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Show ST-Iflt7MVS:-.1W:: PLOT; COUNSEil PUZZLED NEW TOSS, Tab. IS. ETalyn Xeablt Thaw will b wall prepared for the irjlnx ordaal of tex croas-exuninatlon at DUtrlct Attorney Jerome'a none too featle hands. x It is predicted that lie win be a good matea for taa kan proaecntor. The greateat aeaaatien of tha'trial except Ereljn Naabit'a atory of her ruin eama when it waa declared Htrrj K. Thaw told hia lawyer: "My wife waa bain polaonad with arsenic She failed In health rapidly, and no one could account for It. rinally a physician told her aha ah owed all symptoms of arsenical poisoning. "When X said to her after the ahootln, 'I haro probably tared your life,' I referred to the poison plot," . Thaw 'a attorneys, it is stated, are in a quandary. They do not know whether the poison eharre ia true, or whether it waa a phantasy of a disordered brain. Mrs. Thaw herself will be asked to elear up the matter. Stanford White expected to be shot and killed. He did not look for Thaw to do it; he had no one especially in mind as likely like-ly to kill him. He looked for any one of scores of men and women, too who might hare felt called upon to even with a bullet the wrong of which White was the perpetrator ' 4 make it a clean slate," as he himself once expressed it For the last fifteen years Stanford White walked around New York City with his life in his slender, well manicured hands. And he laughed that it should be so. These astounding assertions were made in the Players' club by one of Stanford Stan-ford White 'a closest friends. "I remember one, night about ten rears sgo, when the brother-in law of the foremost man in the Nation had een assassinated by a woman. We laughed at White and one fellow said: " 'Stan, you will get yours.' " 'I suppose so,' said White, with a laugh. 'There's a whole lot coming to me,' " |