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Show WOMEN CROWD ROOM IN HOPE OF HEARING EVELYN'S TESTIMONY NEW YORK, Feb. 7 One of the two women whose testimony wss expected ex-pected to have vital effect upon the fate of Harry K. Thaw would take the witness stand in Justice Fitzgerald's court in the case of the people against Thaw when court convened today, ac cording to the announcement when court adjourned vesterdsv afternoon. It wss made by fielphin Michael Del mas of San Francisco, who has taken complete charge of Thaw's case in court. Whether th witness would be Eve-lvn Eve-lvn Nesbit Thaw, the wife, or Mrs. Willia niThaw, the mother, was not an nounced, but whichever it should b, the crucial part of the trial was regarded regard-ed as beginning with the taking of her evidence. Both of these women are ready to sacrifice anything m the hope that they may save the life of the man on whom their affections have centered. Both probably will testify within the week. Mrs. William Thnw, The mother of the young millionaire, was expected to tell the storv of her boys young days, of his fits of temper, and to testify, according ac-cording to the attorneys, to the trace of insanity which has lurked, it is said, tar ffpnprfttinni in th familv. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the former chorus cho-rus girl, was ready to lav bare to the world the whole story of cer young life that she might help the man who made her his wife and who. the prosecution claims, killed Stanford White for jealousy jeal-ousy of her. Just what her story would be, none but the defense knows, but it was expeefd she would tell of wrongs which it is claimed that Thaw so brooded over that he became insane and made himself her avenger. At the afternoon session of the court yesterday women first appeared in I large numbers. Whether it was because the time when th mother and wife would testify was fast approaching, or whether it was because of Justice Fitzgerald's Fitz-gerald's action in the morning in giving giv-ing the women in the room an opportunity oppor-tunity to withdraw before hearing testimony tes-timony "which might well shock their sensibilities." it is impossible to say. But they were there in large numbers, in millinery, and twisting and craning to get a sight of the defendant's face. So insistent were they that it was necessary ne-cessary for several bailiffs to circulate constantly among them to keep them from rising in their seats. |