Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-16

Il don't care how he. has treated me.
she continued, Il am still married to
him and l do not want to answer It,
{ Justice Mills quietly instructed the
witness to answer and she said with a
long drawn sigh: Yes he did"
Mr.. Clark asked her 10 give Thaw's
exact words.
HE said L suppose d shall have to
/ kill you next when l get out of here.
she replied.
Mrs. Thaw further testified that dur
Ing the same conversation Harry Thaw
told her he was not crazy on the night
he shot Stanford White
Il only missed him by a minute on
the night before" the witness said her
husband told her. <i
Thaw sat with his eyes hntently upon
his wife as she testified and shook his
head when she told of thet threat
On cross-examination Thaw's coun-
sci asked the witness If sfhe recalled /,
conversation at Matteawanl in Novem-
Der. 1908. when something was said
of warning against Dr. Flint, the
alienist, Yes / warned Harry that
| some persons were coming to Mattea-
wan among whom was Dr.. Flint and
told him he had better keep out o.
sight," was the reply. San
MIR. MorschauseF had the witness
identify a number of letters Written
either in Thaw's or her own shandwrit.
ing. Mrs. Thaw was almost fiippant as
she answered the questions of her hus,
bands lawyer. AS one letter was hand
ed 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 at her and then
hastily looked away. t=.a
Mrs. Thaw was excused and Anthony
,Comstock, president of the New York
Society for :! the Suppression of Vice
was called as the next witness. i:
/ President Comstock told of several
interviews with Thaw in regard tc
Thaw's desire to prosecute White.
"He told me this man was in the
habit of taking young girls to his room
and debauching Them" said Mr.. Com
stock. II explained to him it would
be necessary to have someone see those
girls go into the place and note their
appearance and condition when they
came cut, explaining that the testi-
mony of the girls would not be suffi-
cient under the law and that there was
big difference between moral GER
tainty and legal evidence said the
witness.
The witness said he had two men
watch a house on 22nd street, New
York, where Thaw said White took
some of the girls. They could not get
the evidence wanted,
Later the witness said, he had tried
to get his agents into an apartment in
Madison square garden where Mr..
White had his studio. but had failed to
do so. He had done all this at Thaw's
request prior to the shooting of White.
ThaW told him of another man who
had been doing the same thing Thaw
claimed White had done, and furnished
him with names of other men and
their girl victims. The witness said: Il
told him that I had had similar COM
plants against White from other
sources and Thaw said he was anxious
for me to get the evidence against
these men which would be sufficient to
bring the matter to the attention of
the district attorney. Mr.. Jerome.
"Only two or three days before the
tragedy Mr.. Thaw gave me the names
of several girls who he said had been
Whites Victims said the witness.
Mr.. Comstock testified that Thaw's
speech and actions during these con-
versations was entirely rational.