The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-02-09
EVELYN NESBIT THAW ASSERTS
WHITE PURSUED HER EVEN
AFTER HER MARRIAGE.
CHANGE MADE IN LINE OF EVIDENCE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME Oh
JECTs TO FURTHER "DEFA-
NATION OFTHE DEAD"

New York, Feb. 9.-Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw continued on the witness
stand during the day at the trial of
Harry K. Thaw, her husband, carry
ing forward the narrative of her life
from the point where she had left IL
of the previous afternoon
The story began with the period i'm
mediately following her return from
Europe in October, 1903, and was
brought down to the return Of the girl
end her husband to New York after
their honeymoon trip in 1905, when,
she said, Stanford White had called to
her on the street and attempted to
speak to her.
Mrs. Thaw added interest to her
vital story. She declared Harry Thaw
had accused her once Of having had
improper relations with Stanford
White after her return to the United
States, but she had told him 1T is a
lie, i have not.
= She said Stanford White had tried
to kiss her and had begged her to
come to see him alone, but she would
not. He cried and said she was not a
human being, but she told him she did
not wish to have anything more to do
with him. He had visited her after
her return from Europe on the pre-
text that 1t was matter of life and
death and had to do with her fam
lily. He told her "the dreadful stories
about Harry and that to protect my
self we must get him out of New York.
He then took me to Abraham Hummel
and they dictated lot of things to a
stenographer about Harry that were
not true. and when l started to inter
rupt they would not let me and said l
must help get Thaw out of New York
and keep him out
j1;G@ Admits Signing One Paper. :.
Mrs. %Thaw said she signed nothing
at the time. but did sign paper she
knew nothing about at Mr.. Whites
Office in response to his repeated de-
mands. She later asked for this pa
per, was taken to Hummel's office,
where they showed her a paper with
her name to it and agreed to burn
Il up. ~. 49,. @,os ~ -
Mr.. Delmas tried to question her
about some event in her life which
finally induced her to accept Thaw
and about visit she received from
Mrs. William Thaw, but under objec-
lions by Mr. Jerome the answers were
not allowed. so
After her marriage with Thaw, the
witness said, they took a trip through
the West While in Pittsburg, she
said, she had lived at the home of her
husbands mother. She related how
she had persistently refused to marry
Thaw before she finally did 50. Her
refusal, she said, was because Of her
reputation.
Il did not want to separate him
from his family" she said. II knew it
would be a good thing for me to marry
him, but it would not be for him. It
was because loved him that I would
not marry. If did not love him SO
much I might have been anxious to
marry him.
Referring to an attempt of Stan
ford White to meet her since her mar
riage to Thaw the witness said:
Anxious to Avoid White.
1T was on Fifth avenue one day
when was riding to DR.. Delavan to
have my throat treated. l was In q
hanson and Mr.. White was also riding
In hanson, too. When got home
told Mr.. Thaw that at about Thirty
fourth street had passed Mr.. White,
both of us in hansoms. He did not
attempt to speak to me, but stared
hard at me. When I got down to the
Doctors Office found Stanford White
In his hanson coming there. l ran
up the stairs, but I was excited and
nervous and I told the door porter
that would come some other time, so
ran back down the stairs, jumped
into my hanson, looked neither to the
right nor to the left and told the
driver to go back to the Lorraine as
quickly as ever he could. Harry was
always very excited whenever. told
him of my meetings with White. He
bit his nails and looked excited
At the opening Of the afternoon ses.
sion Mrs. Thaw testified that one day
in Whites studio Jack Barrymore
the actor, asked her if she would
marry him. She replied she did not
know. Mr.. Delmas then asked Mrs
Thaw If Thaw had told her the fate
of other girls Eat the hands of this
man White
Objects to Line Of Evidence.
District Attorney Jerome immediate
ly objected to any further "defa
, nation being thrown upon the
dead, who have no chance to answer
Justice Fitzgerald ruled that further
competent evidence as to Thaw's in
sanity SHOULD be introduced before
continuing the present line of .testi
mony and Mr.. Delmas declared lie
! was ready to submit the proof
The line Of evidence was then
changed and Mrs. Thaw was asked tc
identify more letters and documents
One of the papers submitted was
! Harry Thaw's will. Mrs. Thaw was
then temporarily excused and Mis-.