The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-08
WIFE IN HEROIC EFFORT TO
SAVE THAW WEEPINCLY TELLS
OF HER BETRAYAL BY WHITE
Crewd in Court Room visibly Affected at Story
of Her Wrecked Girhood.


and disappointments
1 OF her early life she related how he
mother had gone from Pittsburg Il
Philadelphia 10 secure assistance ant
how she and her brother Howard
the brother who has been in cour
Imany days but not once has gone neal
his sister--were placed on train by
friends and sent on to their mother
She recalled that the wloittle travel
ers hai trouble with the conductor
who wanted to put their cat out of ths
car. But she naively added, they held
fast possession OF it, just the same.
Evelyn's Arrival in New York.
She told of her arrival in New York
of her life here and eventually the
acceptance by her mother of the
thrice refused invitation of a girl Of
the theatres to meet some Of her
friends at lunch. The girls mother
told Evelyns mother that they were
people in New York society and per
fectly proper, else she would not let
her daughter 60 with them.
when she came for me in the
hanson" said the witness, Il remem-
Der hoping we were going to the Wal
dorf. | had heard somuch about it
and wanted to go there. But the han
som stopped in front of 'dingy look
ing building in West Twenty-fourth
street and was told 10 get out Moth
er had dress ed me. My skirts were
just to my shoe tops then
This was in August 1901.
Whites DiaboIical Work Begins.
"He was a big, and fat and ugly
mani remember his meeting us at
the head of three flights Of stairs,
she continued. "He gave me presents
and my mother let me go to other
parties. Then he said my mother
should visit some friends in pittsburg
She said she could not leave me. He
said 1t would be all right, that he
would look after me. Finally she
went.
"ThGn came an invitation to a
party but no one else was there-just
us two. They all seem to have turned
us down he said. After we had dined
and ! wanted to go home, he said
had not seen all of the apartment
and we went to the bedroom with mir
rors all over the walls"
Thus the story ran, with just here
and there an interrupt on by Delmas
to advise the girl to fix the dates of
various happenings and always to tell
just what she had told Harry Thaw
when he asked her to become his wife
1t was through the fact that she had
told everything to Harry that she was
permitted under rules of law to give
herstory TO the jury.
Smiles at Pale Paced Husband,
Thaw sat pale. but brave faced
beside his counsel when his wife took
the stand. The two exchanged glances
and the faintest of smiles played about
the firmly set lips of the girl.
In the !ympathyimpelling story of
the girl the girlish fascination OF a
voice of the softest quality, yet ringing
clear in enunciatioD. the court room
lost view of the prisoner. But when
there came halt In the girls fight
against the tears. the people who had
gazed increasingly at her lowered
their eyes as If the relief from their
stare might bring her the composure
she finally won.
Thaw Weeps Bitterly.
Then they saw Harry Thaw again
His whole frame shaking, he sat with
his head buried in his hands. handker-
chief covering his eyes. Where the
defendant sits he is all but shielded
from the jury. Bent over the table as
he sobbed he could not be seen at
all. Thus Harry Thaw sat for many
and when he finally lifted
his head his eyes were red and swol.
len.
Even il they could have seen. the
jurors would have had no eyes for the |
prisoner. They. too, had turned their |
gaze from the witness as tears came |
TO her voice as well as her eyes. and
each man of the twelve seemed In. |
tent upon some subject on the floor
before them.
Story Marks New Precedent.
Justice Fitzgerald looked ont
through the long grated windows. |
The scene and the story marked a new
precedent in the history Of criminal |
in New York city.
Mrs. Thaw was still on the stand. |
her direct examination uncompleted |
when the day was done Once during |
The afternoon she was excused for one |
hour while Lawyer Frederick Dongfel- |
low was sworn TO fix the date of Ger
ain letters written 10 him by Harry /
Thaw. subsequent to revelations Miss
Nesbit had made 10 him in Paris.
The girl had identified the writing. |
but the court held the date must also /
become a matter of competent evi. /
1eDce.
The letters. which were offered in
(Coneluded Oh Sixth Pagsl