Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-02-28
LIVED ON BOUNTY OF WHITE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRIZES INTO
PAST LIFE or THE DEFEND b
ANT's WIFE.

| New York, Feb. 22.--In continuin'
| his cross-examInation Of Mrs. Eveiyi
Nesbit Thaw yesterday at the triai o
| her husband District Attorney jerome
brought out the fact that in 1902 stan
| ford White deposited $l,35e with
New York trust company with instruc
lions thai II should be paid to the Mes
bill girl az the rate OF $2b week. MIS-
| Thaw frankly admitted receiving
| checks from the trust company, ph'
she would not admit that there was
provision that she should receive tne
money only when out OF employment.
| The prosecutor spent nearly the entire
afternoon In trying to make MRS
Thaw admit that this was true, but ms
often and in as many ways as ne put
the question to her, she gave the one
answer: Il don't remember
Her Feelings Not Spared.
MIR. Jerome indicated early that he
had no disposition to spare MIS-
Thaw's feelings. He Intercepted her
pointedly as to her men acquaintance
of the past He laid especial stress
upon her mountaineering with James
A. Garland, who figured for the nrs'
time in the case. Mrs. Thaw said she
knew Garland before she met White.
Weren't you named as correspond
ent in the Garland divorce case?' ask
ed Mr.. Jerome.
Mrs. Thaw was shaking her head
when Mr.. Delmas sprang to his feet
with an objection. Justice Fitzgerald
overruled the objection, but Mr.. Je-
rome withdrew the question.
Never Posed In Nude.
MIR. Jerome questioned the witness
about her manner of posing for artists
and brought from her denial that she
ever posed in the nude. Many proto-
graphs of Mrs. Thaw were introduced
In evidence. Mr.. Jerome piled the
young woman with questions as 10
what disposition she had made OF the
letters written to her by Stanford
White. Some, she said. had been de-
stroyed and some she had given to
her husband Mr.. Jerome was assisted
materially in his cross-examination by
typewriter statements made by Mrs
Thaw's mother and by Howard Nesbit.
her brother. He consulted the state
ments from time to time, and Mr..
Delmas let this fact become known to
the jury by remarking upon it.
Mr. Jerome's cross-examination may
require several days yet
Mrs. Thaw Breaks Down.
New York, Feb. %. Under the
stress OF cross-examination in which
District Attorney Jerome gave nc
quarter, Mrs. Evelyn Neshit Thaw
broke down yesterday upon the wit
ness stand. With binding tears burn.
ing their way down cheeks which
from ashen white had flushed to Grim
son. she admitted that after her first
experience with Stanford White her
relations with the architect continued
for several months. But this was not
all.
Damaging Confessions.
There were other confessions which,
while damaging to her own character,
all the more the terrible
personal sacrifice she is making in the
effort to save her husband from death
in the electric chair
After bringing out that her relations
with White continued for some time,
Mr.. Jerome went deeper. Mrs. Thaw
admitted that in 1908, after the return
from Europe. she spent the night at
Thaw's apartments in New York, and
that for three weeks he and she occu
pied connecting apartments at the
Grand hotel in this city.
Defendant In Bad Light.
Mrs. Thaw made what was consider.
ed her most damaging statement to
the defendant when she said he had
showed her copies of cablegrams that
we're being sent to Stanford White
from Europe, asking him to use his In
fuence with certain man in London
10 prevent Mrs. Nesbit from raising a
lusss and interfering with Evelyn con
[inuing In the company Of Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to admit
that when she and her mother went
abroad with Thaw In 1903 they were
still drawing upon the bounty Of Stan.
lord White.
Gay Lie IN Paris.
A letter written ~ Mrs. Thaw ia
1904 and telling Of her gay life In Paris
Nth HARRY Thaw and : bunch from
he Tenderloin" was read to the jury
~ Mr.. Jerome. This brought out
more testimony u TO the Dead Rat, =
] Partisan cafe. There seemed to be
nothing In the witness' past life about
which the prosecutor WIS not inform
"a. He seemed to have been able to
lrace every step. largely due. doubt
leas. 10 the typeMritten statement d
he mother. Which Mr.. Jerome nearly
Always holds Ii his hand while hurlins
queatiOns II the daughter.
Court ssiiourned until Monday.