The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-02-22
Prosecutor Turns Prosecutor to
Make Her Admit ReIa-
tions With White
Evelyn Makes Supreme Sacrifice, Laying Shame
Bare to the World in Heroic Effort to Save
Husband--Thaw CabIed White for As
sistance-- Newspaper Women Flee
From Courtroom

New York Feb Under the
stress of cross examination in which
District Attorney Jerome gave no
q, arter Mrs Evelyn Nfs!it Thaw
broke down today upon the witness
stand. With binding tears burning
their way down nor cheeks which
from ashen white had flushed to
crimson she admitted that after her
first experience with Stanford White
her relation with the archteat con
timed several months.
But this was not all There We're
other confessions, which while dam
aging to her own character, accentu-
at all the moro terrible personal
sacrifice sine is making in an effort 10
save her husband from death in tho
electric chair.
The case has progressed to a point
where the defendant has been all but
lost His wifi is a figure about whom
the storm lashes It's fury She, II Is,
whose life is being searched out and
who IS heing held up to scorn by
he prosecuting officer.
All EYES on Child Wife.
Thaa. his face buried in his hands
might easily have be out of the
court room picture today and none
would have missed him. All eyes
were upon the witness chair and he
81 ght lgtre in blue which occupied IL
AT the close Of the most ayentful
day OF the trial Jerome announced
he probably would keep Mrs Thaw
under fire for two more days
An adjournment was aiken until
time Justice Fitzgerald said that t.
accommodate out of town Witnesses
he would hold court both tomorrow.
holiday, and Saturday
Owns Fault to the World.
There was no subject affecting the
witness Of SO intimate a nature that
the district attorney hesitated to haul
it from its hiding place and hold il
b fore the gaze of the world, all the
while requiring that she should reeog
ni2e and own the faul, In her own
WordS
When jerome was haying the wit
ness with a. ostons as to her relations
viii White carrying her ftom place
TO place and demanding to know every
detail ana while bitter tears we're
yelling TO her eyes. newspaper wo-
men. accustomed TO harsher scenes Of
life, fl their places in the court room
and made a hasty retreat.
Is Game 10 the Core
AT last the prosecutor himself re-
Tented somewhat and suggested that
tho proceedings suspend d lmas
thought he detected an unfayorable
slant to this and protested that the
witness would be able 10 proceed
Mrs 1haw wiped hor eyes Suffered
mp a bit and nodded 10 Jerome to
proceed
After bringing oU' tha her reia.
tions with White continued for some
time. Jerome went deep r. Mrs Thaw
admitted that IN 1903 after her return
from Europe. she spent a night a-
Thaws apartments in New York anl
fha. for three weeks be and 81. oc,
cupied connecting apartments at the
Grand Hotel in his citv
Thaw Asked Whites Aid.
Mr. Thaw frankly admitted that
the champagne she had declared hal
tas ed bitter th night She f0came
unconscious in The mirrorel bedroom
was no more biJter than amy other
champagne she had drank. Mrs Thau
made what was couside-oI perhaps
her most damaging statement 10 The
defendant vh % she said that be had
shovel her COP es Of cablegrams BE-.
ing sent white from EuroDe a king
sirl 20 use hts Influence VIII a certain
man in London 20 prevent Mrs Nsshi'
from raising a fuss" aud interfering
with EVELYN ia continuing in ths com
pany of Thaw.
NIrz. Thav also was forced 70 admit
that when she and her mother went
abroad with Thav in 1903 hey wc-e
stui drawing upou 'hs bouuiy of
White Evelyn declared that she had
q leue- of credit for sf9a OF $500
which xas eiy h-r ly White and
which zre later turned over 20 Thow
There was zHn a balance i1 rhe Ser
cautHe Trust company to her ord
also
jerome Dweiis on Cabieqrams.
sRut mamma got an of that. said
she witness Jerome DIV lt for lons
v vaife upon che subject r. the cabis-