Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-08
WILL COMPEL MRS. THAV
TO TESTIFY FOR State
To BE Arrested This Morning on
Bench Warrant Charging
Contempt of Court.
SWIFT CHANGES IN SITUATION
Thrilling End in Sight for Trial,
Which Those Who Have Followed
II Believe Will Result in Liberia
ton of Stanford Whites Slayer.
Especial to The Timcs-pispatch !

NEW YORK, July Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw will he arrested at Cha
tcaugay Lake tomorrow morning on a
court and brought back 10 New York
10 testify for the State at her husbands
insanity trial
| Swift and bewildering changes I'm the
brought the pretty wife of Harry X.
Ihaw TO The center OF the proceed
iings.
| Justice Hendrick. at the rcsumption
, OF The trial. rejected the certificate OF
i'll health issued by DR.. Bernard Living
stone in Mrs. Thaw's behalf, and repri-
mandcd the physician for advising her
to disregard the subpoena, in answer to
which she came 10 New York Yesterday
morning. Forced finally TO show their
hand. the representatives of the State
! thcreupon asked for a body attach
ment against the recalcitrant witness
Tonight w. J. Mcclure, representing
! Assistant AttorneyGeneral Frank *
Cook. left for Plattsburg. where he
VIII meet the sheriff of Franklin
County and turn over to him the war
rant for Mrs. Thaws arrest The two
Will then leave for Jack Clinord's camp.
and by ? o'clock it is expected Mrs
! Thaw will once more be en- route for
I New York
/ mere was talk tonight OF n record
! run hack to the city by motor car. IL
necessary. and a dramatic entrance of
! Mrs. Thaw at the first night session Of
the trial. which has been ordered for
tomorrow night
Tbau
stahd tomorrow morning. and. as prac-
.'cailF the entire day will be consumed
by the cross-eXamination to which he
Will he subjected. his wife's testimony
ms ne concluded would enable the state
to close its case, with the exception Of
tn" testimony OF alienists
In any event. a thrilling end is in
sight for the trial. which those who
nave followed ii throughout are more
man ever convinced will result, in
! Thaws liberation.
hctore the trial was resumed this
morning the courtroom was filed with
rhlnors following the flight OF Mrs
nav TO her summer camp without an
pearinE IN court in response TO tho
subpoena Mr.. Cook promptly entered
denial that he had given Mrs. Th,w
permission to leave, or that ne had met
! her In conference with DR. Film, the
: day previous
The climax came when Or. Living
/ stone, whose certificate Cook said had
oeen handed 10 him only n few minutes
! petofc Mrs Thaw left on Tuesday
! night was called 10 the stand DR..
Livingstone said he made an examina-
tion OF Mrs. Thaw late Tuesday after
noon, and found her in a rum down
ana highly nervous condition.
! Il advised her that IL womb he nv,
i wise for her to undergo onv narvous
strain al this time" he said
Justice Ilendrick dema nded 10 know
by what authority the witness had adj
rlsed Mrs. Thaw to ignore a subpoena
from the Supreme Court
NIGHT DE DANGEROUS
FOR HER TO TAKE STAND
did not advise her to that effect.
was the reply. II simply told her tina,
II might be dangerous for her TO taxi,
the stand in her present condition"
Inc witness added that he had un
! derstood DR.. Flint, the chief aliouist
for the state, had conferred with Mrs
Thaw and arranged for his examino
lion of her. Stanchfeld. representinr
| fhaw, sought to ross-examine The
| physician AS to his knowledge of the
manner in which Mrs. Thaw spent
| Tuesday in New York. hut he was cut
snort by Justice Hendrick
| GU needn't waste any time in 60
ING into that. Mr.. Stanchield," said the
! court. The reason for this woman.s
hoh"ppcarance is entirely insufficient,
ana If the Attorney General wants, her.
! IL see that she comes. ! will issue
a body attachment for her appearance
! whenever he wants It,"
Al the beginning Of the afternoon
session OF the trial. Cook asked for
: the attachment. Although counsel for
inc state insist that Mrs. Thaw's APP
pearancc is desired, the fact that she
J was permitted TO escape on Tuesday
! NE Win no effort being made TO stop
| her' Is TeShrded AS cvidencing n luke
warm attitude towards Thaw's wife
| ~ Il witness On the other hand the
Thaw forces arc jubiiant.
Is an omen secret that IL Thaw
Is hperated one Of his first moves will
De to apply for divorce from his
"tle' IL is already in evidence in the
! present case that Thaw no longer
cares for his wife. and that his loss or
| affection is due to the manner in
which Mrs. Thaw has acted since he
| was sent TO Mattca wan Abel l. Smith
"iAo broadly animated during the pro-
| ccehihSS laSt week shat Mrs Thaw's
desire 10 haEe her husbands insanity
, .e'';ii 'nen was based on a fear that
her interests and those of her son would
snher II he were pronounced sane.
TO DEVELOP GROUNDS
FOR Loss OF AFFECTION
Stanchfeld, il is understood to-day.
VIII pend every effort when he gets
MIS- lhaw under cross examination. to
| develop the circumstances on which
fhaw's loss of affection for his wife
, is based.
app."'"'ce Oh susan Merrill on
the stand was the chief feature of TO-
days session.
Mrs. Merrill told the old story of
renting rooms 10 Thaw first at her
house in West Forty sixth street and
later in Fiftyfourth Street
re hire" me room. sh" said, under
the name Of Reed, and received lnt-
tcrs under that name as weO nc ~.