The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-02-28
LIVED ON BOUNTY OF WHITE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRIZES INTO
PAST LIFE OF THE DEFEND.
ANTS WIFE.

NcSDlL lnaW yesterday at the trial OF
her husband District Attorney Jerome
brought out the fact that in 1902 Stan
ford White deposited $3.50 with a
New York trust company with :astruc.
tons that it should he paid to the Mes.
bit girl at the rate of $25 week. Mrs.
Thaw frankly admitted receiving
checks from the trust company. but
she would not admit that there was q
provision that she should receive the
money only when out of employment.
The prosecutor spent nearly the entire
afternoon in trying to make Mrs.
Thaw admit that this was true, but as
often and in as many ways as he put
the question to her, she gave the one
answer: Il don't remember"
Her Feelings Not Spared.
MIR. Jerome indicated early that he
had no disposition to spare Mrs.
Thaw's feelings. He Intercepted her
pointedly as to her men acquaintances
Of the past. He laid especial stress
upon her acquaintanceship with James
A. Garland, who figured for the first
time in the case. Mrs. Thaw said she
knew Garland before she met White.
Weren't you named as correspond
ent in the Garland divorce case?" ask.
ed Mr.. Jerome.
Mrs. Thaw was shaking her head
when Mr.. Delmas sprang to his feet
with an objection. Justice Fitzgerald
overruled the objection. but Mr.. Je'
rome withdrew the question.
Never Posed in Nude.
Mr.. Jerome questioned the witness
about her manner of posing for artists
and brought from her denial that she
ever posed In the nude. Many proto-
graphs of Mrs. Thaw were introduced
in evidence. Mr.. Jerome piled the
young woman with questions as TO
what disposition she had made of the
letters written to her by Stanford
White. Some. she said, had been de-
stroyed and some she had given to
her husband. Mr.. Jerome was assisted
materially in his cross.examination by
typewriter statements made by Mrs.
Thaw's mother and by Howard Nesbit,
her brother. He consulted the state
ments from time to time, and Mr..
Delmas let this fact become known to
the jury by remarking upon it.
Mr. Jerome's cross-examination may
require several days yet.
Mrs. Thaw Breaks Down.
New York, Feb. %. - Under the
stress of cross-eXamination in which
District Attorney Jerome gave no
quarter. Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
broke down yesterday upon the wit.
ness stand. With binding tears burn
Ing their way down cheeks which
from ashen white had flushed to Grim.
son, she admitted that after her first
experience with Stanford White her
relations with the architect continued
for several months. But this was not
all.
Damaging Confessions.
There were other confessions which,
while damaging to her own character,
accentuated all the more the terrible
personal sacrifice she is making in the
effort to save her husband from death
III the electric chair.
After bringing out that her relations
with White continued for some time,
Mr. Jerome went deeper. Mrs. Thaw
admitted that in 1903, after the return
from Europe, she spent the night at
Thaw's apartments in New York. and
that for three weeks he and she occu.
pied connecting apartments at the
Grand hotel in this city.
Defendant in Bad Light.
Mrs. Thaw made what was consider
ed her most damaging statement to
the defendant when she said he had
showed her copies of cablegrams that
were being sent to Stanford White
from Europe. asking him to use his in
fiuence with certain man in London
to prevent Mrs. Nesbit from raising a
fuss" and interfering with Evelyn con.
tinuing in the company of Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to admit
that when she and her mother went
abroad with Thaw in 1903 they were
still drawing upon the bounty of Stan
ford White.
Gay 'fe in Paris.
A letter written by Mrs. Thaw in
1904 and telling of her gay life in Paris
with Harry Thaw and bunch from
the Tenderloin" was read to the jury
by Mr.. Jerome. This brought out
more testimony as to the Dead Rat"
Partisan cafe. There seemed to be
nothing in the witness past life about
which the prosecutor was not inform
ed. He seemed to have been able to
trace every step, largely due, doubt.
less. to the typewriter statement of
the mother, which Mr.. jerome nearly
always holds in his hand while hurting
questions at the daughter.
Court adjourned until Monday.
Killed by Train.
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