Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-02-16
WIFE CONTINUES STORY
Resumed Her estimeny in lhaw
Trial This Week.
SHOWED A VERY BRAVE FRONT
Wife of Juror Bolton Continues Sc
riously III and He Again Goes
To Her Bedside.


New York, Feb S-Mrs. Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw, the young wife of the man
on trial for the killing of Stanford
White, again took the witness stand at
the opening of the case today, and
presented a brave and strong front TO
the court room after the trying ordeal
of yesterday.
Mrs Thaw had apparently recovered
entire control of herself, and seemed
to be buoyed up by the knowledge that
the remarkable story she told to the
jury yesterday had proved of the ut
most importance in the defense of her
husband. One of the features of the
days events was the introduction and
reading of letters written by Harry
Thaw short time before the tragedy,
which tended to support the conten-
ton of the defense that Thaw was
mentally unbalanced at the time he
killed White.
The defense played its strongest
card in placing Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, the young and beautiful wife OF
Harry X. Thaw, on the witness stand
and having her tell the story which,
according to her husbands attorneys
caused him to kill Stamford White.
In simple language and in the form
of replies to many questions asked by
Mr.. Delmas, she gave the details OF
how her acquaintance with White be
gan, and of the various visits paid &c
the architects studio; and she related
how on one of these visits White stupi
fed her with drugged wine, took adj
vantage of her. and thea, with revolt
ing deprayity, made light of the mat
ter, taking her home covered with
shame and a sense of ineJ adicable dis
grace.
1t was this experience, she declared
which made her refuse 1haw when he
offered her his honest love and which
related to him on being pressed to tel
everything. caused the husband to be
come infatuated and finally goaded him
TO shoot.
In the course of the trying ordeal she
went several times and once looked
appealingly at the Judge. Many of the
women in the court room shed tears in
sympathy.
Mrs. Thaw stated that White hac
sent her to school and that while she
was there. she underwent an operation
the nature of which the doctors die
not tell her.
On the night of the fateful visit to
Whites studio she was dressed by hel
mother wearing short skirts and hav
ing her haid in plat down her back
She was then f6 years old.
She told of Thaw sending her to Flu
rope. and repeatedly asking her to be
come his wife, and then when she re
lated to him the awful story of hel
disgrace. he comforted her. saying tha
it was not her fault: that she was only
an unfortunate girl, and that he die
not think any the less of her.
The witness gave particulars of hel
life as artists model and how she
went on the stage to exc out slender
income, the family being at times il
sore financial straits.
She declared that presumablt
friends of White had tried to poison
her mind by telling her stories o
Thaw, which she found to be untrue
and that only after her secret had beer
fully laid bare did she consent to be
come Thaw's wife.
There were read in court letters pur
porting to have been written by Thav
TO an attorney named I.ongfellow, il
which the writer frequently used thu
word "blackguard" in referring sup
posedly to White and III which Thav
stated that witness would be provided
for in case of death
District Attorney Jerome sought K
prevent the Introduction of the letters
but finally withdrew his objections.
Thaw Feared White.
New York, Feb 9-lnterest in the
trial of Harry Kendall Ihaw was aug
mented here today, when it was stated
upon what is believed tc be reliable
authority that Thaw believed he wa!
in danger of assassination at the
hands of Stanford White at the time o
his marriage to Evelyn Nesbit il
Pittsburg, and that lie prepared fol
this contingency by making a viii
which was signed the night of his mar
riage,