The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-10

to stay in the hotel and some favored
a carriage ride.
1 Then they learned that several the
alter managers had extended invita-
| tions for toniGht's performances, ac
| complaining the invitations Will
| promises that the Thaw case should
not be mentioned or suggested. Wher
| they found Justice Fitzgerald had
withheld his consent to any theatre
| going some of the twelve We're dis
appointed and some were pleased
District Attorney Jerome next week
will nave the most difficult and most
| delicate fight of his whole legal ca
reer, he will endeavor TO break the
force of Evelyn Thaws strong testi
mony for her husband. To do sc
within the circumscribed limits of the
cross examination permittec under
the circumstances will require great
adroitness.
Jerome Has Information.
While no statement could be obtain
ed from Mr. Caravan or Mr.. Jerome to-
day, it was said by one of the assis
tants that the office was in possess
ion of information which would go far
TO discount Evelyn's story, and that
Jerome would make an effort to
bring it in.
Under the direction of assistant dis
trict attorney Caravan. the entire force
of the prosecutors office, lawyers, de-
tectives, clerks and process servers,
have been working almost ceaslessly
since Thursday trying to find evidence
upon which District Attorney Jerome
can attack the story told by Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw on the stand
Mr. Caravan has not been in the
court room since Thursday his entire
time being given to the preparation of
date concerning Eye1yns story for the
guidance of his chief
The intervening of Saturday and
Sunday, with no sessions of the court
will enable Mr. Jerome to take up
the cross examination of Evelyn well
primed.
Then it will rest with the court how
far he can go in seeking to discount
the strong impression made upon the
Thaw jury by the wife of Stanford
Whites murderer
The Cross Examination.
animation of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has
been the principal subject of discus
sion since court adjourned Friday I'M
til Monday
The district attorney has a difficult
problem iii this discrimination.
With the truth or falsity Of the stories
Mrs. Thaw testifies she told her hus-
band, he has nothing to do. The state
ment that she told him these things
Jerome can not possibly disprove. His
strongest chance in cross-exalnination
is to make her stumble in the story as
she told 1t under guidance OF her hus
bands attorneys, or compel her to ad
NIT telling him other things about her
past life which would tend 10 mini
mize the effect of the story of her re-
lations with Stanford White He can
introduce evidence, if he has it, gen.
orally affecting her credibility as a
but as for the main state
ments in her testimony-the stories
which made her recital perhaps the
most striking ever heard in court in
this city-Stanford White himself, il
he were alive. could not go on the wit
ness stand and deny them. The point
in the case is not the truth of these
stories, but as to their effect on
Thaws mind
"TattIing of the TenderIoin."
This fact was impressed on the jury |
when the court, at the request of the !
district attorney, informed the jury |
that under the law the prosecution |
could not introduce evidence with the |
object of disproving any statement |
hat Evelyn Thaw has made, except |
he statement that she told her hus-
band all the things she testified to- |
That Jerome will oppose further in
reduction of what he termed "tattling
If the tenderloin,' was plainly shown
when he claimed, and was sustained |
~ the court, that as yet there has
,een no evidence to show that Thaw
s now or ever was insane, and until
his is shown more of these stories
would be entirely immaterial. This
uling by the court may bar any other
tories that Evelyn Thaw may have to
hown there is a reasonable doubt as
o the proper balance of Thaw's mind
t the time of the shooting.
To Interdict Thaw Testimony.
Ottawa, Ont, Feb. 9.-The post
master general of Canada was asked
o deny use of the mails to all local
apers which printed details of Thurs
avs evidence in the Thaw trial in
Jew York. The postmaster general
aid he did not read the reports in the
ewspapers mentioned, but that the
aw is clear on the point, and he would
ee that 1t is enforced. Any newspaper
filthy evidence of a trial
4 court. said he, would be guilty of
under the Canadian law.
10 further action was taken.
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