The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-08

kerchief covering his eyes. Where the defendant sits his is all buc shielded from the jury. Bent over the table, and as he sobbed he could not be seen at all. Thus Thaw sat for many min- utes and when he finally lifted his head his eyes were red and swollen. Even if they could have seen, the jurors would have had no eyes for the prison- CT. They, too, had turned their gaze from the witne ss as the tears came to her voice as well as her eyes, and each man of the twelve seemed intent upon some object on the floor before him. Justice Fitzgerald looked out through the long grated windows. The scene and ire story marked new precedent in the history of criminal proceedings in New York city. Old court attend- ants gave their ready assent to this.
 Mrs. Thaw was still on the stand, her direct examination uneompleted, when the day was done. Once during the afternoon she was excused for an hour, when Lawyer Frederick Long fellow was sworn to fix the date of certain letters written to him by Harry ThaW subsequently, to the revelations Miss Nesbit had made to him in Paris. The girl had identified the writing, but the court held that the date must also become matter of competent evidence. Mrs Thaw seemed to appreciate the relief this incident offered, although during the hour and a half recess for luncheon she had recovered from the fatigue of the two hours spent in the witness chair during the morning seS- sion. As she left the stand for the recess she walked unsteadily, and passing the back of the jury box ran the fingers of her left hand along the wall as a blind person might.
 The letters which eventually were off, fered in evidence after much objecting by Mir. Jerome and flood of argument by opposing counsel during the after- noon sitting of the court, are regarded as eorroboratve of Mrs. Thaw's testi- mony to-day, which she often declared, in response to objection offered from | time to time by the district attorney, was a repetition of the reasons she had given Thaw for refusing to be- come his wife. They also were offered as tending to show the state of mind of the defendant just after he had | heard from her own lips the story of the girl he loved, and her relations with the man it is claimed he killed as a result of insanity inherited in part, l and induced by stress of circum- stances.
 The letters were written by Thaw to Mir. Longfelow as his attorney They told of his coming marriage with Miss Nesbit, and of the ''row they want to raise" Disconnected and jerky, jump ing from subject to subject, they never theless breathe the love he bore the girl, and wanted among other things that provision should be made that in the event of his death all his property should go to her. The letters con | stantly refer to that blackguard who poisoned her as a girl and say that her name was falsely connected with | two others besides "that blackguard.' | Only two of a half dozen offered in 1 evidence were read during the after | be presented when court convenes to- morrow, and Mrs. Thaw is again called to the stand,
 The completion of the direct examin: ation of the prisoners wife will possi- bly, reuire all of to-morrow's sessions There is an impression that Mr Del mas may strive to have it occupy the |
 woman may take advantage of the ad- journment over Saturday and Sunday to recover from her fatigue, and be prepared for the cross examination oi District Attorney Jerome. In testify ing to-day, Mrs. Thaw was not allowed
 to state the names of certain persons
 but by consent of counsel for defense
 she gave them in whispers to MT. Je
 rome "in order." as MT. Delmas said
 that the prosecution may have thu
 fullest possible opportunity to refutt
 any of her statements if he can.''
 While most of the afternoon sessior
 was given over to the argument as t,
 the admissibility of the letters writer by Thaw to MT. Longfellow, Mrs
 Thaw continued for a long time tn, narration of her story. She told O
 flow she came back from Europe {
 month ahead of Thaw. During tha
 month friends of Stanford White haC
 told her many stories about the youns
 Pittsburg' millionaire, and when he re
 turned to America she refused to set him except in the presence of a thirt person. When he asked her why sh'
 acted so, she told him the stories
 One was that Thaw had put a gir
 into a bath tub and turned sealdins water upon her. Another was that h,