The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-03-03

was doing and she said she was with
Thaw. He was surprised. and asked her
what had changed her opinion of Thaw,
as In America she had. told him that she
could not tolerate Thaw. and that when
he sent her presents OF jewelry and things
to the theateT she returned them.
She told this man. according to ms eX-
PLANTATION, that while she did not care
great deal for Thaw. he had been KIND
TO her and her mother, and that he had
promised to marry her in two years and
educate her.
Finds Mrs. Nesbit Deserted.
The following day he called at the hotel
again He found Mrs Nesbit still in bed
and very much disturbed She showed
him a note which her daughter had left
for her In the note the young woman
said she was going motoring with Thaw
and that they would be gone for fort
night and Cor Mrs. Nesbit not to attempt
to follow them. The bill at the hotel had
been paid up to that morning and Thaw's
valet. Bedford, now dead had been left
behind ostensibly TO take care Of Mrs
Ncsbit But Bedford only had little
money Of his own and Mrs. Nesbit did not
have a very pleasant time. Finally she
was brought back TO this country by a
woman friend, Miss SimoutOD, who paid
fO- the steamer tickets.
This story is different from the one told
by young Mrs. Thaw on the stand. She
said that the representative Of the Amer
lean Embassy annoyed her mother and
/ Bedford was left with plenty of money
/ to take care OF her, Thaw paying all the
/ bills.
End Not In Sight.
! All next week will be taken up with the
/ trial. unless it is interrupted by the ap-
pOntment Of a lunacy commission. After
/ the cross examination OF DR.. Evans, DR..
/ Wagner. another of the defense's alien
/ ISIS, viii be cToss-eXamined. After that It
/ is probable that Mrs. William Thaw VIII
! go on the stand Then the final hypo-
/ thetlcal question will be submitted to DIS.
| Hammond and Jelliffe.
/ II Jerome puts IN a case in rebuttal hts
principal fight viii be made OF the afti-
davit which young Mrs. Thaw is said to
have made in the Hummel Office. In that
affidavit she denies that she ever told
Thaw in Paris the story about White,
/ bEt that she told Thaw II was not true.
This was a few days after she returned
/ from Europe where she had been with
4 Thaw in 1875
/ Jerome expects TO get the affidavit in as
/ evidence on the ground that Il has to do
with the vital question involved in the
/ trial Of whether she ever really told this
story TO Thaw.
Conviction Not Expected.
| That there win never be a conviction
is taken generally as a foregone conc!u-
sion. The hearing seems rather to be a
lpublic trial Of modern social conditions.
When the field has been exhausted of the
possibility of undertaking" it is gener-
ally felt that the jury viii be allowed TO
/ 90 out and there viii be a verdict Of some
sort returned. What this verdict may be,
{ however vital TO Thaw and his relatives,
/ IS of little real import to the spectators
and the curious generally who have fol-
lowed the developments Of the TRIAL with
unabatiHg interest.
! What happens 10 Thaw few care. II the
trial results IN the uptuming OF enough
"muck TO satisfy abnormal appettes
hungry FOR the sordid and base I'm life.
/ they viii consider an acquittal justified.
/ If not, they would agree with a verdict
against the defendant as a sort Of punish
ment because his trial did not develop all
4 the scandal they expected.
Not Concerned In Thaw's Case.
/ This Is the common view taken of the
/ case by those who know most about il
Through the.r constant attendance. So
/ far they have reveled in the awful con-
! feSSiOns of Evelyn Thaw. They anJici-
pate other sensations when Thaw's mother
+ takes the stand, and in Jerome's endeavOr
/ 10 contradict on rebuttal the testimony
OF Whites victim. through an eXamina-
ton of her chorus girl friends who know
other black secrets of Evelyn Nesbits life.
they expect to find the fun realization OF
( the sO-didEess their natures crave.
/ As the jury is only a small part CT the
public. IL is SAFE 20 infer that the members
are. in measure at least. subject TO the
same feelings and prejudices which the
public generally enteTtains.