The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-08

humping in my ears, and the room got
/ all black.
when I awoko / started to scream.
HE took me home, and l sat up all
Night, crying"
what did he say afterward?'
Exucted Secrecy.
'He made me swear that would never
tell my mother about IT, He said there
was no use in talking. and the greatest
thing in this world was not to get found
out lie said the girls in the theaters
were foolish to talk lie laughed after
ward
WAS Mr. Thaw excited when you told
+ him these things"
Yes. he was excited. and walked up
and down the room. We sat up all night.
He said it wasn't my fault that no one
could blame me. and that I was only an
unfortunate girl and that he didn't think
any the less OF me; he would marry me
/ anyway"
Did be offer 10 marry YOU again.
YES, and 1 told him that if did marry
I him the friends of Stanford White would
/ laugh at him and laugh at Inc. IS they
suspected our relations, if they did not
! know
The witness told Thsw that it would
not Doe well TO marry on account of his
/ family He persisted that he wished 10
marry her
Mrs. Thaw said that she had also told
/ Thaw about her early life with her moth
cr and brother and the financial Difficult
ties they had endured. The money she
earned as an artists model she gave TO
her mother That was their only means
OF support
When did you first meet Harry X.
( Thaw?"
In 1901"
How many times had you seen him
4 between then and 1862
II had only seen him once in the mean
time
Thaw- the witness said. opposed her
going on the stage, saying she was too
/ young. and offered to send her and her
/ brother to school
THE offer of Mr.. Thaw to send you to
school was TefU5ed?'
Yes"
when YOU saw Mr. Thaw in 1903 did
you tell him about going to school?'
Il told him that Mr. White had sent
me 10 school"
Mrs. Thaw said that she became in at
/ school early in 1893 and that an operation
was performed. The witness told OF
/ ThaW's Kindness To her at that time,
which was early in 1903. After her re-
/ covery Thaw arranged the European trip
for the witness and her mother. Thaw
followed them 10 Europe.
Here reference was made TO a letter
Thaw wrote the witness while she was
abroad and Mr. Delmas sought to intro
duce il as evidence
Mr.. Jerome objected
what is the relevancy OF the letter.
asked Justice Fitzgerald
/ Its contents have direct reference e
the statements made by the witness tc
/ Mr. Thaw, and are an evidence Of the ef-
/ feet on the mind OF Mr.. Thaw of the
| statements 50 made replied Mr.. Del
mas
II it were proper to admit the state
/ ment of Mr.. ThaW after the shooting He
has ruined my wife. argued Mr.. Del
mas. lis il not proper to admit state.
/ ment made after the defendant had
learned facts to show what the effect oil
/ them was upon his mind7'
Recess was then declared
Fight for Admission.
The fact that Mrs. Thaw was telling OF
the stand the story OF the e=ents that led
up To the killing Of Stanford White by her
husband had become generally known
and there was a great fight to get into
ithe courtroom for the afternoon session
A strong line OF policemen were placed
at all Of the entrances leading TO the
courtroom door. bat d fighting. struggling
Imob Of men and women began to gather
an hour before the courtroom doors were
open. The women were showed back and
thrust aside. but some of them, perhaps
two dozen, managed 10 get in. Long be-
fore ThaW had been brought over from thc
tT0mbs the courtroom was jammed
Thaw's face was not quite 50 drawn as
when he came in for the morning session
and rs he sat down he nodded To his
brother, Edward Th4w, the only member
of the family in the courtroom. Justice
Fitzgerald came in with Justice Francis
5. Scott.
/ Without any preliminaries Mr. Delmas
brought up the question Of the admissa-
ibiliry Of the letter sent by Tbaw TO Fred
erick W. Longfell0w. Of the firm of Della
field * LoHgfellow, who were counsel for
Thaw I'D 10 not long ago. and during the
time lie was chasing around after Evelyn
Nesbit Mr.. Delmas started 10 quote Law
lon the admissability Of the letter when
draw our objection.
Thnw's Letter Admitted.
Mr.. Delmas offered the letter in evil
dence, and it was read 10 the jury, as
follows:
Dear Longfellow: Kept Mistress y
three months I'm London at cost OF
$1,000. Dear Mrs. Nesbit sails tomorrow
for New York She thinks I kidnapped
her 17lz-year-old daughter il is well
known that I always did my best to be
good to her daughter.
she allowed her daughter. unwittingly
J I believe, 10 be ruined by a BLACKBOARD
when she was u 2-3 years old. For the
present, don't trouble, except to find heI
address from the Algonquin Hotel, or
Forty-fourth street. then telephone heI
incognito and find out all you can about
her-everything she is doing. Fl. K. Tt
Attached to this letter was a slip OF
paper, which had evidently been written
by Thaw as q second thought It said
IF YOU cannot read this. never mind
Try TO find out all you can and cabl,
me at my expense"
| Thereupon Mr.. Delmas handed I'D a
| second letter, which gave Mr.. Jerome q
lot OF trouble in making out Finally hC
objected to it being admitted because
he said. no date was fixed. The letter
was simply marked for identification. Mr.
Delmas adding that he would call Mr.
Longfellow later. so as to fix the date
Of the letter then in question and a bunch
iof others which he held in his hand.
Return from Europe.
That disposed Of Mr. Delmas recalled
to Mrs. Thaw that she returned from
Europe in the latter part Of the yeal
1865. Several weeks after that she saw
Thaw at the Hotel Navarro for the first