CHAPTER XI.
Harry Thaw's Startling Will Disclosed Fear of Assassination.
DOCUMENT, INTRODUCED IN EVIDENCE AFTER A BITTER
LEGAL FIGHT, PROVIDED $50,000 OR MORE AS A FUND
FOR THE HUNTING DOWN AND PUNISHMENT OF ANY
PERSON WHO MIGHT ASSASSINATE HIM—$75,000 LEFT
TO CARE FOR YOUNG GIRLS WHO WERE RUINED BY A
BAND OF DISSOLUTE MILLIONAIRES LIKE WHITE—MONEY
FOR MRS. HOLMAN, WIFE'S MOTHER, AND FOR
HOWARD NESBIT—DOCUMENT ALLEGED TO PROVE THE
SLAYER INSANE—YOUNG MILLIONAIRE THOUGHT OF
NOTHING BUT WIFE'S WRONGS—PUT DETECTIVES ON
WHITE'S STRACK.
The day Evelyn Nesbit Thaw resumed the stand was a pitiful one for her husband. Harry Thaw was celebrating his thirty-sixth birthday—celebrating it in a prison cell, with the memory of his wife's shame, told on the stand, rankling in his mind.
"Be of good cheer," were the only words Thaw heard addressed to him by his wife that day, "everybody says you will be acquitted on the first ballot."
Mrs. Thaw was accompanied in court by her chorus girl friend and chum, May McKenzie, and by another close friend, Mrs. J. J. Caine of Boston. Mrs. Thaw heard Dr. Britton D. Evans, a noted alienist, testify
