Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-09

| ny WAS ISiIlUiG. Il6 SODUSu anu
walked the floor and stayed up all
night. sitting in room and talk
ing it over
her husband who asked her: "Are you
all right?" She answered yes" and
the party soon afterwards left the
| cafe. The witness said she had not
seen the note since.
did what you write refer to
White?" counsel for the defense ask.
ed.
District Attorney Jerome objected
on the ground that the note itself was
the best evidence. Later evidence re-
lating to the note was stricken out
"An incident With White"
Mrs. Thaw said she refused to mar.
Try Thaw in Paris in 1903 because of an
incident in her life connected with
White. She gave testimony corrobor-
ating the other witnesses as to the
details of the shooting.
Tells Of Meeting White.
Mrs. Thaw said she met Stanford
White at luncheon in 1901 She
thought him very big and ugly" The
party to which she was taken was
''in dingy oath street house." The
luncheon to which she had been in
vited was in private apartment
sumptuously furnished and fitted up.
She Had Been Told.
II was told in advance l was going
to luncheon with some society people
and had hoped it was at the Waldorf
Astoria as l wanted to see that hotel
she said.
The Mirrored Bedroom.
Mrs. Thaw testified that White sent
her mother to Pittsburg and then took
her to one of his studios, where she
dined alone with him. She also told of
an experience with White in his mir
rored bedroom.
She screamed and screamed, but he
said, cts all over"
81 sat up all night after he had taken
me home
Both Thaws in Tears.
Mrs Thaw broke down and cried.
She could hardly proceed as she re-
lated her experience with White.
Thaw sat with his face buried in his
handkerchief.
Mrs. Thaw said when she told Thaw
at the time he proposed to her in Paris
a Of her relations with White, Thaw got
+ down on his knees, picked UP the edge
v Of her dress and kissed it.
n White Held Fat Loathsome.
e White made Mrs. Thaw promise she
J. must never tell her mother. Gle said
d it was all right" she testified in tears,
chat there was nothing so nice as
9 young girls: nothing SO loathsome as
II fat ones. You must never get fat"
Mrs. Tnaw said she told Thaw she
could not marry him, for White would
n always know and would laugh at him
). and talk. This was the second time
!. Thaw proposed. She said the effect of
>. her story OH ThaW Was terrible. He
n sobbed and walked the floor and stay.
a ed up all night, sitting in a room and
!, talking it over.
r Underwent Operation.
l. Mrs. Thaw says she became i'll at
O school early in 1903 and that an oper
alton was performed Its nature was
not gone into The doctors did not
d tell her what was the matter when
: she recovered. She said Thaw took
y her and her mother to Paris.
:. Court then adjourned until p. M.
}. with Evelyn Thaw still on the stand.
e Afternoon Session.
s When Mrs. Thaw resumed the
stand after the recess the only place
o in the court room not invaded by the
o crowd was the judges bench
II Harry ThaW was unusually pale as
he entered the court room. When he
reached his seat he took up pencil and
a
10 his wife was again called to the stand.
h Then he looked up at her and the two
,f exchanged glances which seemed to
IT have world of meaning in them.
jerome withdrew his objection to the
admission of the letter to Thaw The
N letter was put In evidence and support
i. ed the testimony of Mrs. Thaw con
a corning her relations with White.
lie Letter Introduced.
II The letter was addressed to Attor.
IN ney Iongfellow and read as follows
IS Mrs. N. insisted on sailing for New
n York when her daughter left | kept
C. Mrs N. In London three months at the
r. cost of over thousand dollars. Mrs
Nesbit sails tomorrow for New York
She thinks | kidnapped her 17% years
~ old daughter Before she lands she
I'd will know have always done the best
NJ could. The child cannot be with hel
&c. mother because she was Is % years
NJ old when she was ruined by black
C guard.
w Don't worry but find out her ad
dress. Telephone Mrs N, but not il
your name. Ask her if she saw Thav
aboard. AS soon as she answers hans
in up the phone"
AS On the slip of paper inclosed wa
he written: "If you cannot read Thu
Nv don't worry. Please telephone her in
n, cog. Wire me at my expense" Thu
tie letter was signed "H. X"
10 Mrs. Thaw testified that when Thay