of the aid unon which wives depend
tho protection Of her hu> band
Harry Thaw has his own terrible
ordeal 10 undergo and much rs he
might In all chivalry of spirit wish to
spare his VIE in suffering, he can do
nothing at all.
The case is such that far from
being able to throw mantle of p!i.
Yasy upon the woman he most dearly
loves, she must step out in the full
glare to save him; ehe. indeed, must
bear the brunt of he great struggle
In which against all the law and facts
aud reasoning that can be massed
against fiarrw Thaw, his lawyers W II
seek to prove that the knowledge of
temporarily insane, sending a mad
nan abroad in New York armed with
deadly weapon and hunting for
Stanford White.
Little Mrs Thaw refG es ste1d |
fasfly even to admit that there will |
be any outcome to the trial but free |
dom and exoneration for her husband |
and this optimism and hopefulness is
a tonic TO the man worn with long
months Of imprisonment, man who
his manner of living that it Is remarI,
able indeed that his nerve and his
have held ont all
Witness is Missing.
One Of The most important wit
nesses in the Thaw case is ms.in
Mazic Toilette, the beautiful
chorus girl companion of Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw is being sought by detoc
.ivcs.
She left her apartments in the Bar
holdi Inn Forty-fourth street and
Broadway, two weeks ago.
A few days after the tragedy on the
Nadi on Square Roof Garden an ac
ress called on the district attorney /!
sni told him a most ,emarbable and
,ircumstantal story Of the Incidents I
which led to the enmity of the two
'ich men who sought the favor OF
Evelyn Nesbt
This actress said that Thaw paid
attention TO Evelyn Nesbt while the
after was a member of the Flora
iora" company
Later. when Evelyn Nesbit was in
he wild Re e" company White he
gan his attentions to her He took
Ter 10 dinners and, according to the
lctress informant Of the district at
orney, b. bestowed a wealth of cost
y presents on her.
A. about this time. according 10 the
'ctrcss. TAaw renewed his suit aad
White. to ouido him, had her pose for
many photographs and sent her pic E
urc broadcast =
His Sister Arrives.
To prevent NaS Mckenzie. the ac. .
l--s from becoming the star witness
or The defense in the forthcoming
Thaw murder rial the district attor-
10, s office today served her with
This move. with the arrival
% New oYrk OF Alice. Counts OF
Yarmouth and Harry Ken lall Thaw's
avO-ite sister constituted days
.fIl5--A US" A--AA AAaAf nave a liDlAF4
ous bearing upon the fate Of the
iaver OF Stafford White.
The Countess aboard The steamship
tsisarin Auguste Victoria. sailed into
or- sb0nt the time that County De-
ective P'att from District Attorney
eroHe's 9f ce gained admit anca 70 I
evelyn Ne hit Thaw's suit in the
orraine and placed in Miss McKen-
ie'- hands the summons which she F,
.ill answer a. a witness in the crimi. y
al branch Of the Supreme court on =
1-ndaT.
The actress made no effort 20 eva1a =
1e Subpoena. The oztensihle reason .
l- t1e summons was the district at O.
1rev's desire 20 keep her within the
Jurisdiction u the court until the !