The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-08

he was terribly mad and walked up and
down the room with a camp chair in
| his hand. My child he said, what
| did you tell Mr.. Hummel about me?'
| Il said / had not said anything and
| then Mr.. White said must have told
Hummel, because Hunfmel had just
squeezed 81, 600 out of him and he was
| not going to send another thousand
The witness. continuing, said that she
did not know what she had signed when
she signed the paper at the request of
Mr.. White in his office in Madison
Square Garden.
81 called Mr.. White up on the teIe-
phone after 1 had talked to Mr.. Thaw
and 1 demanded of Mr.. White that he
put the paper in the fire. He said he
did not have it. but that it was in Mr.
| HummePs office. said very we'll
and told him I was going to Mr.. Hum
mePs office immediately He told me
not to talk the matter over the tele-
phone and 1 said did not care who
heard me. Then White said he would
meet me on the corner and met him.
Went to HummeI's Again,
I'VE went down to HummeFs office.
He showed me the paper and showed
me my signature and asked if it was
mine and 1 said it was. Then they
put the paper in big jardiniere and
burned it. Afterward 1 told Mr.. Thaw
all about it and also saw Mr. Long
fellow and told him.
"How did Mr.. Thaw treat you from
that time until he proposed mar
riage?"
HE treated me very nicely. carried
me up and down stairs when 1 was
sick and brought me flowers and took
me carriage riding
After her marriage with Mr.. Thaw.
the witness said they took trip
she said, she lived at the home of her
husbands mother. She related how
she had persistently refused to marry
Thaw before she finally did.
hof ii E--s.- IL
not marrying him ?''
TT was because of my reputation
| did not want to separate him from
his family. I knew it would be
good thing for me to marry him. but it
would not be for him. It was because
loved him that / would not marry.
If L did not love him much I might
have been anxious to marry him.
Mr.. Delmas got the witness to relate
how she met some of the Thaw family
in Europe.
There was something happened
which led you to change your mind in
regard to marrying Thaw?" asked Mr..
Delmas.
Yes" answered the young woman.
You were given to believe that his
family would receive you as his wife?"
Yes
Met Thaw's Mother
Did you meet Mrs. Thaw. his moth
er, in New York;
ST did,
After your marriage did you visit
New York from Pittsburg?"
I'VE did"
Did you tell your husband of the
efforts of Stanford White to renew
your friendship?''
II did"
told your husband about?''
"Once when 1 was driving on Fifth
avenue when 1 passed Mr.. White and
he called out to me Evelyn
Did You tell your husband -
81 did, and he said itswas not right
for me to see him and made me prom
ise that If ever met White again I
would tell him about it,
Did you tell?"
II did,
when, did you see Mr.. White
again %
ct, was on Fifth avenue one day
when I was riding to DR.. Delavan to
have my throat treated. 1 was in q
hanson and Mr. White was<also rid
ing in g hanson"
when I got home I told Mr.. Thaw
that at about Thirty-fourth street 1
passed Mr.. White, both of US in han
SONS. He did not attempt to speak to-
me but stared hard at me. ] looked
away. When 1 got down to the doc
tors office 1 found Stanford White in
his hanson coming there. 1 ran up
the steps but 1 was excited and ner-
vous and told the door porter that 1
would come at another time. so 1 ran
back down the stairs. jumped into my
hanson. looked neither to the right
nor to the left and told the driver to
go back to the Lorrain as quickly as
ever he could
Meeting With Barrymore.
How did Mr. Thaw act. when you
told him of this?"
"Oh. he was always very excited
whenever 1 told him of my meetings
with White. He bit his nails and
looked excited
Did you ever tell Mr.. Thaw how
you came to be sent to school at
Pompton, N J.? And if so relate it
to the jury and also wherein the name
of Jack Barrymore entered into the
discussion, and tell what your rela-
tions to Barrymore were.'
II met Mr.. Barrymore when I was
with the Wild Rose company at the
Knickerbocker theater. Mr.. White
gave dinner to a whole lot of friends.
was asked to attend and I went
there and met his friends at the party.
Mr.. Barrymore was there"
Mrs. Thaw privately mentioned the
names of the party to Mr.. Jerome. At
this point a recess was taken.
Justice Fitzgerald said that because
of the probable length of the trial he
was disposed to continue court on
Tuesday, Lincoln's birthday, although
It is legal holiday.
Mr.. Delmas said the defense would
agree to that.