The San Francisco call., 1907-03-19
Tale of Tortures in Castle Is.
Read to the ThaW Jury
District Attorney Jerome Wins Victory and
Rests Case of Prosecutions Rebuttal

tsins. where we continued to live together
husband and wife. While at the castle Thaw
tore a bathrobe from and, leaving me abso
iutely naked. attacked me with eowhide
whip 4.-..-,.o, - h,s 40. v.-.
glaring. He threw me on bed, and when
started to scream he put his fingers down my
throat and tried to choke me- Then upon M
bare skin he struck me several violent olows
with the whip. So brutaly 1 beaten that
nv skin was left bruised and cut
and for period Of several minutes ne beat
screamed but we were too far at one end OF
the castle for my cries to be heard by the ser
1.-The next day he repeated the attack upon
me and numerically beat For three months
l was nervous. During this time 1 was In fear
be would take my life
From Austria we went to switzerland wnere Where
one day, when l was in my nightgown. Thaw
attacked and beat me on my bare legs below
the knee After we went TO PariS, S, nav LOT
beat me continually with rattan whip
He beat me each time and / was lerr s~oon-
ing and fainting5 could not realize an mat nap
while we were in Paris one day. found
small box containing needles. asked him about
them and he said he had been III and compelled
to use cocaine. 1t was then for the first time
that 1 knew he was addicted to the use Or
internally by small pills. He attempted TO
make me take Of the pills
confined to my bed for two weeks Thsw made
me write letter to Miss Simonton asking nsr
her lies about me and then threatened to XIII
me II didn't subscribe to them.
When to America had letter to
Longfelow from Mr.. Thaw in which he asked
Mr.. Longfellow to have followed By detee-
tives, but to that had everything wanted
IT have been often told By Mr.. Thaw that he
is inimcal to a certain married who. he
said, he would make trouble for and put into
the penitentiary. He several times tried to
get me to sign papers accusing this married
man OF drugging and running me when was
IS years old. but l refused to do 50 because 1t
W. not frfc m or no
me the punishments herein described"
JEROME RESTS CASE
As Jerome finished reading the affidavit he
turned to the court and said, The People rest"
Delmas at once produced large book and
II oner in evidence the record OF the eonvic-
tion Of Abraham Hummel.' he said.
''No objection" said Jerome, and the trial
record was admitted without reading
After lunch Delmas called policemen who
testified that Thaw appeared irrational on the
locked Thaw up at the Tenderioin police sta
'sDid You hear him refer to hearing the voices
'sHe spoke twice about that to me. He said.
are no little girls here. All there are here are
some women who were picked up IN Sixth ave-
nue. for soliciting. He said; No, they are
little girls; some one Is hurting them; I
hear them screaming After a while he went
TO sleep and slept two and half hours
said. How did you sleepT He said. I could
not sleep at all because those little girls were
screaming upstairs
He had Thaw IN charge the morning after the
tragedy. In his opinion Thaw at that time
was rational. Thaw had also complained to
him about hearing voices Of little girls in the
FOLLOWING the usual afternoon recess Delmas
called the defense's alienists. Drs G. ". Ham
mond, S. e Jelline, Charles ". Pilgrim. NJ.
Gregory and William A White.
Delmas said four more experts would be called
tomorrow. That VIII conclude the evidence.
The arguments should begin on Wednesday