Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-02-19
THAWs COUNSEL
SPRINGS SURPRISE
By Recalling Defen-
dant's Wife to
Stand
SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY
Given By This Witness..-Je-
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New York, Feb. 19.--The usual
crowd, largely composed of LAWYERS.
hlled the court room when the Thaw
case opened this morning A de.
clded surprise was sprung by the de-
fense in recalling Mrs. Evelyn Mes.
bit Thaw to the stand Immediately
after court convened.
Identified Many Letters.
Mrs. Thaw examined and identified
forty-two letters handed her by Attor-
ney Delmas, as having been written
by Stanford White. She was nearly
half an hour in the task,
Told of Conversation.
After the examination Of the letters
was concluded Attorney Delmas
turned to the witness and asked her
If in May 1906, she had related to
Thaw the conversation she had with
May Mackenzie with regard to White
The witness said that Miss MacKen-
zie had said to White:
Harry and Evelyn are getting
along nicely together"
She said that White replied:
Pooh, it won't last long. I'll get
her back"
The witness said that when she
told Thaw of it he became very ex-
cited.
ThaW Paid for Operations.
The witness then told of another
operation in 1905 for which Thaw
paid the bills. amounting to $4,000
The nature of the operation was not
gone into.
Blamed White for Operation.
Mrs. Thaw said that Harry always
attributed her i'll health and the ne
cessity for second operation. etc, to
White. and she also testified that
Thaw told her he was going to take
up the White affair with Anthony
Comstock.
She said that she and Thaw had
discussed the fates of other young
women at the hands of White and
when shown codicil the witness
said that the names mentioned there
In were of those they had discussed,
"Pie Girl" Banquet Again
The witness said they also discussed
the fate of the "pie girl" which story
The witness said she had from White,
himself. She said that there was a
stag dinner and that this girl was
put in the pie with lot of canary
birds. She was very young, only
about fifteen years old In telling
he story she said White told her the
girl had a beautiful figure and wore
,nly gauze dress. He said he helped
,ut her in the pie and said that 1t
vas the best stunt he had ever seen.
When the girl jumped out of the pie
he birds flew all about the room,
Husband Cast Wife OF.
Later Mrs. Thaw said this girl was
married but when her husband heard
,f the dinner episode he cast her off
md she died in great want.
This closed Mrs. Thaws testimony.
Boston MiIliner on Stand.
Mrs. J. J. Cain, Boston milliner
vas the next witness called. This
testified that she had heard
Thaw ask Mrs. Nesbitts permission
0 marry Evelyn in 1909.
Related Theater Incident.
Late in that year or early in 1904,
drs. Cain said that she accompanied
Thaw and Evelyn to the theater.
White came in later and sat in the
'ox opposite them. The witness said
'haw Immediately turned white and
hat his eyes popped in a stare at
White.
Served as Eavesdropper.
During the cross examination this,
yitness told of hiding in bathroom
t the request of Mrs. Nesbit to over
ear what Thaw said. She testified
hat Thaw said that if Evelyn would
harry him he would settle enough on
1rs. Nesbit and her son Howard, toI
eep them forever
Mrs, Nesbit Was Willing.
She then testified that Mrs. Nesbit
old Thaw that she would try to fix
so that Evelyn would accept him.
Wanted Help in Making Match.
The witness said that after Thaw
ad gone Mrs. Nesbit asked her to
elp induce Evelyn to take Harry
haw for her husband. +
District Attorney Jerome In his
ross examination pursued his ques- q
ons at great length, asking Mrs.
aine to detail every time that she |
YER saw and talked with either
velyn or her mother or Thaw him
slf.