The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-16

n its fight TO keep Thaw in the
asylum for the criminal insane az
Ma'tcawan Tie demands his release
boy habcas corpus proceedings tha.
ho is a sane man.
When todays Sos ion was couclud-
ed. Adjournment was taken until
July 2G For three days the state has
been trying TO bring out that Thaw
threatened his wifo's life on one o.
her visits 20 Ma'tcawau as tending
To- show his irra.onllty Blocked
nrs, by objections which were sus
tanned by the court, Thaw's attorney
40 last failed 20 prove that the al.
legged conversation at Matteawan w1s
confidential as between man and wife
and when Evelyn Thaw took the
witness chair this afternoon her lips
were mscalcd. She related what her
lawyer has sought most TO keep back,
his alleged threat 10 take her life,
II he were released from the asylum.
Whether assumed or not, the trim
witness in blue expressed apprehen-
sion while tcstifying She was quoted
aftorward as saying That she testi-
fled because OF the treatment she
received at the hands of the Thaw
family. but on the stand she ap-
pareutly struggled hard not To tell.
and when compelled to do so by the
court. she obcyed reluctantly and
tcarfully.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called as
witness by the state at the opening
Of the afternoon session.
Justice Mills having ruled that the
witness could answer the questions
In regard to the threat made TO kill
her by her husband during con.
vcrsation at Matteawau asylum Dep.
uty Attorney General Clark asked
her:
Did Harry X. Thaw say this 10
you. or this in substance: i shall
have TO kill you when get out of
here?'"
Mrs Thaw appealed to the court
and begged Justice Mills not to make
her answer the question.
Can claim privilege on the
ground that II would tend to incrim-
mate me-" asked Mrs. Thaw.
Justice Mills said she could not
/ claim n privilege on that account.
Turning to the court with tears
in her eyes. Mrs. Thaw. said:
Il don't want to answer that ques-
ton. 1t places me In terrible posi-
tion My husband will refuse 10 sup
port me the minute | answer II and
| will incur his everlasting enmity.
know it, | am very much afraid
TO answer
Il don't care how he has treated
me-" she continued. " am still mar.
ricd to him and | don't want to ans.
wcr it,
Justice Mills quietly instructed
the witness to answer and she said
with long drawn sigh:
Yes. he did"
Mr.. Clark asked her TO give Thaw's 5
exact words.
lie said. i guess shall have TO
kill you next when get out of here %
she replied.
Mrs Thaw further testified that
during the same conversation Harry
Thaw told her he was not crazy on
the might he shot Stanford White.
Il only missed him by minute
on the night before" the witness
said her husband told her.
Thaw sat with his eyes intently
upon his wife as she testified ana
shook his head when she told of the
threat.
On cross-examination Thaw's coun.
sci asked the witness II she recalled
a conversation at Matteawan in No
ember. 1908, when something was
said Of warning against DR.. Flint,
the alicnst,
Yes, l warned Harry that some
persons We're coming to Matt 'awan,
among whom was Dr. Flint, ana told
him he had better keep out of sight"
was the reply.
MIR. MorsChauscr had the witness
identify number OF letters in.
Thaw's OF her handwriting. Mrs.
Thaw was almost flppant as she ans
wcrcd the question Of her husbands
lawyer. As one letter was handed
to her she read Il, smiled broadly,
then blushed prcceptibly 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 An.
thony c. Comstock, president of the
New York Society for the suppress.
sion OF Vice. was called as the next