New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-17
DENIES THAW WROTE
LETTER WITH WORD KILL
Continued from frst page.

Guiding the names Of the five mon "'o'''
Thaw mentioned"
Mr.. Jerome said also that il had not
been i'm tie possession Of the Dis'ric'
Attorney. when he filed that office ana
prosecuted Thaw. or il would have pee''
introduced as evidence to show premed-
itation The first part of the letter 10y
have been i'm the District Attorney mes.
i was said. without attracting particular
notice. as il would have had no l'npol
tant bearing on the trials. TN" Ict'e'
had been brought to Mr. Jeromes at.vn
ton within the last few days, ~ WIS
said.
Written on Pad Paper.
The letter found in the Thaw hlos III
the District Attorneys Office was on
single sheet Of pad paper, and ap2ear''
to begin and end on the one page. II
was not torn or mutilated. |: was POSI-
marked at Pittsburgh ON December ~
1908. and addressed to u. +. Kennedy
detective. Grand Hotel New York CRY.
II WAS lcgiblv written in Thaw's hand.
With two or three minor changes. II
read substantially like the letter pub
lished yesterday. Vtich was ~ follows
J. C.. Thaw, T. .. Box LOW
Pittsburgh. December, 100
Dear Mr.. Kennedy: Bill is all right. iio,e
10 see you next week. Please Send iil'''
1.-TWO hours WorlD to J. ". Is is pid''
Ask the servant what sort Of now eN ',
else no takes since week. is ne SP',Iue
strong armed? | don't care. hut Wahi u"
know Do you know Of any color"u 'l,-
vator or bell boy in tho Audubon t. W y az
29th street? I hone YOU viii have a. noe
curious reports OF the - ana Oh -, w,
T. Hnr Please
this as Il good rule.
I'm the upper right hand corner IN pen
oil was the sentence: when Will f.
Gcbhard so to Philadelphia, even for y
day or So" 1t was signed with T.
Drawn out into q long sCrawl. There
was no postscript.
II was explained at the District Attor-
ney's office Yesterday that the Initials
u. II. r. d" were evidently meant for
j. G. Bancroft Davis. The IS. W. I'M
doubtedlr referred 10 Stanford Whlte'
and eli W +" was probably Henry w.
Poor. who was friend Of White. Eve
Nn Nesbit was stopping AT the Audubon
when Thaw wrote the letter.
Thaw killed White on the roof of Mad
ison Square Garden, on June 20 I'N"'
Frederick Gebhard died from natural
causes on September =. 1910. j. {. Is.
Davis died from pneumonia IN June
1910 Craig Wadsworth's name was
brought out at the Thaw trials. tie was
second secretary of the American En-
bassv in London In 1903. when Mrs. j..
& Holman, mother of Evelyn Nesbit
afterWard married 10 Thaw) complained
that she was without means To return
10 America because young Thaw mad run
eff with her daughter. Reginald Franck-
lvr. the last man named on ThaWs al
Legged ''lenegance list" lives at No. I'D
East Goth street. He il the son Of ReSi-
maid H. -. FranCklNn. who died a. his
country home at Short Hills. y. j., IN
1900.
Detective Now Dead.
KENNEDY the detective. To whom Thaw
wrote. is now dead. according - Mr..
Shearn. Kennedy was employed at the
81. Regis Hotel at the time Mrs. Howard
Gould katherine Clcmmons) brought
action against her husband for an in
crease Of alimony. and WAS to have fig
ured in the Gould case as a witness
against Mrs Could until forcstalcd hy
Mr. ..hear.. --I,. %, e.. NJ. Gnuld'" .-''''
sci at the time. SO Mr.. Shcarn said.
In a statement issued by Mr. Shcarn
last night he said:
when the truth ~ disclosed II viii be
round that this altered letter and IN, re-
cent fake baby story are directly trace
aDle to the same group That trIcd 80 ran.
road Thaw TO Matteawan without trial
in 1905 in order to prevent the idclS ABOUT
their disgusting lives from becoming public.
tho same group that raised II big secret
fund to aid the prosecution. IN" same group
that had alienists write for IN" ne"spa-
pcrs violent attacks on Thaw, the sam"
proup that had been influential enough To
keep Mr.. Jerome in the case for six years.