Evening journal., 1907-02-20


BY Our own Wire. Publishers Press.
NEW YORK. Feb $3.50 keen was
interest in the trial to-day that those
spectators fortunate enough to get I'M
to the court room refused TO leave dur
ing the noon recess and crowds block
ed the corridors this afternoon.
When he reappeared in the court this
afternoon. Thaw carried note book
Evelyn was recalled to the stand
Jerome again referred to photo
graphs of Evelyn. He shaved her
four new pictures. two Of which were
OF Evelyn posing on a polar bear skin
rug. she Identified these as having
been made tho day preceding the night
Of her alleged ruin by White. Two
other pictures. showing tiger skin.
she could not positively identify as
having been made at that time
The Photographs she Identified she
testified were taken In a studio al No
i22 East Twenty-second street white
was present. she said. when they were
taken.
Jerome asked II any OF the photo
graphs taken that day were any more
improper than the ones displayed
which showed Evelyn Ia kimona. She
answered that she had posed for some
pictures in white draperies showing
the neck and the arms bare.
Il have. an the pictures in a book
which stanford white gave me-" Eve
llyn said. This referred to the famous
volume of pictures White is reported
10 have had made showing Evelyn In
favorite poses. the plates Of which were
destroyed after a few copies had been
made White Is reported to have
paid several thousand dollars for this
book
"Win you please bring that book to
court with you tomorrow" asked
Jerome.
she promised. and chrome passed the
photographs TO the jury. A series Of
checks. presumably those with which
]
lpaid Evelyn Nesbit s25 weekly while
she was out Of employment, was shown
to Evelyn. She identified the endorse
ment on the backs of seven OF the
checks as being her own. Five bore
her mothers endorsement, while she
insisted she did not know whose en-
ldorsement were on the other checks.
GOT MUCH MONEY FROM WHITE.
Were you living with your mother
a tthe Hotel Wellington. in May, 1902,
and receiving funds by check weelSlyg
asked Jerome.
Il am not certain about getting them
weekly"
; Would you get these funds from time
otime If not weekly?"
/, Yes"
Jerome handed her one Of the checks
and asked her II Il was the customary
form in which the money came.
, Delmas objected TO the phrase
customary form" and chrome then Of
[, fered all the checks in evidence Il
! show that there was a "customar!
form"
They were al drawn on the sam
!, bank. with the same payee and signe'
!. by the same person, were they not?
Yes"
!, Jerome then INTRODUCED seven othe
" checks some for thirty and some 70
J., fifty dollars drawn from July to Qcto
Der. 1902 They showed that Evelyi
= was still living with her mother at tn
Hotel Wellington when she got thes
checks
"Now 7 viii ask you II you did no
h draw from sks Mercantile Trust Com
pany Sa5 every week during 1902 whe'
you ~erc not playugg
yes"
and who paid this money!
stanford White"
u did you get from the Mercantii
Trust Company any sums OF s25 OF an
= norton, OF that sum during the perlo'
e when you were acting?"
- No"
= Eevelyn did not seem to catch n
L drift Of Jerome's questioning and IA
4 prosecutor could not get a satisfactor
T answer.
= Jerome then showed Evelyn a lette
purportinS to have been written BY he