The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-02-08
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Back on
The Stand To-day
4 LETTER BY THAW SHOWN
Disjointed and Practically Unintelligible
Its pecuIiarities Were Pointed Out
BY Counsel for the Defense
Great Crowd Gathers.

New York, Feb. -Outwardly com
posed, but showing signs Of yesterdays
terrible ordeal, Evelyn Thaw returned
70 the witness stand in the trial Of Harry
=, Thaw for numbering Stanford White,
today, and resumed the story of her
ne, under direct examination. A fran
tlc mob of people, drunk with curiosity,
gathered outside the criminal court
room before the trial began, but only
few managed to enter An extra de-
tail Of 20 policemen was assigned to
and those already on guard.
Judge Delmas, counsel for Thaw, Of
tered in evidence a postscript to a let
Ter written by Thaw in disjointed, jerky
phrases, practicappy unintelligible- Its
peculiarities were pointed out by the
counsel, and Mrs. Thaw declared that
her husband usually wrote that way.
Counsel read another of Thaw's let
ters, which was as disiointed as the
first. It said in parts
You must know wrong, shall prom
ire never to hurt you again. give you
I my sacred word. have always treated
Won with perfect respect, honestly and
trustworthy. 1 have gone broke to
please you. have seen no girls but
Edna and Rose, as You begged me not
to. ! saw several gentlemen. You have
IN three weeks obtained reputation as
dangerous. Only | understand and re-
speet you the same as ever more They
also say You are goine to be in the gut
ter in eight months, morally, mentally
and dishonorably. But you couldn't de-
teriorate for me-
Is Howard in schoolg How much
does it cost7 Your mother must trust
the friends who ruined her birthright
and made your fathers name a byword
II am not responsible, am more frfvo-
lous than ever. Promise one thing;
Don't drink any champagne Let Eve
lyn telegraph every day.
sIf YOU get in trouble, OF course I
can raise loads OF money, but otherwise
must stay poor in Pittsburg. Terrible
fate"
Evelyn Thaw told that after her re-
turn to New York in November. 1908,
White tried to renew his relations with
her He called at her hotel and tried
to kiss her, hut She would not let him.
He told her that Thaw was morphine
nend. and a very bad man, with whom
= should have nothing to do" After
that he came TO see her constantly
White, said the witness, took her to
&c a lawyer, Abe Hummer, who. he said
would protect her from Thaw Hummel
showed her some papers in suit
brought by a woman against Thaw
White said that Thaw must be kept out
Of sew York, even if strong methods
had to be used.
"One night White came rushing into
my apartment at the hotel Navarro in
an excited state Of mind He asked
sMhat did Won tell Mr.. Hummell about
me2' told him Nothing He said;
Something must be wrong HumInel has
Just squeezed 81 900 out Of me's
Witness said that she married Thaw
on April 4, 1905 II told him." shs
said, .that wanted to save his reputa.
tion. That many people knew about
Stanford White and that my marriage
to him would be sure 70 hurt him.
Her Relations With White.
At the conclusion Of yesterdays ses
sion the girl wife had laid bare the in.
nermost secrets of her life in an effort
to save the life Of her husband charged
with numbering the man who had liired
her to shame
As the young wife mfolded the mar.
rative Of her girlhnod and told the early
struggles of herself and her mother tc
keep body and soul together; of how
galnt poverty stood ever at the door
and how she finally was able to earn .
livelihood BY posing for photographer:
and artists. she won the murmnred sym
pathy Of the throfg which filed every
available space in the big court room.
Then came the relation Of the wrecl
Of that girl hood At rs years Of age. i
was the story of her meeting with Stan
ford White, the story Of the sumptuou;
studio apartment, whose dingy exterior
gave no hint Of the luxurious furnish
ings within; Of velvet covered swing
in which one could swing until slipperet
toes crashed through the paper of 3
japanese parasol swung from the cell
ing the story OF glass of champagne
Of black, whirling sensations md Of mir
Tored bedroom wallis In short, she tol(
al. the story.
The stiffness Of the crowd, which wat
big, bustlinp showing and snarling oyel
some especially coveted seat when court
convened was its own tribute to the ef
feet Of the rirl's story. Into the nara
tive there entered nothing Of the woman
Of the world
a gir in face and figure, Mrs. IhaN
was still girl as she withstood an or
deal which might well have startled in
TO terror woman Of mature years ant
harsher experiences.
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GRANDSON EXAMINED.