New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-21

did your mother come for you every night? A
Q-To the ''FIorodora"? Ayes,
Q-And during that period ana you R aI any '
Before l met Mr.. White? 1T. ---,.,
Q-Yes. Al went 10 Rector's one night with
o"is that the only, time? A.That is the only
pSts at T tRe Bratre Awi think he did once
did you go home with him? Ayes. ~
Q.-Nou familiar with the Handwriting or
Q-I show You now this paper which I ask 10
signature on that is the signature of your brother
Howard Nesbit? Al think so.
Mrs. Thaw continued on the witness stand in
the afternoon. There were number Of visitors
in court. Justice Hirschberg, OF the Appellate
Division. Second Department, sat with Justice
FitzGeraId Other visitors were Deputy At
torney General William a. De Ford and Richard
Hazeton and T. NJ. Kettle, Irish Members Of
Parliament.
Mr. Jerome began by having a number OF
photographs identified by the witness Most Of
them, she said. were taken at the East I'D
street studio. Mr.. Jerome then produced a bum
die Of checks. Mrs Thaw identified seven Of
them as being indorsed by her, five of them by
her mother and one Endorsed in an unidentified
hand. The checks showed that the witness and
her mother were living at the Hotel Wellington
when the checks were received. They We're sent
y
were dated from July l. 1902. TO October l,
1902. and were all drawn on the Mercantile
Trust Company This was ONLY a few weeks
after the day Mrs Thaw said White had mall
treated her. Mr.. Jerome then asked:
Q.--Who was furnishing that money? A-stan-
ct made no impression on your mind all?
A.-No. I thought very little about IL, .,.u,
.9.You go, the 3, checks and inaoTsed '"e'''
Q-Every time that You ceased to play lost your
Trust T%p3gg IN gcretrv that You
question. because You say every time l lost my
o. mean every time that you were not acting,
during those weeks that YOU were not acJlns cur
week? Al think SO.
The District Attorney offered a second bundle
OF checks. extending from January Il to April
II of the same year which We're Endorsed by
Evelyn Nesbt. Then he asked:
Q-Were you ever Informed on or about Deem
s'derabIe sum 81 money 10 Wit. the sum Of s. $50.
had been deposited In The Mercantile Trust Com
written application they were % send YOU - q
wSeH l' 10 ~ i Isl Of January ia5 on the under
standing that your application for money out 81
playing or working. and that this fund should be
uLlr.' ,,isr s,i'r,- ,,Ien Won v-erc nor yyorx-
Cured?
There was considerable pickering as to the
length of the questions
Mrs. Tnaw finally said: Well. cannot state
positively about the date but I can say that I
was Informed of such thing"
Mr. Jerome read a letter. identified by the
witness. as follows.
Dear Sir; I have, not been woTlng the ,a, last
week and this. so will YOU kindly send my money
EVELYN NEsBIT
\ second letter. written by Mrs. Thaw. also
asking for money. was offered in evidence. 1t
read:
Bear s o haze Ts s0P 9 e5 Pa{F2 s Web week and F
ginning this Friday coming, until get another
i0s'''o'' EVELYN NEsBIT
Then Mr.. Jerome asked the witness If she had
not written the letter, and received the reply:
Il think it dictated by stanford White"
bv' Won ~ the dlcjation Of stanford Wa:te2 A
Yes. II does not sound Ike the way would write
do YOU think ENhlhtt 8 witch says: ,,.,.,.
on emo ms 81 s TI y %,i,l'S HIM NFSr
White? Al DONE think
sion thaT Exh6t 10 was wStten at the d@taton
Of Stanford White ana Exhibit was not a
with Stanford White Tie would dictate every let
ter that l or my mother would have TO write
Apparently much as;on'shed at the testimony.
Mr. Jerome Went on track al this point
and asked:
Q-Dld Won think that Stanford White told You
the truth when lie IA substance SAID that all women
and ondcavorcd to conceal it-tAose that We're not
% "yoH were past sixteen? Al was past sixteen
Q-Aud at the time Stamford White dictated to
aboriug under the belief that all women pruc-
ticalIv uuchaste, but clev5ry concealed it? A-les
Q-Aud when FIRST did YOU begin TO doubt that
proposition" A-Wheu went abroad. IN 1915.
go. until YOU went abroad with your mother
IN 1908. YOU stH believing that all women
that you came in contact with were UnChaste. but
$50 that. wnen YOU told your husband this
tale, this story mean no offence in the way l
made to your husband in Paris in l903in June. was
u-But up to that night that YOU told this story
your husband in Paris. in 1893. through the year
1901 and through the year 1892 and up To That time
how old were you then? Al think l must have
been eighteen.
Q.-Ninetcen to eighteen and a half And uutl
you were eighteen and half years OF age you
were firmly impressed with the belief that the
women that you were dealing and assoclating
with. that all women. were unchaste, only some
were unfortunate enough to have been found out?
,.Q-IIave. you read any works of fiction IN your
Q-What had You read prior 10 that time In 1892?
ADO you want me TO name every book ever
read.
Q.-No didn't ask YOU that. In a general way
had You read any of dickens? Ayes
Glad you read any OF Scott? A-No.
dad you had any kind OF instruction in the
Scriptures, the Bible. A.-Slightly.
Q.-IIad you been TO church at ann A.-sghtly.
Q.-Have you been TO Sunday school? A
Or what religious denominations were YOU?
odst Episcopal church. and once in 4 while to the
Presbyterian.
night I'm June, have any reason for rejecting him
other than your own unworthlness? A-No Sir