Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-08
EVELYN NESBIT THAW RELATES
HER EXPERIENCES WITH
WHITE ON STAND.
BREAKS DOWN DURING
THE TERRIBLE ORDEAL
Asserts She Refused to Become Wife
of Young Pittsburg Millionaire Be-
Man.

| WITH the murder OIL STANFORD W01Le.
took the witness stand Thursday in
defense of her husband and told the
| story of her relations with Stan
ford White the famous architect who
was killed by Harry Thaw. The
story was a simple narrative told in
a girlish way, and in it's midst the
young woman broke down and cried
and could proceed only with diff
Guilty.
Her husband sat brave-faced for
awhile; then he, too, burst into tears
and buried his face in a handker-
chief. He sat thus for some time.
When he again looked up his eyes
were red from weeping.
Refused Proposal of Thaw.
After telling her story of the even
ing at the Cafe Martin and the shoot
ing of Stanford White she said she
refused to marry Thaw in Paris in
1903 because of an incident in her
life connected with Stanford White.
Mrs Thaw said she met Stanford
White at a luncheon in 1901. She
thought him very big and ugly"
The party to which she was taken
was lin a dingy Twenty-fourth street
house" The luncheon to which she
had been invited was in a private
apartment sumptuousIy furnished and
fitted up.
q was told in advance / was going
to luncheon with some society people,
and had hoped it was the Waldorf
AstOsia as | wanted to see that no.
tel" she said.
ct was in September, 1901, when
Mr.. White invited me to another of
the parties I had attended with him.
IL had been left in his care by my
mother whom he had sent to Pitts
burg. l was just past 16 years old.
This night, when / got to Mr..
Whites studio in Twenty-fourth street
there was not anybody there.
Mr.. White said: We'll, well, they
all seem to have turned us down
He said, Never mind, we would eat
alone Later l said | must go home
He said he wanted to show me an
other part of the house, and we went
into a bedroom with mirrors all
round.
"He gave me more champagne
Then everything became whirly and
black. When l came to my clothes
were all off. | screamed and screamed
but he kept telling me to keep quiet
The witness said White made her
promise she must never tell her
mother. She said the effect of her
story on Thaw was terrible. He
sobbed and walked the floor, stayed
all night sitting in the room and talk
ing it over. She also said she told
ThaW she could not marry him for
White would always know and would
laugh at him and talk. This was the
second time Thaw proposed.
The girl told the story to the y
men in the jury box, she declared
just as she had related the incident
to Harry Thaw one night in Paris late
in 1903, when he had asked her to be
come his wife and she had told him
she could not. He pressed for rea-
son and it was then that she told him
all. When she had concluded she
said he knelt beside her, picked up
the hem of her skirt and kissed it.
Sent to School by White
She had been sent to school in
New Jersey in 1902 by Stanford
White, became i'll there and had to be
submitted to an operation, the nature
of which the doctors did not tell her.
Thaw came to see her at the hospital
and said she should be taken abroad
to recuperate. She went to Paris
with her mother and Thaw, and it
was in Paris that Thaw made his first
proposal of marriage.
Going back to her earliest girlhood,
the prisoners wife told the entire
story of her ilfe-how she was brought
to New York by her mother and posed
for famous artists to earn money for
the family support. She also took a
place III the chorus of a musical show
and it was while there she met White.
Mrs. Thaw was on the stand two
hours, and her direct examination had
not been concluded when the lunch
con adjournment was taken. AS she
walked from the witness chair along
the passageway back of the jury box
she felt along the wall with the finger
tips of her left hand as if about to
faint From scarlet her face had
paled to the whiteness Of a sheet
Except when she broke down when
going into the details of her expert
ence with Stanford White the girl
spoke in clear, soft voice.
NJoo+t
Former Judge William X. Olcott,
who was the first counsel engaged by
Thaw in his defense, appeared at the
criminal courts building during recess
in response to a summons forthwith
and saw Mr.. Caravan. He was told
that it was understood that Mrs
Evelyn Thaw had made a Statement
in regard to her relations with White
and with T,-aw TO Judge Olcott when
the trouble first came. Judge Olcott
was asked to present that signed
statement if it were in existence or
to be ready to testify to it if he were
wanted
Roger O'Mara, former chief of po-
lice OF Pittsburg, and the head of de-
tective force employed by the de-
Tense, had a Is minutes conference
with Mrs. Harry Thaw during the mid
day recess Before entering the court