The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-16
Testified That Husband
Threatened to KILLER,
When Court Compelled
Her to Answer
SHE FURTHER STATED THAT
THAW SAID HE WAS NOT
CRAZY WHEN HE KILLED
STANFORD WHITE.

WHITE PLAINS, July Is. -
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw took the stana
this afternoon in the hearing of
Harry Thaw's mental condition. She
appeared as a. witness for the stat9
Justice Mills ruled today that Mrs.
Thaw could answer the questions of
the state regarding the alleged threat
to kill her made by Thaw d1fing his
CONTINENT at Matteawan. Mrs.
Thaw asked the court II she could
not claim the right to refuse to
anewer on the grouIds that a reply
would tend to inc2fminate her. The
court ruled she(could not and when
she was--aaKed if Thaw had made
sueh(a threat she said ''Yes, he did" !"
-r~~ Mrs. Thaw further testified that
Thaw told her he was not crazy when
he killed White.
A great crowd packed the court
room today as on yesterday. The
testimony was enlivened at times by
bits of humor, and Thaw otter
laughed heartily at some remarks at
his expense. -+-s~
Attendants at Matt eayyan. testified
speech and action. Several physi-
clans testified along the same line.
Just what Evelyn Thaw's attitude
toward her husband is, is puzzling. 1t
is not generally known whether she
would rather see him free or confined
as lunatic. While she has been
quoted often as repeating in effect
her famous declaration of I'll stand
by you, Harry" it is reported that
in the event of her testimony ulti-
mately going against Thaw, his at
torney to call her to the stand to
explain the remark she is alleged
to have used-that she was glad to
see him in Matteawan.
When she left White Plains today,
she Travelled to New York alone. Dur
ing her testimony yesterday, Mrs.
Thaw said her husband was not sup
porting her properly and had not
been for some time, but is was
brought out on the stand today, that
he is paying her more than $500 a
month.
Miss Anne G.. w. Dayley, a lawyer
of Poughkeepsie, was the first wit
ness called for Thaw. She testified
legal matters for Thaw when he was
in the Poughkeepsie jail, and had
frequently seen and talked with him
during that time. He always inn
pressed her at rational, she said.
Miss Mary Murnane, the matron at
the Poughkeepsie jail, testified that
she saw and talked with Thaw fire.
quently, and he always appeared ra-
tional.
At this point Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Clark asked that Thaw's counsel
stipulate that he would make no OBJ
lection to the state introducing GER
tain parts of the records of the sec
ond trial of Thaw for the murder OF
Stanford White in examining some OF
their witnesses. Mr.. Morschauser Of
fered no objection. Thaw's counsel
asked that he be given twenty-four
hours notice in which to produce his
alienists prior to the physical ex-
animation of the plaintiff by the ex-
perts.
This was conceded by Clark.
District Attorney Mack, in cross
examining witnesses had been care
full to ask if the witness had ever
talked with Thaw about the killing
of Stanford White or the running OF
young girls. Invariably, the witness
had considered that "a delicate sub
ject'' and 1t had "not been ap-
preached" 1t is the states theory
that one of the essential characteris-
tics of paranoia, of which Thaw has