Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-03-20
JEROME ATTACKS
THAW AND WIFE
PROSECUTOR HOPES TO CLOSE
RE8UTTAL.
OBJECTION TO HUMMEL
Delmas Declares That Testimony of
indicted Attorney Is Not Admissi-
bic Under the Rules of Evidence
Prosecutor Prepares Hypothet-
ical Questions for Experts.

New York, March 14.-After a
forenoon session occupied entirely
by District Attorney Jerome in
bitter denunciation or the defendant
and wife, the Thaw trial was ad-
journed shortly after noon yesterday
The prosecuting attorney found his
opportunity to attack Thaw and
Evelyn Nesbit in arguing on the
question Of the admissibility of tes-
timony which Abraham Hummel
the lawyer who is uuder indictment
for sUbornation of perjury in the
Dodge-Morse divorce case, had to Of
fer. 1t was to enable Attorney Del
mas, leading counsel for the defense,
to consult the authorities and frame
a reply to Jerome and also to allow
the latter an opportunity OF complet-
ing the hypothetical question which
is to be put to his experts. that the
early adjournment was ordered. Jer-
ONE said he hopes to close the rebut
tai for the people this evening.
During his argument yesterday
the district attorney asserted that
Hummel would swear Evelyn Nesbit
told him three days after her return
: from Europe in 1903 that Thaw had
beaten her cruelty because she would
not sign papers he had prepared.
falsely accusing White of having
drugged and betrayed her.
Says Evelyn Told Much More.
Jerome contended she mad told
much more, that Thaw seemed bent
upon putting White in the penitenti-
AIRY, that the statement that White
had betrayed her was not true, that
White had never harmed him, and
that Thaw was consumed with rage
when she refused to sign and swear
to papers containing lies against
White.
These things were put in the
form of an affidavit" declared Jer-
ONE, and that the affidavit was sub.
scribed to by Evelyn Nesbit when
she knew what she was doing and
what the paper contained.
I'VE want to show that the girl
who told this remarkable story here
on the witness stand swore et an
other time, under soIeT1nity of an
oath, that naked-stripped absolutely
naked-she had endured the lashings
and beatings of this defendant rather
than swear to his fake statements
tina White had drugged and ruined
her
Jerome argued that the material
point of the case is whether or not
Evelyn Nesbit told Thaw the story
of her alleged ruin by White. WITH.
out that story in evidence, he de-
clared, reason for the defendants al
legged insanity disappears. The pro
secutor plainly admitted the import
ance of young Mrs. Thaw's testimony,
and he said he wished by Hummel's
testimony to show her own repudia-
ton Of the charges which on the wit
ness stand she renewed against
White.
Thus" he concluded, "the jury
may infer from her own statements
after her return from Europe in 1903
whether or not she had within two
months of that time told the defend
ant the things she said she did
Objects to Hummel.
Delmas objected to Hummel as a
witness on the ground that his testi-
mony had to do with the truth or falls
ity of Mrs. Thaw's narrative and was
not permissible under the rules of
evidence. He will proceed with his
argument today. Jerome's contention
is that while he may not attack the
truth or falstiy of Mrs. Thaws state
ment that she was betrayed by White,
he can attack the truth of her asser-
ZION that she told the story to Thaw
at the time she says she did.