The Monmouth inquirer., 1907-02-28

mad prevented her nisking any cutlery
by placing his hand over her mouth;
that he had told her of his hatred for
Stanford White and that she had to APP
peal to. friends to get her away from
Thaw.
Did Not Use Whites Money.
Mrs. Thaw denied strongly that she
had ever used a penny of the letter Of
credit Stanford White gave to her I'M
der seal before she went to Europe
with ThaW and her mother She de
MED that she had ever been mentioned
in any way in connection with the
Iaf,es A. Garland divorce case. She
said Stanford White paid all her broth
er's school expenses and identified re
cei,iis and checks signed by her moth.
err showing that the latter drew more
than $4,000 from Stanford Whites
funds during the year from May, 1902,
to May, 1903. Evelyn was at school
during most of this time
Determined efforts were made by the
defense to establish Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw's entire innocence in relation to
The many men of her acquaintance ex-
elusive of Stanford White and on the
other hand to set up that her mother
had encouraged Mr. Whites attentions
to her daughter because of selfish ends.
1t was first at Southampton, Evelyn
said. when she was ill, that the then
Mrs. Nesbit. refusing to assist her in
making her toilet, reproached her for
not having a maid, saying, the young
woman swore, that any girl who was
such a good friend to Mr.. White ought
to be able to afford maid.
Breaks Down and Weeps.
Then Evelyn broke down and wept.
When Mr.. jerome took the witness
for redirect cross examination she tes-
tilted that she thought that the balance
of Mr.. Whites letter of credit was
sent back to him. She did not know
she said, whether her brother, How
ard, had had his expenses paid by Mr..
White up to the time of the killing of
the architect by Thaw. Thaw had
never used any of Mr.. Whites money
she asserted.
Extracts from her written account Of
her impressions at that time. in l902
when she quit the glanor of the foot
lights to study in fashionable s. hacl.
where White had sent her, showed thaC
the girl was sophisticated in many
ways. She wished to become an ac-
tress.
In 1908, however. whenever he saw
Mr. White, Thaw would become excit-
ed, Evelyn swore. His emotion was
quite marked, she testified, and on one
occasion when they saw the architect
in passing through Herald square
Thaw had something like fit, she
said.
His friends generally regarded him
as insane at this period of his life, she
declared. He fancied that Mr.. White
had hired men to follow and harm
him, and so he carried a pistol. she ex-
planned.
Returned Money to Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw said that she, her mother
and Thaw occupied the same apart
ment in Paris. and she also described
her mother as having spent money so
rapidly that Thaw felt compelled to
cut off the supply
The development of her nature seem
ed to be revealed when she told early
in her cross examination how she had
received from Thaw bouquet of flow
ers. with a fifty dollar bill attached,
shortly after she had met the Pitts
burger
She asserted that she had returned
the money to Thaw, that she had up
braided him for having sent it and
that he apologized for having done so.
The scruples that Evelyn Nesbit
showed when she returned the $50 to
Thaw seemed to have disappeared a
year afterward, however, for she testi-
fed that when she returned from Par
is she felt disguised with the Pitts
burger, but she continued nevertheless
to live on the money with which he
had supplied her.
Former Testimony Contradicted.
Coolly as the wife of the prisoner car
ried herself through her terrible cross
examination, she contradicted testimo-
ny which she had given in her direct
examination. When Delmas questioned
her she said that after her return from
Europe in 1908 she had been to Whites
studio only once, and that was when
she signed the paper which she believ-
ed was the Hummel affidavit Under
Jerome's questioning Mrs. Thaw said
that she had been to Whites studio in
the tower of Madison Square Garden
many times after her return from
abroad in 1908 and that she had at
tended supper parties which the archi-
tect had given there. She said also that
White had tried to take liberties with
her at these parties, but that she had
repulsed him
Mrs. Thaw also admitted having been
put ont of a hotel in this city where
she and Thaw lived as man and wife.
Mr. Jerome asked her if it was not
the realization of wrong that was the
reason for the renunciation of Thaw's
love. Mrs. Thaw created some sur
! prise by saying: Not exactly. 1t was
because | had been found out" Then
she told of how one man, friend OF
Whites, had accidentally discovered heI
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