East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-20

New York. Feb. 2O.-The trial
opened at 1890. Evelyn was called
tc the stand. She displayed consider
able nervousness as she took the wit
ness chair.
Jerome presented a number Of pho
tographs taken of Evelyn when an
artists model and asked when they
We're taken. They discussed the pic
lures and the clothing In which she
posed. one was taken in a kimona
she said Thaw gave her In Philadel-
phia before coming to New York. She
never posed with more than her neck
and shoulders exposed At this juno
ture one of Jerome's assistants enter
ed with a great heap of photographs
of the former model the prosecution
is prepared to show her.
jerome asked Evelyn If she was
photographed or painted with her
breast exposed. She answered posi-
lively, never. jerome repeated the
question. Evelyn replied she was ccr-
tain she never posed with her breast
exposed and added, 81 always posed
with my clothes on.
Then followed discussion as to the
first publication OF the likeness which
was in the magazines I'm 1901.
jerome then took up the eXamina-
tion concerning II letters written to
Evelyn by White while she was abroad
in 1909. The letters are now in pos
session of Thaw's attorneys When
Jerome asked as to the presence in the
letters of indecent and improper mat
ter, Evelyn said she did not remem-
Der much about them.
At l1:40 the prosecutor began to
cross-eXamine her upon the story of
her ruin and tried to make her admit
discrepancies as to the time of night
Fails TO Entanelc Evelyn.
Jerome asked Evelyn about her
relations with James \. Garland,
whose wife was seeking a divorce the
spring of 1908. several months before
Evelyn met White. She admitted she
and her mother spent many Sundays
on Garland's private yacht. Jerome
posted himself from statement by
Eveyn's mother he held in his hand.
EVELYN told jerome her relations
with her mother were always pleas
ant up to the time of the quarrel and
said with startled manner, replying
to the question If she believed her
mother would sacrifice her for money,
that she thought If she was a victim
CT her mothers indiscretior 1t was
only matter of misiudgment.
jerome tried by every means to
pick flaws in Evelyn's testimony pre-
viously given, to unearth an apparent
case where two statements conficted,
but the witness was always ready
with an explanation and could not be
trarped. jerome asked II she was
correspondent ir the Garland divorce
case, but Delmas objected and the
question was withdrawn.
Story OF the "Pic Girl"
At this stage was brought in the
story of the "pie girl" by which the
defense expects to show Whites de-
bauched mental condition, and cold
bloodedness and heartlessness toward
his victims. The story was first re-
lated to Evelyn by White himself and
is now part OF the evidence.
"Cirls at the thcater first told me
the story. That night when White
came to my dressing room / asked
him about it. He seemed exceeding.
" proud and declared 1t the best
stunt he ever die at a supper. You
see," he told me- this girl was very
young-just Is. I had big pie made
and got live birds and put them in
with the girl. At the right moment
the pie was brought in and put on the
table. When the cover was broken