The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-15
DON'T BELIEVE
EVELYN'S STORY
Says White Was Not with Her on
Night She Claims He
Ruined Her.

NEW YORK, April 15.--,The most I'M
portant allegation which District Attorney
jerome during the trial Of Harry Is, ,Ihaw
was called upon 20 disprove was the one
made by Evelyn Nesbit Thnw under oatn
that .she had been drugyed and assaultea
by Stanford White In a studio III West
Twenty-fourth Street. She testiiled thae
while she was In Paris in 1903 she toiu
Thaw Of Whites wrongdoing ana tnat
thereafter he broodcd over 1t cohtiil"ally'
Tho defense claimed that this continuous
brooding resulted in the brain storm
during which Thaw killed White.
Neither Mr.. Jerome nor his assistant,
Mr.. Caravan, who prepared the prosecu-
tions case against Thaw, believed the
story sworn to by Evelyn was true. Mr..
Jerome was not permitted under the
rules of evidence to introduce testimony
which might tend to contradict any OIL
the statements made by Mrs. Thaw upon
the witness stand about tho story she
told to Thaw while they were living III
Paris and before they We're married
Mr.. Jerome's Evidence.
~ IS known that had Mr. Jerome
becn permitted by Justice Fitzgerald
to Introduce evidence along certain
limo he would have attempted to prove
that the story told by Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw about her having been drugged
and assaulted by White was an abso-
Lutte falsehood. or course, this would
not have proved that she had not told
the story to Harry Thaw in Paris.
The evidence in possession of the dis
trict attornet is as follows:
After Mrs. T,haw had testified at
great length and in minute detail about
the occurrences In connection with the
Nfs, T1~
amined her. The young woman was
unable to give the date of this alleged
occurrence, and could not come within
three months OF fixing it. She said
that it was either in September or
October or November. 1001. She further
said under oath that she was positive
that the drugging and assault on her
took place on the day following an
engagement she had with Stanford
White to pose for pictures Mr. Jerome
produced a rumSer of photographs OF
Evelyn, among which were three in
which she is shown resting upon a
bear rug, and she picked these pictures
out as the ones taken on the day
her.
Mr.. Jerome has in his possession
Information that these pictures were
taken by Rudolph Eickemeyer. pro-
fessional photographer at that time
connected with the Campbell Art Com
pany. The plates were sent for and
their numbers obtained
The books Of the art company
showed that the pictures were taken
on Monday, November 4, 1901. There
fore, the assault must have occurred,
if the statement OF Evelyn was true,
Oh the night of November S, 1901.
Night Of Jerone's Election.
Mr. Jerome will never be able to
forget that night. It was the night
of his election to be district attorney.
He has in his possession what he be-
ljeves to be positive proof that Stan
fcrd White was not with Evelyn Mes
bit that night, for the friends Of STAN
trict attorney what he considers to be
q complete alibi 1or the architect for
that evening.
Mr.. Jerome had the names as well
as the statements of many prominent
persons who spent election night with
Stanford White and Mrs. White, the
architects wife, who were entertain
ing friends. After dinner they went
to Madison Square Garden, where they
received the election returns until after
midnight. after which they all went or
walked UP Broadway. and later on ac-
companicd Mr.. and Mrs. Stanford White
to their home II these statements are
true-nnd Mr.. Jerome believes every
word OF them--n perfect alibi could
have becn established for White for
the very night that Evelyn Nesblt
rhaw alleges she was assaulted by him.
Mr.. Jerome believes that II he is
permitted at the next trial of Thaw
to present these facts before n jury
tho value Of Mrs. Thaw's testimony for
her husband will be destroyed.