Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07
MRS. EVELYN 1HAN
IODAY'S WITNESS
Wife Of Defendant in Murder
Trial Unruffled as She Gives
Evidence
TELLS STORY OF HER LIFE
TELLS STORY OF HER LIFE
Details Of How White Caused Her
Ruin by Drussins Glass of Vino -
Witness and Women Spectators Shed
Tears During Recital of Mrs. Thaw's
Story.

0SOTys
New York, Feb. 7.-Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, wife Of the man charged with
the murder Of Stanford White, took the
witness stand today In defense of her
husband, and told the story of her re-
lations with Stanford White. the fa-
nous architect, who was killed by
Harry Thaw. The story was simple
narrative told in girlish way. and In
Its midst the young woman broke down
and cried and could proceed only with
difficulty. Her husband sat brave-
faced for awhile, then he, too, burst in
to tears, and buried his face in hand
kerchief. He sat thus for some time.
and when he again looked up his eyes
were red from weeping. st was in
September, 1901" said Mrs. Thaw, who
appeared but slip Of girl in the big
witness chair with her hair caught
low On her neck and tied with q big
black ribbon, when White invited me
s. to another of the parties / had attend
ed with him. I had been left to his
care by my mother, whom he had sent
to Pittsburg 1 was just past 16 years
old. This night, when got to Whites
studio in Twenty-fourth street. there
was not anybody there. White said:
well, well, they all seemed to have
turned us down.
He said, Never mind, we would eat
alone" Later. I said must go home.
He said he wanted to show me an
other part Of the house, and we went
into a. bedroom with mirrors all around.
Z fFe gave me more champagne Then
everything became whirly and black.
When came to, my clothes were all
OF. screamed and screamed, and he
kept telling me to stop, saying: It's
all over; it's all right
The girl told her story to the twelve
men in the jury box, she declared, Just
as she related the incident to Harry
Thaw one night in Paris in 1908, when
he had asked her to become his wife,
and ,she told him she could not.
y He pressed for reason, and She
then told him all. When she conclud-
ed, she said that he knelt beside her
picked up the hem of her skirt, and
kissed 1t. She had been sent to school
in New Jersey in 1902 by White, but
became i'll there, and had to be sub
mitted to operations, the nature OF
which the doctors did not tell her
Thaw came to see her at the hospital
and said she should be taken abroad to
recuperate. She went to Paris with her
that Thaw made his first proposal of
marriage. Going back. to her earliest
girlhood, she told the entire story OF
her life, how she was orought to New
York by her mother, and posed for
famous artists to earn money for the
family support. She also took a place
in the chorus of musical show, and
it was while there that she met White.
Mrs. Thaw was on the stand two hours
and her DIRECT examination had not
beer, concluded when luncheon adj
journment was taken. AS she walked
from the witness chair along the pas
sage.way back to the jury box, she felt
along the wall with the finger tips of
her left hand, as if about to faint.
From scarlet, her face paled to the
whi-eness of sheet. Except when she
broke down when going into the de-
tails Of her experience with White, the
girl spoke in clear, soft voice. On
the stand she appeared for the first
time. in court, unveiled, and her beauty
was remarked on all sides. 1t is of a
girlish type, mass of black hair
framing her face, with its daintily
moulded features. She was accompan-
led to court today by Mrs. Carnegie,
and May Mckenzie.
New York, Feb. 7.-While the Thaw
jury was on its way to court this NOR
nine; a man on the street called out:
Vote for Thaw." Captain Lynch, Of
the court police, Immediately ordered
the mans arrest. and he was brought
to court and arraigned before Justice
Fitzgerald. Lynch attached no Inn
porgance to the incident, saying the
man spoke simply 'as a smart Aleck."
The captain did not believe any of the
jurors heard the remark.
The announcement that either the
mother or wife of Harry K Thaw
would be the principal witness at to-
days proceedings brought out an un-
usually large crowd. Scores Of peo-
pie, many of them women, tried in
every possible way to force thmselves
by the officers at the court room doors.
but after yesterday afternoons laxity
the bars were put up again and very
few were allowed to pass.
However, half score of the
fair sex managed to succeed, and
they were attired in their gayest cos
tunes.
Justice Fitzgerald had just taken
his seat on the bench when Delmas
requested the clerk to call Mrs.
Evelyn Nesbit- -Thaw. The familiar