Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-25


newcomer, hesitated q moment, and then
said: Never"
you are surer' said Mr.. Jerome. threat
| eningly.
ITO the best of my knowledge. never
saw him before"
did you not go to him with Jack Barry
| more?"
mo"
DR.. Flint withdrew.
Mrs. Gaines Story.
Mrs. Thaw said she had first heard Mrs.
Gaines story about Thaw's proposal to her
| mother three weeks ago, when Mrs. Game
| told 1t to Mr.. Delmas.
Mr.. Jerome next asked the witness If she
had understood Thaw was paying honor
able court" to her. She declared she didn't
know whether Thaw had matrimonial in
| tentions during the first period of their ac-
quaintance not.
Trip Alone With Thaw.
Mr. Jerome then took Mrs. Thaw over the
| trip she made over Europe alone with
Thaw. She denied knowledge that Thaw
| and she had travelled as Mr.. and Mrs. Del
| lis Mrs. Thaw said that previous to tell
| ing her story to Thaw she noticed nothing
about him that she thought was mark
of irrationality, but after he heard the story
! he became very much excited and brooded
| over it, gradually growing worse.
When Thaw heard of the letter Of credit
| which Stanford White had given her he
became much excited.
HE said the money was filthy and poi
sonous. and that 1 must never touch it
again." said Mrs. Thaw. He said he
| would take it so 1 could not use it. He
| said that he would give me anything I
| wanted, and that if mamma wanted any
thing she would only have to ask for 1t.
The Letter of Credit.
when Mr.. White gave me the letter of
credit 1t was sealed up. I did not know
| what it was, and he told me 1 must not
open the letter until we were well at sea.
Whatever was used of the money was for
1 had given it to him.
Mr.. Jerome questioned the witness about
the cablegram sent to Stanford White from
London.
You knew your mother had complained
to the American embassy about your going
away with Thaw on a tour of Europe,
didn't your asked Mr. Jerome.
Il did not she replied.
The cablegrams,'' said Mrs. Thaw
were about my mother and man whose
name l gave you. That man happened to
be secretary of the American embassy,
and that is all the embassy had to do with
it. This man had sneaked up to my
mothers bed room when she was in bed
and insulted her,
Then the cablegrams had nothing to do
with your going off to Europe with Thaw?"
NO.
Could't Find Him.
Mrs. Thaw said this same man had in
suited her in London also. When she told
Thaw of the incident he went to the
man, but couldn't find him. Thaw was
not armed; he never carried a pistol ex-
cept in New York. She denied that Thaw
drew pistol in a Paris restaurant when
she was with him.
Mrs. Thaw said that when she arrived
from Europe she went to the Holland
House, but being unable to secure rooms
she went on to the Savoy. In answer to
close questioning she insisted that she
stopped nowhere else and did not use the
telephone.
Occasionally Hard Drinker.
In describing their lie IN Paris, Mrs.
Thaw said she found in the rooms some
peculiar looking needles which looked like
darning needles. She asked Mr.. Thaw
about them, and he said they We're old
stuff some one had left behind.
Mr.. Thaw had never written her about
them, she said, whereupon Mr.. Jerome pro-
duced one of the letters which the defense
had introduced, in which Thaw mentioned
the needles and explains that they were
not for morphine. The letter, however, is
one of those sent in Mr.. Longfellow's care,
and which was not delivered. She had
never seen the letter, she said, until it was
shown her by Mr.. Gleason
Thaw did not drink heavily in Paris, she
testified, except occasionally.
At this point the luncheon recess was
taken.