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EVELYN NESB1T MWw
TELLS HER STOW
Gives Motive For Husband's Al
leged Insane Act.
LIFE LAID BARE IN COURT
Left in Stanford White's Care by Her
Mother, She Says He Induced
w Her to Irink Wine, Then All
Became Black.
New York City. Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, the wife of Harry K. Thaw,
laid bare in the Crimina Branch of
the Supreme fJourt the story of her
life, the recital of which was expected
by the defense to convince the jury
that h'er husband was justified when
he shot down Stanford White, the
man who, she declared, first drugged
and then ruined her.
As the former chorus girl answered
readily the questions put to her by
Delphin M. Delmas, chief counsel for
the prisoner, every one in the court
room leaned eagerly forward, so as
not to miss a word that dropped from
her lips. The pitiful story she told
moved every one in the room. Men
wiped the tears from their eyes, while
women sobbed aloud. It was one of
the most dramatic recitals ever heard
in any court.
Never before had the grim court
room held a bigger crowd or one
wrought up to such a pitch of excite
ment. The defense had put forward
its star witness.
A more girlish figure that that
which answered when Clerk Penney
called Evelyn Nesbit Thaw could
scarcely be imagined. She wore a
loose jacket of dark blue, such as
many a schoolgirl wears, and a dark
hat of childish cut decorated with a
bunch of violets. About her neck
she wore a wide turndown collar of a
modified Little Lord Fauntleroy de
sign and a soft lawn tie of black tied
in a bow. Her hair, while not hang
ing loosely down her back, was half
caught up and tied with a black rib
bon jn a sort of pug at the back of
her neck.
The court room saw her without
a veil for the first time since the trial
began. There was disclosed a pretty
face, small of feature, but regular in
cut, a pair of large black eyes, very
soft and very pleading, a pair of
straight eyebrows of heaviest black, a
mouth large but not unpleasing.
whose lips parted to disclose two
rows of very white teeth.
Mrs. Thaw was called by the de
fense to supply the testimony needed
to support its contention that the. de
fendant had learned something about
the architect's treatment of Evelyn
Nesbit that had caused an insane
idea to form ir his brain that grew
with the years until it culminated in
the impulse that caused him to shoot
White on Madison Square roof gar
den. In her story Mrs. Thaw gave a mo
tive for the shooting by laying her
ruin to Stanford White. She had
first been led by Mr. Delmas to tell
of the dinner at the Cafe Martin, the
shooting on the roof garden and of
her marriage to Thaw on April 4,
1905. Then the examining lawyer
jumped back to the summer of 1903,
when she and Thaw were in Paris. It
was at this time, she said, that Thaw
first proposed marriage to her and
she had refused him.
"In stating the reasons to Mr.
Thaw why you had refused him, did
you state a reason based on an event
of your life with which Stanford
White was connected?" Mr. Delmas
sis If 6(3
"Yes," said Mrs. Thaw.
Then, in the form of a relation of
the confession she made to Thaw,
the witness told of meeting WThite,
through a girl friend, in August,
1901, when s3, was only sixteen
years old. She went to a luncheon
party given by White at a house in
West Twenty-fourth street, she said,
and after that met the architect sev
eral times, always with the knowl
edge and consent of her mother.
Sometimes the parties were in the
Twenty-fourth street house and some
times in White's apartments in the
tower of Madison Square Garden.
After the acquaintance had been
continued for some time, she said,
White asked her mother if she didn't
want to go to her home in Pittsburg.
Mrs. Nesbit objected that she did not
like to leave her daughter, but White
promised to look out for her, and
Mrs. Nesbit left town, the witness
said.
Two days afterward White sent her
a note to come to a party at the
Twenty-fourth street house, and she
went there after the. theatre. Only
White was present, she said. After
supper, White invited her to inspect
a part of the house she hadn't seen,
and they went upstairs to "a strange
room" filled with cabinets, paintings,
etc. Adjoining was a bedroom, with
a "tiny little table" in the centre, on
which was a bottle of champagne and
one glass. At White's urgent solici
tation, she said, she drank a lass of
the wine, and "I don't know whether
it was a minute after or two minutes
after, but a pounding began in my
ears, then the whole room seemed to
go around, everything got very
black." '
The girl's voice broke at this
point, and, although she did not
break down, it was only with the
greatest effort she forced back the
tears. Some of the women in the
courtroom sobbed openly, and more
than one man used his handkerchief
vigorously.
"When I woke up I was In bed,
she continued. "I screamed anc
screamed and screamed." t.
During the whole of the time his
wife was on the stand Thaw had not
taken his eyes from her until this
portion of her testimony was reached.
Then he buried his face in a hand
kerchief, and his body shook with
emotion. His eyes were tear stained
and red when he next looked up.
White's subsequent conduct, as re
lated by Mrs. Thaw, was cynical in
the extreme. In spite of this confes
sion Thaw insisted that he would
marry her if she would love him, de
claring that no one could blame her
for her misfortune. They quarreled,
and she came back to New York.
By a most adroit maneuvre of the
defense all this astounding story told
by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was intro
duced in the guise of information im
parted by her to Thaw. As such it
was admissible only as tending to
demonstrate its influence upon the
sane or insane condition of his mind
at a later period.
Just before the midday recess was
reached and after Mrs. Thaw had told
of the struggles of her earlier life,
how she had eventually come to pose
for artists and then went on the
stage, Mr. Delmas tried to get into
evidence a letter Thaw wrote and
gave to Miss Nesbit, addressed to F.
W. Longfellow, his legal adviser in I
this city. After recess, by a series or
adroit moves, Mr. Delmas succeeded
in having the letter admitted as tend
ing to show the condition of Thaw's
mind after the confession the girl had
made to him. It was a rambling
communication, and to it was pinned
another slip of paper, on which was
written: "P. S. If you can't read
this, don't trouble."
In the third letter admitted and
read, Thaw spoke of the strain he
was under, and gave evidences of it
in many rambling, almost incompre
hensible statements.
OLNEY UPHOLDS SAN FRANCISCO
Says the Government Has No Right
to Interfere in Japanese Question.
Washington, D. C. Richard Ol
ney, of Boston, who was Secretary of
State under President Cleveland, in a
letter to Representative McCall, of
Massachusetts, discussing the San
Francisco school question, takes
strong ground against the interfer
ence of the Federal Government in
the effort to restore the Japanese
children to public schools of that
city.
He expresses the opinion that the
treaty with Japan gives the general
Government no right to override the
police power of the State in the man
agement of its school affairs and that
the President has no right to inter
fere in the matter by force of arms
or otherwise. v
REVOLT IN ARGENTINA.
Colonel Sarzento Heads Rising in San
Juan and Wins in Five Hours' Fight.
Buenos Ayres. A revolutionary
outbreak occurred in San Juan, head
ed by Colonel Sarzento.
After five hours' fighting, in which
explosive bombs were used, the rev
olutionists were victorious. Twenty
men were killed and many wounded.
Numerous houses were burned and
others sacked. Governor F. Godoy
and other Provincial officials are re
ported to beprisoners.
General Sarmiento has assumed
the rank of Governor of the province
ad interim, with headquarters at San
Juan City.
When the news reached here Act
ing Governor Villanueva called a
meeting of the Ministers and inter
vention was decided upon.
PATROLMAN KILLS CAPTAIN.
Shoots Superior Because He Was Tired
of "Seeing Him Strutting Around.''
Jackson, Mich. Patrolman Isaac
Lewis walked into the office of Police
Captain Holzapfel in the station
house and shot him through the
heart, killing his superior almost in
stantly. He then fired a shot at
Chief Boyle, but missed him. Lewis,
It is said, had been drinking, and it
is thought he was insane.
After the murder he became vio
lent and fought like a madman
against being locked in a cell. -In an
incoherent statement he said he had
shot Holzapfel because he got tired
of "seeing him strutting around."
SUICIDE WITH CYANIDE.
Dr. William J. Cbappell, Once of New
York, Takes Life in Baltimore.
Baltimore, Md. Dr. William J.
Chappell, a well known physician,
killed himself by swallowing cyanide
of potassium. Earlier in the day he
had tried to suffocate himself with
gas, but his housekeeper saved him.
Dr. Chappell, who was forty-nine
years old. was the son of the late
James Chappell, who is said to have
been one of the wealthiest men in
New York. He left his son consider
able money, but Dr. Chappell spent it
freely.
Railways to Recoup.
It was said in Chicago that a plan
of Eastern railroads to increase
freight rates by increasing the mini
mum allowance for carloads was "a
plan to recover the amount granted
employes in wage concessions.
Steel and Cotton Increase.
Forward business is most exten
sive in the iron and steel manufac
ture and the cotton industry
Creamery Butter Needed.
Supplies of fresh cieamery do not
increase in proportion to the demand.
A JUSTICE BLOWN UP
,BY INFERNAL MACHINE
- - n - m i
Robert Cortez, of Paterson, Killed
by Package Sent by Express.
HiS SON ROBERT IS INJURED
He Was Active Against Italian Crim
inals -Almost Torn to Pieces
When He Opened the Deadly Bx
Sent From Newark.
Paterson, N. J, Robert Cortez,
Justice of the Peace and one of the
best known Italians in this city, was
literally blown to pieces in his office
at 23 Passaic street by an infernal
machine. He was carried to St.
Joseph's Hospital with broken and
badly lacerated arms and legs and
with long gashes in his back. His
face and head were torn in many
places. His ante-mortem statement
was taken before he died. He leaves
a wife and eight children.
Cortez left a friend in Ellison
street and went directly to his office,
where his twelve-year-old aon, Rob
ert, gave him an express package
that had arrived from Newark by the
American Express Company.
The package was about ten inches
square and about tour inches thick.
It was simply addressed "Robert
Cortes, Justice of the Peace, Passaic
street, Paterson, N. J."
The second wrapper was fastened
by a buckled strap. Cortex had
some difficulty in loosening the
buckle. The package exploded just
when the buckle pin became unfast
ened. The action of the explosion
was downward. A large hole six feet
square was blown through the floor,
and the office desk tumbled into the
cellar.
Cortez was blown about four feet
toward the door. He was covered
by plaster and the debris of the
office furniture.
Cortez's son was fonly slightly in
jured from the explosion, mostly
powder burns over his face and
hands. He was near the office door
when the explosion occurred, and
was blown into a corner. H was
unconscious when found, but sus
tained 'no serious injury.
The front of the place was blown
out, and the ceiling and sides of the
office were shorn of their plaster.
The only thing that withstood the
force of the explosion was the safe.
Cortez had been active against the
thieves of late, and it is supposed
that one of them sent an infernal ma
chine to him.
WANAMAKER MANSION BURNED.
Two Famous Paintings Saved Loss
May Be $1,500,000.
Jenkintown, Pa. Lyndenhurst,
the country home of John Wana
maker, was destroyed by fire, only a
few of the larger and more valuable
paintings being saved. The loss will
exceed $500,000 and may reach $1,
500,000. The estate covers more than thirty
acres xn the old York road east of the
line dividing Abington and Chelten
ham townships. The house, partly
English in architecture, was back
about 350 yards from the York road
and was reached by wide driveways.
John Wanamaker, at his city home,
said his loss would be fully $1,500,
000. His two finest paintings, "Christ
Before Pilate" and "The Crucifixion,"
valued at $150,000, were saved.
They were cut from their frames.
JAPS HONOR RUSSIAN DEAD.
Building Monument For Men Who
Fell in Siege of Port Arthur.
St. Petersburg, Russia. A dis
patch from Harbin, Manchuria, says
that the Japanese are putting up two
monuments on Peropelochny Hill,
Port Arthur, to the memory of the
Russian and Japanese soldiers who
fell in the siege. In proximity to the
monument to the Russians a Russian
chapel will be built, bearing the fol
lowing inscription:
"In memory of the heroes who met
their death in the defense of Port
Arthur."
Killed and Hurt in Collision.
Frederick Holland, a railroad em
ploye, was killed and twelve persons
were hurt, none seriously when
train No. 5 on the Chicago, Milwau
kee and St. Paul Railroad was in col
lision in Chicago with a switch en
gine drawing a train of empty pas
senger cars.
Terrorist Kills Governor.
M. Alexaudrovsky, Governor of
Penza, Russia, was shot and killed
by a young man,who, in trying to
escape, killed two policemen and
wounded the manager of the theatre
where the tragedy occurred, after
ward killing himself.
Coal Land Purchase Extended.
The House Committee on Public
Lands agreed upon the Coal Lands
bill, permitting one person to buy
1280 acres, ia disregard of the Presi
dent's wishes to make this land sub
ject to lease only,
United States Warships Sent.
Rumors of impending war between
Salvador and Honduras have occa
sioned the sending of United States
warshipB to Central America.
WASHINGTON.
The first annual exhibition of paint
ings of American artists at the Gor
coran Gallery was opened.
The President has written a letter
heartily approving Secretary Hitch
cock s order withdrawing timber
lands from allotment.
Funpral
t Z m were ueiQ over
r the body of Dr. Jose Ignacio Rodri-
uausiaior 01 the Bureau
of American Republics.
William J. Oliver presented to the
Government his perfected bid for the
isthmian Canal contract.
32 ,in!0n Pf JudSe Advocate
General Davis, of the army, regarding
the right oftn officer to command
a soldier to attend worship was made
public.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root contributed $100 each for the
famine sufferers in China through the
Skristian Herald.
Extensive experiments with bal
loons, aeroplanes and airships are to
be made by the Signal Service Corns
of the army.
Reports by the Interstate Com-,
merce Commission show a rapid in
crease of railroad accidents.
Charges of grave errors in the
work of the. Interstate Commerce
Commission, made by Charles S
Hanks and George W. Harriman,
were declared unfounded by Presi
dent Roosevelt.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
Out in Cuba the prevailing drought
Is thought to have very seriously in
jured the tobacco crop.
Loans are freely made by tne Phil
ippine Commission to the various
provinces for the erection of public
buildings in the islands.
Every effort possible is being made
TO llfio ntlh'vo vmnAa fi. Ma J u..n J
u r . nuuuo iui uca ill uuiiu
ring the railways in the Philippines.
Cuba has already paid out $57,
000,000 for soldiers who were alleged
to have served in the war with Spain.
Andies Crosas. a member of the
Executive Council at San Juan, P. R.,
has "resigned.
The Supreme Court of Hawaii de
cided that the Governor might ex
change Lanai lands for other lands.
DOMESTIC.
Illinois has cut its Jamestown Ex
position appropriation from $25,000
to $12,500.
Escaping natural gas at Youngs
town, Ohio, killed Mary Spawn and
her infant.
Sweden will send a new armored
cruiser to the great naval review at
Hampton Roads, Va.
Unmuzzled dogs in St. Paul, Minn,
will be killed without warning by or
dinance of City Council.
Judge Anderson, in the United
States District Court in Chicago, dis
missed the plea in abatement set
forth by attorneys for John R. Walsh,
formerly president of the Chicago
National Bank.
The New Haven, New York &
Hartford Railroad Company Execu
tive Committee propose the sale of
the New England Navigation Com
pany to C. W. Morse.
The steamer Parker, belonging to
the Dale Sand Company, was blown
up on the Tennessee River near Chat
tanooga, and James Thompson, the
captain, dangerously injured.
The steamship Seneca rammed and
sank the bark Charles Loring off . Sea
Girt, N. J.; the crew of the Loring
was saved.
The Dawes Commission has com
pleted the enrollment of the five civ
ilized tribes of Indians, a work that
was commenced ten years ago.
Howard P. Frothingham, of New
York City, a wealth Wall Street op
erator, committed suicide by jumping
from a window.
In a wreck of freight trains on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad near
Colby Station, Ky., one of the loco
motives exploded, killing Engineer
Edward Harp and two trainmen
FOREIGN.
Viscount Goschen, formerly British
Chancellor of the Exchequer, is dead.
Sven Hedin, the Swedish traveler,
has explored 800 miles of an un
known country on a journey to Tibet.
The Belgian Government denies
that the Bank of Belgium has sup
plied the State of Sao Paulo with
money for the carrying out of a cor
ner in Brazilian coffee.
Ambassador Leishman stirred the
Turkish officials by communicating
directly with the Sultan on the ques
tion of the recognition of American
schools.
Four divisions of the Chinese army
have been transferred from the com
mand of Yuan Shi Kai to Feng Shan,
who is said to be an incompetent
Manchu general.
The reconstruction committee at
Kingston, Jamaica, passed a resolu
tion to ask the Imperial Government
to advance a twenty-year loan of
$5,000,000 it a low rate of interest.
Owing to the acts of terrorism on
the part of anarchists in Barcelona,
Spain, the Government, under the
law of 1904, has suspended trial by
jury in the captaincy general of Cata
lonia. Mail advices from Shanghai, China,
state that owing to an accident at the
wharf, there the discovery has been
made that arms and ammunition
have been smuggled through Shang
hai to the districts where rebellion
is in progress.
ROCKEFELLER S LAST GIFT
BREAKS II RECORD
total of $43,000,000 For Educa
tion and Religion,
SON CONTROLS DISTRIBUTION
two-thirds of Great Amount is to Be
Employed as the Rockefellers
Direct, Unless They Fail to Indi
cate Wishes.
New York City. The bieeest eift
by an individual in the history of the I
v !C;UiUCU W 11C11 UU11 XJ,
Rockefeller, head of Standard Oil,
gave to the General Education Board
$32,000,000 to be used in support of
educational institutions throughout
the country. He had given $11,000,
000 to the board, and this gift brings
the total Rockefeller fund available
for its educational promotion to the
stupendous figure of $43,000,000.
The General Education Board has
been in existence about four years,
having been chartered by Congress in
1903- The purposes of the organiza
tion are "to promote education in the
United States, without distinction of
race, sex or creed, and especially to
promote, systematize and make effec
tive various forms of educational be
neficence." It employs a large force
of experts, who spend their time mak
ing a systematic study of educational
conditions in this country for the
guidance of the board in making
gifts to educational institutions. Be
fore the board adjourned it made
gifts aggregating $400,000.
A review of the benefactions of Mr.
Rockefeller, most of which have been
educational or religious in their na
ture, shows that since he accumu
lated his wealth he has givruway
$88,000,000. The last gift Kgyi as
a surprise even to most me1 r of
the General Education Boar., who
had no idea such a magnificent con
tribution was to be made to their
fund.
"This is the largest sum ever given
by a man in the history of the race
for any social or philanthropic pur
poses," the members of the board
said in a letter of thanks, which they
framed and sent to Mr. Rockefeller
immediately after the promise of the
gift had been received. "The admin
istration of this fund entails on the
General Education Board the most
far reaching responsibilities ever
placed upon any educational organi
zation in the world. As members of
the board we accept this responsibil
ity, conscious alike of its difficulties
and its opportunities."
The first $11,000000 which Mr.
Rockefeller gave o? the board was to
establish a trust fund to be adminis
tered by the board. Two-thirds of
the present gift must be applied to
specific purposes under the direction
of the elder Rockefeller or his son,
John P. Rockefeller, Jr. The re
maining one-third becomes part f
the permanent endowment fund of
the General Education Board, of
which the elder Rockefeller is not a
member. He is represented thereon
by young Rockefeller.
If the Rockefellers do not make
the designations of the specific pur
poses for which the income from two
thirds of th gift is to be used, then
the board has the right to distribute
it according to its best judgment or
of such part of it as may remain after
the Rockefellers have made such des
ignations as they desire to make.
DR. SIMPSON ACQUITTED.
Dentist Exonerated of the Charge of
Murdering Father-in-Law.
Riverhead, L. I. Dr. James Wen
dell Simpson is again a free man.
After three hours' deliberation the
jury filed into the courtroom at Riv
erhead bringing a verdict that exon
erated the New York dentist of all
blame for the killing of his father-in-law,
Bradley T. Horner, on the
night of December 27, 1905.
Mrs. Julia Simpson, the wife, who
for a year has fought hardest to send
her husband to the electric chair, was
not in court at the moment of his
triumph.
The townspeople, from the first
loyal supporters of the prisoner,
broke into cheers after the verdict
was announced. To them Dr. Simp
son is a hero.
The Simpson case, from the begin-,
ning to the end, has been one of the
most exciting ever known on Long
Island.
Dr. Simpson and his wife lived
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brad
ley T. Horner.
On the evening of December 27
Horner was in the kitchen alone
while Dr. Simpson in the dining
room was amusing the two women of
the family by playing with a shotgun.
Finally, carrying the same gun, he
went back in the kitchen to see Hor
ner. A moment later there was a shot
and Mrs. Simpson, rushing back into
the kitchen, found her husband
standing above her father. Horner
lay dying on the floor with a charge
of shot in his breast.
Santa Fe Issues Stock.
Stockholders of the Santa Fe Rail
road voted almost unanimously in
favor of a bond issue of $93,000,000
at Topeka.
Fire Destroys Old Castle.
Fire destroyed the eleventh cen
tury donjon of the old feudal castle
at Chateaurenault, near Tours,
France.
SLAIN IN OUTBREAK
1IU
Officer Douglas Killed Aboard
the Tennessee.
FIGHT AT LEAGUE ISLAND
Bluejackets Refuse to Aid Superiors
They Say Abused Them Sailor's
Story of 111 Treatment and
Petty Persecution.
Philadelpnia. Pa. Mutiny and
murder on board the United States
cruiser Tennessee was the climax of
a long feud between the ship's blue
jackets and its chief master-at-arms,
James A. Douglas. Henry Burke, a
sailor, shot and killed Douglas, and
was at once confined in arm and leg
irons at a temporary canvas prison
on the ship's deck.
In the desperate hand-to-hand
struggle which preceded the shooting
of Douglas, Burke himself was shot
through the wrist, and William Mc
Cool, the ship's assistant master-at-arms,
suffered a glancing bullet
wound on the chin and his face was
burned by powder. Bluejackets and
marines on the Tennessee and the
other cruisers were told it would be
well for them if they would follow
the example of their superiors in
keeping closed mouths.
The enlisted men refused to take
the hint, and the stories they told are
all a defense of Burke and a bitter
criticism of the harsh treatment to
which, they say, they have been sub
jected by Douglas and the other petty
officers. .
"Tbey trea'ed us like dogs rather
than like human beings," said one of
the men. "Burke felt as many others
of us did, that he would just as soon
be killed as live under the petty per
secutions to which we have been sub
jected. "The trouble commenced before
the Tennessee left Hampton Roads to
act as one of the ships escorting the
President to Panama. Every day
the exaction of the petty officers in
creased, until three-fourths of the
men were on the verge of desertion.
"When Burke had his hand-to-hand
8mffle with Douglas, only Mc
Cool of all the ship's company would
go to the assistance of the master-at-arms.
"As an indication of the feeling
against Douglas, the words of a sea
man in the ship's hospital give an in
dication: 'How do you feel to-day.
Jim?' I asked him.
" 'Much better." he replied. 'My
temperature yesterday was 103 de
grees. To-day it is only 100 degrees.
The satisfaction of seeing that fellow
brought down here with a bullet in
him broke the fever.' "
Lieutenant-Commander Fields, ex- j
ecutive officer of the Tennessee, de
scribed the fight, saying:
"Douglas was putting Burke, With
two other men, into the ship's brig, or
prison, because of infractions of dis
cipline, when Burke drew a revolver
from the bosom of his shirt and com
menced firing. Douglas was wounded
twice." He denied in the most em
phatic terms that Burke or any other
person was hurt.
ILL AND FREEZING THREE DAYS.
Paralyzed Man Lay Alone Horse
Took Him to a Neighbor.
Hartford, Conn. Suffering from
temporary paralysis, Cornelius
O'Meara, a farmer, lay in his house
in Tariffvilie for three days without
food or water, in an atmosphere that
was near- zero most of the time.
O'Meara was in his barn When he
was stricken. After lying on the
barn floor several hours he managed
to drag himself to the kitchen of his
house. He could go no further.
On the fourth morning he was bet
ter and was able to drag himself to
the barn, harness a horse to a sleigh,
and climb in. He was too weak to
guide the horse, but the animal went
without- guidance to the nearest
neighbor's and stopped. Swathed in
bandages and suffering intensely
from rheumatism, O'Meara was re
moved to St. Francis' Hospital, in
Hartford.
"OLD GRIMES1' HOUSE BURNED
Landmark of Hubbardston, Mass.,
is Destroyed.
Old Grinuss ic dead, that good did man,
We never shall see more;
He used to wear a long black coat
All buttoned down before.
Hubbardston, Mass. The "Old
Grimes" house, one of the landmarks
of Hubbardston, was destroyed by
fire. Everitt M. Felton and his fam
ily, who lived in the house, barely es
caped death.
The house was built in 1761 by
Joseph Grimes, whose son, Ephraim,
was made famous by Albert Gordon
Greene in the song "Old Grimes is
Dead."
The lo3s is estimated at $2 000.
LONDON TAKES NOTICE.
72 Portraits of Mrs. Thaw Printed in
Papers There Since Trial Began.
London. As an instance of the in
terest shown by the press here in the
Thaw case seventy-two different por
traits of Mrs. Evelyn Thaw have been
counted tn the London papers alone
since the trial began.
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