Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-02-27
mrs. ] 4 THAN AGAIN.
Lays Bare Much o if Her Past
life in I testimony
RECEIVED MUCH FROM WHITE

q Collapse Cana When Noon Recess
Was Announced and She. Was
Taken to The Witness Room Miss
Mackenzie Revived Her With
Smelling Salts. z.
New York, Special,-Under the
stress Of q cross examination IN which
/ District Attorney Jerome gave mo
qnartres, Mrs. Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw
broke, down upon ethe witness stand.
With binding tears burning their way
down cheeks which from asheil white
had flushed to- crimson. sshe admitted
that after her frsts experience with
Stanford White her relation with the
/. architect continued for several
monihs.=Bnts this was ;notzaH There
we're. other confessions, which, while
damaging to her t:vn character, ae-
centuated all the more the terrible
personal sacrifice she,ls makinggtinathe
effort to save her husband from death
In the electric chair,
After bringing out that ner rela-
. tions with White CONTINUED for some
tint, lfT. Jerome went deeper. Mrs.
Thawadmitted sha t IN 1903, after>the
return from Europe she spent the
night at Thaw's apartments IN New
York and: that for three weeks he
: and S-she occupied connecting apart
ments at the Grand Hotelain this city.
Mrs. Thaw admitted freely and with
frankness that the champaismes WHICH
she had declared had tasted bitter
the night She lost consciousness in the
! mirrored bed room was no more bit
ter than any other champagne she
had drunk. In fact she declared it
tasted like all the rest. She. denied
]. that she had intended for the jury to
assume otherwise.
Mrs. Thaw madeswhat was consid-
cred perhaps the most damaging
statement to the defendant when she
said he had showed her copies of
cablegrams that were being sent to-
Stanford White from Europe asking
him to use his influence with a GER
tain man In London to prevent Mrs.
Nesbit from "raising a fuss and
interfering with Evelyn continuing In
the company Of fhaw.s x = y
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to: ad-
& NIT that when. she and 5her mother
went abroad with Thaw In 1908 they
were still drawing upon the bounty
of Stanford White. Evelyn declared
4 that She had aletter of cerdit for
8$$4O0 or. $500 which was given sto her,
fzS bySsW White, and which she later{turned
,$otver to ThaW. There was BALI
anee in the Mercantile Trust Com
.pany to her order. j
Bnt Mama got all of that said
e: die witness. .5.;s ~
"a recess was AIKEN until Monday.
Trial Resume
The trial alswas resumed on Monday.
s Expert testimony was taken to prove
Thaw insane. ri never wanted to
shnot the creature. 1 never wanted
: 90 kill him. i knew he was q foul
creature, destroying the mothers and
: daughters of America, hut ] wanted
through legal means Ito. bring him TO.
trial: I.wanted to: get. him into court
10 bring him to justice. But Pro
vidence took charge of it; it was an
act of Providence
This is Harry K. Thaw's own story
Of the killing of Stanford White. 1t
was told by him to DR.. Britton D.
Evans, the alienist, last August in
the Tombs. DR.. Evans repeated. the
prisoners words to III; jury which
is tring Thaw for his life.
District Attorney jerome fought
! hard last week against the introduc-
ton of this evidence, which the de,
tense believes is conclusive : proof.
that Thaw did not know his*act was,
wrong. Once the testifying physi;
: clans had declared that in their opin-
ion Thaw was insane at the time he
made the statements to them, how
ever, the rules Of evidence. permitted
the Introduction of the prisoners
words.
Mrs. Thaw ross-Examined.
New York, Special.-In continuing
his cross-examination of Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit @Thaw at the trial of her hus-
band, District Attorney Jerome,
brought out the fact that in 1902,
Stanford White deposited the sum of
$1,350 Tith New York trust COM
pany with instructions that it should
be paid to the Nesbit girl at the rate
Of $25 alweek: Mrs. Thaw frankly
admitted receiving number OF
checks from the trust company, but,
she would not admit that there was
a provision that she would receive
the money only when out of employ
ment. The prosecutor spent nearly
the entire afternoon in trying to make
Mrs. .rhaw admit that thisy.was true,
but as often and in as many ways he
put the question to her, she gave the
one answer: RI don It remember -
Mrs. Thaw's inability to. remember
a number of other things about which.
Nj. Jerome questioned her was by
far the most material element jim the
. ~ =
cross-examinaticn.> The district Fat
torney edelyed into the witness past
life with: as:familiarity sas to- details.
and az store: Of general; nowledge
which at times seemed -to anna zeSall
who heard, not excepting the defend
ants counsel themselves,
Mrs. Thsw S. Male sAcaEa aintanees.
=. -
MI. Jerome indicated early in the
questioning that he had no DISPOSE
ton to spare Mrs. Thaw's feelings in
*any. wa whatsoever. He interrogat-
sed her most pointedly as to her men
acquaintance of the past. He laid
especial stress upon her acquaintance
ship with James Ar Garland; who fig
ured for Sthe first time inF thescase.
: Mre Tbou said che knew Garland