The San Francisco call., 1907-02-19

/ viii or codicil regarding Stanford
! White?' asked Delmas.
DELMAs Is SUSTAINED
DR. Evans picked UP the viii.
Wait" called out Jerome II OBJ
ject 70 your looking at the documents.
You have seen them and have testified
to them"
Delmas said that DR.. Evans had the
right to look over the papers and was
sustained He handed the will to DR..
Evans
Now, I withdraw ny question" said
Jerome.
Then we withdraw our papers"
said Delmas. The District Attorney re-
sumed:
Doctor. without rereading these papers can
you state whether not there is apparent de-
lusion regarding White?
1 don't say that there is, but there is de-
Z luson both in the viii and the codeil.
That is not an answer.
Jerome asked the question over and
over again.
Delmas objected to Jerome's course.
Il don't think that he has the right to
/ continue this system because the wit
ness does not answer as the District
Attorney wants him to-" he protested.
JEROME IS FACETToUS
He has answered as 1 wanted" Je-
rome declared.
Why do you keep repeating the
question. then?" asked Delmas.
Because I don't want him to fall
into a hole without seeing the hole
4 There was general laughter
Jerome then asked again if the viii
or codicil showed apparent delusion.
The witness answered half q dozen
times" Interrupted Delmas.
Jerome asked the witness to point
out in the viii a single systematized
delusion. DR.. Evans started to read.
SHOUTS AT WITNESS
Don't do that" commanded Jerome.
You told me to-" said DR.. Evans.
I did not"
Justice Fitzgerald ordered the orig
inal question read and then ruled that
/, the witness had the right to read from
the viii in replying to the question.
DR.. Evans then read what he called
: paragraph s. 1t provided in part:
In case other than natural death. or if any
; suspicion attaches TO my taking of, or If
should be made away with, direct that my
of $50 900 for an investigation Of the circum-
stances and for the prosecution Of the guilty
persons.
; If additional sums were needed the
a executors were directed to use them.
rs that an unsystematized delusion?'
> asked Jerome.
"One statement does not make a sys-
tem," retorted DR.. Evans.
WILL CODICIL READ
: Delmas, when Jerome finished his
examination, offered the codicil in evil
! dence. Jerome objected.
] There is in this Will a reference
! to third document, signed and sealed
at the same time, and all three must
] go in at the same time" Jerome con-
: tended.
I'VE have proved" replied Delmas
e that this paper was in existence long
before June 25."
Delmas read the codicn. It be-
, queathed $500 to Rodney P. Marshall
D Of Pittsburg to be used all or in part
s in obtaining legal redress from Stan
7 ford White and one other person whose
3 name was not mentioned, in favor OF
four young women, and who, the codici
e declared, had been ruined by Stanford
White in a house in New York fur
nished and used for orgies by Stanford
White aud other inhunan scoundrels.'
The separate circumstances of the al
e legged degrading assaults upon the -four
q young women were mentioned in the
codicil. One of the young women was
declared TO have been acting in Lew
Fields theater at the time. The cod
. icil also left to Rev. Charles II. Park
E hurst, Fred w. Longfellow and An
!, thony Comstock sumo of s2500 each fol
the same purpose Of securing evidence
: OF any assault by Stanford White ant
obtaining redress for the victims
THAW,S WILL ADMITTED
z Delmas next offered the entire viii
Of Harry K Thaw, and there was nc
: objection by District Attorney Jerome
The instrument was read in fur BY
e ] Delnas, but the recipients of ordinary
e / bequests were not mentioned by nam.
by the attorney.
n After disposing Of various persona
effects and trinkets the will in its fiftl
section leaves to Mrs. Evelyn Thav
$4,000 in lieu of dover and establishe.
a trust fund of $50, 900 for her. 1t alsc
n provides an annuity OF $500 for Howard
Nesbit. The viii leaves various sum.
to servants and friends and the residu,
y goes into a trust fund, from the in
3 come of which shall be paid to hi.
wife $4,000 a year. Should she re
n marry, however. this income is to b,
S reduced to $4,000 year.
The item of the will which provides
!. a fund of $4,000 for investigation ant
: prosecution in case the testator shouIt
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