Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-21
certain sums only when you were not

certain sums only when you were not
WORKING Mr.. Jerome insisted.
Mr.. Jerome then read the letter to the
| trust company in which Evelyn Nesbit
| asked that her money be sent her. as she
I'm view Of this letter do you not now
| remember one of the conditions under which
you could draw on the fund was that you
were not working?"
Il do not remember
Mr.. Jerome then read another letter. as
Mercantile Trust Company, New York:
| 81 have stopped playing and wish you
ginning this Friday coming. until 1 get
another position. 19 9WS,I truly ruiz ,NrsR1r"
| The district, attorney also showed the
witness check and a receipt, and asked:
do not these refresh your memory as
| to the conditions?'
| Don't you remember now that there was
such a condition."
Thinks White Dictated It.
Il do not remember. From that letter
1 think 1 wrote it at the dictation of STAN
| ford White. 1t does not sound like a let
| ter l would write"
What makes you think Stanford White
| dictated it?"
Because all important letters about mon
ey matters Stanford White would dictate,
| and either my mother or l would nave
to sign them"
Did you believe STANFORD w nte when
he told you all women were bad and some
| were simply clever at concealing it?' asked
Mr.. Jerome.
Yes"
You believed all women bad?'
And you were just sixteen and three
| quarters years old?'
Il don't know that I was sixteen and
three-qua rters eXactly-1 was sixteen.
when did you begin to doubt that propo-
siton?"
when I went abroad in 1903"
when Thaw proposed to you and you
| rejected him, did you believe you were pet
ter than others?"
mo"
How old were you when you went to
Europe?"
Eighteen"
so you say that until you were eighteen
and one-half years old you believed all wom-
en- with whom you were assoclated-tnat
all women were bad and that some had
| simply been unfortunate enough 10 De 1ouha
| out?''
Yes"
Have you ever read any fiction?'
Yes"
WHAT"
DO you want me to remember all that l
have ever read?"
No Just some of the books. Have you
ever read anything by Dickens?
Yes"
"Scott?'
mo"
Were you ever instructed in the Scrip
tures-the Bible?"
Slightly.
Attended Church "slightly."
Did you ever attend church,"
Slightly"
Did you ever attend Sunday SCHOOL,"
slightly
What denomination?"
II don't remember. I went once to a Meth
odist church, think, and to a Presbyterian
church. and once to German church of
some Sort
I'm rejecting Thaw in Paris had you any
thing in mind other than your own un-
worthiness?'
mo"
did you consider yourself different or
better than other women?"
mo, sir"
"Or worse?'
mo, SIR
DO you recall the state of the weather
ford Whte?"
mo, SIR
do you recall the day of the week?'
mo, SIR"
1.-The day of the month";
mo, SIR
do you remember the month of the
year"
early October"
Are. you sure it was not late October
or early November"
don tninh 50. ooh TeHeihper eA,
actly. / might find out from my mother"
Yes" replied District Attorney Jerome.
"but you understand I cannot get your
mother here. Will you try to exert your
influence with her to Gomez
Statement From the Mother.
Mr. Delmas objected to this and, address,
ing Mr.. Jerome, said:
you have a very full statement from her
mother. You read from 1t this morning"
80 you assume" replied the district at
torney.
$50 know" retorted Mr.. Delmas.
Mr. Jerome again addressed the witness.
you are sure 1t was in September or Oc-
tober?'
IT am quite sure, but may be mistaken"
said Mrs. Thaw.
Mr.. Jerome handed the witness one of the
photographs she had identified at the morn
ing session.