The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22

of the chorus girls got their mail?'
Il don't know"
ter.
oh" she said, 81 see what you mean
now-the Knickerbocker Drug store"
Summonses Hartridge.
41r. Caravan here handed Mr.. Hartridge
a piece of paper.
Mr.. Jerome turned to the Judge.
MY. Hartridge has been served now
sir, and l think we might have the let
ters"
Does counsel still refuse to give the
letters up?" asked Justice Fitzgerald.
HE says he will not comply" an
nounced Mr.. Jerome.
rs there any evidence that he has been
| served?" asked Justice Fitzgerald
NO" said Mr.. Jerome who then turned
to his assistant, Mr.. Caravan, and said:
Prepare an affidavit-he will not act
without one
ut might save the courts time" inter-
posed Mr.. Hartridge flor me to say
did not receive the letters from the wit
ness, but from Mr.. Thaw."
You will be heard later remarked the
| Judge
when did you first meet this defend
ant?' asked Mr.. Jerome.
I think it was in December, 1901"
when did you first meet Whte?"
I'm July, 1901, I think
"Who introduced you to him."
Edna Goodrich"
| "Where?"
"At the Twenty-fourth street studio
| house"
How did you come to go there?'
Miss Goodrich invited me-
WAS Francis Belmont there?"
mo-
No Other Woman.
There were no other women present,
J she said, and only one man in addition
| to Mr.. White, a man whose name she
whispered to Mr.. Jerome.
Did Edna Goodrich tell you who Mr..
| White wasp she was asked.
Yes, she said he was friend of hers
who wanted to meet me. She said he was
| in society"
How long had you known Edna Good
| rich?"
Il don't know, perhaps month";
After the incident of the swing she said
she and Miss Goodrich drove in the park.
Miss Goodrich said Mr.. White was a
! grand man."
Il asked her If she was engaged to
him." said Mrs. Thaw, "but she said no.
Ibid she tell you White was married.
mo, she did not"
The next time she saw White was at
another luncheon at the same place with
| another girl and another man.
mo improper things took place them
| asked Mr.. Jerome.
"Well he kissed one girl
did this shock your maidenly SENSIBLE
typ
well, lie didn't do 1t in an unpleasant
way
More Parties.
Mrs Thaw told of going to several more
parties with Stanford White after her re-
turn from Europe in 1903
was there anything improper asked
Mr.. Jerome.
AT one he treated young girl just
as he treated me-"
DO you mean to say you know he
ruined that girl?'
"Oh, no, I did not say that"
you said he treated her the same way
he had treated you, didn't your
yes; he patted her on the head ana
said, This little girl must have just one
glass of mine and must go home early 10
her mother
do YOU know that Stanford White ever
harmed that girl in any way?' asked MI
Jerome slowly and in deep voice.
NO" replied Mrs. Thaw. II am only
saying what I saw. 1t was the same
bluff"
Bluff, did you say?'
Yves, the same bluff-it was nothing
more"
How long had you been in the chorus
before your experience with Stanford
Winter"
"Three months counting the re-
hearsals'
Whites Personality.
In answer to request for an expiana-
ton of her statement that 1t was stan
ford Whites personality that caused d
softening of her anger and her writing
to him from Boulogne, Mrs Thaw sa1d:
TT was very hard for me to make MT.
Thaw understand about that, | don
know whether [ can make you under
stand
"Will you try?''
"He had very strong personality.
Outside one awful thing, Stanford White
was a very grand man. He was very
good to me and very kind When l tod
MIR. Thaw this he said it only made
White q more dangerous man. BEFORE
the Twenty-fourth street incident ne had
never made love to me, put AWAY >
treated be with the greatest respect ana
kindness. Every one liked him, and no
one would believe these things until they
really found them out, and then they
said they were sorry -
Mr. Jerome next Intercepted Mrs.
Thaw regarding the wine she drank the
night she lost consciousness ana Drought
from her the admission that the cham
payne had tasted like all other cham
naene she had drank up to that time.
TT all tasted bitter and nasty to me-
she said -.
..Then YOU did not intend for the jury
to assume when you said it tatsed pil'er
that it differed from any other cna a.,
payne you had tasted up to that timer
''Oh, did not intend that
Wouldn't Go Alone.
Mrs. Thaw said that after the occur
renee in the Twenty-fourth street house
she saw Mr. White almost every night
until she went to school at compton,
n L. in the fall of 1902. After Janu-
airy 1902. she refused to go any where
alone with him, although he continually
urged her to do so.
"At different times during 1901 and 1902.
von- were at parties in the studios and
NET many different men and women
Yes"
Did you ever see any improprieties at
any of these parties?'
yes"
what"
.Weu. they told lot of stories
Ibid Stanford White tell any of the
stories?"
Eyes, and Others"
Were they obsceney
Yes"
Were there any other women there?'
Yes"
did they tell stories?''
lone had too much wine and told
some"
Mr. Jerome wanted the name and Mrs.
Thaw whispered it to him.
"Ah.'' he exclaimed. "she was the same
woman to whom two years later you were
writing letters from Paris telling her
| Dot