Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-16
.THAWS WIFE SAYS
HETHREATENEDHER
When Court Rules That She Must
Answer Question She Gives
Damaging Testimony Against
Her Husband.

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, July 10
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw took the witness
stand for the state at the afternoon ses-
Thaws mental condition in the supreme
court here.
Justice Mills rules that Mrs. Thaw could
answer. the questions the stare desired to
ask her regarding an alleged threat To
kill, made by Harry Thaw during a con-
versation at Matteawan. Mrs, Thaw
asked if she could not claim privilege
in refusing to answer on the ground that
it might incriminate herself. The court
ruled she could not and Mrs. Thaw,
asked if ,'1'haw had not made such a
threat, said:
Yes, he did"
DR.. Mayer testified that he saw Thaw
first at the White Plains Jail on October
g. 1908, and discussed with him at that
time the episodes included in hypotheti-
cal question which the witness had prA-
pared on which to base an opinion of the
prisoners. sanity. On subsequent visits
to the White Plains Jail and at the Mat
teawan asylum, the physician talked free
ly with Thaw, he said, and got him to
tell the story of his boyhood days. DR..
Mayer related a conversation upon one
occasion when Thaw told him he feared
he was gong to have typhoid fever, and
suggested that his rooms at the iail
should be cooled off with twenty tons of
ice.
HELPED TO ELECT JEROME"
DR.. Meyer declared he discussed music.
arts, sociology and politics with Thaw,
and in regard to the latter subject Thaw
laugningly remarked:
i helped to elect Jerome"
i asked him later what he thought
or crime committed under the. influence
OF alcohol, and he replied that should be
no excuse" continued the witness.
Il asked him later what the motives
were which prompted him to shoot Stan
ford White, and he said there were no
improper motives
In answer to question as to what the
effect of result of Whites death had been,
Thaw replied that there was less danger
now than before and most people
thought he had acted properly under the
Mr.. Morschauser declared that DR.. Mey-
er was testifying merely as a layman.
and not as an expert, in answer to i
question by the states attorney. Because
he was one of the few witnesses who
had talked with Thaw about the White
homicide, Deputy Attorney General Clark
said the crOss-examination would be i'm
pOrtant and he asked Thaws counsel
to consent to the admission of the record
of Thaw's second trial, in order to faciIi-
tate matters.
Mr.. Morschauser, however, said he was
not yet ready to consent to the admis-
sion of the trial records in evidence
THAW TOLD OF SHOOTING.
Mr.. Clark asked the witness to give the
details of the conversation about the
shooting of White.
81 asked him to describe the incidents
Of that evening. Did you see White before
you went out?' I asked him. He said lie
did not. We went down the aisle and
stopped to speak To someone, and then
I saw White glaring at me. He put down
his hand and then there was disturb
ance and the shooting had been done
those were Thaws words" the witness
said.
The witness said he asked Thaw If he
the three shots, and he said
he did not.
The witness said Thaw had later de-
clined to say any thing further about the
shooting on the advice Of a prominent
lawyer. Asked who this lawyer was, the
witness could not at first remember, but
1nally said it was ex-senator John c.
5pooner, of Wisconsin.