Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-02-15
7HAW Will TESTIFY
WILL TAKE WITNESS STAND
In HIS own DEFENSE.
For Killing Stanford White in New
York Clty-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
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 consuming hatred
for the architect. Thaw's lawyers will
seek to show by his testimony that he
brooded over his wife's 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.
When he saw White that night glow
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"
1t We. this belief that White was
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 Call Anthony Comstock.
Should Anthony Comstock, head Of
the anti-vice society, recover from ar
attack of pneumonia before the con
clusion of the Thaw trial, he will be
called as a witness for the defense ant
will, he himself says, give startling
testimony to corroborate the testt
mony of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
1t is expected his testimony will sur
pass in dramatic interest that told by
Evelyn.
Thaw's will is to be Delmas' stroni
point toward substantiating the de
PENDANTS insanity He hopes to secure
Jerome's consent for its introduction
'"The will of ITSELF" said Delmas, il
sufficient evidence to show the effec
of Whites cruelties on Thaw's mind
Three justices Of the supreme court
whose names are withheld, express
the opinion that Thaw is certain t.
gain new trial, even If convicted thi
time, on the grounds of slight error
A fatal error made, they claim, in pei
hitting Evelyn to lean forward in tn
witness chain and whisper to tn
prosecutor the names of men and won
en- she knew involved with White.
was previously agreed between cour
sci that these names should not b
mentioned.
Dolphin M. Delmas and Henry M
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 a lease for term of years o
Realty building, now being erected a
Broadway and Cedar street, Mr.. Nj
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 cas-
it has been stated, is one of the larl
est ever paid in a criminal case
the state of New York.