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Show EVELYN THAW IS NOT TO TESTIFY New York, July G. Evelyn Thaw will not testify in the pending Thaw proceedings before Justice Hendricks and a jury in the supreme court. Instead, In-stead, representatives of the state of New York will be content to read Into In-to the record of the present trial the testimony Mrs. Thaw gave against her husband during the habeas corpus cor-pus proceedings at White Plains three years ago. , "The state will not dare put Mrs. Thaw upon the witness stand," "was the significant remark of John B. Stanchfleld, counsel of Thaw, when he was first informed that there was a plan to call her, Mrs. Thaw arrived ar-rived in New York at 8:14 o'clock this morning, smilingly reiterating her refusal to testify and lert at 9:34 o'clock tonight for her mountain retreat, re-treat, smilingly repeating, "I told you so." Consulted Physician. In the interim she had seen Deputy Attorney General Frank K, Cook and talked with him, consulted -with a physician, Dr. Bernard Livingstone, who assured Cook that Mrs. Thaw really could not stand the strain of testifying and secured Mr. Qook's con-Bent con-Bent to return whence she came. All this Mrs. Thaw accomplished in the first hour after her arrival In New York. The rest of her time was given up to shopping and receiving the representatives of tho press, while a large crowd awaited her appearance In the court room. |