The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-22

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1T outraged every maiden instinct
in you. didn't it, 1T did. and that
is why / quarreled with Stanford
| White
| You were very bitter against
White when You told Thaw, weren't
| YOU" Not then
When you felt you We're giving up
| Thaw's love. you did not feel bitter
against White2' Not intensely. Not
| until Mr. Thaw made me realize it."
You remember writing TO Stan
ford White from Boulogne," yes. !"
| How long was that after you left
| Paris? 90 Il don't know"
Did you still feel bitter against
| White" Yes, | did
1T was feeling Of enmity against
your ravisher?" 4 wouldn't say en-
mity--it was hostility against him for
| this nne thing and subsequent things"
What subsequent things?" Things
with Stanford White replied Mrs.
Thaw.
Were they improper and indie
cent?" II don't know what you
would call them
"You still were thinking Of these
things when you wrote White from
Boulogne?" Yes, and Of his ex
traordinary personality"
His personality had softened the
feeling, had it," asked Mr.. Jerome.
In one way 1t had-in another it
hadn't
Then why did you write that let
ter to White?" demanded Mr.. Jerome
fercely. Because my mother would
give me no peace until l did It, Mrs.
Thaw raised her voice ~ she made
this reply.
You were coerced into writing?"
sTe9. / vas. ny mother said | was
unarateIpl 10 NJ. White, sno thias<
like that
Had you any occasion to doubt the
chastity of your own mother" Il
never thought of my mother in that
way" Mrs. Thaw stamped her feet.
Did you tell your mother OF your
ravishment while abroad?' No"
How did you know Stanford
Whites friends knew OF your rela-
ton with him." "One of them saw me
with him at the East Twenty
street studio"
Was there any improperly there?"
Yes"
$50 you continued to maintain re-
lations with Stanford White after your
rayishment 81 Yes, for a time
Thaw buried his face III his hands.
Tears were in Mrs. Thaw's eyes and
in her voice.
did you tell Harry Thaw about
these subsequent relations with Stan
ford White2" Yes"
Can you fix dates as TO these sub
sequent eventso'' No
How did you know this man knew
of your relations with White?' He
saw me addressed in the bedroom
under the studio"
Wholly undressed?" Yes"
And this was about month after
your ravishment with drugs" Yes"
How long did the relations con-
tinue?' Not after January, 1902"
Where did these things occure"
Eat the Twenty-second and Twenty
fourth street studios and in the
tower
And on these occasions, you con-
sented?" 81 did not"
1T was done by violence?"
Partly"
Were you drugged again. No"
Did you have too much wine?"
Yes
What time of the day did these
incidents occuro" Usually after the
theater'
"On the first occasion. where did
you go?" ITO the Twenty-foursn
street studio
You went from the theater?"
Yes"
"Alone?'' Il do not remember
Either alone, or with Whitea"
Yes"
And this was within month after
your ravishmente" Yes
Did You go of your own accord?"
Il objected to going"
"Why did you go them" Il had to-"
WAS your mother back them"
Eyes"
You were on friendly terms with
her and were living with herr" Yes"
Did she meet YOU after the
theater." Not that night
when White came to the theater
that night what did he say" .He
did net come to the theater, he wrote
me: he met ne afterwards.
why did YOU go with him." BE
cause he insisted
And you didn't want TO gos" Il
wanted to go to supper"
As Jerome continued TO question
her intimately about her relations
with White she cried bitterly. One
of the newspaper women left the
room.
The witness was rapidly losing her
self-possession and as Mr.. Jerome con-
tinued to ply her with delicate inter
rogations. she broke down and went
Thaw kept his head in his hands,
leaning far over on the table in front
of him.
I'VE might take recess as the wit
ness SEEMS Mr.. Jerome began
Mr.. Delnas objected IF there is to
be a recess it's not to be on account
OF the witness. I think she viii he
able to go on The cross-examina-
tion proceeded.
When YOU went to Paris in 1903
you told Mr.. Thaw all tfis?" asked
Mr. Jerome returning to the real re-