The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
She Breaks Down As She Ad-
mits Continued Relations
With Stanford White
HER HUSBAND Is NO LONGER
STORM CEN TER OF HIS TRIAL
In Her Effort to Save Him From the
Electric Chair She Bares Her
self to Public
Scorn.

New York. February M.-Under the
stress of a cross-examination in which
District Attorney jerome gave no quar-
ter, Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw broke
down today upon the witness stand. With
binding tears burning their way down
her cheeks, which from ashen white had
flushed to crimson, she admitted that
after her first experience with White,
her relations with the architect con-
tinued for several months. But this was
not ALL There were other confessions
which, while damaging her character, ac-
centuated all the more the terrible sac
rifice she is making in the effort to save
her husband from death in the electric
chair.
The case has progressed to the point
where the defendant has been all but lost
sight Of His girl wife is the figure about
whom the storm lashes its fury. She 1t
is whose life is being searched out, who
is being held up to scorn by the prose-
cutting officer.
Thaw, his face buried in his hands,
might easily have been out of the court
room picture today, and none would have
missed him. All eyes were upon the
witness chair and the slight figure in
blue who occupied it. Mr.. Jerome an
nounced that he probably would keep
Mrs. Thaw under fire for two more days.
Adjournment was taken until Monday,
although at one time Justice Fitzgerald
said to accommodate out-of-town wit
nesses he would hold court both tomor-
row and Saturday.
Secrets Hauled Out.
There was no subject affecting the wit
ness of so intimate nature that the
district attorney hesitated to haul it
from it's hiding place. and hold it before
the gaze OF the world, all the while re-
curing that she should recognize and
own the fault in her own words
When Mr.. Jerome was fiaying the wit
ness with questions as to her relations
with White, carrying her from place to
place, ana demanding that she tell now
every detail, and while bitter tears were
swelling to her eyes, two newspaper
women assuctomed to harsher scenes of.
life, left their places in the court and
made a hasty retreat out of the room, AT
last the prosecutor himself relented some
what and suggested that the proceedings
suspend.
Mr.. Delmas, who apparently thought
he detected unfavorable slant to
be able to proceed. Mrs. Thaw wiped
her eyes, stiffened up a bit and nodded
TO Mr.. Jerome to proceed.
After bringing out that her relations
with White continued for some time, Mr..
Jerome went deeper. Mrs. Thaw admitted
that 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 she occupied connecting apartments
at the Grand hotel.
Champagne Alike.
Mrs. Thaw admitted that the cham
pagne which she had declared had tasted
bitter the night she lost consciousness in
the mirrorred bedroom was no more Bit
ter than any other champagne she had
drank In fact, she declared 1t tasted like
al the rest She denied that she had in
tended for the jury to assume otherwise.
Mrs. Thaw made what was considered
perhaps her most damaging statement 70
the defendant when she said she had
showed her copies of cablegrams that
were being sent OF Stanford White from
Europe asking him to use his influence
with a certain man in London to prevent
Mrs. Nesbit from raising a fuss and in
terferring with Evelyn continuing in the
company of Thaw. Mrs Thaw was also
forced to admit that when she and her
mother went abroad with Thaw in 1903
they were still drawing on the bounty of
Stanford White. Evelyn declared that
she had a letter of credit for $500 $500
which was given to her by White. and
which she later turned over to Thaw.
There was still balance in the Mercan-
tile Trust company to her order also.
But mamma got all after that" said
the witness.
Mr.. Jerome dwelt for a long while upon
the subject of the cabegram which Thaw
IS said to have sent to White. He brought
out that the cablegrams were sent after
Thaw knew of the relations which had
existed between Miss Nesbit and the
architect Mrs. Thaw would not admit
that she knew positively who sent the ca
kilograms or whether her name was signed
TO them.
Cables to White.
"sureIv YOU don't mean to say that he
signed his own name?" remarked Mr..
Jerome.
"No. / don't mean that at ALL" she re-
piled
A letter written by Mrs. Thaw in 1904
and telling of her gay life in Paris with
Thaw and "bunch from the Tenderloin"
was read TO the jury by Mr.. Jerome.
There seemd to be nothing in the witness
mast life about which the prosecutor was
not informed. He seemed to have been
able to trace her every step. largely due
rouhtless to the typewriter statement of
the mother. which Mr.. Jerome nearly al
xvays holds in his hand while questioning
the daughter
In single spaced typewriting the state
ment seems to cover fully seventy-fve
pages.
The springing of sensations did not all
rest with the district attorney. Mr. Del
mas sent a genuine thrill through the
rourt room by declaring that he had
been informed it was the purpose of the
district attorney to indict Mrs. Thaw
Mr.. Jerome denied that any such state
n1ent had been made. He did not deny
4 the purpose.
.iose of the forenoon session when Mr.
EBerome. in an effort 10 make the defense
Ioroduce certain letters from Stanford
Vhite which Mrs. Thaw declared were in