Connecticut western news., 1907-02-28
MRS. THAW OFF STAND
Her Examination Closes and the
 AlienistS Claim Attention.
JEROMEASKS ACQUISITIONS

Prosecuting Officer Probes Deeply Into
 Witness Past Life and Her Relations
 With White-Received Money From
 Him After Her Downfall.
 New York, Feb. 27.-Following the final release from the witness chair of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife of the man undergoing trial for shooting Stanford White, District Attorney Jerome began his cross examination of Dr. Britton G. Evans, one of the alienists who have testified for the defense.
 The district attorney will immediate ly follow this up by cross examining Dr. Charles G. Wagner, and then Drs. Deemar and Bingaman will be called in rapid order. The trial at last seems to be entering upon it's final stages.
 The completion of Mrs. Thaw's exam ination followed the unsuccessful eff fort of the prosecution to draw from Abraham Hummel certain facts relat- ing to the affidavit which Mrs. Thaw is said to have made in HummePs law office. In this affidavit it is declared there was an allegation that Thaw had beaten the girl while abroad in 1903 when she told him there was no truth in the story about her relations with Stanford White.
 WouIdn't Let HummeI Tell.
 MT. Delmas, for the defense blocked practically every question put to Hum mel The witness got no farther than saying he knew Mrs. Thaw, that she came to his office on Oct 27, 1903, and that he dictated to a stenographer while she was there. Justice Fitzger- aid held that under the rules of evi- dence covering Mrs. Thaw's testimony the introduction of collateral facts was not permissible The district attorney is not allowed to controvert her testi- mony in any way, but may test her credibility. MT. Jerome said in open court that he realized that even if he could show Stanford White was in Flu rope the night Mrs. Thaw declares she was assaulted by him he would not be allowed to introduce such testimony
 Although the affidavit itself did not get into evidence, its contents never theless were spread on the records Je- rome read the charges which Mrs. Thaw made against the man whose wife she became in the form of Ques tions as to whether she had not told Hummel of the incidents which the af- fidavit described. She denied emphat ically that she ever had told Hummer the things that the affidavit charged.
 Alleged Threats by Thaw.
  charges contained in the paper is one in which Evelyn Nesbit accused Thaw of having tried to force her to sign pil- pers accusing Stanford White of hay ing accomplished her downfall by the use of drugs. Because she refused to sign the papers, the affidavit said, Thaw threatened to kill her.
 Jerome framed his questions in re- gard to the contents of the affidavit from copy of the document which he held in his hand. He asked the witness whether it was true that she had told Hummel that she and Thaw had gone on a tour of Europe and that at one time they stopped at an old castle ill the Austrian Tyrol known as the Schloss Katzenstein. The witness re- piled that she had told Hummel about her arrival at the castle.
 "Did you tell Hummel," Jerome asked, ''that in the morning you were awakened by Mr. Thaw pounding on the door and asking you to come to breakfast, saying that the coffee was getting cold?"
 'T don't remember that" the witness replied.
 1 Witness Denies Many Things.
 Jerome, still reading from the affida vit, asked the following questions. to all of which the witness answered mo-" Did you further tell him that after Thaw knocked you immediately jump ed out of bed and hastily put on your bathrobe and slippers and walked out of the room and sat down to breakfast with Thaw?'
 And did you further tell him that after breakfast Thaw said he wanted to tell you something and asked you to step into your room?
 Did you tell him that when you en- tered the room Thaw, without any provocation, grasped you by the throat and tore the bathrobe from you?"
 Did you tell him that Thaw was in an excited condition and terrorized you?'
 ''That his eyes were glaring and that he had in his hand cowhide whip?'
 That he continued to act like de- mented man and beat you very vio- lentlyY
 Did you tell him (HummeD that on the following morning Thaw again entered your room and beat you again with the whip?"
 Did you tell him that Thaw beat you again in the hotel in Switzerland?'
 Did you tell him that while in Paris Thaw beat you again?'
 "Did you tell him that you found little silver box in Paris and that this box contained hypodermic syringe"
 That Thaw told you he had taken cocaine and that on one occasion he had tried to force you to take one of the pills?"
 "Did you tell Hummel that while you