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Show SISTER SURE THAW WAS JUSTIFIED IN KILLING WHITE NEW YORK. .Ian. 2o. The Countess Coun-tess of Yarmouth believes her brother, Harry Kendall Thaw, was justified in killing Stanford White. This statement was made today by a close friend of the family. According to this friend, the f'ountess has held this opinion from the moment the news of the tragedv was flashed to her by cable the morn ing after White was slain, anil this feeling that her brother was justified i has been intensified during the days I since her arrival in New York last week. Thp legal si.le nf the vnung man 's position n not been exp)aintl to her in detail, but her belief is bae.l on a pense of honor that incists on th janrtity of th home, and nhe believes that her brother was goaded to a.-tj ,n by a series of wrongs that drove him Dear to madness. Ladv Yarmouth's information is not seoon.f-hand. She har.l the storv directly di-rectly from hor brother's lips. Sh knows more of th inner workings of his heart snd mind than anv ..fher i.er son living, and f-hp sympathizes wi'h him as no one else ran. Thaw has always shown groat love for his sister Alicp. She has likpwisp sympathized with him in the little an noyanees of life, and hr- has. therefore, made her his confidant. Aft.fr his mar riage to Kvelvn Nesbir it was the Countess who first tried to bring a rcr oneiliation with thp mother. Brforp that it was the sister Alieo who had influenrpd the other members the familv in prpventing Flarry from be ing cut off with thp pittancp his fath pr 's will allowed him. thprebv giving him the great yearly in.-onn- that le-squandered. le-squandered. Twice since his marriagp. enknown to his friends or even to his wife, voting Thaw crossed the ocpan to sepk the sympathy that his sister won) 1 j:ivr him. On these visits hp t'ld 1.'- the story of his love for Kvelvn NesLit and the dptails of his feud with Sian ford White. The sistpr was .on vi need that he was being grievously wronged. Shp had never sppn Whitp; sii" onlv knew what her brothpr told 'ier of his character, and she believed him i mi Illicitly. |