The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-16

at the hands of the Thaw family. but on the stand. she apparently struggled hard not to tell and when compelled to do so by the court. she obeyed re- luctantly and tearfully.
 l sDid Harry K. Thaw threaten to take your lifer' she was asked directly by Deputy Attorney General Clarke. "Dl he at any time say this to you or this in substance: I shall have to kill you when I get out of herer"
 The court room was hushed and Evelyn Thaw turned appealingly to Justice Mills. She begged to be al- lowed not to answer because she said she knew she would incur his ever lasting animosity and her attitude in dicated she believed he might carry out his alleged threat. She also urged with sons show of feeling that she how he had treated her. she did not want to testify against him. But the court ruled that the only possible grounds upon which she could decline to answer were that 1t would tend to incriminate her and he added that he did not see how. that would be ap- piicable to. her situation.
 Then Evelyn Thaw answered the question.
 "Yes, he lid." she said. in low voice.
 .what were his exact words3" de- manded Mir. Clarke
 'He said: When I get out of here I suppose I will have to kill you"
 Why did he say that7"
 "we were discussing his mental con- dition. had asked what he meant crazy on the night previous. when missed White by two minutes"
 Thayv Denies story.
 Thaw, when asked about his wife's testimony after court adjourned, said he was not surprised at her attitude. but he emphatically denied that he ever threatened her life.
 Tt Is very plain to every one that her story is not true" he said. T never threatened to Kill her. First she says one thing and then another"
 ''Is 1t true that you made an at tempt on Whites life on the day be- fore the homicide was committed?'' he was asked.
 "If I had, you would have learned it before this." replied Thaw.
 Evelyn Thaw. while on the stand, gave a familiar Thaw trial touch to the proceedings as did the testimony of others, from whom were dragged out unsavory details concerning Stan ford White. '
 Dr. AJolph Meyer, of the New York State Lunacy Commission, testified that he talked with Thaw about the reasons which led him to shoot Stan ford White. principally the alleged de- bauching of young girls. which Thaw said was carried on in Whites various rendezvous.
 New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. described his efforts to as- sist Thaw to get sufficient evidence of Whites practices to prosecute him criminalfy. Up to within day or two of the tragedy, the witness said he saw Thaw and obtained data from him In regard to Whites conduct. He was of the opinion that Thaw was sane.
 Other witnesses told of their experi- ences with Thaw when he appeared sane.
 Three more witnesses, besides Thaw himself are to testify. according to Thaw's lawyer, Charles Morschauser, hut the long adjournment was taken So that both sides may have the op- poetunity of studying records of Thaw's trial for murder which arc in possession of District Attorney Jerome.
 The state expects to base much Of the examination of Thaw on the wit ness stand upon these records It has been decided to abandon physical examination of Thaw by the states aiienists and to confine the insanity test by the experts of the mental ex- animation of Thaw as a witness.
 pr, Mayer in the morning testified that he saw Thaw first at the White Plains tail on October 8. 1908. and dis cussed with him at that time the ep- |asode included in Q hypothetical ques- tion which the witness had prepared on which to base an opinion of the prisoners sanity. On subsequent visits to the White Plains tail and at the Matteawan asylum, the physician talk ed freely with Thaw he said and got him to tell the story of his boyhood days. pr. Meyer related conversa- ton upon one occasion when Thaw told him he feared he was going to have typhoid fever and suggested that his rooms at the jail should be cooled off with twenty tons of foe.
 Dincnssed Musie and Art. , pr. Meyer declared he discussed mu- sic, art. sociology and politics with Thaw. and In egard to the latter sub ject Thaw laughingly remarked:
 T helped to elect Jerome"
 "1 asked him later what he thought of crime committed under the iniiu- ence of alcohol and he replied that that should be no excuse" continued the witness.
 II asked him later what the motives were which prompted him to shoot