THE THAW TRIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13206, 9 February 1907, Page 5

THE THAW TRIAL.

MRS THAW'S EVIDENCE., United Press Association —-Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK? Februaiy 8. Mr Delmas instead -of - -Mr now leads Thaw's defence, he and ethers having threatened to relinquish their, briefs owing to a fiasco on Tuesday with a. weak witness. Thaw's wife was • subjected to painful interrogatory. : , She: testified how Whit® had ensnared and ruined her. before she was 16 years of r age. Hence.; at 1 tfinsfc she .refused to many Thaw,. and: when pressed "for- the reason, informed -liivn. oi the .-who e of the circumstances. Thaw was greatly distressed, and, declared l that any decent pers.on would , kfiow - that it was not: lier fault.. Witness .-testified'. < impressively throughout, and. described the tragedy and the scene- immediately preceding it. LONDON, February 8. ■ Reuter reports that everybody in ,Court was moved,by the,spectacle of beautifuli young .wife sacrificing: all -that was dearer to her than life to save her husband. Her bearing at times was almost '. childlike, and the effect on the jury-was marked.; Herl harrowing, reeita.!; seemed., to. be, addressed directly to them. Thaw sobbed 1 .