The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-07
Takes Stand This Morning and Tells Of
Supper at Cafe Martin and That
Night at Roof Garden
In Answer to Question as to What He Had Done
Thaw Replied, Perhaps, Saved Your
Life" After He Had Fired
COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE SCORES In EVIDENCE

New York, Feb. 7.-Evelyn Mes.
bit Thaw was the first witness when
the trial of her husband for the
murder of Stanford White was call
ed today. She told of their move
ments on the evening of the murder
including the dinner at the Cafe
Martin, where she saw White and
the visit later to Madison Square
Roof Garien where the tragedy oc-
Cured.
She said when they were about to
leave the garden she saw White sit
ting at the next table. She turned
around and saw her husband with
his arm raised and heard three shots
fired. She asked her husband what
he had done and he replied:
Probably saved your life"
The witness said she married
Thaw in Pittsburg in April, 1905,
and that he first proposed to her in
Paris in 1908. She refused him and
told him her relations with White.
The witness told of first meeting
White with another show girl in
1901 at luncheon Sne said she
thought White was an ugly man and
he leased her about her hair, which
she wore down her back and her
short skirt, which reached only to
her shoe tops.
Later she testified that White
wrote to her mother and the next
time she met him was at a party in
his studio. Two other persons were
there. White took her home that
night.
Whites Crime.
Mrs. Thaw told of other meetings
with White, and finally related his
assault on her. She said she went to
the studio with him and he induced
her to drink champagne. When she
awoke she found herself Invested of
her clothing. She screamed. white
told her to keep quiet, it was ''all
over"
She told of her early life and of
posing for artists and her adoption
Of the stage life.
She said White sent her to school
In 1908, and while at .chool she be-
came i'll and an operation was per-
The witness said she told
nhaw all this when he proposed to
her in Paris and she refused him
Thaw said she was poor, unfortu.
nate girl, and he thought none the
ess of her.
Yesterday Afternoon.
The defense of Harry X. Thaw,
under the direction of Attorney Del
Dhine M. Delmas, of California, has
begun to assume definite shape and
when adjournment was taken yester-
lay testimony had been placed be-
lore the jury to the effect that Stan
ord White had been heard to make
/ threat to kill the defendant-coup-
ing the threat with display OF a re
'olver. That Thaw's actions following
ihe killing of White were considered
)y several eye witnesses to have been
IRRATIONAL" that an uncle of the de
endant was insane; that Evelyn Mes
,it Thaw passed a note to her hus-
1and during the dinner at the Cafe
Martin the evening of the tragedy;
hat District Attorney Jerome had
his note and refused ON demand of
he defense, TO introduce it in evil
lence.
The threat against Thaw's life was
made two years and a half before the
tragedy occurred District Attorney
Jerome objected to the Introduction
# the evidence, declaring the defense
vas not understood by him to be one
II self-defense.
Delmas replied that the defense In