The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-16
OELMAS ATTACKS
HUMMEL' 'SST0RY
JEROME WINS LONG FIGHT ~
HAVING LAWYERS TEsTL
MONY ADMITTED.
EVELYN ACCUSED THAW
OF Beating Her For Refusal to De.
nounce White, He Says--Da-
fense Shows Up His Black
mailing Record.

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! New York. March l5. With Delmas
/ lighting him every inch Of the Way,
/ Jerome today secured from Abraham
| Iiummel his complete story as 70 the
affidavit, which 1t Is alleged Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw made in The lawyers OF,
flee in 1903, charging Thaw with beat
| ing her when she had told him that
the statement that White had druggai
and ruined her was not true.
ITBmmels testimony same during
the afternoon and Delmas first object
ing boardly to all or HuInmel's testi-
mony offered specific objection 70
each question put by the prosecutor.
Justice Fitzgerald oyerruled every OBJ
lection and Delmas had exceptions 10
the ruling noted on he records
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called to
the stand IN an effort Of the defense
to keep Hummel silent. She declared
she had called upon Hummel in his
professional capacity and to seek his
advice as a lawyer and that White had
taken her to the lawyers office with
that end In View.
Fitzgerald declared that admitting
the proposition Of the counsel and
client, Mrs. Thaw had herself waived
the professional privilege by taking
the stand carly in the case and giving
her version Of what transpired At
Hummel's office This bond Of sec.
reey once removed could not be re
established.
Brings lip Hummefs Past.
Unsuccessful III blocking Hummei d
testimony Delmas in cross examining
witness brought from his own lips the
fact that he had been convicted ia
December 1906, on charge Of con
spiracy in the same court eoom illI
which ThaW Is being tried He furth
er admitted that two indictments for
subordination Of perjury are pending
against him and that one Of these in
dictments charges him with having
caased a false affidavit 10 be made
Jerome protested against the wit, |
ness being dragged through the hi.
details" Of this trial, but
declined to interfere.
Then Delmas asked Hummel If he
had not heard the speech made b.
Jerome when sentence was about to
be imposed, when Jerome urged the
court to pass the longest and heavi |
est sentence within it's power upoa
as he had been a menace
% the community fer twenty years.
Fitzgerald finally sustained an objcc-
ion to this and Hummel was not com.
)elled TO answer.
Delmas wanted to know If Hummel
lad any more recent bus. ness trans
action with the district attorney. and
lsked If Jerome was pressing the
sharges against him,
He certainly is" said the witness
With spirit
Says She Charged Cruelty.
Hummers testimony in hief was
% the effect that Evelyn Nesbit told
lin among other things that Thaw
lad beaten her when she refused 10
iign papers he had prepared charging
White with her betrayal; that he had
lictated q statement 10 a stenc graph.
" in the presence of Miss Nesbit and
White; that he gave the affidavit to
wo of his clerks to take to Miss
Ieshit in Madison Square Garden tow
n and that the next day the paper
vas Ge.urned TO him with Evelyn Mes
'it's signature attached He kept the
Until Miss Neshit called one
lay and demanded it. He refused to
live it to her and turned it over to
White advising him te have photo
yraphic cfpy made. Hummel first
aid he had himself arranged for the
copy of the affidavit ami
hat the photographer came to his
nice.
Hummel contradiets Himself
A few moments later. howevr, h
contradicted himself or
his point. saying he did not make thu
arrangements; that the photographer
id net come to his office: and that
e had not 50 testified.
After White had The COPY made he
etlirBed tie original OF the affidavit.
iummel said with the photographs
egatives and prints made from the :
egaiiye to Hummel, who swore today
hat he subsequently delivered the
riginal affidavit TO Miss Nesbit and
a. not seen II since.
Abraham Snydecker. one Of Hum
lel's clerks was called and said h
BOX the affidavit to Whites rooms in
he tower and handed it to the wo-
ian, pointed ont to his as Miss Mes
it, that she kept the AFFIDAVIT for fva
linutes and signed It saying she had
cad it through.
At tha conclusion Of this tesiimorv
s-ome asked Dermi sion to introduce
BE- carbon and photographic copies OF