Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-21

II haven't the slightest idea.'
 twill you note the paging of that letter."
 "Yes."
 Did not you and Mir Thaw. while in Paris write joint letters to friends you writing part and he the rest!
 T cannot say positively, very Ike ly we did"
 Had you changed your opinion in regard to the general chastity of wo. menY"
 q had"
 How soon after your talk with Thaw did you change your mlnd?"
 "Very soon."
 At the time you left Paris in June 1903, had you changed your mind 2
 "Yes."
 How long after Thaw's proposal of marriage did you leave Parjs?'
 T don't remember"
 "Very long?"
 "Yes."
 "Did you belong to any religious organization?"
 "No."
 You went to church and Sunday school in Pittsburg?"
 Not in Pittsburg."
 New York, Feb 21.-Although the entire days session in the Thaw case yesterday was devoted by District At. tOrney Jerome to the cross-examina. tion of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. he is no where through. There is little. doubt that he will continue throughout the day and there is no certainty that he will finish by night. He evidently has many more questions to ask her for as yet he has hardly touched on the more important features of her story. The examination so far has been bit ragged. Jumping rapidly from event to event in palpable eff. fort to confuse the witness.
 Mrs Thaw's memory has suffered a relapse since she told her story on direct examination and by far the greater part of her answers were in the words T do not remember" " With the exception of these oft re. peated admissions her story has not been shaken.
 Just what feature of the case MT Jerome will bring out to-day it is hard to say. So far he has asked practically no questions touching on the meeting of Evelyn Nesbit and White and their subsequent rela- tions, and has not referred in any way to the stories she testified she told her husband about seeing White on the street twice after she was mar ried. Nor has he in any way ques- tioned her on her story of the events of the night of June 25. Mrs Thaw was unable yesterday to give exact, in many cases even approximate dates. She was not even sure of the month in which, as she has testified White accomplished her ruin.
 So far Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has stood the ordeal of the cross-exam- ination we'll. She is apparently in dead earnest, and, although the strain under which she is laboring is plainly apparent, there is not the slightest sign that she will not be able to bear up under 1t. The color comes and goes in her face as the examination proceeds and occasional ly her brow frowns or her lips pout, but she answers promptly. and in most cases with apparent frankness.
 Occasionally she hesitates and leans forward in her chair as if to be sure she understands, not only the words in which Mir Jerome's question is framed. but his motive in asking 1t as well. Her childish face is mo- bile and continually changing as the district attorneys questions follow each other rapidly. Sometimes the expression denotes interest. occasion ally indignation. never defiance. She seems to have full realization of the importance of her position and of the fact that to a great extent her hus- bands life is in her hands. When the rapid flow of questions reaches a critical point she fences with the dis trict attorney fin a manner worthy of a much greater experience in such matters than her appearance and her words indicate. She seems constant ly watching for pitfalls in Mir Jer- ome's questions. and carefully avoids them. as if determined that no word of hers. no amount of carelessness, shall injure the man to save whose life she has barred her pitiful story to the world.
 Mir Jerome's examination has SO far been gentle. but searching. He has evidently decided to go into every phase of the story she told on her direct examination. relentlessly.
 Mir Jerome Is taking the fullest ad- vantage of Justice Fitzgersld's ruling which gives him the privilege of ques- tioning the truth of the story Mrs Thav says she told her husband. on the ground that the whole truth or falsity goes to question her eredibili-