Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-26

my mOtner. MT. InaW gave IL 10 nei
after had given it to him.
Mr.. Jerome questioned the witness
about the cablegram sent to White
from London.
You know your mother had COM
planned to the American embassy about
you going away with Thaw on tour
of Europe. didn't you?" asked Mr..
jerome. Il did not"
We'll, what We're we talking about
her last Thursday" THE cablegrams
We're about my mother and a man
whose name l gave you. That man
happened 10 be secretary of the Am
erican embassy and that is all the en-
bassy had to do with it. This man
had sneaked up to my mothers bed
room when she was in bed and insult
ed her"
Then the cablegrams had nothing
to do with your going off to Europe
with Thaw?" No
Mrs. Thaw SAM that this same man
had insulte'i her in London also. When
she told Tlttw - the incident, he went
10 Sec IL ln~u trt ,uII not find
him.
Was :.c ara.c,i 40. lIr. Thaw
never carried a pistol except in New
York"
Didn't he pull a pistol while with
you in 4 Paris restaurant" He did
not
Mrs. Thaw said that when she arriv-
cd from Europe she went to the Hol-
cure rooms, she went on to the SAVOY.
I've rL.,,1 cot; f,l,1 tl,n,
rooms in Paris some peculiar looking
needles which looked like darning nee
dies. She asked Mr. Thaw about them
and he said they were old stuff SOME
one had left behind. Mr.. Thaw had
never written her about them. she said.
wEercupOn Mr.. jerome produced one Of
the letters which the defence had in
troduced i'll which Thaw mentions the
needles and explains that they We're
not for morphine. The letter, however,
IS one of those sent iii Mr.. LongfelloW ;
care and which was not delivered. she
had never see the letter. she said, UNI
til it was shown her by Mr. Gleason.
Thaw did not drink heavily in Paris
except occasionally.
Mrs. Thaw, after the noon recess, re-
sumed the stand and Mr.. Jerome again
took up the Cross-exa mination. She
went over the details of the letter Of
credit and of Ihaw's taking it away
from her and telling her mother she
must not use it.
After returning to New York on
October "a, 1903. she went, she said,
first, to the Savoy hotel, then to the
Navarro. staying at each hotel several
weeks.
Did you then love the defendant"
Yes"
who paid the bills at those hotels":'
Il lid
Mrs. Thaw said she paid from the
money Thaw gave her when she left
Paris She had about SlOo0 which Thaw
save her.
Mrs. Thaw said that before she left
the Savoy she had begun to believe the
terrible stories Stanford White had tod
about Harry" She admitted that she
continued TO pay her expenses out OF
Thaw'S morey.
Did White give you any presents
while there" No
"A mink mu:f?" NO"
While at the Savoy. Mrs. Thaw said.
she went out several times with White
and she told him about her travels with
T!law.
Mr.. Jerome read from the statement
of Mrs. Thaw's mother and asked tho
witness if her mother and Miss Simon
ton had not gone to White upon their re-
turn from Europe and taxed him with
the girls story Of her downfall. the ar
chtect replying: MY wife on one side
and my son on the other, and may God
strike me dead if ever harmed her.
yes, he told me that said Mrs.
'Thaw. land ha told me his body turned
ice-cold when they accused him. lie Gai1
h. coTld handle dozen nammas, but
he was afraid of this Simonton woman.
You had told Miss Simonton?' Eyes,
in Paris
Mrs. Thaw said that Thaw had sent
for Miss Simonton to accompany Mrs
Nesbit home, as she was determined 20
60.
I'VE did it purely out of kindness for
mamma" she said.
She declared that Thaw had paid Mrs
NeSbit's fare to America.
She said that before Thaw returned
from Europe she went several times to
dinners n the tower. trusting to Whites
word that there would be others present.
Mrs. Thaw also told of trip 10 Phila-
delphia with Angela Vincent. an act
reSs. While in Philadelphia she and soy
eral others dine1 at the home Of q man
whose name was not made public
did White tell you about Ethel
Thomas?" No"
WHO did," abraham Hummel."
Mrs. Thaw answered in the negative
questions whether she had ever seen
Thaw take cocaine as she had told
Abe Hummel she had or that Thaw
had tried to administer cocaine 70 her.
Mrs. Thaw at Mr. Jerome's order re-
pcated all the stories White had toll
her about Harry Thaw.
So. by the time he arrived in Amer
ica, You had ceased to love him >"
Yes, I thought il all was very terri
BILE"
Thaw. she testified. called to see her
at the Navarro the day he returned
from Europe. She also told of her
mother insisting on returning to Amer
lea and Of her leaving her mother in
London and going on the continental