The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22

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person was bad"
You have letters from here?"
Yes"
viii Show Letters.
will you produce them2"
Yes"
At this point the customary ten minute
recess was taken to air the court ROOM
After the recess Mrs. Thaw told of
going to various lunches ana suppers at
the Twenty-fourth street house and to
the Madison Square tower room. She
often went alone in a carriage, trusting
to Whites promise that there would be
others there. She did not go often to the
Twenty-fourth street house, White hav-
ing largely abandoned that place because
he told her actresses who had been there
had told about it "all over town"
Were there impropriettes at these lun-
cheons and suppers? asked Mr.. Jerome
Il don't remember anything very bad.
There was some stories told
Looking back little now, do you re-
member any improprieties?"
Looking back a little now, none OF II
seems pleasant"
WAS their conduct worse than Miss
Winchester's cakewalk in the Dead Rat?"
cakewaIk at "Dead Rat"
cakewalk in the Dead Rat You are
| mistaken about that"
WAS it in the Cafe Paris2'
"Yes-she was professional dancer"
Was the dance indecent?''
81 would not make such a broad state
ment as that. l don't think it would have
been allowed on the stage
Was Stanford White present at all the
parties you attended in 1902 and 1902"
Not all of them"
Mrs. Thaw told of going to supper
as the guest of Frances Belmont.
"She was an actress asked Mr.. Je-
rome.
well, she was on the stage" replied
Mrs. Thaw. "she was in Florodora."
Mrs. Thaw said that on her 10Th birth
day, December %, 1903. Mr.. White was
to give supper for her at the Tower
room. White went to the Madison Square
theatre where she playing the ngiht
before but she quarrelleh with him and
he went away. Later he returned, but she
had not yet decided to go with him. He
went away again and later Thaw came
to the stage door for her
'fHe was in an automobile =" asked Mr.
Jerome.
mo. I think it was a carriage
Are you sure?
| No; but l think So
In Carriage.
WAS there anyone else in the car
riage?"
| Yes one man and one woman"
| "a man named Bowman. doorkeper at
| the theatre, who testified early in the
trial. said that White returned to the
| theatre later and fourishing a revolver,
f, threatened to kill Thaw and also stated
! that TlIaw arrived in an electric automo-
| bile and was alone)
WAS there a man by the name of
Kennedy standing outside the stage door
hot t,fpbt wit
Mr. Jerome
II never heard of any Kennedy"
Hadn't Thaw told you he had employed
! two detectives because of Winter"
mo-
You went to Reetors from the theatre
that night?"
/ Yes"
And left there about a. MP
81 don't know what time it was"
! Had there been much wine drunk?"
Yes"
"At that time it was your custom to
drink considerable wine with your
meals?"
Yes. at that time in 1908"
Ibid Thaw drink a good deal?''
Yes"
WAS he easily affected by wine?"
Not particularly 81
AFTER leaving Rectors did you not go
to house on West REIMBURSEMENT
! street,"
NO"
when you came out of the Twenty
seventh street house, didn't you see Ken
nedy and the other man standing out
side?"
I've already told you we did not go
TO any Twenty-seventh street house. so
how could I see anybody coming out?"
well. were you in SUCH a condition
that your mind was clouded?'
! NO"
Not Intoxicated.
Were you intoxicated?"
Did you have to be assisted out OF
Rector's?'
NO sir"
where did you go after leaving Rec.
tor's?'
somewhere off Central Park, west"
"Where were you living then?'
"At the Audubon"
"Was you then receiving money from
Stanford White?'
mot them
Did not White give you a letter of
credit for your trip to Europe, and wasn't
some OF that left?"
MY mother got that"
Whose apartment was it that you
went tor"
Mr.. Thaw's.'
Did you remain all night?'
! Yes"
when did you return home?"
Next day."
Did you have any quarrel with White
! about that?'
NO"
'When did you move to the Grand no.
tel?'
! II think it was few days later.
What name did you register?
| 'I did not register
Were you alone?'
At Thaw's Apartments.
MY maid was there. Mr.. Thaw was
| in the same hotel.
| Where were your rooms? ~.
| ION the second fioor?
| "Where were Thaws rooms?
| con the same floor.
| "Did they connect with yours?"
Yes"
| Mr. Jerome changed his line and took
| IN the 1903 trip in Europe Mrs. Thaw
! said she and her mother and Thaw Wis
| tied Paris and Boulogne and then went to
! London Then there was quarrei and
| Mrs Nesbit remained in London While the
| witness and Thaw made trip through
| Europe Mrs Thaw's description of the
| nlaces visited was somewhat vague. At
one time she remembered seeing "a pretty
mountain" and at another time they WIS.,
| tied "a town where 1 got some cheese
| that was very good
| while you were in Austria did you
| spend some time in an old castle MIA
| Thaw hired?'
| yves. about three weeks.
| Were you well all that timeE