The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-03-01
GAVE NO QUARTER
Jerome Mere less.y Probes Eve
Ign Thaw's east Life
REPUTATION Is SLASHED

latiOnS With White After First
MISUNDERSTANDING State
ments Forced From Her
New York, Feb. 26.-Under the stress
of cross-examination in which Dis
trict Attorney Jerome gave no quarter,
Mrs. Evelyn N. Thaw broke down last
Thursday upon the witness stand. With
binding tears burning their way down
cheeks which from ashen white had
flushed to crimson, she admitted that
after her first experience with Stan
ford White her relations with the archi-
tect continued for several months.
But this was not ALL There were
other confessions which, while damag-
ing to her own character, accentuated
ali the more the terrible personal sacri-
fee she is making in the effort to save
her husband from death in the electric
chair. The case has progressed to the
point where the defendant has been all
but lost sight of. His girl-like wife is
the figure about whom the storm lashes
its fury. She it is whose life is being
searched out and who is being held up
to Scorn by the prosecuting officer.
Thaw, his face buried in his hands,
might easily have been out Of the court
room picture and none would have
missed him. All eyes were upon the
witness chair and the slight figure
which occupied it. At the close of the
most eventful day of the trial, Mr.. Je-
rome announced that he probably
would keep Mrs. Thaw under fire for
two more days. Adjournment was
taken until 1day morning.
There was 40 subject affecting the
witness of so intimate a nature that
the district attorney hesitated to haul
from its hiding place and hold before
the gaze of the world all the while re
quiring that she should recognize and
own the fault in her own damning
words.
After bringing our that her relations
with White contir ned for some time,
jerome went deepe". Mrs. Thaw admit
ted that in 1903, ae+er the return from
Europe, she spent the night at Thaw's
apartments in NV York and that for
three weeks he and she occupied con-
meeting apartments at the Grand hotel
In this city.
Mrs. Thaw admitted freely and with
astonishing franl'ness that the cham
pagne which she had declared had
tasted bitter the night she lost con-
seriousness in the n.rrored bedroom
Swas no more bitter than any other
declared it tasted like all the rest She
denied that she hau Intended for the
Jury to assume otherwise.
Mrs. Thaw made what was consid-
cred perhaps her most damaging state
mont to the defenCPnt when she said
he had showed he copies of cable
grams that were beng sent to Stanford
W hite from Europe asking him to use
his influence with certain man in Lon
don to prevent Mrs. Nesbit from rails
ing fuss" and inter- ring with Evelyn
continuing in the company of Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to admit
that when she anG her mother went
abroad with Thaw n 1903 they We're
still drawing upon The bounty of Stan
ford White. Evelyn declared that she
had a letter of credit for $500 or $500
which was given to her by White and
which she later turned over to ThaW.
There was still a balance in the Mer-
camille Trust compa ny to her order also.
"But mama got ali of that" said the
witness,
Mr.. jerome dwelt for long while on
the subject Of cahlegrams which Thaw
is said to have sent to White. He
brought ont that the cablegrams were
sent after ThaW knew of the relations
which had existed between Miss Nesbt
and the architect. Mrs.. Thaw would
Hot admit that she knew positively who
sent the cablegrams or whether her
name was signed 10 them.
a letter written by Mrs. Thaw in 1904
and telling of her gay life in Paris with
Harry Thaw and "a bunch from the
Tenderloin" was read to the Jury by
Jerome This brought out more testi-
mony as to "The Dead Rat" Partisan
cafe. There seemed to be nothing in
prosecutor was not informed. He
seems to have been able to trace her
every step and this seems to have been
largely due to the typewriter state
ment of the mother he nearly ALWAYS |
holds in his hand while hurting telling
questions at the daughter. The state |
ment seems to cover fully 70 pages.
Received SIS Week From White
In continuing his cross-examination of |
Mrs. Thaw at the trial of her husband on |
Wednesday, District Attorney Jerome |
brought out the fact that in 1902 Stan |
ford White deposited the sum of S133O |
with New York trust company with |
instructions that it should be paid to the
NtSbit girl at the rate of S25 a week.
Mrs. Thaw admitted receiving a
number of checks from the trust COM
pany, but she would not admit that
there was a provision that she should
receive the money only when out of en-
p:oyment. The prosecutor spent near
ly the entire afternoon in trying to
make Mrs. Thaw admit that this was
true. but as often and in as many ways
as be put the question to her. she gave
necessarily the one answer-'I don't
Mrs. Thaw's inability to remember
number Of other things about which
jerome questioned her was by far the
most material element in the cross-ex-