Arizona republican., 1909-07-16
ABREAD AND BUTTER MATTER
Her Reason For Trying to Evade the Answer Which the Attorneys For the State Had Been Trying to Draw Out For Days.

White Plains, \. Y, July 15.-Eve- lyu Thaw took the stand this alter noon as a witness for the state She was asked, Did Harry Thaw say to you, or in substance, I shall have to kill you when I get out of here?' % Turning to the court with tears in her eyes, Mrs. Thaw said:
 T don't want to answer that ques- ton; it places me in a terrible posi- ton. My husband will refuse to SUD- port me the minute l answer it, and I will incur his everlasting enmity; I know it. l am very much afraid to answer it.
 T don't care how he has treated me- she continued; T am still mar ried to him and don't want to answer it."
 Justice Mills quietly instructed the witness to answer. and she said with a long drawn sigh: Yes. he did"
 Clark asked her to give Thaws ex- act words
 He said, I suppose shall have to kill you when I get out Of here % she repeated. Mrs. Thaw further tes- tified that during the same conversa- ton Harry told her he was not crazy the night he shot White T only missed him by a minute on the night before" the witness said her husband told her.
 Thaw sat with his eyes intently upon his wife as she testified. and shook his head when she told of the threat.
 On cross examination Attorney Morschauser had the witness identify a number of letters either written in Thaws or her handwriting. Mrs Thaw was almost flippant as she answered the question of her hus- bands lawyer. As one letter was handed to her. she read it, smiled broadly. then blushed perceptibly and hid her face behind her palm leaf fan She caught her husbands eye at this time and he smiled back and then hastily looked away. Mrs. Thaw was excused and Anthony G. Comstock was called.
 It has been decided to abandon the physical examination of Thaw by the states alicnists and to confine the in sanity test by experts to the mental examination of Thaw as a witness.
 Before leaving White Plains for New York this evening Evelyn Thaw discussed her testimony. If the Thaw family had done the fight thing by me I would never have taken the stand to testify against my husband she said. But they would not guar antee me the allowance l asked for when the annuIlment proceedings were begun. If they had done that l would have been far away from here today 1h of getting his liberty.
 '.I do not know what I shall do now. I must go out and make a living somehow. I cant go back to the stage. My notoriety would pohibit that The public would say I testi- fled against my husband to make myself notorious. I will try to get work as a model. I can do it. too, l am sure.
 "Often I feel sorry ever saw the stage at all. As a model I can be good girl and earn enough to keep me. I can hope for nothing from my hus- bands family. That's my position in a few words.
 If I had not been compelled to. never would have testified against Mir. Thaw But when my husband cut my allowance to S70 a week and s2OO a month he left me with many debts. I used my allowance to clear off my debts and the money l get is not more than enough to get along on.
 The questionable fame of this trial will follow me wherever I may go for years and years. I do not know whether my husband will harm me if he is released. He has made one threat, though, and that has terrified me"
 Do you think he is insane?' she was asked.
 "I cannot answer that question" she replied. T do not want to-