Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-21
Counsel for Defendant Makes State
ment That There Have Been
Threats Against Her.
SHE HAS EMPLOYED COUNSEL
Witness Weeps as She is Forced to
Answer Question After Question
of Revolving Character-Tells
Her Life in Paris.

In one OF the most distressingly re-
voting scenes ever witnessed in a
court OF law, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
today went to the full limit of the
sacrifice she is making as the chief
witness on behalf of her husband
who is on trial for the killing OF
Stanford White. Today she felt for
the first time the iron OF cross-ex-
animation which District Attorney
Jerome said that he had hoped to
withhold. To those who had been
informed that the young wife of the
prisoner had been i'll before going to
court her ordeal seemed all the
harder The counsel had said that
she had eaten little more than cup
OF broth in two days. With this in
mind, remembering that she had
spent nearly seven hours under the
fire OF the examination, it seemed as
though the limit OF human endur-
ance might be reached at any mo-
ment, and that the witness might
break down utterly When the dis
trict attorney, assuming his most
gentle tone, asked her if she felt
able to 60 on, she brushed her eyes
with her handkerchief and said that
she could.
NEW YORK, February 21.-Tne climax
of sensationalism seemed to have been
reached in the Thaw trial today, when
District Attorney Jerome continued to lash
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw in a pitiless cross
examination. No secret of the woman's
past was too intimate for the district at
torney to make her lay it bare.
AS the district attorney barred her rela-
tons with White, Mrs. Thaw wept ut
terly. Thaw sat with his face buried in
his hands. Two newspaper women, used to
the varying scenes of life, left the court
room. Jerome wanted every detail. Mrs.
Thaw tearfully told all.
Story of Threats.
Toward the close of the morning session
Mr.. Delmas, of Thaw's counsel. stated that
threats by the district attorney to indict
Mrs. Thaw had been overheard in court.
Jerome denied any such statement had been
made in court. That was as far as he
would go.
Mrs. Thaw at this time had been tenn
porarily excused to allow the district attor-
ing certain of Stanford Whites letters said
TO be in his possession. Mr. Hartridge de-
clined to answer the questions put to him
on the ground that he had been retained
by Mrs. Thaw to protect her interests.
Thaw Acts Strangely.
Thaw entered the court room Immediately
after the jury without waiting to be for
mally called to the bar. His hair was
mussed and his manner was eager and
nervous. He carried a large pad of paper,
and after taking his seat prepared to make
notes of his wfe's testimony.
When Justice Fitzgerald had taken his
place on the bench there was a conference
among the attorneys, and it was decided
there would be no session tomorrow, Wash
ington's birthday.
When Mrs. Thaw was called to the stand
she glanced at her husband and smiled.
Then she turned to Justice Fitzgerald and
made a little bow to him, but the justice did
not notice her.
Consulted His Notes
Mr.. Jerome consulted his notes at some
length before beginning to question the wit
ness and finally called her attention to her
closing testimony on yesterday, in order
that she might pick up the strands of the
story where they had been dropped upon
adjournment.
did you continue to believe all women
were unchaste, Stanford White told YOU
until you talked with Thaw in Paris in
1903?' asked Mr.. Jerome.
Eyes, SIR" replied Mrs. Thaw meekly
Then the district attorney took a new
vein of questioning.
do you know a place called the Dead
Rat?"
YES"
"where is the Dead Ratr"
Place a Cafe.
somewhere in Paris"
"Have you ever been there?'
"Yes."
what sort of a place is it?'