Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-20
THAW CASE
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ordered. Mrs. Thaw will resume the
stand tomorrow morning, and indica-
lions are that she may be kept there
throughout the day.
The reluctance of the district attor-
ney to subject Mrs Thaw to cross
examination again lent color to the
rumors that Jerome still contemplates
moving for the appointment Of a com
mission in lunacy to test Thaw's
state of mind at the present time.
Now that he has entered upon the
cross examination he seems deter
mined to make it thorough one.
/ There were evidences during the
afternoon session of ill-feeling exist
| ing between Jerome and Delmas. The
latter intends to protect Mrs. Thaw
in every possible way. He moved
from his accustomed place at the
Thaw counsel table to chair within
the rail where the district attorney
sits and directly in front OF Justice
Fitzgerald. as5.
Jerome informed the Californian
that it was not courtesy in New York
to interrupt an attorney when he was
stating an objection Delmas later
was objecting to a question put BY the
prosecutor when Jerome interrupted.
Delmas turned and with great sarcasm
remarked: II have been told it is not
courtesy in New York to interrupt
when an objection is being stated, q
and Jerome sat down. .s5
| Mrs. Thaw's cross examination prom
lses duel between the two attorneys as
well as between Jerome and the wife Of
| the defendant Thew seemed in a yerv
| cheerful frame of mind during the af-
ternoon, especially when Delmas was in
ssistlng that the cross examination Of his
wife should proceed The young man
grew more sober faced after Jerome
had begun to ply his questions in a way
that indicated a relentless search into
Mrs aThaw's past life. Jerome did not
even forget the incident of the cat and
the conductor who wanted TO NIT =
OFT the train. Mrs. Thaw had testified
that she told her husband Of, this in
cident in her early life.
Jerome also remembered that Mrs
lhaw had told of eating chocolate
cellars at her first dinner with Stanford
White. 1t wasn't dinner" pouted the
witness, 1T was supper In completing
| her direct testimony Mrs. Thaw had
told OF conversations she and her l,us-
bund had had regarding the fate Of 9th
er young women at the hands of Stan
ford White. One of these girls was
known as "the pie girl" She was fif-.
teen years old and wore only a gauze5
dress when she sprang from pie al 4!
stage dinner. 5s'21
| The witness declared that Mays.Mc-
Kenzie had told her that Stanford
White, when told she and Harry were
very happy together, had remarked !:
Pooh, it won't last; I will get her
f! back" s.s.5; Z 81
Harry Thaw's letter to Anthony Com
stock, describing three houses or studios
where he declared Stanford White and
other scoundrels' lured young girls,
was read. Among the places described
was house in West Twenty-fourtf
street where the velvet swing and mir
rored bedroom were located.
Mrs. Thaw identified AZ letters which,
she said were in the handwriting Of
Stanford White. The letters were not
offered in evidence but Delmas will at
tempt later to get them into the case.
Mrs. Game, who was the only other
witness Of the day, testified to over
hearing Harry Thaw ask Mrs. Nesbit
for her daughters hand in 1908. She
also testified as to how Harry Tlaw
acted when he saw Stanford White.
She declared he appeared angry, "as a
| man in the face of his enemy might ap-
pear? suggested Jerome on cross exam
ination, YES" replied the witness
blithely. De1nas asked if she did not
| mean that Thaw's conduct in the pres
ence Of White was Irrational" and she
said she did. To Jerome she again said
he appeared angry, however. Jerome
questioned Mrs. Game closely and
brought out many statements from her
with regard to Harry Thaw and Evelyn
Nesbit, among these was the fact that
Mrs. Nesbit had not accompanied her
daughter and Harry Thaw to Europe II,
1904, the second trip abroad. He also
got from Mrs. Game the fact that Eve
lyn Nesbit told her that an operation
which has figured 50 frequently in tfe
case was for appendicitis. Mrs. Game
testified that Thaw had told Mrs. Mes
bit he would provide for her and her
son always if she would consent to her
n daughters marriage fo him Mre Ma