The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-15
MOTHER AGAINST
HER own Child
MRS. HOLMAN CARES pAueH-
TERts LIFE TO JEROME
YOUNG WIFE IS CON.
FIpENT.

NEW YORK, Feb. 15!-Tne district
Attorneys first effort In his cross.
examination Of Mrs. Harry Thaw win
be devoted to an attempt to show
that she visited the law ONCE Of
Abraham Hummen as a correspondent
In a divorce suit before she went
there ut the suggestion OF stanford
White.
According to the general under.
standing among counsel. 1t is the In.
tention of the district Attorney to 20
into every minute detail regarding
the visit Of witness to the ofice Of
Hummel, with particular reference
to the Incidents related by her In con.
nection with the, story OF the burning
of an affidavit bearing her signature.
The affidavit. Mr.. Jerome win try
to show. was one made by Evelyn
Nesbit when she was named as CO.
respondent in a suit Instituted by
Mrs. George Lederer. wife Of the the
atrical manager, against aer husband.
Mr.. Jerome. IT is said further, IS in
possession Of evidence tending to
show that the afidayit destroyed was
not the one referred to by the witness
in her direct examination.
Every detail Of the life of the young
woman has been told to the District
Attorney by Mrs. Holman, her moth.
or. She has told Mr.. Jerome so many
Things that he will face the young wo.
man on cross-examination fully aware
of her life history. her childhood, her
girIhood, her life in the studios, on
the stage and in the gay coterfe If
which both White and Tnaw were
members. Jerome.s questions will be
aifaed at the general credibility of
the witness rather than at the truth
of faIsity of the stories Of White
which she testified she related to Har
ry Thaw.
Whites Four Studios. {
Sensational testimony is yet to
come, according to statemnts made by
men close to the defense. The de-
Tense has a great mass Of startling
evidence to offer, bu. there is some
doubt that it will get In as smoothly
,as the testimony of Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw on the first two days Of het
presence OF the witness stand.
Stanford Whites studios, as they
have been described, may De exposed
by agents OF Anthony comstock's So.
clety for the Suppression Of Vice. j.
J. Deering and Charles. .. Hamburger
are two comstock agents who have
been supenaed to tell what they dis
covered while conducting investiga.
tons instigated by Harry X. Thaw.
Mr.. Jerome will be ready with OBJ.
iections to such testimony, but 1t may
be admitted as showing that Thaw's
state Of mind was so affected by the
story told him by Evelyn Nesbit that
he setsto work on q Systematic cam.
paign against White, and secured the
aid of comstock in trying to suppress
Whites several establishments.
There is no denying that White
maintained sevral studios. He had
one In West Twenty:frst street. in
addition to two in East Twenty-sec-
ond street and West Twenty.fourth
street, and has apartments in Madi.
son Square Garden tower. Also, 1t is
declared that ne had one establish.
ment in West Twenty-seynth street.
Altogether, his various establishments
SO far reported number seven. BE
had private, noniisted telephones In
these Establishments. FL did not.
maintain all of the establishments at
the same time, but it is said he had
about three of four going always, in
addition to mis- city and country