The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-20
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asked him about il. he seemed ex.
ceedingly proud and declared ii was
the best stunt he ever did At a supper.
You see. he told me. this girl was
very young. just fifteen, had n big pie
made and got some live birds which
were prt into the pie with the girl.
at the right moment 1t was brought in
and put on the table. The cover was
broken and the girl stood up, and the
birds nsv out Tapping their wings.
She had on atlittle ganze dress-thaes
all. 1t vas great-the very best stunt
Suppressed Publication.
But ! came near getting into ltrou.
bic about &c, We put gold pieces In
the girls shoes and In her dress aud
q lot Of people heard of 1t All the
newspapers got hold OF II. i stopped
# at all Of the papers but one, but /
could not stop it there. I got a friend
to go and 9 them, though. and we
finally got them to stop 1t, too. We
kept 1t out OF the papers. but 1t was
close
II told him l had heard he ruined
the gil that night, but he only laugh.
ed"
The ntme of the pie Girl was su.
sic johnson, and It Is said she died
later In poverty. 1t did not come out
in the testimony. The names of the
other girls known by Evelyn to have
been misnsed by White were whisper
ed to Jerome, but were not admitted in
evidence.
Under the IRE of the questions yes.
terday Evelyn did not hold up as we'll
as her previous experience. Her voice
was not as strong as formerly.
Former Lieutenant Governor NJ.
Linn Bruce and present fudge of the
Supreme Court, was a visitor and he
occupied a seat beside Judge Fitzger.
aid. Thaw's attorneys are ready to
combat any attack that may be made
on Thaw's present sanity and have
prepared their experts to testify as to
his present mentality now. These
men have occupied seats beside Thaw
constantly since their testimony
studying him and c~onversing with him
at every possible opportunity, ready to
oppose the States experts IL they
should swear that their examination
in the triaf room has convinced them
that Thaw is insane at this time.
The PIE Girl Again.
The mex occasion the Pie Girl was
discussed, Evelyn said, was at a din,
ner at the Saint Regis. where Harry
Thaw, herself and third man were
present. The conversation, however,
only related to the unnamed man tell.
ing Stanford White and one Of his
companions going down on their knees
to some New York editor to beg him
TO suppress the story OF the dinner.
Another time Thaw told Evelyn he
had foa1d out what became of tbes cir,
who figured in the pie dinner.
II told me-" said Evelyn. "that he
had found out this woman had died in
poverty and in want-that her hus.
band had cast her out after learning
OF the night Of the pie dinner and size
had died miserably and had been bur.
led in the potters' field"
Did You have many conversations
with your husband in this subject?"
yes. we talked OF I. many times.
Harry reverted to the subject many
times. He said that the only place for
Stanford White was in the peniten.
tiary.
HE knew Of cases, he said, where
girls of good families had suffered at
Whites hands. The worst of 1t all
was that when he tired of them White
cast them OF aud they sank lover and
lower and in some cases became WON.
an Of the town. He said some one
ought to tell on White. I would say
to him. What can I do? | cannot tell
about myself: 1 cannot make a scan.
dial like that
When he talked about the subject
| usually cried and SO I tried to keep
his mind of the subject"
Whites Rooms.
Deimas then Rad to the jury a ma.
per prepared by Thaw and shown to
Evelyn in March, 1906, when he said
he intended to senj n to
comstock's society. It set forth that
Illicit obscene matter could be
found in three OF Whites so-called
studios. 1t said 1t probably would be
impossible to raid the tower studio at
the Madison Square Garden, though
much could be found in it. The e {.
ond pflce. named was at 20 West
Twenty.fourth street, kept "for orgies
and d%sbauching young American girls
by rich criminals"
The paper gave n carefuI daser;n.