The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
ce Harry K. Thaw shot

| Stanford White.
1t is reported today that Dolphin NJ
Deimas. the San Francisco lawyer who
came east to defend Thaw, went to the
Hctel Lorrain, where the relatives of
Harry K Thaw are staying, in the
nope of reconciling any differences
Wt1ch may have arisen between the
women. 1t WAS said that Evelyn
Thaw made the first step to placate
her mother-in-law and sister-in-Iaw
and that Mr.. Delmas only consented to
try to smooth over their misunder-
standings on the agreement that Miss
mckenzie should discontinue her
presence in court. Harry Thaw is said
to have discussed this matter with A.
Russell Peabody of his counsel, when
Mr.. Peabody visited him in the Tombs
PRISON today. Afterwards Mr.. Pea
body said:
81 don't believe that Mr. Delmas
knows that Miss Mckenzie is in the
court room. He is there to work and
cent believe he gives the woman
thought.
early last summer when Evelyn
Thaw was practically all alone Miss
Mckenzie was with her most of the
that Mrs. Thaw wants to have Miss
Mckenzie with her now. even though
the other members of her husbands
family are with her.
Mr.. Peabody was asked to state
whether there is any truth in the
stories that Thaw has received letters
since he has been in the Tombs. He
replied:
my client has received hundreds of
letters during the time he has been
awaiting trial in the Tombs and have
seen nearly all of them. None of the
missives sent by other than friends
and relatives could be classed as
threatening About one in a hundred
of the letters contained what may be
described as unfavNrable comment and
that is light percentage. as letter
rift fr7cr ekT71- ,rr1O tv.fg7
words in their uncaled for communi-
cations"
Mr.. Peabody said that Miss McKen-
zie had proved herself one of the best
friends Mrs. Evelyn Thaw ever had
and that she took care of Mrs. Thaw
last summer when the young wife was
suffering agony greater than that
borne by amy woman in New YORK,
and has been devoted ever since.
SIS it to be expected that now Mrs.
Harry ThaY would cast her friend
aside just for the sake of appear
ances?" Mr.. Peabody asked.
He declared that there was no truth
in the report that other relatives of
Thaw have quarreled with Evelyn
Thaw because of her friendship for
Miss Mckenzie. He said that Mrs.
never had the slightest objection to
the intimacy of the pair and that this
applied to the Countess of Yarmouth,
who, he said, had not been in court
the past three days because she was
SO overweight by the first days pro-
ceedings that she had to stay in the
hotel to recuperate. He promised 10
see that she was in court Monday, IL
she had recovered.
Mr.. Peabody said that the report that
Mr. Delmas had delivered ultimatum
that he old withdraw from the case
unless May Mckenzie was kept out OF
the court room is absolutely without
foundation and he said that Mr.. Delmas
had not declared at the Yale club that
either he or Miss Mckenzie would have
to keep out of the court room.
Mr. Peabody also declared that the re-
port that Harry Thaw and his wife We're
contemplating divorce If Thaw is ac-
quilted is also false. He said that Thaw
and his wife ARE n lore inseparably bound
together than before the. tragedy.
One of the reports in circulation today
dealing with Thaw's motive for shooting
stanford White was to the effect that
the night before the shooting Thaw call
ed on White and exacted from him
promise that he would never try to com
municate with Evelyn Thaw again 1t
was also reported that while at dinner
in the Cafe Martin, four hours before the
tragedy Thaw intercepted note from
White asking Mrs. Thaw to meet him.
Rooms are reported to have been en-
gagged in this city for eight Pittsburg wit
nesses for Thaw to be brought to this
city under the care of q sPittsburg detec-
tive.
The Thaw jurors were kept under close
surveillance at their hotel today. The
wives of two of them called last night
but their guards only permitted converse
lions in the presence of another juror and
of