The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
CONFESSIONS WIRING BY
RACKING QUESTIONS ARE
TOO MUCH FOR MRS. TIA "
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81 don't remember"
"In whose handwriting is this letter.
asked Mr.. Jerome. handing her several
written sheets
Mr.. Thaw's, I think
Mr.. Jerome offered the letter In EVIL
dence.
Mr.. Delmas objected on the ground that
1t was mutilated and the date was not
fixed.
Didn't you and Mr.. Thaw. while I'm
Paris, write joint letters to friends, you
writing part and he the rest?''
II cannot say positvely very likely
We did"
Changed Her Mind.
Had you changed your opinion In re-
gard t. the general chastity Of women?'
Il had.
How long after your talk with Thaw
did you change your mind%'
Very soon"
It the time you left Paris in June,
1903. had you changed your mind?"
Yes"
The witness could not remember, she
said, how long it was after Thaw's pro-
posal OF marriage that she left Paris
Before the time you left Paris, had
you any appreciation that meretrleious
TtidlfollS UtAWtfil llltIl anu NOihVA WIZ
immoral and wrong?"
No until after my talk with Mr.
Thaw"
Before that you did not believe it
wrons?'
"Oh, yes
VERY wrong?'
Not particularly. l knew people said
Ii was wrong
Did you think it was very indicate
and vulgar?"
That is ALL"
THAT it was only bad taste?'
yes"
But didn't think it was wrong?'
Il didn't fully realize 1t until [ went
to Paris.
But you thought 1t was wrong?'
Yes"
Did you ever go to church and Sun
day school in Pittsburgh"
Not in Pittsburg,"
I'm Paris it was Impressed on you that
White had done you terrible wrongT
I'm a way"
Before you left Paris you had begun
to look on such relations as very
wrong?"
yes"
Whites Act.
Had YOU come to a full understanding
of the infamous character of Whites
act?'
Eyes, but not so much so as 1 have
now"
yet 1t was this that induced your re-
nunciation of Thaw's great love?'
Mr.. Delmas objected to what he
thought sneer in the question.
Mr.. Jerome denied any sucn intention
do you use the word renunciation sin
cerely?' asked Mr.. Delmas.
"If this story is true, l do" said Mr..
Jerome" Never in the history"
II renew my objection" interrupted Mr..
Delmas.
DO you mean to tell me the story is
not true?" asked Mr.. Jerome of Mr.. Del
mas.
"rhats the only reason you can OBJ
ject"
Justice Fitzgerald sustained the OBJ
lection.
Did you reject Thaw solely because
of the occurrence with Whittier asked
Mr.. Jerome of the witness.
Found Out.
Because | had been found out"
'Who told you had been caught
"Friends of Stanford White"
so it was not because OF the occur
renee, but because you had been found
out?'
ut was both together. | had an IN
stinct about it, When Mr.. Thaw pro-
posed it was the first proposal ever
had and it all struck me very seriously
1t all came together
you felt the most heinous wrong mad
been done you at the time of your raVish-
ment?"
81 didn't know anything about 1T at the
time. All | remember is what | felt IKE
when | woke up. | remember that DIS
tinctlv | did not understand what had
taken place -.,.. T..
ut outraged every maideniy instinct In
you, didn't 1t
ut did and that is why l duarreleo
with Stanford White ,.,..
you were very bitter against w ihtt
when you~told Thaw you wern I? p
Not then"
when YOU felt you were giving UP
Thaw's love you didn't feel bitter against
White?"
Not intensely. Not until Mr.. Thaw
made me realize 1t.
you remember writing to Stanford
White from Boulogne?'
Yes"
Did you still feel bitter against
White?"
yes | did"
1T was feeling OF enmity-it was
hostility against him for this one thing
and subsequent things
"What subsequent things?
Other Things.
The prosecutor caught up Mrs. Thaw S
own words.
"rhings with Stanford White" replied
Mis-. Thaw.
Were they improper and indecent"
q don't know what you would call
them"
"You still were thinking of those things
when YOU wrote White from BoulogneY
Yes. and of his extraordinary person
atty"
Ills personality had softened the feel-
ing. had it," asked Mr.. Jerome.
"ln one way it had-in another 1t had
not"
'ayf,,a why did you write that letter to
White?" demanded Mr. Jerome fiercely.
no peace until | did 1T
Mrs. Thaw raised her voice as she made
this reply.
"you were coerced into writing?'
Yes. | was My mother said | was
unsratcful to Mr.. White and things like
that"
"Had you any occasion To doubt the
chastity of your own mother?''
IL never thought of my mother in that
way
Mrs Thaw stamped her foot.
How did YOU know Stanford White $
friends knew of your relation with him.
lone of them saw me with him at the
East Twenty-second street studio.
WAS there any improperly there2'
Yes"
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