Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-08
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which was then before her.
Courtroom Is Packed.

Again the courtroom was crowded
to its utmost capacity when the after
noon session opened. Several extra
rows of chairs had been put in, and
they were filled. So close did the
crowd press that the two long press
tables were surrounded leaving barely
elbow room
Harry Thaw was unusually pale as
he entered the courtroom. When he
had reached his seat he took up pencil
and paper and began to make notes
until his wife was again called to the
witness stand. Then he looked up at
her and the two exchanged glances
which seemed to have a world of
meaning in them.
MIR. Delmas was about to renew his
argument for the production of the
letter of Harry Thaw to an attorney
named Longfellow just after the Paris
incident when Mr.. Jerome said he
would withdraw his objection. He
first asked permission to read the let
ter. The letter first was offered at
the end of the morning session.
During this time Mrs Thaw gaZed
frequently at Justice Fitzgerald who
sat just at her right There was an
undeniable appeal in her eyes.
Letter Offered in Evidence.
The letter addressed to Attorney
Longfellow and which was offered as
tending to show Thaw's frame Of
mind was as follows:
Mrs. n. insisted sailing New York
when her daughter left l kept Mrs.
n. in London three months, cost over
$1,000. Mrs. Nesbit sails tomorrow
for New York. She thinks | kidnap-
ed her 17A-year-old daughter. Be
fore she lands she will know that I
have always done the best [ could.
The child cannot be with her mother.
because when she was 10 % years
old she was ruined by BLACKBOARD.
Don't worry, but find out her address
Telephone Mrs. n, but not in your
name Ask her if she saw Mr. Thaw
aboard. AS soon as she answers
hang up the phone"
On a slip of paper inclosed was
written:
"If you cannot read this, don't
worry. Please telephone her incog,
and wire me at my expense"
The letter was signed III. K. T."
Following the reading of the letter
from Thaw to Attorney Longfiellow,
Mr. Delmas offered another letter
written by Thaw. Mr.. Jerome, after
reading the paper, objected to it on
the ground that there was nothing to
indicate it's date. He contended it
should be shown that the letter was
written before Stanford White was
killed. Mr.. Delmas declared that the
letter was admissible as tending to
show a state Of mind regardless of
when it was written Mr. Delmas
finally said he would withdraw the
letter for the present
The witness also testified that when
Thaw returned from Europe she re-
fused to see him because she had
heard that he had put girl in bath
tub and poured scalding water ON her
Mrs Thaw also told Thaw that White
and Abe Hummel had shown her an
affidavit charging him with these
things which they had drawn up.
Great Crowd in Court Building.
The announcement that the mother
of Harry Thaw would be the principal
witness brought an unusually large
crowd to the criminal courts building.
The corridors were filled and scores
of people, many of them women, tried
in every possible way to force them
selves past the officers at the court
room doors, but the bars were put up
again and few were allowed to pass.
Justice Fitzgerald had just taken
his seat on the bench when Mr.. Del
mas of Thaw's counsel requested the
clerk to call Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
The familiar figure in blue, now for
the first time without her veil, appear
ed from the judges chambers. Mrs.
Tkaw took her place in the witness
chair calmly. She looked steadily
ahead at Mr. Delmas, and gave her
answers to his questions in a clear and
firm voice.
Mrs. Thaw's beauty was the subject
of comment in the court room. The
simplicity of her dress seemed to
heighten the effect. Her long, dark
lashes and heavy eyebrows were no.
ticeable for the first time to those who
have followed the trial
Mrs. William Thaw, the mother of
the young millionaire, will go before
the jury to tell the story of her boys
young days, of his fits of temper, and
will testify, according to the attorneys,
to the trace of insanity which has
lurked, it is said, for generations in
the family.