Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-02-20
He Tried Vainly to Confuse or
Lead Her Into Self
Contradiction.
NO PROGRESS WAS MADE
DESTROYING GOOD EFFECT
Produced by Her Direct Testimony
Some Days Before. Though
Jerome Tried Very Hard.

New York. Feb. 20-A ruling was
made late in yesterdays session Of
the Thaw trial that Jerome may ex-
anime Evelyn Thaw as to the truth
of her statements. 1t had been held
all along that under the law 1t is i'm
material whether the story that
Evelyn told Thaw was true or not.
the point being that Thaw believed 1t
true. Justice Fitzgerald, however,
held that Jerome could investigate
the truth of the story In order to at
tack the credibility of the witness.
Jerome Gains Nothing.
The cross-examination of Mrs.
Thaw was continued when the hear
ing was resumed this morning.
Jerome jumped from one part of her
story to another in his examination.
BY his questions he indicated that he
did not intend to spare the feelings
of the young woman in any way. He
interrogated her sharply as to the de-
tails of her dress when she posed for
artists in Philadelphia and New
York, and persisted in certain ques-
tions even after Delmas objected. He
insisted on definite answers, though
Mrs. Thaw usually said she could not
exactly remember.
Mrs. Thaw fenced with the district
attorney quite skilfully at times, keep
ing her wits well about her. Jerome
spent an hour or more upon the sub
ject of Stanford Whites letters. Mrs.
Thaw declared that the fourteen let
ters which Thaw turned over to
Hartridge were the only ones she
positively knew were in existence.
When Jerome would ask OCCASION
ally a very pointed question with the
purpose, evidently, of tripping her.
Mrs. Thaw would reply with an en-
phatic nod of the head, 81 didn't say
that"
Nothing New ELECTED.
Finally Jerome dropped the sub
ject of letters and turned to Mrs.
Thaw's story to her husband. How
long were you unconscious I'm the
Twenty-fourth street house at the
time of your experience with Stanford
White?' asked Jerome. 81 don't re-
member" lsIt said she thought 1t was
after midnight when she became un-
conscious, but it was some time be-
fore daylight when she recovered.
Jerome read from Mrs. Thaw's direct
up all night. She replied that she
meant all the rest of the night after
she had been taken home.
Jerome asked her If there was any
thing to show that Mrs. Nesbit was
willing to sacrifice her daughter for
pecuniary consideration. NO." said
Mrs. Thaw, shaking her head indig-
nantly. Jerome asked the witness
about a man named Hoppe or Hop
ley. He pressed her closely about
this man and wanted to know IL he
had not lived in the same house with
her, which the witness denied.
Have you seen him since 1907" 81
may have passed him on the street"
81 don't mean that way" mo" said
Mrs. Thaw, with a stamp of her foot.
White Had Right of Way.
The district attorney asked her IL
she had not quarreled with her
mother over her going with a mar
ried man. James A. Garland. and that
her mother considered she was be-
coming unruly in the spring of 1901.
This the witness denied. She also
denied that she had ever posed in the
nude or had a cast in nude made.
She did not know Garland long and
the acquaintance ceased when she
met White. Her mother always met
her at the theater except when
White came.
The examination of Mrs. Thaw was
continued this afternoon.