The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-05
HARRY THAW READY
TO FIGHT FOR LIFE
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perts not having their fling. but It is
/ doubtful that Mr. Jerome will cross-ex-
anime them at the length he did at the
| first trial.
II is possible. too, that Ny Jerome may
have a few surprises. II - known that
/ he has questioned two or three witnesses
who were not available at the first trial
1 one of them is Ida Vera Simonton. who
went to Europe with Evelyn NIesbit Thaw
after she first met Thaw
/ Prisoners Wife Calls.
Young Mrs. Thaw had a talk with her
| husband to-day She has been in con-
| ference with Mr.. Littleton. Who is thor
oughly familiar with her story. How
close she viii stick TO the story she told
at the first trial and Mr. Jerome's cross
examination are expected to be features
/ of the trial that begins Monday.
A motion was made a couple of weeks
! ago by District Attorney Jerome for
| leave to see the minutes of the eXamina-
ton of Thaw in private before the lunacy
| commission that was appointed by Jus
i
/ The lawyers for Thaw and the district
attorney have never had access to record.
/ When the motion was made before JUS
/ tice bowling he referred it TO Justice
| Fitzgerald. Nothing was done by Mr..
/ Jerome or Mr.. Littleton, and il Is ex-
pected that one of them will make the
motion before Justice Bowling when the
/ trial begins. It is known that the dis
trict attorney would like to see the record
Of Thaw's examination before the lunacy
| commission.
! At the first trial the telegraph and cable
companies made arrangements for hand
| ling the newspaper reports by putting
cables in the Criminal Courts Building
within a few feet of the trialroom. This
/ has not been done this year. AT the
same time the district attorney and Clerk
Edward Carroll, of General Sessions.
have had many applications for admts-
/ sion tickets.
Plan TO Handle Crowd.
/ In order to handle the crowd in a sat
! isfactory manner. Police Commissioner
Bingham to-day assigned Lieut.. Barney
| Kelleher to take charge of the police ar
engagements at the trial Lieut. KelIeher
had charge of the crowds at the first
/ trial. and his work was so excellent that
many disinterested persons wrote to Gen.
/ Bingham commencing him.
| Kelleher has been acting captain of the
/ Tenderloin. but he was relieved to-day.
and Capt Horatio Young. who has been
in command at Bath Beach was sent to
the Tenderloin. With the exception of
the Countess Of Yarmouth, all the mem
bers of Thaw's family who attended the
sessions of the first trial are expected
l to be present
! Mrs. William Thaw. his mother Is in
town. and has called on him at the
Tombs His brothers and sisters are here
also
Mothers Heart Is Broken.
! Pittsburg. Pa. Jan 4-surrounded by
everything that money can buy, except
the freedom of her son. Harry Kendall
Thaw, who will again go on trial Monday
for murder, and the domestic unhappiness
of her daughter, Alice. who has applied
| for notification of her marriage to her
actor-nobleman husband. the Earl Of
| Yarmouth. Mrs William ThaWs heart is
/ being crushed by the weight of trouble.
She journeyed to Michigan last summer
/ in search Of c0nvaIesce nee, but the trip
was fruitless, and since her return she
| has constantly been growing weaker.
There is a limit to human endurance
and intimate friends say that In the
elder Mrs Thaws case the climax has
/ been reached For years she lived with
ali the ease and comfort that her hus-
bands millions could provide. Then she
was suddenly plunged into sorrow by
( his death. The disposition of his millions
had hardly been settled before Harry
Thaw began his escapades. Small-sized
| fortunes were given him to pay his way
out of difficulties.
sorrows Heaped on.
Then came Evelyn Thaw, the beautiful
chorus girl and artists model. The young
millionaires mother worked strenuously
to prevent his marriage. but she failed.
/ Then came Stanford Whites murder.
| This was followed by the Countess OF
Yarmouths arrival at her brothers trial.
when she unburdened herself to her
mother and fntimated that things were
not as they should be between husband
and wife
! The blow that CRUSHED Mrs Thaw' S
spirit came with the announcement Of the
disagreement of the Thaw jury She con
i fidently expected acquittal on the first
ballot
Evidence Against Thayv.
| London. Jan. 4.-Fhe statement is made
here that acting on the request of Dis
trict Attorney jerome. of New York a
! resident of Cardiff last week forwarded