The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-23
THAW TRIAL RESTS.
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/ with Thaw for about an hour longer and
came away without The bundle of papers
he had brought in. He SAID that they
were simply newspaper clippings com
mendng on the t-ial.
Pay for Mrs. ThHW'S Testimony.
Both Thaw and his wife were much
concerned about statement. printed to-
day, that no matter what was the. out
come of the trial young Mrs. Thaw would
| receive S,yJ.000 as "a reward for her testi-
! flying for her husband. IL was intimated
that soon after her husbands arrest she
talked Of going abroad, but gave this
] idea up after il had been arranged that
she was to get 100000. She refused to
say anything about the story. but lawyer
! Gleason denied it most emphaticaIIy
you can characterize that rs a ma
/ licious, cruel false, and inhuman state-
ment" he said Immediately after his
arrest. Mrs Thaw said 10 her husband
| I will stand by you, Harry And she
has stood by him. and there is nothing
/ that a wife could do that she has not
done. That shows just how preposterous
that statement is
There was much speculation to-day az
20 what testimony District Attorney
Jerome intended to get out Of DIR. Binga-
man and Dr. Deemar. Both Of these doe
tors are Pittsburg men. One of them, Dr.
! Deemar. had given some testimony as 10
insanity in collateral branches OF the
/ family. DR.. Bingaman has been Thaw's
family physician, although it has been
pointed out that he has not examined
Thaw since he has been in the T0mbs
/ Neither has Dr. Deemar examined Thaw
Lin the T0mbs. but lawyers commented to-
/ day on the fact that % was a peculiar sit
uation. where two doctors. who had been
witnesses for the defense. had been
/ turned into witnesses Tor the prosecution
/ by the district attorney.
Examined in Private.
/ The only deduction that could he made
/ from District Attorney Jeromes state
ment ia court on Friday was that the de-
Tense did not intend to call the doctors
again that they were going ont Of town
/ 10 Pennsylvania-but that before they
went District Attorney Jerome wanted to
put their testimony on the record.
; Both of the doctors have been examined
I by Jerome in private. IL is known that
/ they have told him things about Thaw's
early life which were not brought out by
/ the defense when they were examined at
: the trial 1t is Jeromes belief that all the
/ facts should be laid before the jury lie
/ is convinced that both Of the doctors are
reputable men. and he Is ready 30 make
+ them witnesses for the prosecution. This
\ has led many persons 10 believe that
Jerome is not so cOcksure Of Thaw's
sanity at the present time.
! II is evident that the trial will last for
some time yet. maybe two weeks or
more Jerome may take more than y
+ day more to cross axamine Mrs. TEaw.
/ He has yet to cross-axamine the experts
/ for the defense That will take some
/ time. Altogether. il is figured cut that If
! the defense's case is closed at the end
/ OF this week. considerable progress will
/ have been made.
Evidence in RebuttRI.
| As 70 Jerome's evidence IN rebuttaI.
/ that is not settled. It all depends on
I how Jerome's present plans develop.
/ Should they work out successfully for
him. there may be a good deal OF testi-
mony introduced by him in Fcbuttal. II
they do not Of course, his case will be
much shorter.
There has been a good deal Of favor
able comment on the way the prosecu-
tons case has been prepared. Time and
time again the defense has been stumped
by letters and documents produced bv
Jerome at unexpected moments. Jerome
has also showed an uncluny knowledge
OF The life history ~ young Mrs Thaw
For months Assistant District Attorney
GarVan has done nothing but work up
every end OF the lives OF both Thaw and
his wife. A good deal Of information
was furnished 10y young Mrs. Thaw's
mctEer-informltion on which Jerome
could cross-ex8mine her daughter. And
while the friends OF Stanford White have
not been OUtsnOkeH in defending him
they have furnished material 10 refute
many stories that have been told about
him
All through the trial Ar Jerome has
been prompted by Garvau 1t has been
noticed that 40 times when Garvan wills
peTed something i'm Jcrome's ear. Mrs
Thaw has taken refuge behind. Il don't
remember or II can't remember-exact-
~. 4 lawyer who has conducted many
important prosecutions for the district
attorneys Office but who is no longer
with the Office summarized to-day how
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's story. told on
Thursday. as compared with her story on
the direct examination. impressed him.
He said.
Mrs. Thaw'S story Summarized.
''On her original story YOU had a young
woman, child. wrongcd by man of
the world Il was tragedy in the Young
womau's life that had not been efraced
when'a rich young man offered to marry
her She refused. remembering what
had happened to her and knowing that
no
friends OF the men who had wronged her.
knew the story. But the young man
courted her paid her honorable court
l think il was expressed by his LAWYERS.
even after she had told him all the ter
ribie story of her life. Then they were
married but he kept looking for the
stories Of this mans treatment of other
girls-young girls; tried 10 have him
punished. but before the right momentJ
came Providence stepped in and yiDad
the man out of existence
Take, on the other hand. what was
brought out by Jerome Immediately
after this girl told Thaw her story she
Travelled over the continent with him. the
two together They quarreled with her
mother, who sought the aid OF the Ameri-
can embassy. White paid her and her
mother money-he was a grand man. !
the incest Of men. with a striking per-
SOnality.
Keep Letter of Credit.
''Wnen she went travelling over the
continent with Thaw she had with her q |
letter of credit from White. which she
turned over 10 Thaw. And when they
got back to Paris there was the trouble |
with ner mother and the American En- |
bassy, who was appealed to to intercede 1
with the mother. 1t was White, the man |
at whose name when mentioned Thaw 4
would go into a rage and honoua u,5t5 /