Evening journal., 1907-02-11
SEVERE ORDEAL
YET FOR EVELYN
interest in Thaw Murder
Trial Now Centered in
JeTOme'S Examination

Continued from Second Page)
NEW YORK. Feb. i1.-Now that Ev-
elyn Nesbit Thaw has narrated IN an I
its details story Of her own downfall. |
which she swears she told 60 Harry X. /
Thaw when he sought TO marry her, /
barring what her friends refer 20 as q
dark chapter in her life TO save her hus- /
band-interest i'm the trial Of Thaw /
must largely centre I'm the efforts of
the district attorney to discredit her as /
witness--to prove to the jurors that
there Is no reason why they should be- /
lieve such tale ever was told 70 Thaw. !
II is expected that when Mr. Jerome
takes the girl wife IN hand for cross
examination she will be put through an
ordeal compared with which the one
she has just passed will be trivial. No
Authoritative statement has been made
on this phase OF the matter, but It Is
believed that two days at least viii be
occupied by this feature OF the trial.
1t is safe to assume that every state
ment Evelyn Thaw has said she made
TO Thaw with respect TO her alleged
] treatment at the hands OF Stanford
White viii be examined almost micro
lscopically. Word for word the entire
tale will have to be repeated under the
searching questions Of the prosecutor.
Instead of being permitted TO proceed
so glibly with her account Of the story
she told to Harry Thaw-telllng it in
her own way and with virtually no In
terruptions-the girl win have to am
swer Yves" or mo" to many Of the
questions which will be forced upon
her. Possible Inconsistencies In her
narrative will be Investigated without
lmercy.
Must Face Ordeal.
strong indeed must be her self-con-
troll or her foundation of truth II her
story remains mistaken In all it's de-
tails. Instead of having "a friendly
lawyer to lead her gently along the
: path she has chosen TO tread and a
: prosecutor sitting grmly silent almost
to the end OF her narrative she will
have to face a man whose case must
: probably stand or fall as her story
; stands or falls.
! But that will not be the end. When
. she has at last been released from the
witness chair and the time comes
when the prosecution can offer evil
2 dence in rebuttal it viii devolve upon
the district attorney TO show that her
:. mere statement that she told such a
story OF her downfall TO Thaw is not
. sufficient 10 convince reasonable men
r that such a story was actually told.
J.. 1t may be that the prosecutor viii be
i debarred from inquiring into her ca
lreer previous to her marriage to Harry
Thaw, save only as her husband might
? or might not have been Influenced 10
a kim Stanford White. The particular
phase Of the city's life IN which she
was a part may not be painted by the
. testimony Of witnesses.
: It will. however. be sought 10 prove
that Evelyn Thaw has not on othei
/, occasions confined herself to the truth
], IT will be sought to prove that II sh,
told Thaw the story of her downfall
as she related Il on the witness stand
she was uttering palpable falsehoods
/, And If II is proved that her alleged
= statements 10 Thaw were not truthful
!, 1.-THE jurors will be asked why thes
! should believe her when she tells them
: that such a story was told at all.
She has. with a childish Innocence
genuine or assumed. told Of her visit "a
the Office of A. II. Hummel. when, she
says an affidavit was prepared, which
{ she afterward signed at a time when
! she and Thaw had disagreement.
May Contradict Her.
with a naivettc which would bC
strange in many girls even younger
than she was at the time, she told OF
seeing photographs on the wall with
writing on them, and how strange Il al
seemed to her She has told Of having
b signed the document without realizing
what was in It.
If Mr.. Jerome can prove that at this
very time she told another person al
Il the facts in the case and disclosed q
- far different attitude toward Thaw thar
4 the one reported by her on the witness
s stand il is believed he could ask tho
< jury to question the truth Of tho girl'i
! story that she told Thaw Of her rcla.
& tions with Mr. White as related by her
n Another witness through whom th'
: district attorney viii seek TO prove
= Evelyn Thaw's statements false Is Ma.
i zie Toilette a chorus girl, who is sail
] to have been served with a subpoena
u after days OF searching for her She Il
! reported 70 have been found on the cas-
! side by county detectives
Miss Toilette was questioned by thl
A. district attorney some time ago. bu
- had successfully evaded those whit
=, sought TO bring her into the case. she
n far more than Edna Goodrich, who wa
named by Mrs. Thaw as the girl whl
>, introduced her to Mr. White. IS believ
cd TO be I'm a position 10 reveal the fact
in the case.
= II is likewise significant that Edn'
II Chase has again been sobpoenaed as
y Witness but it is not known what.
any facts there are concerning whicl
she can testify Hattie Forsythe an
Paula Desmond. it was positively as
y certained. are at Palm Beach. Fla. an
y consequently beyond the jurisdiction O
the court. Miss Goodrich is also out o
the state. but she has authorized
statement denying that she brought Ev
elyn Nesbit and Mr White together.
- srnu nnnRf nnNTnrC THAN tiVN